Tag: MIDDLING SORT
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Died, very rich?
The Non-Conformist or Northowram Register, as it has become known, does not merely preserve the bare bones of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1644 and 1743. 1 The Presbyterian minister Oliver Heywood and his successor Thomas Dickenson occasionally added pithy comments that help illuminate the lives of their congregation in Halifax (and some further afield).…
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Frequenter of Conventicles
Six months before the affray outside Kitchingman the merchant taylor’s house in York, yet another William Kitchingman was born in Kilburn in the North Riding. 1 William was the first child of Valentine K. He was not yet two when his mother Anne was buried in May 1643. Shortly afterwards, Valentine re-married. The family had…
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My best hat
On Monday, 16 July 1635, Richard Kitchingman of Halifax made his will. It vividly conveys his close relationship with his kinsfolk, as well as a considerable level of detail about his sartorial tastes. 1 Richard’s first concern was the £100 he had invested with his brother in law, Edmund Hinde, “by him used in trading…
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Where Papists lodge?
Where Papists lodge? At eleven o’clock at night, a fight broke out on Petergate, one of York’s main thoroughfares. Two men of the City Watch had run into seven cavaliers returning to their lodging. Tempers were running hot at the end of June 1642. The country was on the brink of civil war and York…
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Four houses in Carlton Husthwaite
If you had walked through the village of Carlton Husthwaite in the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1690, you would have noticed four recently-built, substantial houses. Clockwise from top left: ‘Old Hall’; ‘Manor House’; ‘Sunny Bank’; ‘Carlton House’. The houses were not named until the nineteenth century. What we now call the ‘Manor House’ belonged…
Early Modern Kinship 