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THE
EMMOTT FAMILY
The Emmott family is one of the most ancient families of Colne: Burke's Landed Gentry begins their lineage from 1619 with the burial date of William Emmott, however local knowledge, which has been passed down from one generation to another links the family to much earlier times and several notable texts support this assumption.
It is possible that the family lineage began before the Norman Conquest and this can be borne out by the etymology of the name Emmott. It was common in the early years for people to adopt and adapt names that pertained to their work or the area in which they lived. Emmott is derived from the old English dialect of eamut which combines two words ea meaning water and mut meaning mouth of. As can be seen from the map the situation of Emmott Hall and the land immediately surrounding it, is the place where various brooks, rivulets and other waters meet. The pronunciation of the name must also be taken into a consideration, as the local, especially the older local pronunciation, is consistent with the old English dialect Ee-ah-mut and consequently adds more provenance.
Burke's Landed Gentry only records names and dates with documented evidence as proof. For example names and dates taken from Church registers are a good indication of them being genuine, and much of this begins early in the 17th Century. Although the name of Emmott is not uncommon to the area, it is quite possible, considering the size of Colne and the population of the surrounding areas, that many of the Emmotts named in the various texts have some connection with the Emmott family of Emmott Hall, regardless of when they lived.
The earliest documented Emmott is Henry de Emot who is mentioned in Whitaker'sHistory of Whalley as a Vaccary Keeper at Trawden in 1296, however, it is generally accepted (although no written proof is available) that a Duc de Emot came over with William the Conqueror. Under the Commonwealth Seal the Inquisition of 1311 under Edward II names Robert de Emote as a free tenant farming ten actres at a rent of seven shillings and sixpence. Clitheroe Court Records show that Thomas Emmott the elder was a juror in 1425 and further documentation show there was a Thomas and a William Emmott who were tenants of Colne in 1443 and a Thomas, a Richard and an Edmund Emmott also mentioned together in 1515. In 1524 a Thomas Emmott contributed to the subsidy for land owned by Whalley Abbey and there is a Thomas Emmott mentioned in 1564 and again in 1597 and a John Emmott in 1626. This falls into line with the family tree where the forenames of Thomas and William appear regularly and can be assumed to be family names. This adds more weight to the argument that many of the above mentioned Emmotts were actually connected to the same family. The notion that one was a juror and others land owners also gives sufficient onus for the family to be of some importance.
The Hearth Tax returns for the 17th century are an accepted source of primary information and are analogous to population estimates. The Hearth Tax Returns for Colne in 1666 shows that there were one hundred and seventy hearths liable for tax within the township and one hundred and thirty four outside. A History of Lancashire mentions Emmott Hall (as a house) was sited outside the township, and contained five hearths and was lived in by a William Emmott, whilst the principal house within Colne contained eleven hearths or chimneys. The principal house in Colne was owned by Robert Trueman and was of some considerable size, but a Margaret Emmott is mentioned as living in Colne in a house containing eight hearths. In English Towns 1500-1700, the author shows that if the number of hearths is multiplied by 4.5 or 4.75 the population of a given area can be obtained and this helps to define the status of the family concerned.
The actual acquisition of land by the Emmott family is also of much interest. However, due to lack of evidence it is only possible to assume how and when this acquisition took place from the information at hand. According to A History of Lancashire. Emmott Moor and Carry Heys were originally part of Trawden Forest. In 1507 as no rents or subsidies had been paid by the tenants of Emmott Moor, the land was demised to Lawrence Townley and Ralph Askew for £1 rent, who by the following year had sold two thirds of this original purchase. One third was sold to Thomas Emmott and the other third, was sold to Alice Hanson and John Hanson, it would be only right to assume that the two families lived next to each other on the same land area. The document does not mention what relationship the Hansons were to each other but it is conceivable that they were husband and wife and the estate passed down through their children.
It is further documented in the same text, that Thomas Emmott initially paid the whole rent in 1527 but by 1609 John Emmott paid two thirds and John Hanson one third (by 1662 William Emmott and William Hanson held the same amount of shares). John Hanson of Emmott died in 1612 when his son and heir William was twenty years of age. John Hanson of Emmott died 'holding a messuage thereof the king as duke by the two hundredth part of a knight's fee'.
The History of Lancashire goes on to mention that a Thomas Emmott contributed to the subsidy for lands owned by Whalley Abbey in 1524. He is listed again in 1564 and 1597 and a John Emmott is listed in 1626.
Thomas Emmott who appears at the head of the Emmott family lineage had eight sons and three daughters. Of his children, the Reverend Alexander was Rector of Bolton in Bolling and the Reverend Bernard, who was educated at Oxford, gaining an MA was appointed Master of the Free Grammar School in Clitheroe in August 1611, he died six years later. Four of the sons died without issue. According to the law of primogeniture the eldest living son inherits the estate, this was William, who in turn produced five sons and two daughters. William was a notable cloth merchant who died in Chester in 1641. His second daughter Ellen married William Hanson of Emmott and this sees the amalgamation of the Emmott lands. His second son John, succeeded to the estate.
John Emmott married Anne Walker of Colne and they in turn had two sons and one daughter. Their eldest son William married Mary Trueman and produced four sons and four daughters: the eldest son, also William, was a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and is said to have married a relative of Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Baronet of Calverley, Yorkshire, he died, however, without children.
Succession was then passed to John, who died unmarried. John, like his brother William was more in tune with spiritual rather than earthly well being. Dr Whittaker describes John as a "pious and amiable man, a Christian of the old school, regular, devout and humble". Unfortunately, the family estates suffered due to both William and John's inattention and preoccupation.
John together with Bannister Walton, bought land for an endowment for schools both at Laneshawbridge and Rawden in Yorkshire paying £350 and £200 respectively. Under the deed of trust of the proceeds £10 was sent to Rawden and the remainder to the Laneshawbridge school. The ideal of the school was to teach the children of the estate reading, writing, arithmetic and Latin in order that they may qualify to be put out as apprentices. John Emmott took responsibility for the appointment of teaching staff and school management.
Christopher, the fourth son (Thomas, the third son had died unmarried some years before) succeeded to the remnants of the family estate. With his large fortunate amassed through he work as a cloth merchant in London, he bought back any land that had been lost or mortgaged by his elder brothers. He also bought land in Yorkshire and further expanded the Emmott estates. It was Christopher Emmott who was responsible for the modernising of Emmott Hall in the early 18th century.
Christopher Emmott died unmarried in 1745 and the estate was passed on to the son of his sister Mary who had married a Richard Wainhouse of Halfax. The son, also Richard, changed his name and arms to Emmott by Royal Licence on becoming heir to his uncles. Richard died in 1761 leaving a son and two daughters, he is buried in the same church as his uncle.
The son, another Richard, succeeded and in 1778 sold the land on which the Haworth Parsonage stands, now the home of the Bronte museum. Richard lived at Goldings, Hertford and died unmarried in 1819. From this point the estate was split between the land in Lancashire and the land in Yorkshire. The two eldest surviving sons of his niece Harriet Susannah were the inheritors. Harriet Susannah had married in 1811, a George Green and it was their eldest son George Emmott Green who succeeded to the Emmott Hall estate in Lancashire and the Yorkshire estates on Major General Edward Alfred Green.
George Emmott Green of Emmott Hall adopted the additional name of Emmott and arms of Emmott in 1851 and so became George Emmott Green-Emmott. Edward Alfred adopted the additional name of Emmott and Rawden and subsequently became Edward Alfred Green-Emmott-Rawden.
After the death in 1876 of George Emmott, he was succeeded by his son Walter Egerton John. In 1895 on the death of his cousin Edward Montague, who died without issue, the Yorkshire estates were inherited by Walter Egerton John Green-Emmott of Emmott Hall.
Walter Egerton John Green-Emmott was born in 1865, he had been a Captain in the 3rd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment and had married Kathleen eldest daughter of the Hon Henry Predergast Vereker in 1896. She was a generous supporter of the Colne Municipal Festival and cultural activities in general. Walter and Kathleen Green Emmott produced three sons and two daughters. The eldest son George Vereker was educated at Cheltenham and RMC Sandhurst, he served in the First World War and was unmarried when he died in 1965.
The second son Edward Gossett succeeded his brother. Edward was a retired Major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he had also served in World War I. He had married Violet Mary Turner in 1925 and they had had a daughter Jean Elizabeth.
Jean Elizabeth married a Major Peter MacKellan and produced a son Peter Douglas Emmott and daughter Kathryn Mary Emmott born in 1967 and 1964 respectively.
The Emmott family have a long association with the Parish Church in Colne and several memorials to the family are on display. These memorials include William Emmott and his wife Mary buried 1683 and 1677 respectively and their family (middle aisle and pillar).
William Emmott of Emmott in this County, Gentleman. Buried 27 August 1683, and Mary, his wife, buried the 14 August 1677, leaving issue four sons and one daughter, viz William John Thomas Margaret and Christopher. Thomas Emmott, their third son buried 29 August 1699 aged 29.
In the body of the church near the pulpit is a memorial to Richard Emmott who died 1761. In the chancel is a memorial to the memory of Christopher Emmott
To the memory of Richard Emmott Esq late of Basinghall Street, London, Merchant, nephew to John and Christopher Emmott, whose monuments are put up in this church. He departed this life the 14 March 1761 in the 60th year of his age. And his body lies interred in the church of Michael Basinghall in Basinghall Street in London.
In the chancel lies the memorial to Christopher Emmott
To the memory of Christopher Emmott Esq late of London, Merchant, fourth and youngest son of William Emmott of Emmott Esq. He had so good a judgement in mercantile affairs, that differences between merchants were often, by consent, referred to his determination, by which he prevented many lawsuits. He acquired a large fortune, with a good reputation, and died unmarried the 24 February 1745 in the 72nd year of his age, and was buried in the church of St Mary Basinghall, London. Likewise to the memory of John Emmott of Emmott Esq a gentleman of great piety and charity. He left £10 per annum to the free school of Rawden in the county of York and £10 per annum to the school at Laneshawbridge in this parish. He died unmarried, the 21 October 1746 in the 82nd year of his age, and was buried in this church. In gratitude to the such worthy relations, their nephew, Richard Emmott, hath caused this monument to be erected.
Emmott Hall, stood on high ground two and a half miles east of Colne near the junction of the River Laneshaw and the Hullown Beck; the front of the hall faced south towards Wycoller Valley. Whitaker describes it as "on the summit of a smooth and gentle elevation shrouded in aged trees…" and was further described as "one of three very ancient mansions"
There is a great likelihood that a house has stood on this site since the 1200s. A report by an eminent architect specialising in ancient buildings believed the carcass to have "unquestioningly medieval if not earlier foundations".
The position is typical of an early dwelling of substance: raised ground near a plentiful supply of water for the purposes of protection and production. It is highly likely Emmott Hall began life as a simple farm house, constructed from local stone available from the nearby quarry and with a stone slated roof. The house was probably extended or rebuilt in times of necessity and accumulated wealth.
Emmott Hall was a large house pertaining to several periods of time. The main part of the house comprised a west wing and a north wing both of two storeys and was built in the 16th or early 17th century.
The inventory of William Emmott (d. 1641) lists a hall, parlour, buttery, kitchen and milkhouse with chambers over, plus lower house (used as a workshop) and chamber over which may have been separate.
Many alterations were made to the house and this is apparent in the plan showing the blocked doorways and passages. The demolition uncovered much 17th century mouldings and four arched lights on the north wall of a possibly earlier date. The accepted belief is that the house was 17th century. This is due mainly to the fact that a date stone inscribed 1693 (or 1643, the third figure was difficult to read) which was positioned behind the parapet near the central urn and is doubtless one of the original stones.
The date stone was later re-used in the 18th century alterations. The date may give the year of the building of the east wing and alteration to the west wing to match, the west wing being the oldest part of the house.
The design of the house was typical of the time, comprising a central hall and projecting gabled end wings and topped by a stone slate roof.
In the 18th century the whole of the middle part of the house was re-fronted in ashlar stone and other alterations were carried out entirely changing its appearance. The building then became one of two storeys with the end wings retaining their original balled gables. The house now had neo classical proportions which was in tune with 18th century fashion, particularly with families who had the means and were suitably conscious of bringing city style back to the country. It was Christopher Emmott, a London merchant, who instigated this work, and it is his great wealth that enabled this provincial family home to become the family country estate.
The initials C.I.E. and the date 1737 were inscribed on the front of the building.
As was the fashion of the time, stone was seen as the most fashionable building material, classical proportions were acquired, the windows were modernised and sash windows holding twelve glass panes were substituted for the mullioned openings (the mullion windows were discovered when the house was demolished in the mid 1960s).. Moulded architraves were added and the windows to the first floor had pedimented heads. Between the two wings, the house was equally divided by four Ionic pilasters rising from the ground the full height of the two stories and carrying an entablature with cushioned frieze, surmounted by a parapet with large urn ornaments, the middle one of which bore the Emmott arms.
The doorway was centrally placed and had an open stone porch supported by small Ionic pillars and pilasters. The older 17th century work in the wings was built with small roughly coursed stones, but the later work was faced with large square blocks of gritstone.
The History of Lancashire describes "The junction of the classic front with the lower side gable is affected by a boldly stepped and curved parapet, the whole forming a very good specimen of late Renaissance work of a type not frequently met with in this part of the country.
The 18th century stone gate posts and iron gates at the south east side of the house and were originally built from sandstone and erected to the left of the carriage drive in front of the hall. These were removed to their present position in 1841, when the road was altered and the grounds in front of the house were rearranged by the banking up of soil of the rocky surface and by the erection of a retaining wall to the road.
The gate piers, which are still on view, are massive and square in plan, but made broader by buttresses to either side which end in volutes, they comprise, plinth, cornice and intermittent rustication. The cornice carries a gadrooned base to a ball finial with an abacus at the midpoint. On the inner side the piers have Doric pilasters, but on the outer side rusticated niches. The side piers are similar but lack these additions. Whilst the side railings are fairly plain, the gates have running dog to the lock rail, dog bars, spear finials and a good scrolled overthrow.
The last inhabitant of the Hall was Mrs Kathleen Green Emmott and after her death in 1939 Emmott Hall was used as a billet for soldiers during the war. The Hall was then left empty for a good period of time and so fell into disrepair and became impractical to renovate.
In 196 A huge crater was dug in the grounds and seven hundred and fifty tons of masonry was buried on the site. During the demolition work, a carved stone celtic head on one wall at the rear of the property was found with date stones of 1693, 1727 and 1737, perhaps indicating the various times the Hall had been altered.
This building situated to the east side of the Hall was originally the stables but now have been converted to residential use. The building is constructed of dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It is built in a U shape with gabled wings, and each wing comprising moulded kneelers and saddlestone supporting finials. The windows on the upper floor are square and were once of two lights, now lacking mullions except on the right return wall, and those to the front have dripstones. To the ground floor there is one six light square mullion window, and a door with a decorated lintel. The left gable end is seriously altered but retains an oval window over the upper window.
The name Hullown is a derivation of Halloween, which in itself comes from All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day which is celebrated on 1 November. Originally dedicated by Pope Gregory IV in the 9th century it was introduced in order to overcome the many saints days celebrated within the Catholic Church.
Originally, it was the time when all the cattle were brought back from the pastures to the stalls for winter protection. It was a time for celebrating the end of summer and seasonal protection in order to protect the country dweller and his animals from the dangers and blight of winter.
Halloween was the Celtic turning point in seasonal sequence celebrated with fire festivals. The church in its liturgical year associated the ancient pastoral observances with its own Feast of All Saints and solemnity of All Souls.
In Lancashire and other certain other places (mainly Ireland, Yorkshire and Devonshire) fires were lighted to commemorate 1st November (old style New Year's Day). The fires were to drive away witches and other malign forces among many forms of divination which were practiced as appropriate to the beginning of the year. The cult of the dead was deeply ingrained in the November ritual.
Today, Hallown Farm is run by Harry and Julie Day as a working rare breeds farm and visitor centre with many associated leisure and tourism activities.
The well to the east of Hullown Farm is known locally as the Saints Well; it is constructed of dressed stone and measures eighteen feet long by sixteen feet wide and nine feet deep. It can be defined as a large bath and further described as a place of baptism as it contains fourteen steps leading to the bottom. The lower three steps of the well stem from the 17th century, the level being later raised to about nine feet.
It is said that Christians newly converted from paganism about 835 AD were baptised there.
Before the building of the reservoir higher up the River Laneshaw, the well was filled with clear water, which over-flowed down a spillway into the Hullown Beck. The bottom of the well being flush with large stone flags in the centre of each a hole has been drilled through which the water rushes with great force. Local opinion has it that when the pumps begin working at the local reservoir, the water level of the well drops, thus, the source of the Hullown appears to be some distance away from the well itself.
The well used to be constantly full being replenished by a powerful spring, unfortunately, during the summer months it is possible for the water in the well to dry up due to changes in the water tables caused by abstraction of water by the authorities.
There is no evidence to suggest that pottery has ever been dug up from the site of the well and this only enhances the opinion of the well being used for immersion only.
The well is also known locally as a Wishing Well, and Harland in his book entitled Lancashire Folk Lore mentions the old superstitions of casting pins or pebbles into the wells. By observing the ripples caused by the agitated water which moved in rings across the surface, note was taken as to whether the waters were troubled or whether the water retained its transparency. The watchers drew inference as to future events. It is not mentioned how much inference was made. Much later children threw coins into the well and made a wish.
In the grounds of the Hall, the original standing place of the Emmott Cross can still be seen just within the boundary wall near the Wycoller Road. This can be found on map. The cross has been documented, mainly as the Emmott Cross from as early as the beginning of the 19th Century. The cross consisted of a large square stone socket just under two feet high and just under four feet square. Fitting into this is an octagonal shaft about seven feet in length, with a capital or corona, of the same shape and with a height of about eight inches, this contains an orifice to hold a crucifix or other Christian token. The tapering shaft measures approximately ten inches in diameter at the base and approximately eight inches in diameter under the capital.
The style of the cross has been described as English Gothic dating from about the 13th Century. The ciphers on the capital are now obliterated through age but Dr Whitaker declared them to be the I.H.S. and the Omega.
The useages of the cross have been the subject of much debate for many years, one local newspaper described it as a marshalling post, where the soldiers called up by the Crown would congregate before marching out of town and as they left would touch the cross for luck. This is the basis of the 'touch cross'.
There are, however, three main schools of thought regarding the original purpose of this cross from simply marking cross roads to the use of wayside worship. One notion is that the cross probably stood on the side of the old road from Colne to Wycoller before being installed within the grounds of Emmott Hall. If this had been the case, it would have stood on its original site for many hundreds of years and have been used possibly for healing purposes for people going to and from the Saint's Well: the cross would then be used as a memorial or praying cross.
As it has also been suggested the cross was used by pilgrims travelling on their way from Whalley to Yorkshire, but this is most improbable as the present road which passes the Herders Inn is a modern road. The old High Road did not pass by Emmott Hall but led from Colne to Winewall through Wycoller Valley until it reached Combe Hill Cross on the Moor and from there to Yorkshire.
The most feasible and favoured explanation is that the cross was removed from Colne Parish church yard for safe-keeping during some time of religious upheaval. It is documented that a cross originally stood in the church yard of Colne Parish Church where it acted as the original market cross. In Local Crosses by P Marquis, the author actually calls the cross a Papist Cross. A 1622 presentment made that "the cross in ye churchyard standeth undefaced". During a religious upheaval, the Sexton, in 1728, removed the cross from Colne churchyard for which service and his wages he received £1 18s. 3 ½d. It is highly likely that the Emmott Hall Cross is the original Colne Parish Church cross. C Byrne the author of A Survey of Ancient Wayside Crosses in North East Lancashire supports this argument: firstly, saving the cross would have been a similar exercise to the one that Towneley did at Burnley in the saving of Foldys Cross from St Peter's Parish Church and re-erecting it in Towneley Park. Secondly, the sum of money paid to the Sexton was too large for simply disposing of the cross. Thirdly, Mr Marquis, apparently interviewed a resident at Emmott Hall and asked them to relate the history of the cross. Although the precise details were not known, the respondent was aware that the original position of the cross was not in the grounds of Emmott Hall.
The cross remained safely in the grounds of Emmott Hall until early in the 1940s when the Emmott family left. In 1951 the capital of the cross was found to have been levered off and broken up. The pieces were saved and taken to the public library at Colne. The Borough Librarian at that time Wilfred Spencer, cemented the pieces together. The shaft and base stone that weighed one and a half tons remained at Emmott Hall.
In 1967 the decision was taken to demolish the Hall and permission was obtained from various parties to take the whole cross back to the church yard from where it had originally come from. By this time the capital was again in pieces and after taking professional technical advice it was repaired on a more permanent basis. The Archdeacon of Blackburn, the Venerable HN Hodd MA carried out the rededication of the cross, on the 5 November 1967.
Between the Hall and the Well is a small artificial lake where a boathouse existed there fore many years. The lake is surrounded by mature trees, oaks, beeches birches and sycamores, pines, elms and elders. It is frequented by various water fowl including herons and mallards. The lake was originally filled with trout and there was a fish hatchery consisting of a series of fry ponds at its upper end.
The trout were taken from the lake and kept in a tank at the side of the house in close proximity to the kitchen, and used as a source of fresh food in the winter months.
At one time the outlet of the lake, sited where the lake runs into the stream, powered a hydraulic ram that was used by the coal workings situated in the field almost opposite the school. During the Second World War the banking was breached and the lake was drained. One of the reasons given was said to be for security, apparently the reflection of the moon on the water could be used to assist enemy aircraft with their navigation. Today, the lake is once more teaming with wildlife and stocked with trout, it is used for sporting purposes.
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Emmott: per pale azure and sable, on a fesse argent, cottised or, between three plates, each charged with a bull's head caboshed of the first, as many annulets of the second.
Mantling: azure and argent
Crest: upon a wreath of the colours in front of a demi bull sable, armed or sevee of annulets and gorged with a collar gemel argent, and holding between the legs a plate, three scallops reversed.
Motto: Tenez le vraie
Livery: Blue with white facings
Thomas (the elder) a juror 1425
Thomas and William tenents of Colne 1443
Thomas, Richard and Edmund together 1515
Thomas (son and heir of James) and Henry Emmott, 1537 d. 1554
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Thomas b. 1544 of Emmott and brother John, James of Wycoller together 1563 died 1619 buried at Colne quite possibly the father of
[1]John of Emmott Lane and Humphrey together 1563 m. Jennet(1), (2) m. Edward Marsden (living in 1638) Jennet d. 1626
[2]William of Emmott m. buried Colne 4 October 1641 (will 23 January 1638, Chester November 1641 [1]Thomas of Emmott d. unmarried buried at Colne 20 December 1655 [2] John m. Anne daughter of Robert Walker of Colne buried 7 February 1658/1659
[1]William of Emmott m. Mary Trueman buried 27 August 1683 [1]William of Emmott, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, baptised 18 August 1662, said to have married a relative of Sir Walter Calverley, 1st Bt of Calverley, Yorks and dsp 13 May 1720. [2]John of Emmott baptised 17 October 1664 d. unmarried 21 October 1746 [3]Thomas baptised 14 July 1669 d. unmarried buried 29 August 1699
[4]Christopher of Emmott and London, he acquired a large fortune, and purchased estates in Yorkshire, also purchased back the family estates in Lancashire which had been involved by his brothers. Baptised 22 October 1674 d. unmarried 1745 aged 71 years, buried in St Michael's Church Basinghall Street, London was succeeded by his nephew (Richard Wainhouse) [i]Anne baptised 7 buried 10 October 1663 [ii]Elizabeth buried May 1667 [iii]Elizabeth baptised 21 November 1667 dvp [iv]Mary baptised 24 January 1672 m. Richard Wainhouse of Halifax (d. 1701) d. 16 January 1722
[1]Richard Wainhouse, who assumed the name of Emmott on becoming heir to his uncles. He assumed the name of Emmott by Royal Licence 1745 on becoming heir. D. 14 March 1761 aged 60 years
[1]Richard Emmott of Emmott Hall, Lancashire and Rawden Yorkshire and Goldings, Herts d. unmarried 1819 when the Lancashire estates devolved on his grand nephew, George Emmott Green-Emmott and the Yorkshire estates on Major General Edward Alfred Green-Emmott, who assumed the name of Rawden. His grand nephew George Emmott Green-Emmott [i]Mary Susannah m. Alexander Grey, 8th of Skibo, Sutherland and of Springwell Place, Herts (who on the death of his half brother, George Ross 1st of Cromarty assumed the name of Ross) [i]Ellen m. her cousin Alexander Oswald (brother of Elizabeth, 2nd wife of 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th of Kincardine, son of JT Oswald of Dunniker, Fife. She assumed the surname and arms of Emmott by Royal Licence 1821 and dsp [ii]Caroline m. Edward Parkins of Cheshfield Lodge, Herts and dsp [iii]Harriett Susanna m 13 April 1811 George Green of Harley Street London d. 10 August 1839
[1]George E Green-E succeeded his great uncle. JP Lancashire and West Riding of Yorkshire b. 1 March 1813 adopted the additional name and arms of Emmott in 1851 m. 10 March 1840 Louisa Mary Sherican (d. 26 February 1908) daughter of Major John Macpherson of Pitmain, Inverness by his wife Marion Collette, 2nd daughter of John Addison Res Judge, Moorshadabad, Bengal d. 1876 [1]Charles Edward b. 16 January 1847 killed in Australia 30 December 1860 as a result of a fall from his horse [2]Sydney Robert b. 12 January 1855 d. 17 August 1856
[3]Walter Egerton John G-E of Emmott Hall Lancashire and Rawden Yorkshire, JP Lancashire, Captain 3rd Bn E Lancs Regt succeeded his father 1876 and in 1895 his cousin Edward Montague G-E-R of Rawden Yorkshire, assumed by Royal Licence 1 May 1897 the name and arms of G-E b. 11 August 1865 m. 1 August 1893 Kathleen Louise d. 10 June 1939 eldest daughter of Hon Henry Predergast Vereker, 4th son of 3rd Viscount Gort and d. 11 March leaving issue [1]George Vereker G-E of Emmott Hall Lancashire, late Lieut 2nd Dragoon Guards served in WWI 1916-18 b. 10 January 1898 educated Cheltenham and RMC Sandhurst d. unmarried 23 March 1965.
[2]Edward Gossett G-E succeeded his brother. Of Emmott Hall Lancashire and Rawden Yorkshire, Lord of the Manor of Rawden, JP (1946) Salop CC 1937-48 Major (ret) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, served in WWI 1918 and in WWII RARO 1926 Chairman Ludlow Petty Sessions 1956-65 succeeded his elder brother 28 March 1965 b 28 March 1899 educated Cheltenham and RMC Sandhurst m. 1 June 1925 Violet Mary youngest daughter of late Joseph Harling Turner CBE JP of Cessnook Castle, Galston, Ayrshire and has issue
Jean Elizabeth b. 17 January 1935 m. 14 September 1962 Major Peter Malcolm Kerr Mackellar, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders son of Lt Col John Gray Mackellar DSO OBE DL, late of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Arngomery, Kippen Stirlingshire and has issue
Peter Douglas Edward Emmott b. 18 May 1967 Kathryn Mary Emmott b. 21 August 1964
[3]Oswald Hamilton b. 5 September 1900 d. unmarried 6 October 1961
[i]Louise Marion C of St J (10 Rutland Gate, SW7) b. 18 November 1896 m. 7 January 1925 Rt Hon Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross 1st Bt PC, KCMG, KCVO and has issue 4 daughters, he d. 3 June 1968
[ii]Beatrice Colette (Wynyates, Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey) b. 25 November 1903 m. 23 September 1925 Gordon Boyd Wallis youngest son of late H Boyd Wallis of Graylands, Horsham, Sussex and has issue 2 sons (he died 15 October 1966)
[i]Marion Caroline m. 4 October 1859, John Cowper 3rd son of Frederick Cowper of Carleton Hall, Cumberland and Harley Street, London, d. 29 March 1895 (d. 1895) He d. 18 November 1881
[ii]Georgina d. Young 7 September 1848
[iii]Susannah Emmeline d. young 20 October 1847
[iv]Gertrude m. 1876 Richard Augustus Bedingfield of Thornton Lodge, Northallerton, Yorkshire leaving issue
[2]Charles Alexander killed 1841 in Kabul War
[3]Edward Alfred G-E-Rawden of Rawden, Yorkshire Major General IA (ret) m. 1848 Charlotte Augusta d. 16 April1899, daughter of Captain George Neyland, 16th Lancers, d. 1800 (issue 3 daughters and a son)
[1]Edward Montague, Lieut Mid Ulster Artillery b. 1857 dsp 9 February 1895 leaving Rawden and his Yorkshire estates to his cousin, Walter G-E of Emmott Hall
[4]Augustus William of Faulkners, Kent m. Marion daughter of H Bannerman of Hunton Court, Kent and dsp 10 February 1900
[5]Walter Emmott d. 29 October 1867
[i]Harriet Susannah m. Henry Deffell of Harley Street London and d. 1894 with issue
[ii]Caroline Fanny m. (1) Capt Edward Fulcher (2) Henry Egerton Green of Colchester, d. 1893 leaving issue 4 sons and 2 daughters
[iii]Gertrude Ellen Emmott m. S Brandram d. 1859 leaving issue
[iv]Frederica Emily m. Major General Charles Arthur Barwell CB leaving issue
[2]Thomas baptised 23 March 1656
[i]Anne baptised 1 March 1647 buried28 July 1658
[3] George
[4] James buried at Colne 8 January 1658
[5] Lawrence
[i] Elizabeth d. unmarried buried at Colne 18 December 1657
[ii]Ellen m. William Ianson of Emmott
[3]Alexander (Rev), Rector of Bolton in Bolling, Yorks d.1637
[4]Barnard (Rev), Master of the Free Grammar School, Clitheroe, educated Oxford MA will prior 1 July 1619 [5]Robert, living 1626
[6]George, living 1626 m. : [1] John, living 1626
[7]James, living 1626 m. : [1] Thomas
[8]Lawrence m. buried Colne September 1643: [1] John James of Emmott, clothier, d. 1681 (Chester)
