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• Young
• Brown
• Chitty
• Lampard
• Jackson
• Trayhorn
  In addition, Thomas Chitty was just too old to have been registered. He was born in Whitechapel, and we think we have found his baptism, but that's as far as we have gone. I have a feeling that gran held her Chitty relatives up as paragons of virtue to her own girls. They did not appreciate it!
  One notorious happening was when they blacked Mary Chitty's bottom with grate lead. (Mary was a cousin, and I think she had stood watching them do their chores one Saturday afternoon!)

  I've put the Browns in because of the needle in a haystack element obvious in researching such a name.
  Frances'parents were :Sally Talmudge, and (wait for this!) John Henry Bennett Augustus Brown.He was a carpenter.
  I can't find tham on a census, and we are not too sure about the IGI. We have yet to turn up anyone with all four foremnames.
  Another family rumour is that there was a mixed race marriage somewhere,with one party being Jewish.
  Is this that marriage?
  On the Talmudge name, I have got nowhere at all. That is quite enough about the Farley side. I will now turn to the Youngs
  My father was Ernest Richard Young, the youngest son of Matthew William Young, and Ellen Catherine Jackson. They were a very poor family, not respectable working class like my mother's lot!
  There were actually four boys, and four girls, who survived. Their standard of living can, perhaps be gauged by the fact that the thrre youngest children were bathed in the wash boiler.On one notabel occasion,my grandmother forgot to put any water in, bafore lighting the fire underenath it, and dumping my aunt Dorothy inside.
  This is a photo of all the Young children, except, Arthur, my father's next oldest brother.
  

  This photo must have been taken during WW1.I guess about 1916. My father, Ernest is the small boy not in uniform. Arthur was known as" Ginger", and was notorious for playing my grandmother up. One time he stayed to play football after school when he should have gone home, and lit the fire. The old lady went up to the school after him, complete with cane, but being warned by his friends, he climbed over a wall , ran back, lit teh fire, and went back to his football game before ever she caught up with him.
  I had always assumed that the one armed gardener, who lost his limb to tetanus through a poisoned rose thorn was Matthew William, but I now think it was Great Grandfather Matthew.
  Matthew was born in Alne, North Yorkshire in 1826. He was the first child, and only surviving son of Samuel Young and (Mary) Elizabeth Scaife.
  In the 1841 census, he is shewn as a scholar, depite being 15 years old. He was one of the few of my ancestors who I can be certain could read and write decently.
  The reason why Matthew migrated to London is perhaps easier to fathom than why my maternal grandfather did.
  In the 1851 census, Matthew is shewn as married to an Isabella Calvert. They had been married for a couple of years, but did not have any children.By 1861, they were no longer in Alne, and in fact, I have not been able to trace them anywhere.By 1871, Matthew was in London, living in Durham Place Chelsea, and married to Hannah Trayhorn. Although I have the date of their marriage, I do not usually bother to buy marriage certificates, if I have all the relevant information. I really should get this one, to find out whther Matthew describes himself as a batchelor, or a widower. There area great many deaths of Isaballa Youngs recorded between 1851, and 1867, but I have yet to trace the right one. Did she run off with someone else? Was his second marriage bigamous?Being an incurable romantic, I have always assumed thatshe died, and he left , and came to London to mend a broken heart. It could just be that he wanted to go somewhere where his identity was not known.

  Hannah, his wife , seems a bit of a character, but I will talk about her later. Let's return to Matthew's father, Samuel.

  In an email to a friend, I have referred to Samuel as "Old Sam". I am not at all sure he would have approved!
  Jose Roberts of Boroughbridge kindly researched this side of my family for me, but we can get no further with Samuel than that he was born in Lincoln, (1851 census), or Lincolnshire (1861 census). He must have been born about 1797, but the vagueness of the information that he gave to the census enumerator does not help!The 1861 census, in particular, has scratchings out, as though the enumerator had real problems with whoever his informant was !

  He doesn't really tie up with any recorded baptisms on the IGI, so it will mean a long trawl through the Lincoln records to find him, and that is not possible at the moment.

  Still we have pieced together a little about him. Some of it conjecture,and some sheer luck! What was really crucial was finding a tithe map (1848), which shewed Sam's cottage, (now demolished), and that his landlord,unusually for Alne was Sir George Wombwell. Sir George was reputed to "own half of North Yorkshire", and he married the heiress of Newburgh Priory near Oldstead , Coxwold and Kilburn in 1825. Sam married Elizabeth in 1826. Matthew was born a month later, (surprise, surprise), and they then moved to Alne.It seems reasonable to assume that Sam moved North with Sir George from South Yorkshire.
  I can only assume that his parents also migrated North in search of work the other side of the Humber.
  The trail might have gone cold there, apart from a piece of sheer luck, (the sort that happens sometimes).

  When in Yorkshire, we stay with Fred and Mary Banks, at Ryedale House, Oldstead. (We can recommend this B&B. It is super!)

  After a lifetime on the land, Fred, in theroy retired , has taken up researching local we were talking to him about my ancestors, and he remarked that his, grandfather, (great grandfather?), whom was a Methodist preacher, had stayed with a family called Young, whenever he went to Alne.This had to be our family. The census shows that they took in boarders, and they lived practically opposite the Methodist chapel. According to Fred, Old Sam himself was a bit of a tub thumping preacher! (Any of my Christian friends reading this will sigh and say:"That's where she gets it from!")I would love to find out more about him, and hope to have the time someday.
  Big sigh here. This is the most researched of all my lines, and the one where I've met most other researchers.
  (Mary) Elizabeth Scaife was the daughter of William Scaife, and Dinah Tate.William drowned in 1812, and Dinah remarried a Metcalfe.William and Dinah had lots of children, and no money, it appears!

  William was the illegitimate son of Ann Scaife, so I know nothing about his father at all, and unless I get the chance to look at the Borthwick records, the chances are that I never will. The Scaifes go back in the Oldstead/Coxwold /Kilburn area for several generations. Fred Banks suggests that they worked for the monks at Byland Abbey, as the addresses: "Newstead", "Oldstead", and "Old Byland" seem to bear this out .This is a picture of all that remains of Newstead. (The name means a new steading for the abbey, i.e. the monks at Byland).

  All the Scaifes are descended from one Christopher Scaife of Pilfit, or Pilthwaite, an isolated farm on the edge of the North Yorks Moors National Park.

  There are now two Pilfits:
  Old Pilfit

  

  and New Pilfit

  There is a Scaife one name society. At the time of writing this, I do not have the secretary's permission to put in his email address, but you can always email me, and I will send any enquiries on.

  I've metioned Dinah Tate. another lady of mystery. On the same day that I discovered the tithe map, I found a baptism entry, not for Dinah, (although I have that), but for her sister Christina.I was looking at a transcript, but the key said there was additional information in the appendix.The appendix revealed that the curate had made a note in the parish register to the effect that Chistina's, (and presumably Dinah's) father was one "William of Walton, a labouring scot".

  Being an avid reader, I knew from both "James Herriot's Yorkshire", and "Dagger Lane", by Ann Victoria Roberts, that this area was on teh old drove road, and I wonder whether William was a cattle drover who stayed south of teh border for some reason. all I know about him otherwise was that his wife was called Mary. I cannot find a single Yorkshire, or scottish marriage that ties up with this couple! Yet again, this is to be continued!