Introduction

Other articles within the website which relate to particular aspects of this story are noted within square brackets in the text. Links to these articles can be found in the table towards the bottom of column 2

This is the second part of the saga of the Claypole family which began with the article Claypole: Destination Cottingham Part 1: The Journey Although the family grew from a common ancestry in Medbourne in Leicestershire in the middle of the seventeenth century, branches of the family diverged from this root across south east Leicestershire, over the border into Northamptonshire and further afield (their adventures can be found in Findon [Article A.]), Kettering [Article B.] and Northampton and the Amber Valley, Derbyshire [Article C.]. Elements from two of those branches came back together again after a number of generations in the villages of Cottingham and Middleton in the Welland Valley. What is again immediately evident is how often the family became intertwined with a number of other families in the locality across the generations resulting a complex web of relationships.

The family of John Claypole and Mary Carr

As noted in Part 1, John Claypole, who was born in Medbourne and was baptised at St Giles Church on Christmas Eve 1699, married Mary Carr, the daughter of Robert Carr from Foxton and Elizabeth Clifton, on April 20th 1724. Mary was about four years younger than John. Baptismal records show that between 1725 and 1750, Mary was to bear twelve children. The first section of this article looks at two of their younger sons, Richard and Thomas, who were amongst the first to make the transition to the Northamptonshire village of Cottingham and its adjoined neighbour Middleton.

Richard (1739 - 1816)

Richard was John and Mary's ninth child and fourth son and was baptised in Medbourne on April 27th 1739. He married Elizabeth Hackney, a girl from Weston by Welland, on March 30th 1766. This village lies just two and a half miles south west of Medbourne across the border in Northamptonshire. Their first daughter, Mary, was born in the village within four months of her parents' marriage. Within a year, Richard had moved his wife and daughter five miles east to Bringhurst which, with Great Easton, sits on the border between Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland. Their next four children: John (1768), Elizabeth (1769), Sarah (1770) and Jane (1771) were all born there. By 1772 a move one and a half miles across the border into Northamptonshire finally found the family in Cottingham. Their remaining six children were born here: Thomas (1772 - 1785), Alice (1773), William (1775), Hannah (1776 - 1853), Sarah (1777) and Anne (1779 - 1781). Richard died and was buried at St Mary Magdalene Church in Cottingham on July 18th 1816.

Mary

Mary was baptised in Weston by Welland on August 4th 1766. She travelled with the family to Cottingham where she had an illegitimate son which was baptised Richard on June 17th 1792. Two years later she married Moses Vickers from the village on July 6th 1794. Moses was born in 1761 the son of Moses and Grace Vickers. They had two sons: Aaron (born 1795) and Moses (1797 - 1836) and two daughters: Elizabeth (1802) and Sarah (1805). Moses died and was interred on May 4th 1806.

John

Son John was baptised in Bringhurst on February 7th 1768. He married Alice Freestone from Great Easton on October 21st 1801. Their story will be told later in this article.

Alice

Alice, the first of the girls to be born in Cottingham was baptised there on September 5th 1773. She met and married Francis Pridmore from Wilbarston, Northamptonshire on October 27th 1798. They settled in the village where a daughter, Jane, was born in 1813. Francis died and was buried in Wilbarston on July 13th 1847; Alice lived for nearly seven more years and was buried on February 19th 1854.

Thomas (1742 - 1826)

Thomas was born about three years after John and was baptised in Medbourne on April 25th 1742. He met Great Easton-born Jane Ward and married her there on July 10th 1770. They made their home in Great Easton where Jane presented him with four babies: Daughters Elizabeth (1771) and Mary (1778) and sons John (1772) and Henry born in 1775 but died the following year. Jane was in her middle thirties when she died and was buried on September 12th 1783. Thomas lived on into the next century and was buried on October 4th 1826.

John

Thomas and Jane's son was baptised in Great Easton on November 15th 1772. As a young man he moved across the border and set up home in Middleton next door to and half a mile west of Cottingham. He was destined to marry twice. Little is known of his first wife except that she was named Martha. Their first son, William was born on July 7th 1798 and died within two weeks. He was buried at St Mary Magdalene on July 22nd 1798. Martha was soon pregnant again and gave birth to a second son they named Thomas on January 19th 1800. He too died within days and was buried on February 7th 1800. Whether it was a complication of her pregnancy is not known but Martha also died that year and was buried on April 28th 1800.

John's second wife was Frances, the sister of Alice Freestone who was married to John's first cousin, John Claypole. The service took place in Great Easton on June 28th 1801. There are currently two known children, John (1817 - 1901) and Jane (born 1819). Frances died in Great Easton in 1848, John in September 1856.

The family of John Claypole and Alice Freestone

As noted above John was the oldest of the three sons of Richard Claypole and Elizabeth Hackney. He was baptised in Bringhurst on February 7th 1768. He presumably moved with the family when his father decided to transfer across the border to Cottingham. However, family ties were strong and he returned to Great Easton to marry Alice Freestone in October 21st 1810. Alice, baptised on November 19th 1780 was the younger sister by two years of Frances who had married John Claypole, John's first cousin just four months earlier. John took his new bride, Alice, back to Cottingham where the new family settled in Middleton. Very soon she was pregnant and the following year their first son was born. He was baptised Thomas at St Mary Magdalene Church on August 29th 1802. There followed seven more children: twin grils, Susannah and Frances (1805); John (1809); William (1811); Mary (1815); Joseph (1819 and Samuel (1823). Alice died at the beginning of June 1832 and was buried in Cottingham churchyard on June 7th 1832.

John, Mary

A son John, who was deaf and dumb from birth, was baptised on October 15th 1809. He spent his working life as an agricultural labourer. He never married and for a time he lived with his younger sister Mary in the 1850s on The Hill. A couple of doors along the street lived Pridmore Chambers who married their sister Frances in 1827. He died in January 1864. Mary was born on October 18th and baptised on December 3rd 1815. Like her brother John, she too was noted to be deaf and dumb from birth. After John's death she was registered as a pauper and was in receipt of parochial relief. By 1881 she had moved into the Alms Houses in the neighbouring village of East Carlton. She died there in 1893.

Thomas (1802 - 1846)

Son Thomas became an agricultural labourer. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Riddel and Ann Bamford, at St Mary Magdalene on October 2nd 1832. Elizabeth was born about 1809 in Great Oakley about four miles to the south of Cottingham and a stone's throw from Corby. They had three children. First born was Joseph on September 6th 1839 and baptised four days later. He was never well and died within a month of a chronic cough from a chest infection. He was buried on October 13th 1839. Next was David on August 4th 1841 and baptised the following week, followed by Mary Ann born on July 7th and baptised on August 3rd 1845. Thomas died on June 29th 1846 as the result of a fall in which he sustained multiple fractures and an injury to his spine. To date an inquest has not been found. His death was notified by 32 year old widow and near neighbour Ann Bamford (previously Jackson) whose husband Francis had died the year before. Thomas was buried on July 2nd 1846.

After Thomas' death, Elizabeth took her two children and moved in with her now widowed mother Ann and unmarried sister Mary in Water Lane, Cottingham. She was also in receipt of parochial relief. On March 5th 1857, Elizabeth married again to Richard Webster. He had been born at the turn of the century and his first wife, Christiana Charity, who he had married in Lyddington on December 16th 1822, had died in Middleton on July 16th 1852. Her death certificate records the imprecise diagnosis "spinal disease" without indicating whether this was a neurological or a degenerative condition. There was one daughter named Ann born about 1831. Richard, an agricultural labourer, moved Elizabeth back to his cottage in Townsend, Middleton. The 1871 census shows it to be next door to the Wool Pack Inn. Four doors away in the opposite direction was the family of Thomas' younger brother, Samuel. Richard died in the spring of 1877 after which Elizabeth moved to live with her now married daughter in Station Terrace, Desborough. She died aged 82 years in 1883.

David

After David had spent his childhood in Middleton and on Water Lane in Cottingham, by his late teens he had entered domestic service as a milk boy in the employ of Bartholomew Aldwinckle in Wilbarston. In 1861 the 45 year old Bartholomew was a farmer of 453 acres, employing 11 men and 8 boys. He was the uncle of both Alice Aldwinckle who married John Alfred Burditt and Ann Grey Aldwinckle who married John's brother, Charles Burditt.

On November 5th 1867, David married Emma Chambers in Cottingham. She was the daughter of William Chambers and Frances Sansome. It is known that she had two brothers. Of note, George (born 1840) married Ellen Goodman in the village in 1862. Their son Frederick Chambers (1869 - 1907) married Rebecca Ann Beadsworth on December 7th 1898 [Article D.]. Before their marriage, Emma too had been in domestic service - in Braybrooke, a few miles away from Wilbarston, as a housemaid.

David and Emma set up home in Pipewell, a hamlet on the lane between Desborough and Great Oakley, and he spent his working life on the land. They were to have a son, Jesse who was born in 1873 but died aged 14 years on March 26th 1888 from pneumonia, and five daughters, born between 1868 and 1881 all of whom went into domestic service in their early teens. By the turn of the centry David and Emma had moved back to Wilbarston where he died on February 5th 1922. After his death it is known that Emma moved to the Bicester district of Oxfordshire where she died on June 30th 1931.

Eliza Emma

Daughter Eliza Emma Claypole, born in 1868, spent her early years as domestic servant to the family of grazier Thomas Watson in Foxton, Leicestershire before she married Luke Samuel Swingler in 1895. They had three sons and two daughters. Luke became an ironstone labourer. They lived out their lives in Wilbarston where Eliza died on September 10th 1926; Luke in the New Year 1940.

Fanny Elizabeth

Second daughter who was registered as Fanny Elizabeth (born 1870) but known throughout her life by her second name was sent into service with farmer Joseph Berry in Slawston Leicestershire before she married William Henry Cooper from Coventry in 1897. They had a son (Leonard William, 1900) and two daughters (Mary Ellen, 1898 and Hilda Jessie, 1902). They settled in Lubenham where, in 1901, their next door neighbours were Thomas Dalby and Elizabeth Tilley. Their first daughter Mary Ellen married butcher's assistant and cattle market porter Harold Woolmer in 1925. Elizabeth collapsed and admitted to the Union Workhouse in Great Bowden near Market Harborough where she died on July 6th 1919. Her death was certified as due to a cerebral hamorrhage. She was aged 49 years.

William and Elizabeth's son Leonard was admitted as an inmate to the Narborough Asylum (which later became Carlton Hayes Hospital) when he was aged 21 years but after a couple years went missing from the institution. After about a month his body was found floating in the River Soar. An inquest was held into his death in Leicester on March 31st 1923 before G.E. Bouskell, the Coroner for the Southern District of Leicestershire. This confirmed that Leonard had been found drowned in the river in the Parish of Enderby but there was not sufficient evidence to show how the deceased got into the river. At the subsequent meeting of the Market Harborough Board of Guardians the following month, the Clerk to the Board declared that "the death of Leonard Cooper was by his own hand" (1, 2).

Their younger daughter Hilda Jessie married Laurence George Barker from Woodbridge, Suffolk at the Independent Chapel, Lubenham on June 23rd 1928. Before the outbreak of the second World War, William had moved into Neale's Yard off the Main Street in Lubenham. He had daughter Mary Ellen and her husband living with him. (The aunt of their next door but one neighbour, John William Burditt, was Elizabeth Haddon who coincidentally was a maternal great grandmother of one of the authors [- ADC] [Article E.].) William died in the village in the early months of 1949.

Laurence and Hilda Jesse Barker moved from Lubenham to Buckinghamshire in the late 1920s. Their daughter Doreeen was born on Olney on July 4th 1929. In the 1930s they moved to Woburn Sands which is just over a mile away from Apsley Guise on the Bedfordshire / Buckinghamshire border where he worked as a commercial traveller for Cadburys, the cocoa and chocolate concern. Laurence retired in September 1962, a presentation marking the date made by Paul Cadbury. In the 1970s, Hilda's health began to fail. She was admitted to Stroke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury Buckinghamshire where she died on July 3rd 1981. She had been suffering from myeloma (a bone marrow cancer) and had sustained multiple fractures and brochopneumonia. Laurence reached nearly ninety years of age, despite showing some signs of Alzheimer's Disease, when he sustained a fracture of the neck of his left femur in a fall. He was admitted to Milton Keynes General Hospital but suffered from a femoral vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism from which he succumbed on November 2nd 1992. A formal inquest was held on November 6th 1992 before Rodney Corner, the Coroner for North Buckinghamshire who issued the death certificate.

Ellen

David and Emma's third daughter Ellen (born 1872) was a general household servant in the 1880s with tailor and outfitter Joseph Healey in Market Harborough before she moved by the turrn of the century to Houghton Grange, St Ives Cambridgeshire to act as parlourmaid for Edith Coote, wife of a coal merchant. It does appear that she became pregnant during 1902 and gave birth to a boy she named Sydney Rowe Claypole in Granville Street Kettering on January 17th 1903. Her name disappears from the records after that and there is no evidence that she married.

Mary Ann

David and Emma's fourth daughter Mary Ann (1877) was in service for Church of England clergyman Henry Reginald Nichols in Wales Street, Rothwell on the edge of Kettering in 1891. She married William Moore in Wilbarston in 1898. The couple had had two sons and four daughters by 1911, although last born Winifred Emma had died within a few weeks of birth on October 10th 1909 of gastroenteritis. The couple lived in Granville Street, Kettering where William was a boot finisher. First son, Francis Leonard was baptised at St Andrews Church, Cransley, Kettering on July 23rd 1899. After the outbreak of the first World War he enlisted Private 45676 with the 1st/8th Battalion London Regiment of the Royal Irish Rifles. He was posted to France where the Battalion was part of 47th Division's objective on the Somme in August 1918 in an area known as the Green Line in the Happy Valley. A major assault took place over the 22nd to 24th August which resulted in heavy casualties (7). Francis was killed in action during that assault. He is commemorated on Panel 10 of the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Amy Ann

Last daughter Amy Ann Claypole (1881) went into service as a cook for Church of England clergyman Robert Copeman and his family at The Rectory, Stoke Albany. She married Frederick Thomas Smith in 1905 and had a daughter, Sylvia Amy in 1907. By the end of the decade they had moved to Knox Road, Wellingborough where they were also providing lodgings for her 7 year old nephew Sydney Rowe Claypole.

Mary Ann

Thomas and Elizabeth's only daughter was born in Cottingham in the summer of 1845 only a year before her father died. By the time she was 16 years old she was in domestic service with publican John Dexter and his family at the Red Lion Inn on Middleton High Street. She married Samuel Crick Marlow, who at the time working as a weaver, in Desborough (his home town) on August 7th 1865. They initially lived in Station Terrace Desborough where Elizabeth, Mary's mother, spent the last couple of years of her life. Samuel moved into the shoe trade, first as a rivetter and then as a boot manufacturer. By 1891, the family had moved to Leicester and a house in Syston Street. At the turn of the century they were living in Upper Brunswick Street. In total, Mary Ann presented Samuel with 12 children (5 boys and 7 girls) between 1866 and 1889 although four died in childhood. Florence, born in 1883, was always of a tender disposition. In April 1894 she was admitted to the Leicester Infirmary where she died on April 29th. The diagnosis given was of heart disease, presumably a congenital condition. She was buried in Sector E plot 846 on May 3rd 1894. In the early part of the new century they moved back to Desborough where Mary Ann herself died in 1907. Samuel married again the following year to Rebecca Sutton, a woman 13 years his junior. Samuel died in the town in 1917.

Susannah (1805 - 1873)

The events and relationships in the lives of Susannah Claypole, her husband Thomas Coles and their 10 childrern are recounted in their own section later in the article.

Frances (1805 - 1887)

John and Alice's second daughter was baptised Frances on August 14th 1805. She was 22 years old when she married Pridmore Chambers on October 29th 1827. The given name Pridmore probably comes down through the Aldwinckle family line from the union of Thomas Aldwinckle and Alice Pridmore in Rockingham in June 1734. It occurs as a given name in several generations of a number of families in the Cottingham and Gretton area. Pridmore's father, also named Pridmore, was one of the twelve offspring born in 1780 of Thomas Chambers and Alice Aldwinkle, who was also daughter of the aforementioned couple. Notable amongst Pridmore senior's brothers was Stephen Chambers (born 1781) who moved to Gretton. His son William Chambers married Sarah Anne Wignell in 1836. One of their sons and at least two of their grandsons also bore the name Primore. Their son Thomas married Emily Maria - the daughter of William Liquorish and Lucy Craxford in 1883

Pridmore senior married Ann Harwood, whose illegitimate daughter Sarah was second wife (of 3) of John Tansley (1784 - 1865), on October 20th 1803. Pridmore was their first born, apparently being baptised only a week before the wedding. Next son William (1809) married Frances Sansome in 1836. Of their children, son George's own son Frederick married Rebecca Ann Beadsworth in 1898 and daughter Emma married David Claypole (as noted above).

Pridmore and Frances settled into a cottage next to the School House on The Hill in Middleton from where he worked as an agricultural labourer. They were to have six children although second son Thomas (born 1830) died before he reached ten years of age and first daughter Mary, who was baptised on October 16th 1831, went into the service of the family of baker Thomas Sullivan in her teens in Wilbarston and does not appear again in the records after 1851. Pridmore died and was buried on September 11th 1878. For the next ten years Frances lived on alone in Middleton, although at the time of the 1881 census, Pridmore's brother William was living with his second wife, Elizabeth Bamford. Frances died and was buried on October 3rd 1887. Elizabeth Bamford's sister Jane married William Sculthorpe and brother Robison married Rebecca Scultorpe. William and Rebecca were first cousins. Rebecca's sister, Mary, married Henry Crane.

John

Eldest son John was born on August 29th and baptised on September 21st 1828. He married Alice Wignell (whose sister as noted above was Sarah Anne who married William Chambers, John's first cousin once removed) in Caldecott, Rutland in 1850. John and Alice settled in Middleton where he worked the land. Betweeen 1851 and 1871 they had four sons (Joseph, 1851; Samuel, 1854; Lewis, 1861 and Thomas, 1871) and four daughters (Mary, 1857; Sarah Ann, 1863; Lucy, 1866 and Elizabeth, 1869). John died and was buried on August 14th 1881. After John's death Alice continued living alone in Lower Street, Middleton, supplementing her income by being a charwoman for several years. At the turn of the century she had retired to one of the Alms Houses in East Carlton in the company of her youngest daughter, Elizabeth, who was an assistant schoolmistress. Alice died in the village in the spring of 1909.

Alice

Pridmore and Frances' middle daughter Alice was born on September 28th and baptised on October 19th 1834. On November 22nd 1860, she married Thomas Jackson. Her younger sister Ann and younger brother Stephen were on hand as supporters. Thomas' brother John had married Elizabeth Tansley in the same church the year before. Thomas and Alice found a home in Middleton in Main Street (later renamed High Street) and had two children, Ann (1861) and Lewis (1868). At first working as a farm labourer, later in life Thomas became a shepherd. Alice died in the village and was buried on March 13th 1898. Thomas continued to live on his own in Middleton after Alice's death. At the turn of the century his next door neighbours were the family of Joseph Claypole, another shepherd. Joseph was the son of Samuel Claypole (Frances' brother) and Ann Chambers. His wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of James Jarvis and Matilda Coles - who in turn was the daughter of Thomas Coles and Susannah Claypole. By 1911 Thomas Jackson had retired to the Jesus Hospital, Rothwell. This structure was built originally in 1593 by local benefactor Owen Ragsdale as almhouses. Thomas died there in 1914.

Thomas and Alice's son, Lewis, was initially employed as a farm servant. However by the late 1880s he had moved to Nottingham where he worked as a railway goods guard. On Christmas Day 1890 he married Daisy Houghton at All Saints Church Sudborough, a village on the road between Corby and Thrapston. Daisy was the daughter of Edmund Houghton and Comfort Tansley. Comfort was a first cousin of Elizabeth Tansley who was married to John Jackson, Lewis' uncle. Lewis and Daisy first settled in the Carlton district of Nottingham where their three children (Martha, 1902; Edmund, 1904 and Lewis, 1908) were born. By 1911 the family had moved on to Shrewsbury which is where Lewis died in 1936.

Ann

Ann was baptised on March 5th 1837. As a young teenager she was sent into service in neighbouring Gretton with the family of John Northern. He farmed 250 acres locally. By 1861 she had moved to Church Square, Market Harborough where she was a house servant for the family of draper William Simplin. She married Robert Butler in Cottingham on May 6th 1862 but the family continued to move as it grew. First daughter Sarah (1864) was born in Leicester; next two: Arthur (1865) and Clara (1868) arrived in Derby; and third daughter Mary (1870) was born after they had moved to Shipton in North Yorkshire. Clara died in 1872. Another move to the village of Hollingworth, about five miles east of Hyde which used to be in Cheshire but is now Greater Manchester and another three daughters followed. Ann died in the village in 1896.

William (1811 - 1874)

John and Alice's third son was baptised on Christmas Day 1811. He spent his whole life in the village of Middleton and his working life on the land. On October 13th 1833 he married Harriet, the daughter of mason Nathaniel Newman and his wife Elizabeth Danner. They came from the village of Slipton which lies east of Kettering on the road to Thrapston. The couple returned to Middleton after the wedding. In their thirteen years of marriage William and Harriet had seven children: three sons and four daughters. In 1847 Harriet became pregnant for the last time. She went into labour on November 27th 1847 and delivered a baby girl they called Fanny. Sadly both mother and baby died within days. Harriet developed an infection which led to purpural fever from which she died on December 12th. She was 34 years of age. Fanny was never well and developed progressive diarrhoea from which she succumbed on December 14th. Mother and daughter were buried together on December 15th 1847.

William Claypole married again on March 19th 1854 to Mary, the daughter of John Timson and Sarah Powers. She had been working as a laundress in the village and brought with her a son, John Hinchcliff Timson who was born in 1835 but died in 1859 and a daughter Ann, born in 1840. William and Mary had one daughter, Fanny, born on January 16th 1855 who married John, the oldest of the six sons of James Jarvis and Matilda Coles. William died in the spring of 1874. After his death, Mary went to live with her now married daughter, Fanny and two year old child Lois in Rockingham Road. Ultimately she had to enter the Kettering Union Workhouse where she died in 1891. She was buried on May 9th of that year.

John

William and Harriet's oldest son was born on April 2nd and baptised on May 4th 1834. He married Maria Ison in Melton Mowbray in the winter of 1857. They returned to Middleton where they set up home on the High Street, the cottage being next to Freeman's grocery store. John found work as a groom. Their first son James was born on September 29th 1859 but died aged 5 years on November 8th 1864. The cause of his death was Scarlet Fever and he was buried two days later. Their other children were George Henry (1865), Walter (1867), Amelia (1870), Eliza (1872) and Edward (1875). For a time, John moved the family to Rockingham Road in Cottingham but by 1891 they had returned to Lower Street, Middleton where he was now a grazier. Maria died on January 13th 1905 after which John spent some time with his married daughter Eliza York. She had married baker John York in 1909 and lived at Aspley Mill, Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire. John returned home to Middleton where he died on November 6th 1913.

Alfred Newman

Second son Alfred was given his mother's maiden name as a second given name when he was baptised on October 30th 1836. In the late 1850s he had moved to Wilbarston where he met and married Catherine Harding on April 30th 1857. The couple then moved to the Little Houghton area of Northampton. In 1861 Alfred was employed as a rural policeman. The couple had six children in all but there is some confusion about the births of the first two. Alfred, the oldest, was clearly born in Wilbarston before the marriage and is registered in the name of Harding. He was living with his grandparents at the time of the 1861 census. Second son, Arthur, was born is 1859 and is registered as Claypole but has no mother's maiden name recorded. Three daughters followed (Emily, 1860; Bertha, 1865 and Selina, 1870). Alfred, Catherine and these five children were all living in Main Street, Bugbrooke, a village six miles south west of Northampton. Alfred had taken up the trade as a tailor. One more son, Edwin Alec, arrived in 1876. Catherine had been suffering from ill health for a number of years during the 1870s. She collapsed and died on September 30th 1879, the official cause entered as syncope due to heart disease for two years.

Alfred married for a second time to Mary Ann Fretwell at St Michael and All Angels, the parish church of Bugbrooke. In 1901 they had moved into Northampton and were living in St Mary's Street which ran westwards from the Horse Market in the centre of the town. Alfred died there in the winter of 1905.

Harriet, Ann, Zilpah

William and Harriet's three daughters were Harriet (1838), Ann (1841) and Zilpah (1843). (Zilpah is the name of the handmaid given to Jacob by Leah in Genesis in the Old Testament. It is a Hebrew word meaning frailty). The three girls share a cross-family marriage connection. Harriet married Benjamin, the son of Charles Craddock and Ann Threadgold from Cranford St John near Kettering, in St John's Church there on October 25th 1860. Zilpah married Benjamin's brother William at the same church on December 1st 1861. They subsequently had ten children. Ann Claypole married John, the son of William Threadgold and Mary Spendlove in Cottingham on November 18th 1863. William and Ann Threadgold were brother and sister.

Jesse

William and Harriet's third son and sixth child was baptised Jesse on June 29th 1845. By the time he was in his middle teens he was working on the land. On February 3rd 1865 he married Caroline Craxford in the Baptist Chapel, Gretton. She had been born on January 5th 1844 to Robert Craxford and Catherine Waterfield. At the time of her wedding Caroline was in the late stages of her pregnancy and she duly gave birth to a son in Gretton on April 2nd 1865. Tragedy was just around the corner when, on April 23rd 1865, Jesse was knocked down, run over and killed by a railway wagon. An inquest was held in Thrapston on April 25th before William Marshall, the Coroner for Northamptonshire which returned a formal verdict of accidental death. He was buried in Cottingham the following day. Caroline's son was baptised at St James the Great Church, Gretton and named Jesse in memory of his father. Caroline did not remain in Northamptonshire for long. Initially she took a job as cook and housekeeper at Uppingham School but she remarried in Louth Lincolnshire on May 20th 1873. The story of her life with Enos Jackson can be found in [Article F.].

When his mother left, the young Jesse was placed in the care of his Craxford grandparents. As a teenager he started work as a farm labourer. He married Maria Bailey from Corby at St John the Baptist Church on October 15th 1885. The pair settled in Corby where their three sons: Arthur (1888), Herbert (1895) and Ernest Jesse (1897) were born. Jesse became an ironstone labourer and worked his way up to be a foreman. By 1911 the family had moved to Wood Lane, Weekely, Kettering but in the 1930s they had returned to Corby. Sadly Maria died, again in Corby, in the spring of 1938. After the second World War Jesse moved to the small village of Keresley outside Coventry in Warwickshire. In the early months of 1953 he was admitted to the Alcock Hospital in the village where he died on February 8th 1953.

Son Arthur married Louisa Davis at the Church of St John the Baptist, Corby on August 6th 1910. His brother Herbert acted as one of the witnesses. Their first home was in High Street Corby where Arthur was a job master but sometime during that decade they moved to Coventry in Warwickshire.

They had three sons (Arthur, 1911; Leonard, 1913 and Ernest, 1920). By the start of the second World War they were living in Biggin Hill Crescent in Coventry and Arthur became the manager of a Co-operative Society grocery store in the town. Sadly son Ernest died as a result of one of the Luftwaffe air raids on Coventry in November 1940. He was hit by a bomb splinter and died on the morning of November 15th 1940 in Gulson Road Municipal Hospital.

Son Herbert started his working life as the driver of a shunter and then a digger at the ironworks. He married Beatrice Woolmer, born in 1893, in 1915. Their son Joseph was born in 1918. In 1939 they had moved to Drury's Estate in Corby with Beatrice's widowed elderly mother Clara living with them. Eric worked as a farm labourer but was the first of the family to die, on February 1st 1934. Son Joseph was in the Army during the second World War and was wounded at Dunkirk.

Son Ernest married Lilian Rose Essam in 1928 and became a coal merchant. They had three sons (John, 1929; Gordon, 1931 and Ernest - also known as Colin, 1934). Sadly Ernest died of pneumonia before his final son was born. By 1939 Lilian was living with her sons in Carlton Street, Kettering. She was working as a skiver, cutting out the leather shapes which form the footwear, in a shoe factory. She did marry again at the beginning of 1941 to Christopher Dumbill.

Joseph (1819 - )

The penultimate son of John Claypole and Alice Freestone was born on January 17th and baptised Joseph on April 25th 1891. Very little is known of his life. There is evidence that he served for about three years from 1837 to 1840 with the 17th Regiment of Infantry of the British Army which was also known as the 17th Leicestershire Regiment of Foot. No details of this service has been discovered. He returned to Middleton, becoming an agricultural labourer. At the census of 1851 he was living on The Hill with his sister Frances Chambers and her family.

Samuel (1823 - 1891)

Last son Samuel was born in Middleton on August 22nd 1823. The history of his life with Ann Chambers is told later in the article.

The family of Susannah Claypole and Thomas Coles

John and Alice's daughter Susannah, one of twins, was born in Middleton and baptised at St Mary Magdalene Church on August 14th 1805. She married Thomas Coles, an agricultural labourer, on November 12th 1829. He was born about 1804 and his place of birth in the census of 1861 is recorded as Dover, Kent. By 1851, they settled in George Street, Cottingham - a road which was subsequently renamed Town Street and then Corby Road. In total between 1831 and 1853 they had ten children: 5 boys and 5 girls. As the offspring grew up and moved away, and Susannah's health began to fail, they moved into a house in the High Street with only their 9 year old grandson with them. Interestingly, their neighbours to one side were the Crane and Vickers families; to the other the Beadsworth and Tansley families. Susannah died at the end of September 1873 and was buried on October 2nd 1873. After his wife died, Thomas moved back to Corby Road to live on his own where he died in July and was buried on July 1st 1887.

Mary Ann (1831 - 1916

First daughter Mary Ann Coles born on July 3rd 1831 and baptised three weeks later. She married William Jarman (who was born in Clipston, Northamptonshire in 1828) on May 31st 1852. His sister Jane and her brother Joseph stood witness for them. They remained in Cottingham and over their lifetime Mary Ann produced twelve children: seven boys, five girls. Their story is told in "A History of the Tilley family: Cottingham Partt 2b" [Article G.]. William died and was buried on March 26th 1892; Mary Ann in 1916.

Sarah (1833), Eliza (1845), Joseph (1850), John (1853)

Second born Sarah is documented in the census returns for the family in 1841 and 1851 apparently born in 1833. She worked as a framework knitter, a common cottage industry in the village. Eliza, the couple's fifth daughter was baptised on Christmas Day 1845. She found work as a lace runner. Fourth son Joseph was baptised on August 11th 1850. Eliza and Joseph were living at the family home in George Street in 1851 and 1861. Last born son John only appears in the schedule for 1861. All four children then disappear from the records after that last dated census.

Matilda (1834 - 1903)

Matilda Coles was born on November 15th 1834 and baptised on the seventh day of the following month. As soon as she was able she too took up framework knitting. She married James Jarvis, an agricultural labourer, on December 23rd 1855. Their initial home was in Water Lane but by 1881 they were living three doors from her now widower father in Corby Road. The couple had nine children: six sons and three daughters. By the turn of the centry James was working as a road man. Matilda died on December 10th 1903 and was buried two days later. James followed her four years later. Their story is told in [Article G.]

Alice (1836 - 1875)

Fourth daughter of Thomas and Susannah was born on August 28th and baptised on October 30th 1836. In her teens she also worked as a framework knitter. She married James Tansley on December 25th 1856. James, the son of James Tansley and Elizabeth Munton, was born on July 5th 1836 and was the half brother of Ann Bellamy Munton who had married John Claypole in 1839. After their marriage James and Alice lived in the area known as Barrack Yard and Blind Lane. (For more details see "We are the Barrack Yard Preservation Society" [Article H.]). They had two sons and six daughters: notable amongst which were Esther (1857) who married William Beadsworth on December 25th 1877 and Alice who married her second cousin Alfred Tansley. Alice Coles died at New Year and was buried on January 2nd 1875. James married again in 1877 to Ann Maydwell. James died and was buried on August 28th 1926.

More of the Tansley family story will be told in a later article.

Francis (1838 - 1895)

The first of Thomas and Susannah's sons was born on November 29th and baptised on December 25th 1938. By his teens he had become an agricultural labourer. On March 31st 1862 he married Elizabeth Atkins. She also bore a tangential relationship to Mary Atkins who married Claypoles twice and whose story will be referenced later, Elizabeth being the mother of Mary's first cousin's wife. Francis maintained his family in Blind Lane and Barrack Yard and between 1867 and 1866 Elizabeth presented him with six sons and five daughters, although three died in infancy. In fact at the time of the 1911 census, Elizabeth declared that she had had fourteen children of which seven had died but to date three are unaccounted for. Francis died in 1895 and was buried on May 15th of that year. Elizabeth moved to a cottage in Water Lane and by 1911 she had only her last born son Joseph with her for company. She died in the winter months of 1916.

Charles (1840 - 1928)

Marriage to Maria Vickers

Next in line, Charles, was born on December 13th 1840 and baptised on January 24th 1841. He too worked on the land. On July 21st 1861 Charles married Maria, the daughter of William Vickers, a gardener, and Mary Loveday, who was about three years older than him. His brother Thomas and her sister Frances were on hand as witnesses. The Vickers family lived in Church Street and the census of 1861 lists a three year old boy William, presumably Maria's illegitimate son, in residence with them. By the end of that decade, Charles and Maria were also living in Church Street with William, now known as Coles, and their three other children (Harry Thomas, 1862; Emma Eliza, 1865 and Charles, 1867). Maria had been suffering from chronic and failing health for several years and died from pulmomnary tuberculosis on August 1st 1869. Her death was registered by Martha, husband of James Tilley, a near neighbour on Church Street. Son William emigrated to America and married Sarah Lomax in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 30th 1883.

It is also more than a coincidence that there is a William Coles in the birth indexes who was born in Cottingham on June 20th 1861. His father was farm labourer Thomas Coles and his mother's maiden name was Susan Vickers. It appears that although Thomas was born in Cottingham about 1833, his father John came from Faxton, a now abandoned village which lay about 6 miles west of Kettering. To date no direct linkage between his Coles family and the main line in this article has been discovered. However, Thomas' wife Susan (or Susannah) was the sister of Maria Vickers, Charles Coles wife, and the mother of the other William Coles.

Emma

Charles and Maria's daughter Emma was born on August 10th 1864. As a young adult she was employed as a sewing machinist at the Wallis and Linnell factory which stood at the bottom of Rockingham Road (For more information about the village and the factory see: [Article I.]). On May 8th 1884, Emma married George, the fourth son of Henry Crane and Mary Sculthorpe. One of George's older sisters, Mary Elizabeth, and younger brothers, Lewis Crane were on hand to witness the ceremony. Of note, 10 years later Lewis married Ellen Elizabeth Jarman, the daughter of Emma Eliza's aunt, Mary Ann Coles who married William Jarman. George and Emma settled in Water Lane where they had two sons (Charles Lewis, 1886 and Frederick, 1890) and two daughters (Edith May, 1895 and Winifred, 1899). Charles Lewis Crane married Frederica Freeman at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Cottingham on February 27th 1913 (The story of the Freeman family appears in [Article J.].)

Harry, Charles

The two younger sons both ventured northwards to Yorkshire. Harry Thomas (also known as Tom) was baptised on June 7th 1862. He moved north to Barnsley in South Yorkshire to become a miner. He married Mary Ann Coldwell at St Mary's Church in the town on Christmas Day 1884. Two children ensued: Emma (1887) and Herbert (1902). Harry died in 1935.

Last son, Charles, was born in the summer of 1867. He moved north to Beverley in East Yorkshire where he married Hannah Mary Gillyon in 1900. They had three children: Edith (1906), Sidney (10907) and Charles (1910). He died there in 1925.

Marriage to Elizabeth Jarvis

After Maria's death, Charles spent the next couple of years alone with his four young children. Then on February 1st 1872 he married Elizabeth Jarvis, the 35 year old daughter of John Jarvis and Mary Clow. The ceremony was watched by Elizabeth's brother William and one of her cousins, Elizabeth Clow. Elizabeth, a lace runner, lived at home in Water Lane with her parents and two young daughters: Emma (1864) and Elizabeth (1869). After the service the family moved into the house in Church Street. Charles and Elizabeth had three children of their own: John (1873), Ellen (1876) and Eliza Ann (1879). Elizabeth died aged 69 in the summer of 1905. For a time, he continued living in Church Street with his daughter Eliza acting as his housekeeper. He died in the winter of 1928.

John

Charles and Elizabeth's son was born on September 7th 1873. John was destined to become an agricultural labourer. During the 1880s John James Tilley and Clara White moved from Rockingham Road into a house a few doors away from Charles and Elizabeth. They had married on November 25th 1875 and by 1886 had had five of their eleven children. John Coles was 13 years older than Sarah Louise, the Tilley's second daughter but the attraction blossomed and the pair were married on March 22nd 1909. Sarah's brother John James and sister Agnes Annie were their witnesses. Sarah Louisa's older sister, Mary Elizabeth Tilley, married Arthur Thomas Claypole in 1903 (Their story appears in [Article K.]). Sarah Louisa's brother Ernest Albert Tilley married Gertrude Claypole, a first cousin once removed of John and one of the granddaughters of Samuel Claypole and Ann Chambers, in 1907. Sarah Louisa's brother Francis Omar Tilley was killed in action in Cambrai, France on December 17th 1917.

They made their home in Chamberlains Yard, a cul de sac containing half a dozen houses and a bakery off Church Street opposite Chamberlain's grocery store. Their neighbour three doors away living on her own was 68 year old Alice Baker, originally from Lyddington in Rutland, the widow of Thomas Bellamy Claypole who had died in January 1887. Next door to her lived another widow, Eliza (Rose) whose husband John Chapman had died before the turn of the century. One of their eleven children, Fanny, was to marry Anthony William Beadsworth in 1929. On the corner of Church Street and Chamberlain's Yard lived John's now married sister Eliza Anne and their father Charles Coles.

There were several notable unions amongst John and Sarah Louisa's offspring. Second son James Alfred Coles (born 1910) married Queenie Horsley in 1936 before moving to Rothwell near Kettering. Queenie's uncle was Albert who had married James Alfred's aunt Ellen Coles. Sisters Florence (1914) and Gladys (1921) married brothers Albert and Frederick Vye from Market Harborough respectively. There was also sadness in 1928 when their seven year old daughter Winifred Dorothy died of diphtheria on May 16th of that year.

Before the second World War, John and Sarah Louisa moved to Wilbarston. John died there in 1953. Sarah Louisa lived on until 1977.

Continued in column 2...

The family of Susannah Claypole and Thomas Coles (continued)

Charles (1840 - 1928) (Continued)

Ellen

As noted above Charles and Elizabeth's daughter Ellen, who was born on June 14th 1876 married Albert Horsley, the older of the two sons of Samuel Horseley and Mary Bull, on September 2nd 1892. They had three sons (Reginald John, 1903; Albert Ernest, 1905 and Frederick Charles, 1908) and a daughter Mary Gladys (1910). It is known that son Reginald married Florence Evelyn Bayes in Market Harborough in 1926. She was the daughter of George Ernest Bayes and Myrenda Thurlow. Her brother John Ernest Bayes married Margery Lilian the daughter of Charles Jarman and Clara Jarvis in 1924 Again refer: Florence's uncle Charles Harris Bayes married Lois Vera Claypole, one of Reginald's third cousins, in 1926. Florence's first cousin, Dorotthy Ellen Bayes married William Kenneth Clayole, the son of Samuel Claypole and Ellen Johnson and another of Reginald's third cousins.

Eliza Anne

Eliza Anne, the younger of Charles and Elizabeth's daughters was born on September 16th 1878. In 1901 she was employed as a domestic servant to John Henry Chamberlain who kept the grocery store and post office in Church Street. John was the grandson of Elizabeth Tilley ([Article L.]), the great great aunt of her brother John's wife, Sarah Louisa. On October 1st 1901 Eliza Anne gave birth to a daughter she named Lois Beatrice. Then on April 16th 1906 she married John Swingler, a carpenter and wheelwright from Stoke Albany. Her brother John and his sister Emily Mary stood as witnesses. They made their home in Church Street. The couple had two sons: Walter Vincent (1906) and Charles Thomas (1907). John had been unwell for some years and did not live long in married life. He died in the village on February 1st 1909. The registered cause of death was given as pulmonary tuberculosis which had been present for at least five years.

For most of the next decade Eliza Anne stayed single but she married Thomas Jones in 1874. They had one son, William, born on September 17th 1918. Son Walter Vincent moved away to a village near Biggleswade where he married Janet Gow Luke in 1931. At the outbreak of the second World War Thomas was working as a shunter at the steel works and William was employed there as a time keeper. The family were living in Chamberlains Yard. Eliza died in 1959.

Thomas (1843 - )

Seventh child and third son of Thomas Coles and Susannah Claypole was baptised Thomas on August 20th 1843. On November 2nd 1863 he married Caroline, the eldest of the seven daughters of Thomas Crane and Mary Ann Bamford . Their first two children, John Thomas (1863) and Betsy Ann (1864) were born in Cottingham but soon afterwards the young family moved to Leicester where Thomas worked as a general labourer. For many years their family home was in Waring Street off Melbourne Road in the Highfields district of the city. In total they were to have thirteen children. John Thomas married Clara Elizabeth Tansley, daughter Caroline Tansley born in 1862 before she married Jeffrey Binley. Notable amongst their children was Arthur Herbert who married Frances Claypole, the daughter of William Claypole and Elizabeth Stretton and therefore his fourth cousin once removed, in 1917. Caroline died on January 25th 1887, soon after given birth to Horace, their last child. This was attributed to an "apoplectic seizure after confinement" almost certinaly due to her developing the condition known as eclampsia. She was buried in plot 551 of Section O of Welford Road Cemetery. In the same plot were buried four month old daughter Lois Edith on February 24th 1879; one year old son Fred on December 21st 1881; her 78 year old mother Mary Ann (Bamford) Crane on October 4th 1893 and her father 84 year old Thomas Crane, who had spent some time in the Leicester Workhouse on Sparkenhoe Street, on June 27th 1903.

Thomas remained single for just over a year. In the summer of 1889 he married 1888 43 year old widow Maria West. Her husband had died in the earlier part of the decade. The census of 1891 found Thomas and Maria resident with a 16 year old Hetty West, presumably a relation of Maria's, in Leopold Street in the Knighton district of south Leicester. It does not appear that Thomas' second marriage lasted long. His daughter Elizabeth Maud married Charles Davis from West Bromwich at St Mary's Church, Knighton, on June 30th 1898. By 1901 the couple were living in Beeby Road in Scraptoft and lodging with them were Thomas, once again described as a widower, and his youngest son Horace.

The family of Samuel Claypole and Ann Chambers

Samuel, the last born son of John Claypole and Alice Freestone was baptised at St Mary Magdalene Church in Cottingham on September 28th 1823. Early records confirm that like his male siblings he was set to work on the land. He married Ann Chambers on March 3rd 1851, her brother Thomas being one of the witnesses. Although she had been born in Geddington, a village about 6 miles south of Cottingham, the daughter of Thomas Chambers and Elizabeth Clipson in 1827, the family had moved back to Middleton where her father plied his trade as a journeyman blacksmith. Thomas' grandparents were Thomas Chambers and Alice Aldwinckle. One of Ann Chambers' brothers, Henry married Elizabeth Bull in Cottingham in April 1860. Elizabeth Bull's sister Mary married Samuel Horsley whose son Albert married Ellen Coles.

Samuel and Ann settled in Middleton, firstly on The Hill and then in Townsend. Within a year, Ann was pregnant and at the end of February 1853, she gave birth to a daughter they named Sarah Elizabeth. Sadly the little girl only survived for four weeks, catching influenza and dying on March 23rd 1853. She was buried two days later. They did have two daughters and two sons who survived into adulthood. By 1861 Samuel had become a shepherd, an occupation he pursued for over twenty years. By 1891 he had become a farm foreman. Samuel died on December 3rd 1891 and was buried in Sectioin A row 14 plot 295 of St Mary Magdalene churchyard four days later. Ann lived past the turn of the new century and died on December 10th 1902. She was buried alongside her husband.

Alice (1855 - 1941)

Daughter Alice was born in Middleton on September 22nd 1855. As a teenager she went into domestic service with the family of butcher Frederick Jones in Rockingham. Sometime later she made the transition to Leicester where in 1884 she married boot warehouseman John Henser. Their initial home was in Oxenden Street, which runs between Melbourne Road and Guthlaxton Street in the Highfields District. Between 1886 and 1891 they had three daughters (Sarah Gertrude, 1886; Florence, 1888 and Maud Elizabeth, 1891) but Maud died of a chest infection on July 13th 1894. The little girl was buried in Section uT plot 1793 of Welford Road Cemetery three days later. By the turn of the century the family had moved the half mile to Bakewell Street which lay to the western edge of Spinney Hill Park. Their next move took them to Park Vale Road which borders the southern edge of the park. This was to be their home for the rest of their lives. Florence married George Hamson in 1914. He became a plastic web manufacturer and they lived around the corner from her parents in East Park Road. Alice was first to die and was buried in the same plot as her dead infant daughter on November 11th 1941. John followed three and a half years later and was buried with his wife on May 5th 1945.

Sarah Elizabeth (1857 - 1943)

Samuel and Ann's next daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, was born on August 7th 1856 and named in memory of the preceding dead child. She spent her early teens as a nurse and domestic servant for the family of schoolmaster Silas Jenkyn Oke at the School House in Middleton. She married Matthew Woolley on October 5th 1876, the marriage witnessed by her father and Alice her sister. He was the youngest son of Thomas Woolley from Gretton and Elizabeth Sculthorpe and was born on February 16th 1855. The Sculthorpe children were heavily tied to the Crane family of Cottingham. Elizabeth's oldest brother, William married Sarah Crane in 1843; next brother John married Mary Ann Crane in 1855 and her older sister Mary had married Henry Crane (Mary Ann's younger brother) in 1853.

After the wedding the couple moved to Melton Mowbray and a house in Market Street. Matthew had a job as a brewer's clerk. They had two children: a girl they named Mary Louisa born in the winter of 1877 and a boy, Herbert Henry, towards the end of 1879. Tragedy was around the corner for the family as both children took ill with scarlet fever and died within days of each other. Mary Louisa succumbed after four days on May 4th; Herbert lasted three days and died on May 6th 1882. Five years later Matthew had become the manager of a spirit vault but he himself died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 7th 1887. He was buried in Melton Mowbray on the 11th of that month. After the death of her husband, Sarah Elizabeth took in washing to supplement her income and also provided lodging for groom Joseph Wooding. After the turn of the century she continued to live alone in Queen Street. Then in the spring of 1913 she married 68 year old John Bexon from Shepshed. He had been a long time resident of Melton Mowbray and his wife Ellen had died in the winter of 1912. John himself died in 1920. By 1939 Sarah was living alone in King Street Melton Mowbray. She died in Mowbray House, the old Melton workhouse in Thorpe Road Melton Mowbray on October 12th 1943. She left her effects to John Henser, widower of her sister Alice and George Hamson, husband of Alice's daughter Florence in her will published on November 10th 1943.

Joseph (1862 - 1941)

Older of the two sons of Samuel and Ann Claypole, Joseph, was born on November 13th 1861. He followed his father into employment, first as an agricultural labourer and then as a shepherd. He married Elizabeth Jarvis, a girl from Cottingham who was four months his junior, on June 12th 1884. Her older brother William Alfred Jarvis was on hand as a witness. Elizabeth was the middle daughter of James Jarvis and Matilda Coles and therefore Joseph's first cousin once removed. Joseph was also first cousin to Fanny Claypole who had married Elizabeth's brother John Jarvis in 1877. Elizabeth was in the mid term of her first pregnancy when they married. A daughter, Maud Mary, was delivered on October 8th 1884. Over the next nine years two sons and two more daughters followed. In 1891 the family were living in the School House in Middleton. Their next door neighbours were Joseph Chambers and Mary Ann Berridge. John was a grandson of Pridmore Chambers and Frances Claypole and two generations further back to Thomas Chambers and Alice Aldwinckle meaning that he and Joseph Claypole were both first cousins once removed and third cousins through separate lines of descent. Main Street, Middleton remained Joseph and Elizabeth's lifetime abode. They died within fifteen months of one another. Joseph was first to go on January 7th 1941; Elizabeth followed on March 26th 1946. Both were buried in the Cottingham churchyard in Section G Row 2 Plot 35.

Maud Mary

Mary Maud was the first daughter to be born on October 8th 1884. It is not known how or where Maud met her future husband but on June 13th 1909 she married Ernest James Durrant in St Mary Magdalene Church on June 13th 1909. Ernest's brother Arthur and Maud's sister Ada stood as witnesses. He was a dairyman, the son of Harry Durrant and Rebecca Wood originally from Stowmarket in Suffolk but had been working in Ilford, Essex. After the service the couple moved to Forest Gate in London where their son Arthur Ernest was born. By the early 1920s they had moved to the town of Witham in Essex which stands on the road between Chelmsford and Colchester. Sometime during the 1930s the family moved to Manstead Gardens, Ilford. Ernest and his son Arthur were in residence there when the 1939 Register was compiled but Maud had returned to spend some time with her father, now an old age pensioner, in Middleton. After Joseph's death she returned home to Essex. The pair were to die within days of one another. Maud was taken ill around Christmas time and was admitted to the Heath Hospital in Tendring, Essex. She died there on December 31st 1969. Ernest died at home on January 9th 1970.

Gertrude

Second daughter Gertrude was born on January 30th 1886. She married Ernest Albert Tilley in the summer of 1907. Ernest, born in Cottingham on February 28th 1884, was the son of John James Tilley and Clara White ([Article M.]). Notable liaisons of Ernest's siblings include his sister Mary Elizabeth Tilley, the first wife of Arthur Thomas Claypole (Gertrude's fourth cousin) before Arthur married Florence Edith Claypole (Gertrude's first cousin) and his sister Sarah Louisa Tilley who married John Coles, who became Gertrude's sister-in-law. Until the time of their marriage, Ernest lived first in Church Street and then Corby Road.

After their marriage they repaired to Middleton where Ernest contined to work as a labourer at the steel works. They had two sons (Ernest, 1909 and Harry, 1921) and four daughters (Winifred, 1911; Elsie, 1913; Gladys, 1916 and Marjorie Elizabeth, 1918). Four of their children were still at home with them in Main Street in 1939. Gertrude was a member of the Middleton Women's Guild and was noted for winning the compettion for an iced cake at a whist drive in aid of their Piano Fund in October 1950 (23).

Arthur

Older son Arthur Claypole was born on October 11th 1887. He too started his working life as an ironstone labourer. He married Minnie Maria Chappell in Cottingham on December 26th 1912. She was the daughter of William Chappell and Mary West. Prior to her marriage she lived in Pinfold Bank on Blind Lane in Cottingham and worked as a tailoress at the clothing factory. After the ceremony the couple returned to Main Street, Middleton. They had four sons (Reginald Arthur, 1916; Albert Samuel, 1917; Frederick Joseph, 1920 and Peter William, 1922). Minnie died on December 15th 1922 in Middleton. She had been suffering from cerebral meningitis for five weeks which had caused a hemiplegia (stroke). It was also noted that she had given birth about eight months previously. In 1939 Arthur had taken up what was described as heavy work as a plasterer. He was living alone in Main Street next door to his parents house.

Arthur married again in Thrapston to Maud Annie Allen. They had one daughter, Jennifer Ann, on July 31st 1942. Maud died at home at 50, Main Street, on December 11th 1983. Arthur followed just over a year later on February 15th 1985.

Ada Elizabeth

Youngest daughter Ada was born on October 7th 1890. On July 1st 1912 she married Arthur Durrant, whose brother, Ernest was married to Ada's sister Maud Mary. Arthur too was a dairyman. The couple moved south to Ilford and by the start of the second World War they were living in Kingswood Road, a few miles west of Ernest and Maud's home. Ada died first in the winter of 1959. Arthur followed her in the early months of 1968.

Thomas (1865 - 1909)

The second of the two sons of Samuel Claypole and Ann Chambers was born at the beginning of 1865. The story of his marriage, three children, the relationship with his third cousin once removed William Claypole and his sudden death in 1909 is told in [Article K.].

First daughter Florence Edith was born in 1898. She had an illegitimate daughter in 1913 she named Phyllis Rosalie. The little girl died aged 14 years on May 10th 1927 and was buried four days later in Section B Row 4 plot 58 with her own small angel headstone. Florence became the second wife of Arthur Thomas Claypole (see below) in 1917 after his wife Mary Elizabeth died in childbirth in 1916. The couple had a son, Mervyn Reginald (1918) and a daughter Audrey (1924). The family lived in Prospect Place in Cottingham on the corner of Rockingham Road in 1939. Arthur worked as a plasterer's labourer. Florence herself died on May 24th 1957 and was buried in Section G Row 12 plot 186 of Cottingham churchyard.

Second daughter Elsie Mary was born on December 11th 1901. She married Bernard, the son of Alfred Thomas Jackson and Caroline Claypole, making them fourth cousins once removed. Bernard was a loco driver at the steelworks. They had no children. At the outbreak of the second world war, they were living on Ripley Road with Elsie's twice widowed mother.

Son Harry Thomas was born on May 14th 1904. He married Edith Ella Burditt in Cottingham in 1927. Edith was born in 1905 in Rothwell, although her family line traces back before the beginning of the nineteenth century to Wilbarston. No direct link has been found to date between her and the Burditt family who lived in Middleton during the 1800s although her great great uncle George Burditt did marry Louisa Burditt from Middleton on November 16th 1871.

Harry and Edith had two children: a daughter, Joan in 1928 and a son, Thomas Clifford in 1931. Edith died in Middleton and was buried in St Mary Magdalene churchyard in Section G Row 6 plot 91 on October 11th 1938. It appears that Edith had become pregnant for a third time early in 1938 but had developed toxaemia of pregnancy which led to acute nephritis and uraemia. The pregnancy was terminated towards the end of September but despite this intervention she died on October 11th 1938. In 1939 Harry was living with his two children in Prospect Place at the bottom of Rockingham Road a few doors away from Arthur Claypole who was now married to Florence, his sister. Harry married again in 1945 to Winifred Scurr and moved away to Solihull in the West Midlands where they had a son, David in 1947. Later in life he moved to Leeds where he died on October 26th 1987.

The family of John Claypole and Sarah Ashby

John, born in Great Easton, Leicestershire in 1773, was the oldest of the three children of William Claypole and Mary Sharpe. He was baptised in the village of April 25th 1773. His father William was the third son of John Claypole and Mary Carr and the older brother (by two years) of Richard and (by five years) of Thomas Claypole detailed earlier.

John married Sarah, born in 1777 the daughter of William and Mary Ashby, in Great Easton on May 16th 1796. It is known that the couple had nine children during their first twenty years of married life although one, first born daughter Mary was born in March and died in July 1798. The others were sons Henry (1797), William (1802), John (1816) and Thomas (1819) and daughters Mary (1804), Ann (1807), Sarah, 1810), and Elizabeth (1814). They spent their whole lifetime in the village where John traded as a cordwainer and shoemaker. Sarah predeceased her husband by three years. She was buried on May 6th 1855. John followed on August 8th 1858. This section follows son John. The other children were dealt with in Part 1 of the article.

The family of John Claypole and Ann Bellamy Munton

The third son of John Claypole and Sarah Ashby was baptised John in Great Easton on November 27th 1816. By the late 1830s he had made the move across the border into Northamptonshire and had settled in Cottingham. He met and married local girl Ann Bellamy Munton on June 27th 1839 at St Mary Magdalene Church. His sister Elizabeth was on hand to witness the ceremony. Ann was the illegitimate daughter, born in Middleton in 1815, of Elizabeth Munton before she married James Tansley on Christmas Eve 1820. It is not known who Ann's father was but the presumption is that his surname was Bellamy. There was a Bellamy family in the Cottingham area during the eighteenth century and a William Bellamy had married a Catherine Tansley in 1714. Indeed Catherine was James Tansley's great great grandmother through the line that their daughter Elizabeth Bellamy and married a William Tansley in 1746 becoming James Tansley's great grandparents. (More of the story of the Tansley dynasty will feature in another article [- Ed].)

At first, John and Ann settled in the High Street where he became the landlord of the Three Horseshoes (premises which be run for over 30 years by Thomas Craxford and his wife Susan Curtis). They were to have three sons and four daughters in the first twenty years of their marriage. His inn trade did not last long and by 1851 the family had decanted to Wood Lane and John was acting as a carter. By 1871 he had set himself up as a blacksmith. The family's actual residence is somewhat confused as consecutive censuses probably describe the same house as being in Barrack Yard, Blind Lane and Corby Road. (For an explanation of this apparent anomaly see [Article H.].) The couple both saw out the old century. John was first to die, on April 9th 1903 of "senile decay and exhaustion". He was buried in Section B row 6 plot 73 of Cottingham churchyard on April 15th 1903. Ann followed him about eighteen months later and was buried with him on October 27th 1904.

Thomas Bellamy Claypole (1841 - 1887)

First son Thomas was born on August 12th and baptised on Augst 29th 1841. He married Alice Baker in Cottingham on August 5th 1867. Alice was born in Lyddington in 1843. Her parents were Thomas Baker and his first wife Mary Hubbard. Thomas' brother John married Sarah Claypole and brother William married Mary Claypole. They lived intitally on High Street and then on Corby Road between James Jarvis and Matilda Coles on one side and his brother John Claypole and Mary Tansley on the other. They had one son they named Thomas Bellamy Claypole. Thomas died and was buried with his parents in Cottingham Churchyard on January 26th 1887. After his death, Alice took up a post as a tailoress in the Wallis and Linnell Clothing factory on Rockingham Road. By the turn of the century she was living alone in Church Street acting as a charwoman. In 1911 she had moved into Chamberlain's Yard where her neighbour was 37 year old widow Annie Chambers (previously Rebecca Ann Beadsworth) with her three children. Ann died at the beginning of 1912.

Thomas Bellamy

Thomas and Alice's son was born in 1873. His first job was as a shoe finisher but in the early 1890s he made the move to Leicester. Once there he met up ,with Mary Briggs who he married at St Luke's Church which stood on Grange Lane off the Uppingham Road. Their first home was in Rosebery Street to the north east of Spinney Hill Park. Thomas became a railway goods checker. The family had moved a mile of so south to Laurel Road by the census of 1911. The couple had six children (sons Thomas Bellamy, 1900; John William, 1902 and Oliver Ewart, 1909 and daughters Mary Elizabeth Alice, 1898; Carrie May, 1906 and Margaret Daisy, 1915).

Little Mary died on August 20th 1900 aged 22 months and was buried three days later in Section cO plot 889 of the Welford Road Cemetery. The cause of her death was registered as Pertussis (Whooping Cough) and "infantile eclampsia" (an old term for reflex convulsions in infancy). Second son John worked as a teenager as a milk roundsman for the Flowers Dairy in the city. He contracted Spanish influenza during the pandemic which struck after the first World War and died on March 29th 1919. He joined his little sister in Welford Road Cemetery three days later. Thomas died in later 1929 and was buried in the family plot on November 29th 1929. After her husband's death Mary moved with her two daughters the short distance to Chepstow Road. Mary lived on into her 79th year, dying in the summer of 1955.

Thomas and Alice's son, Thomas Bellamy, married Alice Simpson at St Peter's Church, Leicester on April 7th 1928. His brother Oliver and her sister Lily acted as witnesses. Almost immediately the couple moved to Wolverton near Milton Keyes, Buckinghamshire. Their first house was in Stacey Avenue. Their next door neighbours were Alfred William Claypole and his wife Eleanor Mary Williams. They had been married in Northampton in 1907. A search of the records revealed that these two Claypole families were not related, at least prior to the eighteenth century, and that Alfred's ancestors came from Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire. By 1939, Thomas and Mary had moved around the corner north into Aylesbury Street; Alfred and Eleanor around the corner south into Victoria Street. Alfred described himself as a grocer and master confectioner. Thomas was employed as a confectioner and cake maker. It is reasonable to assume that they were working in the same firm. Thomas and Alice had a son in 1930 which they named Thomas Bellamy Peter Claypole. After the second World War, Thomas and Alice moved back to Leicester and settled in Kimberley Road, a stone's throw away from where his mother was living in Chepstow Road. In the early 1950s Thomas became progressively unwell with a condition which was proved to be carcinoma of the lung. He died at his mother's home on September 15th 1952 and was buried in the family grave in Welford Road Cemetery two days later. Alice married again in Leicester in 1956 to William Utley.

Carrie May, Margaret Daisy

Thomas and Alice's two daughters stayed with their mother, moving to Chepstow Road after their father died. Both worked in the hosiery industry: Carrie May as a "power flat hand", Margaret as a winder. Margaret married first in 1946 to Ronald Taylor. They had twin girls, Shirley and Audrey, in the winter of 1951. Ronald died on February 14th 1997; Margaret on November 12th 2011. Carrie married Arthur Gibson in Leicester in 1953.

Oliver Ewart

Oliver, Thomas and Alice's third son, was born on August 1st 1909 and baptised at St Peter's Church on March 27th 1910. He became a clicker with a shoe manufacturer. He lived with the family in Chepstow Road until he married Helena Shipley in 1938. They had a daughter, Deirdre Ann, on April 21st 1939. They made their home in Bonsall Street which is five streets south and runs parallel to Spinney Hill Park. By the 1970s they retired to Wansbeck Gardens, a cul de sac which runs off St Mary's Avenue in the Humberstone district. Oliver died on March 23rd 1981. Helena lived on for another 17 years, dying on September 17th 1998.

Sarah Anne (1844 - 1930)

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Mary (1847 - 1900)

The second daughter of John and Sarah was born on December 15th 1846 and baptised Mary on January 3rd 1847. She stayed with her parents acting as a servant to the household - although at the time of census of 1871 she was noted to be "at home, ill". As she aged she became a dressmaker. She never married. At the end of the 1880s she found a place of her own on Corby Road and for a time her niece, Caroline, stayed with her. Mary died in 1900 and was buried in the family grave in St Mary Magdalene Churchyard on September 22nd 1900.

John (1851 - 1934)

John, the second son of John and Sarah was born on November 12th and baptised on November 30th 1851. He initially became a farm labourer. He married Mary Anne Tansley on January 18th 1874. Born in 1854 she was the sixth of the seven daughters of David Tansley and Elizabeth Peach [Article N.]. Her siblings were involved with, amongst others, the Crane, Jackson, Binley and Mitton families. Prior to the marriage Mary Ann was working as a cook for the family of farmer John Wild in Stockerston near Uppingham. John Claypole started his working life as a farm labourer but on his marriage certificate he entered his occupation as rat catcher which earned him the life long soubriquet "Ratty Jack". They were to have seven children but first born son William arrived on May 27th 1876 and died within days of delivery. He was buried on June 12th 1876. John and Mary Ann spent their married life in the Barrack Yard / Corby Road area. For a time he acted as an under gamekeeper. Then at the turn of the century he became a farmer in his own right. John died in the spring of 1934. After his death Mary Ann moved back into Barrack Yard with her youngest son. She died in the spring of 1940.

Arthur Thomas, William, Steven Tansley

The third, fourth and fifth sons of John and Ann Claypole share something of a tragic storyline. Arthur Thomas, born in 1880, was usually known as Thomas. He married twice. His first wife, Mary Elizabeth Tilley, died in childbirth. His second wife, Florence Edith Claypole, was the daughter of Mary Atkins with her first husband Thomas Claypole. William was born in 1888. He married Mary Atkins in 1911 after her husband Thomas had died in 1909. William was killed in action in Belgium in 1917. Stephen Tansley was born in 1889. He spent some time in the Army and never married. He was living in Barrack Yard with his widowed mother in 1939. This history is expanded in [Article K.].

John Henry

The oldest of the sons of John and Sarah to survive into adulthood, John Henry, was born on October 14th 1878. He started life working with his father on the farm but by 1911 had become an ironstone labourer. He married Rebecca Louisa Kemshead in Cottingham on April 13th 1903. Their witnesses were George, Rebecca's brother and Mary Elizabeth Tilley who his brother Arthur Thomas would marry at Kettering Register Office six months later. Rebecca was the middle daughter of George Albert Kemshead and Mary Elizabeth Tilley, born in Cottingham on May 13th 1884. The story of her parents is recounted in [Article M.]. John and Rebecca had nine children although twin girls, Lily Elsie and Violet Florence born in 1914 both died in infancy. Their sons were George William Henry (1907), Stephen John Thomas (1911), Alfred Wilfred (1912) and David Eric (1920). Their other daughters were Vera Louisa (1909), Daisy (1912) and Bessie Rosalie (1915). Around the time of the second World War John and Rebecca spent some time in Wilbarston where John was a council labourer. Rebecca died in Wilbarston on November 16th 1957; John in the opening months of 1963.

Emily

Older daughter Emily was born on September 30th 1881. She married Charles Edward Waterfield on June 1st 1903, six weeks after her brother John's wedding. She was in the early stages of pregnancy at the time. Her sister Caroline and husband Alfred were on hand to witness the proceedings. Although Charles was born in Corby in 1882, he came from the Waterfield family from Gretton. Charles' grandfather was Matthew Waterfield (1827 - 1901). One of Matthew's sisters, Catherine had married Robert Craxford in November 1841 and it was one of their daughters, Caroline, who had married Jesse Claypole in 1865. Charles and Emily made their home in Lloyds Cottages in Corby. Charles had started work as an ironstone labourer but had moved on to the railways first as a fireman and then as a locomotive fitter. They had three sons: Charles Douglas (1903), Lawrence Edward (1908) and Stephen Reginald (1916). Sadly, five year old Charles contracted Diphtheria and died on June 10th 1909. After the second World War the couple moved to Kelvin Grove in the town. Interestingly this was the same street where her first cousin once removed George Edward White and his wife Elsie Jane Pollard lived. Emily's aunt married John White in 1863 and their son William was the father of George Edward. Charles Edward died on June 14th 1960 in Corby. His cremation took place three days later at the Kettering Crematorium on Rothwell Road.

Caroline

Younger daughter Caroline was born on November 21st 1883. At the turn of the century she spent some time in Kettering living with her aunt Emily (Tansley) Mitton. She married Alfred Thomas Jackson on October 27th 1902 with her brother John Henry and sister Emily on hand. At first Alfred was a blast furnace man although later they took over the licence of the Royal George Public House in Cottingham. They had three sons (Ivor Alfred Ezra, 1902; Bernard John, 1904 and Vyvyan (1907) and two daughters (Ruby Bessie May, 1912 and Beryl Elsa, 1925) Their story is recounted in [Article O.].

Henrietta (1853 - )

John and Ann Bellamy's third daughter was born in 1853. In the main she lived with her parents and married relatively late in life on August 19th 1905. Her husband was Elijah Cooper, a local carter, and the son of a tailor, also named Elijah, from Great Easton. The witnesses were her sister Caroline and John Sturman who was the son of Henrietta's first cousin (also) named Henrietta Claypole who had married Fuller Sturman in Barton Seagrave in 1862. The couple lived in Barrack Yard. Elijah died at the beginning of 1894; Henrietta in the summer the following year.

Caroline (1857 - 1941)

John and Ann Bellamy's youngest daughter Caroline was born in 1857. By the late 1870s she had moved to Leicester and gone into domestic service. In 1881 she was both cook and domestic servant to the family of archetect Joseph Goddard. They lived in Victoria Road (since renamed University Road) which runs between London Road and Welford Road between Victoria Park and Welford Road Cemetery. By 1891 she had moved employers to be cook to Alfred Paget, a noted soliocitor in the city, who lived with his family in West Street of Regent Road. When Alfred died in 1907 she stayed on as cook to his daughter Elizabeth Smith Paget. Indeed when Elizabeth died in 1931 she left a sum of £ 250 to Caroline in her will. Caroline never married. She returned home to Cottingham and Barrack Yard where she died in 1941. She was buried Section G Row 4 plot 54 in the churchyard on June 2nd 1941.

William (1861 - 1930)

Last of the sons of John and Ann Bellamy Claypole was born in 1861. Before he reached his teenage years William was earning pennies for the household as a bird scarer. As he grew older he followed his father onto the farm. William married Elizabeth Stretton, the daughter of carter Arthur Streeton who was originally from Wilbarston and his wife Maria Taylor, on March 12th 1890. Their witnesses were William's sister Caroline and Francis Ingram, a tailor, who had been a long term neighbour of Elizabeth's family which they lived on the High Street. The couple moved to Church Street where they had two children (Frances, 1890 and Henry 1892). By 1911 William was working as a carter. Elizabeth died on September 10th 1927 and was buried in Section G Row 1 plot 4 of the churchyard. William followed her on May 14th 1930 and was buried with her.

Frances

Daughter Frances married Arthur Herbert Coles in Cottingham in 1917. They had one son, Trevor (1917). Arthur and Frances were fourth cousins once removed. Arthur was the son of John Thomas Crane Coles and Clara Elizabeth Tansley. John Thomas's mother was Caroline Crane, the first wife of Thomas Coles, and his grandmother was Susannah Claypole. Arthur's mother was Clara Elizabeth Tansley, the daughter of Caroline Tansley before she married Jeffrey Binley in 1865. Arthur's father was a slater and tiler but also became the landlord of the Three Horsehoes public house in the High Street about 1906, a licence which Thomas and Susan Craxford had held for many years. Arthur took over hios father's business and the family lived in Rockingham Road in the 1930s. Frances died in the winter of 1964. Arthur died in the Oundle district in the spring of 1974.

Henry

Son Henry was born on August 2nd 1892. He started his working life as an assistant on the farm. He married Mary Elizabeth Cannam in the spring of 1915. She had been previously married to Alfred Perkins in the spring 1908 and had a son named Norman in November 1908. Albert had suffered from a chronic disablity for a number of years which led to back pain, weakness and poor mobility. In early 1913 he started having fits. He died on July 13th, his death attributed to "spinal disease and abscess, 4 years (although an actual cause was not stated) and epilepsy, 3 months". After Henry and Mary Elizabeth were married they continued to live in Church Street with her son. They had twin sons, Reginald Henry and Ronald, born on March 1st 1915. They were still all together at the outbreak of the second World War, with Henry farming assisted by Reginald.

Ronald became a shop assitant in the Co-operative store and married Erica, the daughter of Ernest Ward and Bessie May Hodges from London. Theirs was a double wedding celebration with his brother Reginald who married Grace Evelyn, the daughter of George Alfred Liquorish and Annie Jarvis at St Mary Magdalene Church in Cottingham on Saturday August 23rd 1941. Grace was the great granddaughter of William Liquorish and Lucy Craxford. In the 1950s Ronald and Erica took over the Cottingham Post Office in Church Street. This used to be the grocery shop set up by John Neville Chamberlain a century before. Henry died on April 14th 1955 and was buried in Section G Row 11 plot 168 of Cottingham churchyard. Mary Elizabeth died the same year on December 6th 1955. Reginald died on February 5th 1987 and was buried in the churchyard a few days later. Grace lived on into her 95th year and was laid to rest with her husband on March 17th 2009. Ronald died in 2001; Erica in 2004.

The family of Sarah Anne Claypole and John Craxford

The oldest of the four daughters of John Claypole and Ann Bellamy Munton was born on February 9th and baptised Sarah Ann on April 12th 1844. Her life story falls into two parts: the first before her marriage in 1871, the second, after. Whilst she still lived at home she became a lace maker. She had two children: Elizabeth Alice on March 12th 1867 and Thomas Christoper on June 17th 1869. Elizabeth Alice was effectively brought up by her grandparents. She married William Robert Hobbs in 1890 and moved away to Kent. More of her story is told in [Article P.]. Thomas Christopher did live to see his mother married and lived with her in Blind Lane. An event which struck horror and disbelief through the village occurred on May 1st 1875 when neighbour Henry Crane murdered the little boy by slitting his throat. The full history of the tragedy is recounted in [Article Q.].

Sarah Anne married John Craxford on April 7th 1871, witnesed by her brother John and her brother Thomas' wife Alice (Baker) Claypole. John was born in Middleton on March 18th 1834 the son of William Craxford and Elizabeth Oliver. The couple had six children although fourth daughter, Florence, born in 1882 suffered from chronic epilepsy and died aged two years. Older son James Ernest (1872) moved away from the village in the late 1880s, married in Bromyard Herefordshire, and finally settled in Leicester where he worked on the railways as a porter and goods checker. Younger son William (1885) married Beatrice Edith Tilley in the village on June 12th 1912 and also moved to Leicester where he joined the constabulary. Their story is picked up in [Article R.]. John and Sarah Anne's three daughters all remained in Cottingham. Oldest, Henrietta (1874) had a son she named Alfred John in 1900 before she married Henry Wright on November 26th 1901. Middle daughter Louisa married Arthur Beadsworth on December 29th 1902 and was the mother of nine children (The full story can be found in [Article S.].) Youngest daughter Sarah Anne (1879) married Thomas Charles Tansley on August 7th 1899 giving rise to three sons and a daughter. (More of the Tansley family saga will appear in a separate article).

Finale

In 1987, Beatrice Edith's daughter Iris wrote a letter to her cousin George, the son of James Ernest, which included the line "Grandma Craxford found the poor child hanging behind the door with his throat cut." [Article T.] The rest, as they say, is history - and this website ...

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their thanks for the help, comments and suggestions from the following in the construction of this article: Contributors to the Leicestershire Forum (including Comberton, diddymiller and hanes teulu) at RootsChat.Com

Links to the articles mentioned in the text are in italic capitals below:

Article A: Claypoles: shoe manufacturers Claypole - Nutt: A Saga of Finedon
Article B: The lives of William Claypole and Elizabeth Shaw Claypole: from Great Easton to Kettering
Article C: A link to Teddy Rayner's Travelling Theatre Claypole: Onward into Northampton and Derbyshire
Article D: A Claypole link (via Coles and Tansley) to the Beadsworth family Following the Beadsworth family in Cottingham - Part 2a: William
Article E: A coincidental meeting of a maternal and paternal line "Too many cooks ... spoil the brats?"
Article F: Caroline Craxford's second marriage The Gretton Craxfords: Chronicles II - Enos and Caroline
Article G: The link to Jarman and Jarvis families A History of the Tilley family: Cottingham Part 2b, the family of Samuel and Mary Ann Tilley
Article H: A tightly knit community, now gone "We are the Barrack Yard Preservation Society"m
Article I: Referencing the clothing factory My Cottingham.
Article J: The link to Frederica Freeman A History of the Tilley family: Cottingham Part 1 the early generations
Article K: Claypole tragedies before and during the first World War The Sorrows of Mary Atkins
Article L: The Tilley and the entrepreneur Elizabeth Tilley and the grocery connection
Article M: John James Tilley and Clara White explored A History of the Tilley family: Cottingham Part 2a, the family of James and Martha Tilley
Article N: Beadsworths in Cottingham, the early days Following the Beadsworth family in Cottingham - Part 1: Arrival
Article O: Purely Jackson The Jacksons, my Middleton family.
Article P: Sarah Ann's first daughter In search of James Ernest's oldest sister.
Article Q: Murder in Cottingham Death for threeha'p'orth of suckers.
Article R: Craxfords move to Leicester A History of the Tilley family: Cottingham Part 2b, the family of Samuel and Mary Ann Tilley
Article S: Another Claypole link to the Beadsworth family Following the Beadsworth family in Cottingham - Part 2b: Anthony
Article T:. The letter which prompted a website Murder most foul?? In Cottingham???

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