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Listing Of Haresnapes

The purpose of this section is to give details of the "family" which cannot be covered in the preceding summarised history, nor which can adequately be included in a traditional family tree.

The individuals are arranged in order of generations, starting with the "first" generation of those born in about 1520 and ending with the most recent "sixteenth" generation. This does not imply that there were none before the first! In general, for each generation the order reads as though we were scanning across a conventional tree from left to right.

In the first three generations, there is insufficient data to enable a good continuation and we have made suggestions of possible parentage in order to provide linkage. For simplicity, the many Haresnape girls born in these early years have not been included. Some of the various spellings of our surnames in these years are shown here for illustration. They continued to vary well into the 19th century.

The listing may appear at first sight to be somewhat daunting. However, each individual has been given a reference number, and this allows both forward and backward tracing of lineage. With the internet browser, pleas use the edit "find" or "search" option.

Nb. The abbreviations following an individual's reference number and name are:

c = christening/baptism

b = birth

The Croston Parish was a busy one, as it served a number of townships (villages) in the area. For instance up to 1555 there were as many as seventy baptisms per year. However in 1556 there was only one baptism noted in the church book, none recorded in the years 1556 to 1568 (12 years or so), only three in 1569, none in 1570, one in 1571, none in 1572, one in 1573, none in 1574 to 1577, then back to normal in 1578 onwards.

A similar situation occurred with the weddings, perhaps up to twenty a year as normal then a dropoff to none in 1552, and none in the years 1560 to 1569. Then back to normal in 1570 onwards. 

Similarly there were normally up to seventy burials per year but none given for the years 1559 to 1600.

The reasons for this missing data is not known. The Catholic Queen Mary the First reigned from 1553 to 1558, and perhaps this somehow produced an effect in the parish. Unless the church was somehow unsuitable for these ceremonies, the baptisms, weddings and burials must have continued as before. Perhaps the vicar/priest kept his own records but had left the entries into the church register book for another time (hardly credible), but it does NOT appear that the book was damaged in some way and the official records removed. 

Whatever the case, it means that we have lost a number of family member records which would have filled in the gaps. Where we have a record of a later wedding, I have placed the names of these persons into suitable years for their baptisms.

It should also be noted that it was common for the clergyman to make a note against a child`s name at baptism if it was illegitimate (Bast. or bastard). Hence the priest would need to know if the parents of the child were church married. He would have had to consult records for this, either those for his own church (and he would doubtless know the couple personally), or he would request the information for the marriage from the local bishop (his clerk), or  from another diocese. If we can see that the child at baptism is not referred to as illegitimate, we may assume that the child`s parents were married in  a church somewhere prior to the baptism. 

I have included, for interest the name of the King/Queen ruling at a particular date.

First Generation

1. Unknown Parentage

100. Robert Harsnep      b. say 1520 Croston. No parish record available.

110. Thomas Horsnep    b. say 1525 Croston. No parish record available.

120.  removed

121. James Haresnape       unknown birthdate

Robert married in 1542 at Croston to Margaret Tarlton. When he died in 1552 he was buried at Croston.

Thomas married in 1548 at Croston to Alice Mawdsley. He may quite likely be the Thomas recorded in  document DDHE 59/17  below. 

In 1559, Conveyance by Bargain and Sale: for £220: Robert Dalton of Thorneham, esq. to William Stopforthe of Eccleston, gent. -- all his properties in Mawdisley and Bispeham in the tenure of Thomas Bowker of Bispeham, the widow of Richarde Mackane alias Patrike of Bispeham, the widow of Jamys Mawdesley of Mawdesley, and Jamys Bretherton of Mawdesley; also the 4th part of a close of moss or turbarie called the Reeds in Mawdesley in the tenure of Thomas Haresnape, John Stopforthe, and Richarde Haresnepe -- Witn: Robert Molyneux, Jamys Borsuche, Marmaducke Newton, Mathew Traces, John Eatough.
Heraldic Seal. Document is DDHE 59/17 National Archives.

Also around that time a  messuage in Bispham was sold to a James Haresnape. The sale was by Robert Dalton  and  Anne his wife. There seems to have been some legal dispute over the ownership of some of these properties. Document DD378.

(note also the Ellen Stopforth name below).

Second Generation

2. Children of Robert 1520 / Thomas 1525  (100-110)/James Haresnape (121)

125. Agnes Harsnep c. 1549 Croston.  

130. Thomas Harsnep  born perhaps 1555 Croston

135. Robert Harsnep c. 1552 Croston

140.  removed

150.  removed

155. Richard Haresnape born in this locality? perhaps 1555-1577

156. Marjery Harsnep c.1554 Croston.   

Parentage of these Harsneps uncertain. These early parish records do not include the names of the parents. The parish records for those years were incomplete. 

For simplicity I am not following the female Haresnape line (sorry, girls!).

Thomas married in 1573 at Croston to Margaret Parke, also possibly m. in 1588 at Croston to Agnes Hudson.  

A document DDHE/1192 of 1590, possibly referred to this Thomas Hersnep as of Mawdesley and a husbandman, one of many listed in relation to a bargain and sale of ? to these persons from the yoemen Hugh Watkinson of Rufforth, and George Norras of Tarleton,

Robert (135) was baptised in February 1552. Coincidentally, the next baptism at that Croston church was 3 days later for a Margery Whotton (bast.) A Marjery Whatton was later to marry John Harsnep (170) in 1590.

A Robert Harsnappe died and was buried at Croston in April 1552. This may have been the infant Robert, or it  may have been Robert (100) as above.

A Robert Harsnep  married in 1596 at Stalmine to Jane Batersby. Stalmine is the other side of the river Wyre and towards Cockerham. They may have had a son George (190). Robert may have died at nearby Pilling and been buried at Cockerham parish church in 1602 (see below).  
        

1. Richard Haresnape whose date nor location of birth is identified here, married Jane Spencer. (no parish record found). He died at Croston in 1616 (no parish record found), and Jane Haresnape then remarried in 1617 to Robert Hesketh of Rufford Old Hall.   It is possible he was the Richarde Haresnepe recorded in document DDHE 59/17  above?  There is a parish record at Croston for a burial of "Old Richard Harsnep of Croston" in April 1665. Is this him? 

2. Robert Hesketh was Member of Parliament for Lancashire in 1597 and also a High Sheriff in 1600. (see click).  Robert Hesketh had three wives, the second of whom was a Stanley and daughter of Sir George Stanley, "Marshall in Ireland sister and heir to Sir Henry Stanley". See  click  The title Earl of Derby was given to the Stanley family in 1485. Also see  click
The license for the marriage was granted 6 June 1617. Marriage Act Book Chester (also see "A History of the County of Lancaster Volume 8" by William Farrer and J.Brownhill). Apparantly Jane bore Robert Hesketh a son before marriage. The marriage also produced another son, Cuthbert.

Robert Hesketh died in 1620  She may have lived at the Old Hall but must have left when she was married to Sir Richard Hoghton. Sir Richard Hoghton was knight and baronet of Hoghton Tower near Blackburn. He also possessed other properties and the dower to Jane apparantly included the manors of Harwood, Tottlesworth, Mawdesley and Wrightington with various lands.This dower was given to provide Jane with home and income in the event of Sir Richard dying before Jane. Which he did in 1630, and therefore Jane outlived all three of her husbands.  

3. At the death of Sir Richard Hoghton, Jane presumably owned a range of properties and land. She was known to be a recusant and the property at Martholme was sequestered by the authorities (this was no doubt in the Commonwealth Period 1649 to 1660 when England was a Republic, and when the government of Oliver Cromwell could be severe in its treatment of Catholics and others). In 1658 following her death there was a discharge of two thirds of (presumably the value) of the property. I assume this discharge was to her heir(s). See DDB 4/5.

4.Perhaps Lady Jane Hoghton returned from Martholme to her old origins near Croston (Mawdesley) for she died in early 1657, and was buried at the parish church of St.Michael and All Angels, Croston, Lancashire.  

5. Rufford Old Hall near Preston dates from the 16th century. It is now a National Trust property and is open to the public. see Rufford Old Hall

7. King James 1 was entertained by Sir Richard Hoghton at Hoghton Tower in 1617 and apparently it almost bankrupted Sir Richard. There is an old tradition that the King, on being delighted by a particularly fine cut of beef knighted it "Sirloin" and the name still exists today. Hoghton Tower was damaged by the Roundheads in the Civil War and was restored in the 1800s. It is situated between Preston and Blackburn and is open to the public. see

8. There was some intermarriage of the Heskeths and the Houghtons, and in 1710 a marriage between the Daltons and the Hoghtons resulted in a Hoghton inheriting the Dalton family seat (Thurnham Hall) and taking the surname of Dalton to continue the family line.

9. The Act "Statute of Wills" was passed in 1540 which allowed a man to determine (prior to his death) who who benefit from his estate. As such it was then possible for his widow to inherit his wealth. It has been claimed this allowed women for the first time to climb up the social ladder through judicious marriages. Was this the case for Jane Spencer? 

Editor`s note:. It may be asked how did the Haresnapes become associated with the landed gentry. Well certainly in the early years of the 1400s, at least one of them was employed in an important role by the head of the noble Stanley family. There is some evidence too, of  property ownership by one Haresnape, but  there is no evidence (so far) of any significant wealth. There is an indirect link in about 1600, of one Haresnape via marriage with the landed gentry i.e. Jane Haresnape as above. There was a connection with the Dalton family at Thurnham (see Haresnape`s farm). There is also evidence of a later marriage into the armorial family of the Whiteheads of Forton Hall in 1772 (see below), and also an important link to the Gillow Family of Lancaster.  There was some intermarriage of the Heskeths and the Houghtons, and in 1710 a marriage between the Daltons and the Hoghtons resulted in a Hoghton inheriting the Dalton family seat (Thurnham Hall) and taking the surname of Dalton to continue the family line. The common link between all of  these families appears to have been the observance of the Catholic faith. At various times over the centuries from 1530, it was inconvenient or expensive to continue with the practice of the Catholic faith. In some cases it was a death warrant.  At times the faithful would, by necessity, have been secretive regarding their beliefs and such a situation would have created bonding and between them. It could have also been beneficial to be a member of such a society, and this may have been the case with some of the Haresnapes. Readers may recognise similiarities with certain societies and clubs today. n.b. this is the editor`s opinion - it is not necessarily true. R.H.                                  

Third Generation

 3.Children of Thomas 1545 / Robert 1552 (130-135)/another

160. Robert Harsnep      b. say 1571 Croston.  

170. John Harsnep         b. say 1573 Croston

170a. James Harsnep     b. say 1573 Croston (see below)

171. Elisabeth Harsnep  c. 1580 Croston

172. Joane Harsnep        c. 1581 Croston

173. Margaret Harsnep   c. 1583 Croston (October)

174. Ellen Harsnep           c. 1584 Croston (January)

175. Henry Harsnep          c. 1584 Croston (November)

176. John Harsnep            c. 1586 Croston (April)

177. Margaret Harsnep    c. 1586 Croston (November)

178. Margaret Harsnep    c. 1588 Croston (May)

179. Jenett Harsnep         c. 1589 Croston (March 6)

179a. Elisabeth Harsnep   c. 1590 Croston (March 31)

179b. Thomas Harsnep     c. 1592 Croston

179c. Alice Harsnep          c. 1595 Croston

179d. Mary Harsnep          c. 1599 Croston

etc.

Reign of Elizabeth the First, 1558-1603.

 Parentage of these Harsneps uncertain.

As can be seen, some of the baptisms are too close in time for all of these children to be from one set of parents.

Alice Harsnep (179b) was noted as bast. daughter of James Harsnep, so I have included James as above at 170a.

As before, for simplicity I am not following the female Haresnape line.

Robert (160) married in 1599 at Croston to Thomasin Sands.

John (170) married in 1590 at Croston (St.Valentines Day) to Marjery Whatton.(Hatton). A John Harsnep was buried at Croston in 1609.  A Marjerie Harsnepe, a widow, was buried at Cockerham in 1630. So this suggests that  Marjerie left Croston to settle in the general area of Pilling/Cockerham. John therefore was closely related to Robert (150) above. Note another? John Haresnepp married Ellen Stopforthe at Croston in 1603.

Thomas (179b) perhaps married Marjery Waterworth in 1609 at Croston. They appear to have had 4 chidren baptised at Croston. Possibly Jane in 1612, another Jane in 1613, Ellen in 1616, Henry in 1619 and Thomas in 1623. In 1623 Thomas`s father Thomas was referred to as of Maudesley. 

In 1623 a document DDKE/3/55 referred to "Harsneps tenement in Croston" in which a Henry Hesketh, gentleman, was applying to the court for the removal of three men (not Haresnapes) from the property.

In 1638, a document DDL 387 referred to a sale of property, but here a Thomas Hersnepe was a witness only.

A will for a Thomas Harsnepp, Yoeman of Mawdesley, Croston was dated 1658. 

3. Children of Robert 1568 (150)/John(170)

180. George Haresnape b. say 1590 Stalmine 

We do not have the baptism record for George, so he may even be a brother of Robert (160) and/or John (170), and born say 1571 at Croston.

George married in 1611 at Stalmine to Jennet Lancaster and moved soon to Cockerham (Thurnham) to take up tenantship of Haresnape's Farm by 1614. It had previously been held by the Jackson family and known as Jackson`s Tenement (see below). Jennet died in July 1634 and George possibly in 1643. A will written by him in 1638 referred to "John to have all common rights in two tenements in Thurnham, but John must keep his brother Thomas in meat drink and apparel. William, George and Robert to have one room in the house so long as they were unmarried" etc. This suggests that John was eldest son and took over the farm after his father's death. There were 8 children, (190) from George and Jennet.

Fourth Generation

4.Children of George 1590 and Jennet Lancaster (180)

190. John Haresnape       b. say 1612 Thurnham. 

200. Margreta Harsnape  c. 1614 Cockerham

210. William Harsnape    c. 1616 Cockerham

220. William Haresnape   c. 1618 Cockerham

230. Thomas Harsnep     c. 1619 Cockerham

240. George Haresnape   c. 1622 Cockerham

250. Thomas Hairesnape c. 1625 Cockerham   

260. Robert Haresnape    c. 1626/7 Cockerham

261. Elizabeth Haresnape  c 1640 Cockerham - see (380) below.

Quite possible at this stage there was only one family at Cockerham, but note the death of Jane here in 1602 and also the marriage of a Milisant Haresnape to a Thomas Pye in 1607. An unidentified Robert Haresnape of Pilling  died in 1602 (buried at Cockerham). Pilling is just a few miles from Thurnham/Cockerham but is nearer to Stalmine (see the route of this family above from Croston area).  Also an Agnes Haresnape who wed Robert Fieldhouse at Cockerham in 1645. The burial of a Margerie Harsnepe, a widow was recorded at Cockerham in 1630. This would be the George (1590)s` mother, and widow of  John Haresnape (170).

John m. in 1639 at Cockerham to Ales Richmond of Saltoakes, 7 children (270). John would have been in charge of the farm, (by now known as Haresnape`s tenement).

The farm was featured in a survey taken of Thurnham in 1653. This survey was carried out when the country had no king. Charles had been executed two yuears earlier, and the country was effectively a republic under Oliver Cromwell. The survey recorded that the farm  had been held by indenture from Robert Dalton to Richard Jackson from 1609 and known as Jackson`s tenement . The legal process of passage of tenancy is not clear in the survey, but it seems that this tenancy was passed by assignment from Thomas Jackson, the son of Richard Jackson and wife Isabel on 16 Nov 1621 to George Haresnape (180). The farm was then assigned to George`s son John (190) in February 1640.

The farm consisted of  a building with an old bodistead (kitchen/general living room?) three other lower rooms, one upper room. There was also a barn with three small bays and outhutts, 1 garden. The building would have been thatched and single story. The upper room would have been under the thatch and perhaps accessed by a ladder.

The rent for the farm in the first half of that century seems to have been  payments of nine shillings twice per year (spring and autumn?). There was also to be given 3 lambs? at Christmas and 3 capons at Easter.

(Note that the surname spellings in the survey have been altered for clarity).

John Haresnape (190) may have died in 1683 aged 71. (probate record). He had a son in law Edmund Walker (per non-cupative will). He was listed as a Yoeman therefore possibly owning property.  

nb. this type of will would have been not written but given verbally towards the end of life. The farm may have passed to his eldest living brother William 1618.(not proven)

William 1616 died in infancy in 1618 at Cockerham.

William 1618 probably married Anne, 4 children (340).  

William died in 1682 (administration bond). His wife Anne died in 1686 and her will left all her possessions to Barbary, now married.

Thomas 1619 died in infancy, buried 1623.

Thomas 1625 died in 1658 (will and inventory). 

n.b. Haresnape`s Farm was one of several in the locality which belonged to The Dalton Family. Thurnham Hall, a half mile from the farm had been built by the Daltons and was their family home for many centuries. It was subjected to a serious fire in 1959. It was then carefully restored and eventually sold and by 1992 was a timeshare property.

Fifth Generation

5.Children of John 1612 and Ales Richmond (190)

270. George Harsenop  c. 1641 Lancaster St. Mary (why here?)

280. John Haresnape     c. 1643 Cockerham

290. Jennet Haresnape  c. 1645 Cockerham

300. Saray Haresnape    c. 1647 Cockerham

310. Anne Haresnape    c. 1652 Cockerham.   

320. John Haresnape     c. 1655/6 Cockerham

330. William Hairesnepp c.?

Oliver Cromwell, the Interregnum 1649-1660. 

John 1643 died in 1648.

William died in 1656.

John 1655 married at Lancaster St.Mary in August 1682 to Mary Smith, 12 children (390). It appears that John and his family may have moved from Cockerham parish into Lancaster sometime after 1693.  Perhaps Mary was from the Lancaster area as they were married there rather than at Cockerham. As perhaps the eldest surviving son of George 1590's eldest son John 1612, he should have assumed tenancy of the farm, but it seems it had passed to his cousin Robert 1655.  

note that John and Mary were listed in terms of a lease in a Dalton Estate document of 1707. There was also another John Haresnape listed.

5.Children of William 1618 and Anne Someone (220)

340. Barbary Haresnip     b. Thurnham?

350. Robert Hairesnap     b. say 1655 Cockerham

360. Thomas Hairesnape b. say 1657 Cockerham

370. William Hairesnape  b. say 1660 Cockerham 

 Reign of Charles the Second, 1660-1685.

The difficulty in birth dates partly arises because of the Commonwealth Period (1648-1660). The dates assigned are estimates.

Barbary m. Richard Hodgson. She received her mother's possessions in her will.

Robert married at Cockerham in about 1697, wife unknown, 4 children (510). In 1716 he was "the holder of 12 acres at Thurnham (presumably the farm) for the lives of himself, his son William and his brother William from Robert Dalton deceased". Robert Dalton would have been the Lord of the Manor. Robert Hairesnape seems to have been a house carpenter. He also followed the Catholic faith (register of "papists" as a catholic non-juror 1717). n.b. there is a document relating to a Robert Haresnape in 1711, no details as yet.

He died in 1728 (an inventory of his estate is held). It is very likely that his family shared the same faith, (see below his eldest son William (510) who administered the will). 

Thomas married at Cockerham in 1684 to Ann Wade, 3 children (550). They lived at Hillam, a mile south of Haresnape's Farm. Thomas died in 1695 aged 38. (inventory of his estate is held).

William married in 1688 at Cockerham to Alice Chatburn (b.Stoneyhurst, Lancs), 9 children (580). William died in 1720, (probate record), his wife in 1735.

(William`s will and an inventory is held).

5.Children of George 1622 (240)

380. Elizabeth Haresnape c. 1640 Cockerham

Elizabeth`s  baptismal date was 21 May 1640.

It is also possible that Elizabeth was a child of George 1590 by a second marriage. (see above)

Sixth Generation

6.Children of John 1655 and Mary Smith (320)

390. Elizabeth   c. 1683 Cockerham   

400. Mary          c. 1685 Cockerham  

410. George      c. 1686 Cockerham

420. Sarah         c. 1689 Cockerham  

430. Elizabeth   c. 1691 Cockerham

450. John          c. 1696 Lancaster St. Mary

460. William      c. 1697 L.S.M.

470. Sarah         c. 1698 L.S.M.

480. Robert       c. 1699 L.S.M.

490. Joseph       c. 1700 L.S.M.

500. Ruth          c. 1702 L.S.M.

Reign of James the Second 1685-1688.

Reign of William and Mary 1689-1694/1702.

Elizabeth 1683  and Sarah 1689 presumably died in infancy.

Mary 1685 was recorded in a marriage bond of 1721  to marry a Robert Swardsbrick of Nateby.

Elizabeth 1691 may have married Thomas Wilson at St, Mary`s Lancaster in Sep 1716.

John 1696 was bondsman for the marriage of John Williamson of Ashton to Bridget Carous.

William m. in 1723 at Lancaster St. Mary  (see link)   to Mary Walker, 2 children (670).

Sarah married in 1741 at L.S.M. to William Sanderson.

Robert married in 1745 at L.S.M. to Alice Cortes of Saltcoates Brows by marriage bond, 3 children (690). A Dalton document shows that Robert had half the lease of  a "Curtes tenement". The other half was leased to Robert Jackson who had married Elizabeth Curtes, Alice`s sister . Thus it appears that the tenement, perhaps a farm was lived in by the two Roberts and their respective wives (both Curteses by birth). These Curtes girls had an aunty Elizabeth who seems to have been the Elizabeth Braithwaite (nee Jackson) listed below and married to John Haresnape. Thus it would seem that the "Curtes tenement" would have been passed down to Robert by his father John. 

Robert's will in 1763 referred to him owning Long Moor estate in Upper Wyresdale. This could be the same place referred to in the marriage of Elizabeth Braithwaite to John Haresnape. Long Moor estate has not been located. There are some Long Moor roads near to Garstang but that is not "Upper Wrysdale", Upper Wrysdale seems to refer to a locality abou 6 miles directly East of Thurnham. 

Ruth married at Stalmine in 1741 to William Thornton.

nb1.  Regarding the above children, I noticed when constructing the family that a gap appears between 1691 the last of the Cockerham baptisms and 1697 when the baptisms commence at Lancaster St.Mary. It was assumed that for some reason the family unit moved into the LSM parish. There is another explanation that these later children are the offspring of another John Haresnape and ?  This is not proven.

A will dated 1724 by an Elizabeth Haresnape refers to her husband John and her stepdaughter Ruth (who was left 10 shillings). She also left 5 shillings a piece to grandchildren James and John Richmond. It is not known how these grandchildren "fit in" but it is observed that another Richmond (Ales) was the mother of John 1655 (and wife of John 1612 above). It is not unusual that because of  a low population  in the country areas, and a small number of family units, that intermarriage occurred.

This is evident too with the Haresnapes, Jacksons and the Curtes/Cortes families. (A cousin of John Haresnape a Robert Haresnape (650) b.1705 married Anne Jackson in 1737 at Cockerham-see below). Also see Robert Haresnape`s marriage to Alice Cortes above.

The Elizabeth Braithwaite of Loanthwaite, Hawkshead parish who married John Haresnape of Upper Wyresdale, Lancashire (either John 1655 or another not shown) was a widow at the marriage at Hawkshead parish church (just by Esthwaite Water). The status of John is not given, was he a bachelor or widower? It is understood that Elizabeth`s maiden name was Jackson. Why John was in that area of Westmoreland at that time, so far north of his roots in Lancashire is not known. Perhaps the Haresnapes and the Jackson families were already close at that date by intermarriage. However John and Elizabeth do seem to have returned to the Thurnham location.

As to the identity of this John Haresnape, it seems less likely that it was John born 1688 as he would have been aged 18 at the date of the marriage, and only 14 when Ruth Haresnape was born. There is a reference to a John as brother of a William Haresnape (ref?)  I had placed this John as ref (375) and born say 1665. he could be an option, but  at the moment the identity of the "John" who married Elizabeth Braithwaite is not firmly established.

As a further footnote of possible interest, Low Loanthwaite farm was later to be owned by Beatrice Potter.

6.Children of Robert 1655 and  ? (350)

510. William  born by 1695 Cockerham

520. Robert    c. 1698 Cockerham

530. George   c. 1701 Cockerham

540. Francis    c. 1704 Cockerham  

Reign of Anne 1702-1714.

William was a Catholic and an administrator of his father's will (William signs as Hearsnep). He married in ? at ? to ?, at least one child Anne (christened 1729/30). William is also known to have followed his father`s trade as a house carpenter. He remained living at Thurnham, Cockerham but died aged about 64 in 1759. He left a will and was described as a Yoeman. There is also a reference in CRS vol 5 that this William also left a daughter Agnes who was the wife of Richard Gillow of Ellel Grange. (see note against William Haresnape (715) below)

Robert is believed to have died in 1722, (buried Christmas Day), and he would have been aged 24. It appears strange that a burial would have been carried out on such a day, but Christmas Day Christenings were not uncommon and obviously customs have changed over the years. There is a possibility (source Catholic Record Society Vol 5) that Robert had a son William (Hearsnepp) (715).

George (530) died and possibly buried at Ellel in 27 Jan 1728/9. Note that there is also a chance that this George was the one who became involved in  cabinet-manufacture business with Robert Gillow. I have already given this arrangement for first cousin George (630), the son of William (370) as described below. The supporting information for these two Georges is:

1. Either one could have known Robert Gillow when he was living as a boy/young man at Clifton Hall, whch is near Cockerham.

2. George (530) was probably a Catholic, because his father Robert and his brother William (510) both were.

3. George (530) may have had a leaning towards being a carpenter because his father Robert and his brother (William) both were.

4. George (630) had a brother Robert (650). One of Robert`s daughters, Sarah (780) was married in 1761 to Richard Gillow, who was Robert Gillow`s son. Thus Richard Gillow would have been closely related to George (630). George Haresnape the cabinet maker would also have probably been in the Lancaster area around this time (see below).

5.Robert (650) had a son George (760) who was also a house carpenter.

Thus it is difficult to decide which George is which until we obtain further information.

6.Children of Thomas 1657 and Ann Wade. (360)

550. Ann        c. 1685 Cockerham

560. William   c. 1686 Cockerham

570. John       c. 1688 Cockerham

There was a will made for Elizabeth wife of John Haresnape of Thurnham, Cockerham. This was in 1726. No further details.

6.Children of William 1660 and Alice Chatburn (370)

580. Anne       c. 1689 Cockerham

590. John        c. 1691 Cockerham

600. Elizabeth c. 1694 Cockerham

610. Elizabeth c. 1696 Cockerham

620. William    c. 1699 L.S.M.?

630. George    c. 1701 Cockerham

640. Alice        c. 1704 Cockerham

650. Robert     c. 1705 Cockerham

660. Mary        c. 1709 Cockerham

Anne married in 1713 at L.S.M. to James Beaumont

Elizabeth 1694 presumably d.i.i.

Elizabeth 1696 married in 1715 at Cockerham to James Lambe. (This was on St.Valentine`s Day). James was born in 1683 in Pilling. Following the marriage, several members of the Lamb family farmed in the Thurnham area, eg Cockersands Abbey Farm, Norbrick farm etc. These would no doubt be tenant farmers who paid rent to the Daltons. In 1830, a Lamb descendent, John, farmer moved to Bolton Le Sands, further north near Lancaster and close to the coast. (See note 6 and 7  below). 

George was a Catholic. He became an apprentice in joinery at Lancaster, and in 1727/8 he and four other apprentices, all Catholics became freemen of Lancaster. One of the apprentices was Robert Gillow, who soon entered into a "joint business" with George. This lasted for about five years. Robert Gillow was later to found the world renowned Lancaster furniture manufacturing firm. George married in 1731 by marriage bond at either Lancaster, Preston or Warton to Sarah Coward, 4 children (720). It is likely that this was a Catholic wedding ceremony. George appeared in the 1767 Return of Papists for Lancaster as a cabinetmaker, resident for 40 years together with his two daughters Alice and Elizabeth. This would suggest either that his wife Sarah had died by this time, or that she was not a Catholic. George died in 1780 as a Free Burgess of Lancaster.

It is claimed that George, (like Robert Gillow and his son Richard, nephew of George Haresnape) were involved in the slave trade) see click

We do not know the truth of this, but the use of the slave ship "triangular" route to import mahogany from the Americas would seem the type of commercial trade that was carried out. 

George was a benefactor for the sum of 20 pounds to the Catholic church in Lancaster. This was in aid for the first chapel specifically used for the teaching of the faith. It was apparantly a thatched barn, founded in about 1736 and situated in Mason Street. This was no small sum of money for that time and lends support to the idea of George being in business and reasonably affluent. 

By 1766 there were about 600 of the faith in Lancaster and it became necessary to to construct a new chapel at Dalton Square.  Services at St. Peters began in 1784. Finally this was relaced by the present Cathedral. Thus we can see that George Haresnape played his part in the establishment of the Catholic faith in Lancaster. Note: also refer to his first cousin George (530) above.

Robert married in 1737 at Cockerham to Anne Jackson, eleven children (740) born at Cockerham and Bolton le Sands.  Robert, Anne and their first children moved in say 1753 to Bolton le Sands, on the coast where the remaining children were born. Most of his adult children were married in the general Lancaster area. Probably after 1760 Robert (and perhaps Anne?)  moved to Heversham, some 12 miles north in the county of Westmoreland. Robert died here in 1784 (perished in the snow at Heversham Head). Perhaps he was a shepherd looking for lost sheep. He was 79 years old. (No further record of Anne at present). 

A Robert Haresnape was a churchwarden in 1751 for Ashton, Stodday or Thurnham. It seems quite likely that this was Robert (650) born 1705.

n.b.

1.       It is believed that one of the above Johns, i.e. John Haresnape 1696, John Hairesnape 1688, or John Hairesnape 1691 moved to London where in 1717, a John Hairsnape married at St.Stephen and St.Benet Sherehog to Ellenor Ion. A record from the Old Bailey (London) dated Aug 1721 reveals that an Eleanor Haresnape and her daughter Elizabeth (Benbrick) were found guilty of theft and were punished by Transportation. This was most likely to the British Colonies in America. Presumably Elennor was John`s wife, and whether John wished or managed to rejoin her there is not known.

      Whatever the case, Ellenor and Elizabeth very likely had the distinction of becoming the first "Haresnapes" to settle in America. 

2.       Heversham Head is an area of hilly moor close to Heversham . There is a view of the Head at  www.heversham.org

3. It may not be relevant to the death of Robert on Heversham Head, but the English winter of 1783-4 was very severe. There is a theory that this may have been caused by the Laki volcano in Iceland which had erupted over an 8 month period June 1783 to Feb 1784. This released enormous quantities of material into the atmosphere, and produced increased death rates in Europe and elsewhere.

4. The Catholic Record Society Volume 5 records that the Haresnapes appear in the rolls from 1591, and so it is certain that many of the Haresnapes listed in the previous generations were Catholics.  

5. As can be seen below, Robert 1705 and his family were well connected in society, and the latter part of the 18th century perhaps was a highlight in the fortunes of this particular group.  

6. Why Bolton Sands? It is now known that the Dalton family owned large tracts of land along the west coast of Lancashire, stretching from Preston up to Lancaster. Bolton, Lancaster is given as being one of the land parcels. Thus if  Robert (as a younger son) wished to continue farming, he may have found that he could not do so in the Thurnham area, and the Lord of the manor (Dalton) may have had the Bolton farm available for rent at that particular year.

7.  John Lamb a farmer, and descended from Elizabeth Haresnape(610), Robert`s older sister, also relocated to Bolton Le Sands in 1830. Was there a family connection involved? Or was it was just the fact that the Daltons owed such large tracts of land that there was not a lot of choice available for tenant farmers? Note that Elizabeth Haresnape (770), Robert Haresnape`s daughter married William Harrison in 1770 in the Bolton area and a their daughter Ann was there in 1849 so this would perhaps have provided the family connection.

Seventh Generation

7.Children of William 1697 and Mary Walker (460)

670. Ann     c. 1724 Lancaster St.Mary  

680. Alice    c. 1726 L.S.M.

Reign of George the First 1714-1727.

An Elizabeth Haresnape was married to a William Barrow in 1752. Another daughter of William perhaps?

7.Children of Robert 1699 and Alice Cortes (480)

690. John     c. 1746 L.S.M.

700. John     c. 1748 L.S.M.

710. Mary     c. 1752 L.S.M.

Reign of George the Second 1727-1760

John 1746 presumably died in infancy.

John was mentioned in a lease of Crook and Thornbush (a dwelling), presumably from the Daltons in May 1796. ref DDDA box 15.

Mary married in 1781 at Lancaster St.Mary to James Jackson. Mary`s home was given as Skerton, Lancaster. They were both listed as aged 21 years. (her age does not match d.o.b.)

(n.b. Bonny Prince Charlie and his army were given lodging at Lancaster Castle in 1745. He was on his journey south on his ill-fated attempt to regain the throne of Scotland.)

An Elizabeth Haresnape married a William Lund at Lancaster St. Mary`s in Feb 1768. Is this another daughter of Robert 1699 ?

7. Children of Robert 1698 (520) and ?

715. William  born about 1720

William may have produced a daughter Agnes Haresnape born say 1740. Agnes may have married a Richard Gillow of Ellel Grange (this is about a mile from Haresnape`s farm) in 1759. (source Catholic Record Society vol 5). Richard may have been the same Richard Gillow who was later to marry Sarah Haresnape in 1761 (see below). We have no verification of this at present. 

n.b. there are two references in CRS vol 5 to a connection between Richard Gillow and Agnes Haresnape. but the references are inconsistent. Page 199 refers to Richard Gillow having issue by Agnes, daughter of Robert Haresnape of Thurnham, whereas page 253 notes that Agnes was the wife of Richard Gillow of Ellel Grange, Agnes being the daughter of William Haresnape. (the text here links to William (510) above). 

It should be noted that Vol 5 covers a number of historical topics concerning the Catholic faith in England. For example, the list of convicted recusants (from where the information regarding Agnes is taken) is a list that was originally issued in the reign of King Charles the Second in 1671. This list covered the whole of England although many of the counties are not covered as well as Lancashire. The original rolls records form that time will have been in some or all cases have been rewritten by clerks and published over 200 years later in 1907 in CRS volume 5. There were in addition many comments added much later to that data from that year of 1671, providing some knowledge and assistance to readers and researchers regarding what may have happened to a particular family in the years following 1671. With copying and recopying information (AS HERE!) and supplying further material, errors will have arisen. I believe that this is how the data has come down over the years and in some cases been misinterpreted. The original documents, where available "should" be the more relaible source.

n.b. Ellel Grange the home of Richard and Sarah Gillow was rebuilt in an Italianate style in 1859. It is now the international centre for Ellel Ministries, a Christian Mission Organisation. In the grounds there is an older semi derelict chapel, (St. Mary's) now being restored. It was presumably used by the Gillows for the celebrations of Mass. 

7.Children of George 1701 and Sarah Coward (630)

720. Isabel          b.?

730. Robert        b.?

732. Alice          b. about 1732  probably Lancaster area

734. Elizabeth   b. about 1741             ditto

Isabel died in Lancaster 1737.

Robert died in Lancaster 1740.

n.b. In 1767 in the Return of Papists, Alice and Elizabeth were listed with their father. 

An Alice Haresnape probably Alice (732) acted as godmother for two baptisms in 1784 and 1786 at the new Catholic Chapel in Dalton Square, Lancaster. (see the information on St.Peter`s Church above). Alice Haresnape is also known to have given the sum of 5 pounds towards the building of this chapel.

7.Children of Robert 1705 and Anne Jackson (650)

740. William    c. 1738 Cockerham

750. John         c. 1740 Cockerham

760. George     c. 1742 Cockerham

770. Joseph      c. 1744 Cockerham

780. Sarah        c. 1744 Cockerham

790. Francis     c. 1747 Cockerham

800. Elizabeth  c. 1749 Cockerham

810. Robert      c. 1752 Cockerham

820. Alice         c. 1754 Bolton le Sands

830. Thomas    c. 1756 Bolton le Sands

840. Francis      c. 1760 B. le S.

William was a shoemaker by trade. He was married in 1763 in Kendal area to Jane Nicholson (born Kendal in 1742), 2 children (850). William died at Crossthwaite, in the Lake District in 1765, aged 27. His death was before the birth of his second son. We are all quite lucky to be here to read this! Jane later m. a Thomas Bell and had several more children.

n.b. If William is buried in Crossthwaite churchyard, he is in good company for the Poet Laureate and biographer Robert Southey is interred here.

John married in 1772 at Cockerham to Jane or Janet Whitehead (of Forton Hall), 2 children (870). Jane's family had a coat of arms, which indicated some status, and John appears on the Whitehead Pedigree. John was described as a husbandsman of Ellel aged 24, Jane of the same age. It seems that John Haresnape died in his thirtees, for his widow "Jennet" was married in 1779 at St.Mary`s Church, Lancaster to Robert Danson a shipwright. A Richard Whitehead and Mary Haresnape were witnesses. Forton Hall may be seen at click.

It is not known at present, what Forton Hall consisted of, back in 1772. The photo may represent the general layout of the house at that time. It is now connected to the farm of the same name. 

George was a House Carpenter by trade. He married in May 1766 at St.Oswald Church, Warton near Lancaster to Alice Nelson, 8 children (890). At the time of his wedding he was referred to as of the parish of Heversham. After the birth of their first child John, the family moved a few miles north to Heversham, Westmoreland, presumably to be near George's parents and family. George had an illegitimate child with Rebecae Stones. This child was christened two days before his next legitimate child and at the same church. 1784 was a sad year for this family as George's father died out in the snow on Heversham Head, and also his own two sons George and Thomas (aged 13 and 11) drowned in the same boating accident. In November 1786 he had some more misfortune when he was convicted of poaching salmon from the river Kent in nearby Levens Park (the estate of Lady Mary Howard).

George and his family may have moved to Witherslack with George's brother Thomas's family. In later years he returned to Heversham where he died in 1814 aged 72 (the Heversham burial entry records him living at nearby Hincaster). His wife Alice seems to have gone to live with eldest son John and wife at Arkholme, Gressingham where she died in 1840 at the ripe old age of 99.

n.b. Warton has links with the Washington family. George Washington's ancestors originated in the 12th century at Washington village in the north east of England, later spreading in several branches to various parts of the country. Although George's immediate ancestors were from Sulgrave Manor in Northants, one branch settled in Warton in the 15th century and lived there for some 300 years. They helped to build the local church (still standing), and left their coat of arms (stars and stripes) on the church tower. Several of the Washingtons were clergymen to the Warton parish, and of course many of the Warton family would have been christened here. It is therefore reasonable to say that at least one of the Haresnapes was christened at the same font as the Washingtons!

n.b. At the time of her death, Alice Haresnape (nee Nelson) recalled an event in her life when she was about five years old. The tale she told was entered into the Gressingham and Arkholme parish registers. In November 1745 when the Jacobites were moving from Scotland towards Lancaster, her father was waylaid by a Highlander who stripped him of his clothes and sent him home wearing only his clogs. The parish register also records that in 1745 the ancient church plate was stolen from Gressingham church. (Scots again perhaps?) The reverend Bagot was allowed to borrow a cup whenever needed for the celebration of Holy Communion and to retain an inscribed paten belonging to Arkholme church

Sarah and her sister Elizabeth had their names added to the Rosary Confraternity Lists in 1755. Sarah was married by marriage bond in 1761 at Lancaster St. Mary to Richard Gillow of Clifton Hall, Forton. Clifton Hall may be seen at click. Sarah was aged 22 and Richard aged 24 years. (Sarah`s age here does not match her d.o.b.)

Richard was the son (born 1733) of Robert Gillow of Singleton. Richard trained as an architect but continued with his father's cabinet making firm. He was the inventor of the telescopic table and was responsible for the development of the furniture company and making the Gillow name famous. He also designed the Custom House in Lancaster, built 1765.  See  http://www.priory.lancaster.ac.uk/custom_h_2.html.Richard Gillow was well respected in Lancaster and employed very fine craftsmen.  It is uncertain where they lived for one of their first children was born at Clifton in 1765 while a later child was christened in 1772 at Yealand Conyers which is close to Heversham where Sarah's parents and family where living. Richard seems to have died in 1811 and is interred at St. Mary`s in Lancaster with his daughter Sarah and also his brother Robert. Richard`s wife Sarah seems to have died possibly in  1793 and is buried elsewhere. (not verified).

It is understood that Richard Gillow`s brother named Robert was to be involved with the London showroom in Oxford Street. This was opened in 1700 and must have boosted the firm with sales to the gentry of Georgian London.

 Richard Gillow and Sarah produced a number of children (968a). 

Francis 1747 must have died quite young.

Elizabeth married in 1770 at Bolton le Sands to William Harrison.  They had at least one daughter Ann, born 1778, baptised L.S.M.. Ann did not marry and was living in 1849 in Bolton le Sands.

Robert married in 1777 at Heversham to Jane Audland or Audlam, 3 children (970). Jane's father was a Blacksmith in Lancaster. This may have prompted the move back to Lancaster of some of Robert's children and grandchildren.

Thomas, a farmer married in ? at ? to Agnes Someone and it is thought that the couple had at least 2 children (1000). Thomas later married on 26 Aug 1786 to Jane Wright, 7 children (1020), and the family lived in Heversham area. They later moved to Witherslack.    

Francis 1760 married in 1782 at Heversham, Westmoreland to Ann Walker.

 n.b. A will of a Francis Haresnape, Victualler of Liverpool was proven in the year 1809. May be Francis 1760?

This is supported by the presence of an Ann Haresnape born 1816. She appears in the 1841 census in Walton on the Hill, Liverpool at Fairfield Nursery. Walton is now part of the city of Liverpool, but back in 1841, it was agricultural land. In an old map of Walton of 1851, a  large horticultural nursery (for plants) is evident.

Eighth Generation

8.Children of William 1738 and Jane Nicholson (740)

850. Richard    c.1764 Kendal, Westmoreland

860. William    c.1766 Kendal

Reign of George the Third 1760-1820.

Both of these freeholders may have been the first Haresnapes to enjoy the voting franchise following electoral reform. They voted in both the 1820 and 1826 elections for the county members of parliament.

Richard may have been the first Haresnape to settle in Kendal town proper. Richard was described as a farm labourer, weaver, and Bobbin turner, and therefore he may have been the first of the family to enter into the trade of bobbin making. He marred in 1781 (aged 17) at Kendal (town) to Isobella Wildman (b.1760), 7 children 1090. 

In 1786 -1792 they were living in Wildman St. in Kendal. 

(the photo is from the Margaret Duff Collection and reproduced by permission of P.S.Duff).

Isabella died in 1813 aged 53. Richard seems to have remarried to Sarah Fisher in 1819. The 1829 directory has him as a shopkeeper/flourdealer. He died at Crossbank, Scalthwaiterigg near Kendal  in 1839 aged 75, his son Robert being present at the death. Richard`s widow Sarah was living in Scalthwaiterigg according to the 1841 census with her stepson Richard and his wife and daughter. She was described as being of independent means. She was also there in 1851 living alone at the age of 82 and trading as a grocer at Far Cross Bank. (this would have been a continuance of her late husband's trade). She died there in 1852 aged 83, her stepson Richard being present at her death.

William married Elizabeth Warriner in Kendal in 1786. Elizabeth died in 1814. William remarried to Sarah Nixon, a 33-year-old widow in 1815 at Kendal Holy Trinity 

 He died in 1833 in Kendal, and Sarah seems to have fallen on hard times. She is on poor relief in 1845 (2 shillings and six pence per week). In 1841 and 1851 she is living as a widow in Captain French (Lane) with her great niece Jane, and the Todd family (see below). She seems to have she died in Milnthorpe workhouse in 1860 at the age of 78.

n.b. 1. A map of Kendal of 1600 shows the existence of Wildmans Gate, from which the street later took its name. The meaning of Wildman perhaps refers to the fact that the gate was at the northern entrance to the town, and was subject to raids from Scotland i.e. from wild men.

n.b. 2. A famous person lived in Kendal from 1781 to 1793. He was John Dalton son of a local weaver. Here he taught at a nearby Quaker school. In 1793 he went to Manchester and became world famous as a scientist, interested in meteorology, colour and most notably for his theories on the atomic weights of the elements.

n.b.3. A report in 1800 (LCRS vol. 1868/9) states that no nettles were seen on a walk from Seathwaite to Kendal as all had been eaten "to counter starvation which had been threatening people for so long."

8.Children of John 1740 and Jane Whitehead (750)

870. Robert      c. 1773 Ellel, Lancs

880. Alexander c. 1775 Cockerham

Robert was a Coachsmith. He may have m. Bella Someone in Lancaster, 2 children (1170) and then to Jane Someone, 2 children (1190). Jane was born in 1781. The couple seem to have moved to Lichfield in Staffordshire, the dates of Robert and Jane's children's births being sequential. Robert`s wife Jane died in Staffordshire in 1815, aged about 34. She was buried at the parish church of St.Michael in Lichfield.  Robert seems to have died in Staffordshire in 1823 aged about 46. It is possible the children relocated to the London area, for several of the children married in that area.

Alexander seems to have died in 1775 in Cockerham.

8.Children of George 1742 and Alice Nelson (760)

890. John      c.  1767 Warton near Lancaster

900. John      c. say 1768 Warton

910. George  c.  1771 Heversham, Westmoreland

920. Thomas c.  1773 Heversham

930. Robert   c.  1775 Heversham

940. Brian     c.  1775 Heversham

950. William  c.  1778 Heversham

960. Anne     c.  1781 Heversham

John 1767 appears to have died in infancy.

John 1768, like his father was a carpenter, but also named as a joiner and wheelwright. In 1829 (aged about 61) he was recorded as a wheelwright living in Witherslack, Cumberland. He married Margaret Someone and they lived at Alkholme, Gressingham in Lancashire (probably in later years also with his mother Alice). Margaret died in May 1838, at Gressingham aged 72, two years before Alice. In 1841 John was therefore living as a widower in Gressingham. Also in the house were a Sarah and Ellen Park.  In 1851, at the age of 83 and described as a widowed joiner he was living with a Henry Herst. John died of old age at Gressingham in January 1852 aged 84.

George and Thomas died in the same boating accident in 1784. It is considered that this was on the infamous tidal sections of Morecambe Bay.

Robert and Brian were twins.

Robert married in 1800 at Kendal Holy Trinity to Ann/Jane Atkinson, a minor. She was listed as from Troutbeck, Windermere (but said to be born in Ecclerigg, Westmoreland in 1796). By 1812 they had moved to Lancaster where he was employed as a "tailer". Unable to support his wife and daughter Alice from his earnings, they were forcibly moved (under the terms of the Settlement Act) back to Hincaster (Heversham). An Alice died in Lancaster in 1840 and may have been their daughter. There were 2 more children from this marriage (1210). It seems likely that Robert`s wife died and he remarried in 1822 at St.Mary`s parish church in Manchester, to Elizabeth Jackson, a widow. (note the Jackson connection again). Robert is shown here as a tailer and a widower. Which is a little odd for an Ann Harsnap (married) was living in Kendal in 1851 with her brother James Atkinson, a retired farmer. Ann was aged 55. No death or burial record has been found for Robert, Ann or Elizabeth Haresnape. Did they leave the country?

William married in 1804 at Bentham, Yorkshire (just a few miles away) to Mary Hancock, 3 children (1240). He is thought to have worked as a joiner. It is thought that William died by 1822, for in May of that year a Mary Hairsnape, a widow, was married to Matthew Carter, a widower and a butcher of Bensham. The marriage was at Lancaster St.Mary.

Anne married in Nov 1801 at Heversham to Edward Fisher of Hincaster, one child  (it is possible that the Anne identified in this marriage is a daughter of Thomas (830), and vice versa.                                                     

8.Children of George 1742 and Rebecae Stones (760)

965. Jane     b. 1771 Heversham

Jane (Stones) was baptised Feb 1771 at Heversham.

8.Children of Sarah 1744  and Richard Gillow (780)

 
 968a. Sarah (Gillow) b.1762

 968c. Richard (Gillow) b. 1772 Lancaster

 968 d. George?

 968 e. Jane Frances (Gillow) b. 1776

 968 f.  Agnes (Gillow) b. 1780

 968 g. Alice (Gillow)?

 The gaps between the children indicate further births. I have included some possibilities but not given all identification numbers.

 Sarah Gillow, first daughter, born 1762 died aged 39 in 1801. Buried at St.Mary`s, Lancaster. Presumably she was a spinster.

 Robert Gillow inherited Clifton Hall/Hill in Forton. Presumably this was on the death of his father Richard.  Robert died aged 75 in 1838 (this gives his birth date)
 

 Richard Gillow continued with the furniture making business. This made the family wealthy and Richard purchased Leighton Hall from a cousin (Worwsick family) in  1822. Today, the descendants of the Gillow family continue to own Leighton Hall, which is open to the  public. See Leighton Hall   It contains fine examples of Gillow  furniture. Leighton Hall is close to both Warton and Heversham where Haresnapes lived from 1770 onwards.

Paintings of both Robert Gillow(senior) and also of  Richard Gillow (junior),  the son of Richard (senior) and Sarah Gillow (nee Haresnape) dated 1822, can be seen on a visit to the hall. 

George Gillow is mentioned as in Hammersmith, London in late 1700s, perhaps in connection with their furniture business in the capital. He died in 1822 in Hammersmith. (note that a furniture factory was established at some time in Hammersmith, where later as Waring and Gillow was used for the manufacturer of airframe sections (wings etc) during World War 1.

Agnes Gillow received the Holy Habit of Probation on 5th August 1800 in her 20th year. Thus she seems to have been born in 1780/1.

In 1801 a Sister Jane Frances Gillow (born 1776) was elected Mistress of the Novices (Franciscan Nuns). In 1841 she was a nun at the Convent of Taunton Lodge, (St Mary Magdalen), in Somersetshire. It consisted of 1 mother superior, 36 nuns including Jane, 2 chaplains and 2 gardeners.

An Alice Gillow, daughter of Richard and living at Great Eccleston, Lancashire died in Feb 1799. She was buried at St Michael, St Michael's on Wyre.

 As mentioned above, both Robert (senior) and his son Richard Gillow (and George Haresnape, Sarah`s uncle) may have been involved in the slave trade, if indirectly, for the import of fine mahogany. click

8.Children of Robert 1752 and Jane Audland (810)

970. Elleanor c. 1778 Heversham, Westmoreland

980. Robert   c. 1780 Heversham

990. John      c. 1783 Heversham

Elleanor died in 1779

Robert seems to have married (no details) but his wife must have died, for he married again as a widower in 1830 at Blackburn St.Mary the Virgin, to Mary Abbot, a widow. Both were of that parish, and Robert was a hatter by trade. The couple remained in Blackburn, a major cotton town in Lancashire where they they made their home. Robert died in 1854, aged 74 and his wife in 1856 aged 78 at a Blackburn "Workhome". Robert and Mary were named in the Hairsnape surname form at their deaths.

John married Susannah Allen in Sep 1805 at St. Mary the Virgin, Prestwich, Lancashire. They were both of that parish, near Manchester, so presumably John had relocated to that town. They set up home in the city of Lancaster (or nearby). They produced some twelve children (1270), all christened at L.S.M. Some of their descendants were living at Blackburn in the late 1800's.   John was a twine spinner. (also known as a ropemaker at his daughter Mary Ann`s wedding).

John may have died aged 53 in Aug 1838. He was buried at Lancaster St.Marys Church.

Susannah lived on and is shown in 1841 at 98 Moor Lane in Lancaster. With her were and died in Lancaster in Dec 1856. She was also interred at Lancaster St.Marys.  Her age was given as 60, but she must have been older.

8.Children of Thomas 1756 and Agnes Someone (830)

1000. Miles    b. 1782 somewhere

1010. Frances c. 1787 Helsington, Westmoreland

Miles moved to Sussex, for he is known to have been resident at Nuthurst in that county where he died in 1827. He may have started a family group in that county for there were a number of Haresnape marriages there around the 1820s and 30s. At present we have no evidence for this Haresnape line continuing in Sussex after that date.

Frances lived at Heversham area until she was 14 then went with her parents to live at Witherslack in the Lake District. She married in 1805 (aged 20) to Anthony Hewitson. Anthony was a charcoal burner, this being one of the traditional woodland industries.

There may have also been a daughter Ann born here who was married in Witherslack in 1799 to Michael Jackson. It is possible that this Ann is the Anne (960) above and vice versa.

n.b. This particular method of obtaining charcoal used the wood from coppiced trees, the wood stacked in forest sited ovens and allowed to burn slowly. The charcoal was to be used in bloomeries for the making of iron, in the manner used for centuries by the monks of Furness Abbey.

8.Children of Thomas 1756 and Jane Wright (830)

1020. Thomas   c. 1789 Helsington, Westmoreland

1030. Elizabeth c. 1792 Helsington

1040. Jane         c. 1795 Helsington

1050. Mary        c. 1798 Helsington

1060. Margaret  c. 1801 Witherslack, Westmoreland

1070. John        c. 1803 Witherslack

1080. Agnes      c. 1806 Witherslack

Thomas moved away from the area, marrying Elizabeth Muncaster in 1813 at Irton, Cumberland. (This is closer to the West Coast and near Eskdale).  Thomas and Elizabeth had a child (1307). Here in 1829 Thomas was recorded as a victualler. He may have been in partnership with William Jackson as carriers between Ulpha and Whitehaven every Tuesday. Thomas also ran a boarding house "Bower House" at Irton with Santon. In the 1841 census for Eskdale, he seems to be living alone at Randle How, near St.Bees, Cumbria and aged about 60. He was a general/agricultural labourer.  Elizabeth his wife was not listed. She does however, show up again in 1851 at Eskdale, (as Betsy Haresnape) and she is shown as married and aged 76. But on this occasion, her husband is not listed. Peculiar! Perhaps in these two census, we have  the same property, but with only Thomas or his wife present on each occasion. Perhaps the other one was out on the roads somewhere!

note that an Elizabeth Hairsnape aged 40 died at Lancaster Asylum in March 1825. This may have been Elizabeth (1030). It is not the wife of Thomas
 

Jane was christened on Christmas Day 1795. Jane (as Jinny Hairsnape)  married William Addison in 1816, at Heversham. William was born in 1785 in Lythe, Westmoreland. They produced possibly some seven children (1309a). The third child, born 1821 at Witherslack was named Thomas Haresnap Addison, so perhaps Jane`s father Thomas Haresnape had recently died and the child was named in his memory.

 
They lived initially between Kendal and Heversham at Levens, By 1841 they had settled  in Kirkby Ireleth, Ulverston, Lancashire, where her husband is described as a general labourer. This is about 5 miles north west of Ulverston in quite an isolated area.They were back in the Levens, Milnthorpe, Kendal area in 1851 and 1861 (with son Thomas).. 

Mary (as Hairsnape) probably married William Stubbs in 1817.

John was baptised at the age of 17 perhaps at or near his death. John was a carter. He died in 1820 at Witherslack aged 17.

Agnes may have given birth to a child Thomas Haresnape (1305) c. at Hugil in 1831, father not recorded, therefore Thomas probably illegitimate. The mother and child seemed to have then gone to Liverpool and here she was married at St.Nicholas Church  in 1839 to Robert Benson. At the marriage both were recorded as living in Drinkwater Gardens. Although Robert was a labourer he signed his name on the certificate (Agnes made her mark). Robert, Agnes and Thomas were living at 30 Duckinfield St., Liverpool in 1851 (three children 1305).  They lived in various homes in the Mount Pleasant area of Liverpool, including Tobin Street in 1861. Robert was a plumber, as were his two sons. Robert died sometime after 1861, for in 1871, his widow Agnes was registered at Trowbridge Road, Mount Pleasant with her widowed daughter Jane  (at 25 years of age!- was this an accident?) and two related Stanley children.  

Ninth Generation

  9.Children of Richard 1764 and Isobella Wildman (850)

  1090. Jane       c. 1782 Kendal

  1100. William  c. 1784 Kendal

  1120. Agnes    c. 1786 Kendal

  1130. Betsy     c. 1788 Kendal

  1140. Nancy    c. 1791 Kendal

  1150. Richard  born about 1792 Kendal

  1160. Robert   c. 1796 Kendal

  nb. A useful website for Kendal is at http://www.visitcumbria.com/sl/kendal.htm

  It is likely that all of the children were born in Wildman Street.

Jane died in 1788 aged 6 (smallpox).

William, like his father had various trades e.g.bobbin maker, cardmaker and weaver (trades all associated with the woollen industry). He was also recorded as a Wire-Drawer. There is a family tradition that he served in the British Cavalry and had a leg amputated, but this has not been verified. He was married in 1803 at Kendal to Sarah Kershaw (both of Wildman Street,Kendal). They raised a family of  10 children (1330). Sarah died aged 45 in Oct. 1830 of influenza, and William remarried in 1836 at Kendal to Anne Banks, a widow. She was born as Anne Pickthall, (probably daughter of John) and thus was probably related to Agnes Pickthall who married William's son, Richard 1812. There were two children born, Mary and John (1430).

William died of "water on the chest" (nb. pneumonia?) in Highgate (street) Kendal in January 1841, at the age of 56. A Robert Haresnape, probably his son was present at his death. At census time later that year, his widow Anne was seen as living in Windmill Yard off Highgate with her baby son John ( there used to be a windmill here at on time, perhaps when the family were living here). Also in this house lived Sarah Banks, clearly a daughter of Anne`s by her first marriage, and John Pickthall aged 70, no doubt Anne`s father. It is thought that Anne had put her older child Mary Haresnape into the care of William 1784's sister Betsy, for a Mary Haresnape aged 13 was living with "aunt" Betsy in 1851. In 1851, Ann herself was recorded as living alone in Windmill Yard, Kendal aged 51. She was a Heald Knitter. Ann died (aged 64?) at Highgate, Kendal in 1852.

Also in 1841 in Kendal, William's daughter Jane from his first marriage and aged 22 was living with Sarah Haresnape aged 60 in Captain French (Lane). Also in this house there was another family – George Todd aged 33, Susan Todd aged 8 and Sarah Todd aged 6. George Todd seems to have been Jane`s brother in law, her sister Mary(1330) having died in 1838. Sarah Haresnape was probably the widow of William`s uncle, William (860), who had died in 1833. In effect, Sarah was Jane`s great aunt. Sarah was later on relief at Milnthorpe in 1845 of 2/6d per week. She died in Milnthorpe workhouse from an ulcerated leg.  

Agnes was married in 1810 at Kendal to Robert Hawarth.

Betsy (Elizabeth) was married in 1814 at Kendal to Robert Greenwood . They must have moved to Haslingden near Blackburn for in 1841 she was living in Deardon Gate though her husband was absent. She was a grocer, and also in the home were Mary Haresnape (1430) her niece and Robert Haresnape (1360) aged 25, her nephew. In 1851 she was a grocer there aged 62 and a widow.. Her niece Mary Haresnape aged 13 was living with her.

Nancy died in 1794 aged two, buried Kendal Holy Trinity.

Richard, (no record of his birth or baptism has been found to date), a weaver of poor cloth was married in 1818  at Kendal Holy Trinity to Elizabeth Clemmet (b.1791), 2 children (1450). In the 1829 directory he is recorded as a shoemaker at Scalthwaiterigg (Far Cross Bank). He seems to have moved home with his parents. In the 1841 census Richard, his wife and daughter Agnes, together with his stepmother Sarah were living in Scalthwaiterigg near Kendal (his father having died there two years earlier.) At that date, Richard`s son Thomas aged 22 was back  in Kendal town living with Ann Lee and her two children.  In 1847 work must have been difficult for Richard and Elizabeth, as they received out - relief from the parish. (he may have been experiencing competition from the mills at this time). In 1851 Richard and Elizabeth had returned to Kendal and were living in Pump Yard, off Highgate Kendal.  However in 1861 they were back in Scalthwaiterigg where also in the home lived Robert (1890) their grandson. His parents had both died not many years before. Richard died in Kendal in 1867, buried in Parkside cemetery. Elizabeth clearly found life more difficult after this and she was resident in the Workhouse at Heversham in 1871. She died in 1874 aged 83.

Robert, like his elder brother William was a bobbin maker. He was married in 1814 (aged 18) at Kendal to Ann Someone, born Ecclerigg (close to Lake Windermere), five children (1470). They lived at many locations. In 1815 they were at Hugill, near Staveley in a house called Whasdike on a footpath leading to Ings. In 1822 the family were at Gatefoot, also being in the parish of Staveley. There were at least six bobbin mills in the area., William working at Gatefoot Mill. In 1826 they were recorded at Martindale in the fells overlooking the south shore of Lake Ullswater, Howtown being a bobbin mill here. For a few years they lived and worked at Garnett Bridge, about 4 miles North of  Kendal.  Garnett Bridge may be seen here: click. In 1829 Robert was a bobbin manufacturer at Strickland Roger (some mill ruins are visible today).

Around that time he seemed to have had an accident, resulting in blindness. He gave up bobbin-making and took his family to Kendal, becoming Tenant of the Friendly Inn in the town. In the 1841 census Robert is shown visiting (or residing with) his married daughter Isobella (Kennedy). He is also in his married daughter`s home in Huddersfield in the 1851 census (this gives the impression that as a blind person it was difficult for him to provide for his wife, who is not shown in the household?). By 1861 he and his wife Anne had moved  over the county boundary to Warton near Lancaster, living in Main St. The 1871 census records him here too,  as blind, and the couple still  living in Main Street, Warton. Ann  died there in May 1873 (aged 77), and was buried at St.Oswald Church, Warton. Robert moved to be near his son Richard and family at Hebblethwaite Hall, Sedbergh, in Yorkshire and there he died in 1874 aged 78. However, he was buried in the same resting place as his wife at St.Oswald Church in Warton, Lancashire. 

The bobbin making business was still in operation at the hall in the 1881 census, but by 1901 the property was owned by two farming families.

nb.(Gatefoot Mill no longer exists but the woodstore and drying store have been converted to a private residence, complete with integral artist`s studio and a small recording/broadcasting unit where programs are prepared for transmission to some religious stations in the U.S.A.) Possible building is here: click

n.b. while living at Martindale, Robert would have been just a few miles from the spot where Wordsworth on a walk by Ullswater 25 years earlier first saw the golden daffodils that he recorded forever in his famous poem.                         

9.Children of Robert 1773 and Isa(bella) Someone (870)

(1165. Ann           c.1802 possibly L.S.M.)
 
1170. Mary Ann c. 1809 Lancaster St. Mary

1180. Jane          c. 1811 L.S.M.

An Ann Haresnape, aged 9, daughter of Robert Haresnape of Lancaster died and was buried at L.S.M. in May 1811. So I have included Ann here in this family.

Mary Ann was married in 1836 at Westbourne, Sussex to Joseph Bishop. This was well away from her origins, but she would have followed her father down to Staffordshire and perhaps elsewhere.

9.Children of Robert 1773 and Jane Someone (870)

1190. William    c. 1812 Lancaster St.Mary

1200. George    c. 1815 Lichfield, Staffordshire

William was a mariner. He was married in 1839 at the Parish Church in Poplar, London to Susannah White Edgecombe, one child (1511).

Susan`s father was a Sawyer. At this date William`s father was noted as a Coachsmith. Both William and Susan signed the marriage register. The marriage may have been at All Saint`s in Poplar click

Susannah was born in 1818 in Devenport, an historic naval town in Devon. She was apparantly baptised in an independent chapel, her father was William Edgecombe, her mother Jane White.

William would have found work as a seaman easier to find in the port of London than in Lancaster.

The area where they lived, Poplar was in the East End of London. The area was being developed with homes as people moved in to make a living from work created by the adjacent docklands. The homes, as is well known would have been overcrowded and lacking in sanitation.

In 1839, William and Susannah had a baby, William Robert. The boy died in the same year.

Note that in 1839 in the district of Poplar lived James Hearsnep the Catholic Priest. His chapel would have been close to the home of William and Susannah. I can find no close family connection between William Haresnape and James Hearsnep.

In 1844, Susannah gave birth to another child, Frederick Edward Tildesley. The birth was at a house in Castor Street in Poplar. However the father was not given as William Haresnape, but Frederick Tildesley. Susannah`s surname was given as Tildesley, formerly White Edgecombe. This is such a rare combination of surnames that she must have been the same woman who had been married to William. In 1849, Frederick and Susannah were married in the nearby district of Bethnal Green, at St.Matthews Church after banns. Her father was again given as Robert, and a sawyer. Fred`s father was given as a gamekeeper.

In 1851 this young family again appear in the Tower Hamlets borough in the parish of St.George in the East, the building`s name not clear. Fred was by this time a stoker on a steam boat and aged 33. Susannah was a dressmaker and aged 32. They had two young children. including Frederick Edward now aged 6.

Now, what happened to William Haresnape born 1812 Lancaster. Did he die? There are no known records for this as yet. If he was lost at sea, why did Susannah retain her old maiden name and marry as a spinster? Did William sail away and never return to London? Was he the elusive William Hearsnep born in Lancashire in 1811, who settled down in Canada and thus made a new life for himself? Perhaps we will never know for certain. 

George (1200) at the age of 23 seems to have been convicted of larceny at Staffordshire Court and sentenced in 1838 to transportation for 7 years. This was probably to Australia. 

In 1841, there was a George Hairsnape  registered as a convict  on board the Justitia Convict Court Ship, berthed at Greenwich, Woolwich Arsenal.  10 staff (7 men and 3 women), 8 guards (all men) and 32 convicts (all men) are listed. The age of George is given as 30, but this may have been a rounded figure.

The convict ships berthed in the River Thames in London were a means of coping with the increasing numbers of prisoners who could not be accommodated in the land prisons.  Inhabitants of these floating prisons were used as forced labour for the building of  London Docks etc, and conditions on board  were abysmal. Some of the prisoners were waiting in the convict ships for transportion when a suitable sailing vessel became available.  Prior to 1776 and the American War of Independence, America was a popular choice for transportation of British convicts. After American Independence, Australia became the destination country. 

9.Children of Robert 1775 and Jane Atkinson (930)

1210. Ann      c. 1803 Kendal

1220. George c. 1804 Kendal

1230. Alice     c. 1807 Kendal

George was christened on Christmas Day.

A removal order for Robert, Jane and Alice to Hincaster was given in March 1812 and was carried out in May of that year (this was a legal action under the enforcement of the Poor Acts).

9.Children of William 1778 and Mary Hancock (950)

1240. Betty    c. 1805 Ingleton, Yorkshire

1250. Alice    c. 1806 Ingleton

1260. Agnes  c. 1809 Ingleton

1261. Ann ?

As there were no sons born to William this was the end of the Haresnapes in this branch.

It seems likely that their father William had died by 1822, for Mary Haresnape, a widow was married at Lancaster St.Mary in May of that year to Matthew Carter, a widower. He was a butcher by trade and of Bensham.

 Betty (as Elizabeth) is shown in the 1841 census aged 30 and at the home of James and Ann Boulton at Low Mill House, Bentham. Ann was her sister. James described as   an overlooker. Betty was married in 1846 at Thornton in Lonsdale, Yorks to John Clark. John was born in Scolforth, (or Scotforth. near Lancaster?) Lancashire in 1810 and died about 1899. 

He was, in 1851, a farmer of 40 acres. This was at Thornton in Lonsdale, where the couple lived, and there was a servant girl there Alice Taylor aged 13. Thornton is a few miles east of Kirby Lonsdale, and is now in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. (very nice too). At some point they relocated about 8 miles to the south west, and nearer Bentham, and they are seen here in 1861 and 1871, at Burton in Lonsdale,  near to her sister Alice. In 1881 and 1891 John and Elizabeth had returned to Thornton where they lived at Gale Green Cottage. John is still shown as a farmer at the age of 81.

nb. Not definite, but Gale Green Cottage may be here: click

Alice was married in 1839 at Lancaster St. Mary to Thomas Burton. Her sister Betty seems to have been a witness. Thomas was a gardener at this time and was living at Lowfields Burton, whereas Alice lived at 28 Castle Park. Thomas`s father was a butcher. Thomas and Alice had settled in Burton in Lonsdale, Bentham by 1841, and in 1851 Thomas was now listed as a grocer. Thomas must have died before 1861 for this census shows Alice as a widow and a  grocer at Lowfields, Burton in Lonsdale. Her son aged 14 was a grocer`s boy. Her married sister Elizabeth and husband were also living nearby. By 1871 however, son William had married to Isabella, and they were living in Blackburn, and here also lived Alice again a grocer aged 63.

Ann (1261). I have placed her here, though as yet I do not have birth nor baptism details. She married James Boulton (above) in August 1833 at Lancaster St.Mary. An unidentified Ellen Haresnape was a witness.

9. Children of  Anne 1781 and Edward Fisher (960)

1265. George (Fisher)  c. 1802  Heversham

9.Children of John 1783 and Susannah Allen (990)

1270. Robert   c. 1807 Lancaster St. Mary

1275. Ann       b. 1808 L.S.M.

1280. John      c. 1809 L.S.M.

1285. Thomas c. April 1811 L.S.M.

1288. Ann       c. Feb 1814  L.S.M.

1289. George c.June 1816  L.S.M.

1300. Edward c. July 1829 L.S.M.

1301.  Susannah c. 1832  Lancaster

Reign of George the Third 1760-1820.

Reign of William the Fourth 1830-1837.

It seems that a number of the children may have died  in their early years. Of the remainder, Ann and Jane stayed in the area of their birth, and near to their parents John and Susannah.  Their father seems to have died in 1838, and their youngest daughter Margaret was only aged 8 at that date 

Robert (1270). No further information.

Ann (1275) probably died in infancy.

John (1280) No further information.

Thomas (1285) No further information.

George (1289) No further information.

Ann(1288)  was born in Lancaster just before Christmas in 1813. She married in 1839 at Lancaster St. Mary to Samuel Loine. Here Anne`s surname was spelled in the Haresnape form.It appears that Anne`s sister in law (Mary Ann, wife of Edward Hairsnape) was a witness. Samuel Loine, a weaver is described as a Minor (i.e less than 21years?). He lived at no. 86 Moor Lane, she at no.84. When married they lived at no.86 then at no.89 Moor Lane. All quite close to her mother`s home. In 1841 Ann and Samuel were in Back Mary Street Lancaster. Also in the household was her mother Susannah, Ann`s brother Edward, sister Jane and young sister Margaret aged 10 years. Also here was Ann and Samuel`s son of 21 months. William. Ann and Samuel did have two other children, Elizabeth born in 1843 in Lancaster, and Susannah born 1846 Lancaster. Ann was widowed by 1851, and in later life she used the surname Loynd. She may have died in 1854. Her son Wiliam Loynd died in Lancaster in 1901.

Mary Ann and Edward were later to move away from the area and resettle in Blackburn. Mary Ann (1290b) was a servant when she was wed to James Johnson in 1842 at the Parochial Chapel in Walton le Dale, Blackburn. James was described as a musician. Both Mary and John were living in Walton le Dale. Both signed the registry, Mary in the Hairsnape form.

Jane Hairsnape was living in 1851  with her widowed mother (housekeeper) and siblings in 98 Moor Lane where Jane was described as a cotton weaver. Here also was her widowed sister Ann (Loyne) and her three children William 11, Elizabeth 9, and Susannah 5. Also here was Jane`s own daughter Jane born in Lancaster in 1841 ( Baptism L.S.M. Oct 1843. Father not recorded). Jane (senior) died in 1853, her age given as 32, but she should have been about 35. Her daughter Jane of Moor Lane died aged 21 in 1862 and both women were interred at Lancaster St.Mary.

Margaret was married to Henry Hogg at Lancaster St.Mary in 1847. Henry Hogg was desribed as a Tailor at that date. Mary Ann Young (see below) was a witness at the wedding.

Edward Hairsnape, born 29 July 1828 was married in 1848 in Lancaster to Mary Ann Young, (possibly the daughter of Elizabeth Young and born in Lancaster ?). Edward, a labourer, was living at Moor Lane  and Mary Ann at Spring Garden Street, both in Lancaster.  Edward and Mary had seven children (1520).

Mary may have been claiming that she was younger than her actual age. At the marriage date, Edward's father John was known as a twinespinner, and Edward was a labourer. Edward and his wife Mary moved from Lancaster to Blackburn sometime between 1853 and 1855 and here they lived in the attic of Mary's mother's house in Bottomgate, Edward being employed as a stoker in a cotton factory. In 1857 he was living at 13 Milton St. Bolton? and was employed as an engine feeder at a cotton factory, (also see 1320 below). Edward spelled his name as Hairsnape and some of his descendants have retained this spelling. In the 1881 Census the family were living at 7 Eden Street Blackburn.  In the 1891 census however, Edward and Mary were living at 18 Queen Street in Oswaldtwistle, a small town close to both Blackburn and Accrington, Lancashire. (note) Here Edward was shown as an Engine Driver. The surname was as the Haresnape spelling. 

Mary Anne died in 28th January 1905 at the home of Elizabeth, 30 Union Road Oswaldtwistle. Edward lived until 29th March 1906 and died in the Workhouse in Blackburn. Both are buried in the cemetery at New Lane in Oswaldtwistle. 

note: Queen Street today runs off Union Road, and is close to the Oswaldtwistle Mills shopping centre (a converted cotton mill, which is very likely where Edward once worked).

 note: Oswaldtwistle is known as the birthplace of Hargreaves, the inventor of the spinning jenny, which was a major factor in the creation and development of the cotton spinning industry and a thus a major contributer to the Industrial Revolution.  The introduction of mechanisation led to riots at Oswaldtwistle in 1826 which lasted for 4 days and spread to other Lancashire towns. The issue is complicated but perhaps the naming of the Union Road as such has some significance in the origin of worker`s unions in Britain.

Susannah 91301) was christened on the day she was born and probably died that same day or soon after. She was buried in Lancaster St.Mary.

9. Children of Robert Benson and Agnes Haresnape (1080)

1305. Thomas b. 1831 Hugil, Westmoreland

1305a. Richard (Benson) b. 1841 Liverpool

1305b. Robert (Benson) b. 1843 Liverpool

1305c. Jane  (Benson) b. 1846 Liverpool

Reign of Victoria 1837-1901. Start of Civil Registration 1837. Commencement of preservation of census returns 1841.

Thomas retained the surname Haresnape. He became a teacher but sadly died at the early age of 21, (1852) at the family home in Duckenfield Street, Liverpool, his mother being present at his death.

Richard and Robert both became plumbers (father`s trade). No further details. They were not in their mother`s home in 1871.

Jane married in 1865 to a Mr. George Molyneux Stanley in Liverpool. There were two children. Sadly her husband died and in 1871, she was living with her widowed mother in Trowbridge Road, Mount Pleasant. Jane later remarried to George Thomson (born 1835 in London). 

9. Children of Thomas (1020) and Elizabeth Muncaster

1307. John  c 1815 Irton, Cumberland

9.Children of  William Addison and Jane ( 1040)

1309a.Thomas Haresnap (Addison) b. 1821 Witherslack , Westmoreland.

1309c. Ellen (Addison) b. 1824.
 
1309d. Robert (Addison) b. 1829 in Levens, Kendal  
 
1309e. Jane (Addison) b. 1833.
 
1309f. Agnes (Addison) b. 1838 in Kirby Ireleth, Lancashire.

1309g. Maria (Addison) b. 1841 in Kirby Ireleth, Lancashire.

There may have been other children born to this family.

Levens is between Kendal and Heversham, a few miles from each town. Kirby Ireleth is much nearer the west coast, about 5 miles north west of Ulverston and appears to be quite isolated. 

Thomas Addison (1309b) in 1841 and aged 20 was resident in the household of  Christopher Clark and his family at Edgar Cottages, Levens Marsh., which seems to be near Kendal. Thomas is listed as a labourer there, which is more of a workshop as (including Christopher Clark) there were three shoemakers and three apprentice shoemakers. Kendal is well known for its shoemaking history, particularly for K shoes which was eventually taken over by Clarks, a well known brand. However, no connection has been found at present between the Clarks above, and the "present Clarks Shoes", the latter having started business in Somerset. 

This location was near to his parent`s home. He presumably decided that labouring wasn`t his choice of career and took up as a tailor and we find him here as a tailor in 1851, and then as a master tailor in 1861. He was living with his parents at this time, but by 1871 was a boarder at a house in Levens, Kendal. Finally in 1881, he was a boarder (tailor) at the lake District village of Broughton Mills (about 5 miles west of Coniston Water). Thomas did not marry.

Ellen was living with parents in 1841, but no further information regarding her.

Robert was living with parents in 1841, then no further data.

Jane was also with parents in 1841, then no further data.

Agnes with parents in 1841, but in 1851 may have been lving with a relative`s family (Peter Addison) also in Levens (Birks Cottage). Peter was a farmer and Agnes a house servant. Cottage may be this one: click 

Maria was with her parents in 1841, and with them and Thomas in 1851 and 1861. In this year she was a housekeeper.

Tenth Generation

10.Children of Unknown Parents

1310. William  Haresnape     c. 1823 possibly Kendal town

William 1823 was unlikely to have been a son of William 1784. Perhaps he was illegitimate. William an L.P. was listed in 1841 as aged 18 and living alone in Kendal town (no exact address.) He was not there in 1851.

10.Children of William 1784 and Sarah Kershaw (1100)

1330. Mary           c. 1804 Kendal

1340. William       c. 1808 Kendal

1350. Richard       c. 1812 Kendal

1360. Robert        c. 1814 Kendal

1370. Sarah          c. 1816 Kendal

1380. Jane            c. 1819 Kendal

1390. Thomas      c. 1820 Kendal

1400. Agnes         c. 1823 Kendal

1410. Elizabeth    c. 1826 Kendal

1420. George       c. 1829 Kendal  

This is a very extended family, 26 years between the youngest and the eldest child.

Mary may have had an illegitimate child William (1540) b. 1830. She probably wed George Todd (born 1806 Kendal) but would have appeared to have died before 1841(she is probably the Maria Todd who died 1838 in Kendal). Following the death of his wife, George, a weaver, and his family lived with his mother in law Sarah Haresnape, and sister in law Jane Haresnape, at Captain French in Kendal (1861 and 71). Mary and Geroge Todd had several children, Susan (Susannah) Todd was born in 1833 in Kendal, and died in 1882 in Kendal.Sarah Todd was born in 1835 in Kendal.

George is believed to have died in Kendal late 1871.

William 1808 was a bobbin turner, then later a bobbin maker, employing sons in his business. He was first recorded as a bobbin turner in 1830 at Strickland Roger, and it appears that he was working for his Uncle Robert 1796. He then moved down to Staveley with his younger cousin William 1815 (Robert 1796's son), also a bobbin turner.  William was married in 1830 at Melling (Lonsdale), Lancashire to Mary Thompson (born 1809), 9 children (1540). Melling is not very far away from Bentham where an aunt lived. In the early years (1831) of their marriage they lived somewhere in the Kendal area, but were definitely at Staveley between 1833 and 1835. The family moved to Tatham Fells, Lancs. but following the death of William's father in 1841 returned to Kendal town. They can be seen at Castle Street Park and Castle Lands Kendal in the 1841 census, with their three young children. By early 1842 were living at Castle St. near to first cousins William 1815 and Richard 1822. It was perhaps here that these three decided upon setting themselves up in business. To do this they would have had to move away from the town of Kendal. By 1844 William's family had gone back to the village of Tatham (near Wray) to the north east of Lancaster. This was near to Melling where he and his wife had married.  William's wife died in 1849 at the age of 37 (possibly in childbirth).

nb. There is evidence today, visible on a good map, of Willam`s site at Tatham.

William remarried in June 1850 at Lancaster Parish Church to Jane Nickal (b. 1819 Lancaster). The certificate shows William of Tatham and Jane of Cable Street, Lancaster?. He would have been 42 and she 31 years of age. Both signed the register. In 1851 the family resided at one of the Tatham Mill cottages. There were a further two sons (1630) born at Bradford in Yorkshire where William must have worked for a few years making bobbins for the Woollen Industry. However the family did not remain there for we find them again in 1861 living at Rumbell Row Cottage in Caton. This is about 6 miles from Tatham and on the road to Lancaster City , a few miles to the west. This cottage still exists today (2010) and is seen mentioned in a walk in the Caton Village. see click . Finally, after this tour of the north of England, William settled in Wigan. In the 1871 census the family is shown at 12 Hudson Street. At least one of his sons died of smallpox in 1872, but William lived on here and was living at 5 Hardybulls in 1872. (this is perhaps a transcription error-may be Hardybutts Street) He died in Wigan in 1887. William was the progenitor of the Liverpool, South African and one of the Derby groups.

Jane Haresnape (nee Nickel) lived on for a number of years, and appears in the 1901 census living with her stepdaughter Margaret, husband John and family in the town of Hindley near Wigan.

Jane died in 1904, her stepdaughter Margaret (1610) being her main beneficiary.

n.b. On his various travels, some of his children would have stayed and offshoots of these may have arisen.

Richard 1812 was also a bobbin turner. He was married (age 38) in 1850 at Preston Parish Church to Agnes Pickthall (age 36), 4 children (1650). Agnes was described as a dressmaker. Both Richard and Agnes were living at Chapel Yard, Friargate at the date of their marriage.

Shortly after their marriage the couple were living in 1851 at Catterall, Garstang at or near a house called Pickerings. By 1861 they had moved to 8 Mintcake Row, Catterall, this may have been younger brother Robert's previous house. It would appear that he worked in Robert's bobbin making business. Richard and family must have then gone to live in Preston (also brother Robert and family and perhaps with Thomas 1819's children). It is clear that the cotton famine was having an effect upon their occupation. Richard died in Preston in 1862, but Agnes lived on to die a few days before Christmas 1890, at Peel St. East in Preston.

Robert 1814 was a bobbin turner then later a bobbin maker. In the 1841 census he appears at the home of his Aunty Betty Greenwood at Dearden Gate, Haslingden, Blackburn together with his half-sister Mary (1430) aged 4. Robert was married in 1844 at Lancaster Register Office to Agnes Taylor (b. 1824 Tatham Fell, Lancs.). The residence of Robert was given as in the Parish of Halton, whereas Agnes was from the township of Ellel. Robert`s address suggeststhat he and brother William 1808 were living in the same general area of the country east of Lancaster at that time. Agnes's father was a blacksmith. Robert and Agnes had 5 children (1690). They lived at Halton, Lancs. for a few years but by 1851 they were at Mintcake Row at Catterall, and in 1861 at 1 Bobbin Cottage, Catterall. At this date he was known as a bobbin maker employing 7 men and 3 boys (many of these being his close relatives). They would have been supplying wooden bobbins to the large cotton mill at Catterall. The general area at that time including some of the locations such as Mintcake Row and the cotton factory (possibly the Pyrmont) may be seen at Old Maps.  It appears that Robert and family moved to Preston some time after 1861. At the birth of one daughter in 1856, they were shown as resident in Claughton, Preston, and Robert is listed as a Manager in a Bobbin Mill.

In the 1871 Preston census they were living at 31 Clover Street in Preston, Robert still listed as a bobbin turner aged 56, the three eldest daughters all cotton weavers (the surviving son having married). In 1874 at his daughter Mary`s wedding Robert was given as an overlooker, presumably at a cotton mill. However in the 1881 Census, Robert, his wife and daughter Agnes appear at 94 Slater Street, Pendleton just west of Manchester. Robert aged 66 is recorded as a provision shopkeeper, i.e. he was still working but in a completely different occupation. Also in the house was a three year old girl Agnes Bailey who is listed as Robert`s niece and sister in law. Pendleton is not far from Withington, Manchester where daughter Agnes married in 1884. Presumably, Robert and his wife did not live at Pendleton for many years for in 1882 a directory shows them at St. George`s Rd., Preston.  They were also in Preston in 1991. Robert's wife Agnes died in 1895 aged 71, and Robert in 1896 aged 81, both being buried in the Aspden family grave at Preston (daughter Sarah married an Aspden).

Sarah 1816 died a young girl in 1820, buried Kendal Holy Trinity.

Jane 1819 stayed in Kendal with her parents. In 1841 aged 22 she was living with a Sarah Haresnape (aged 60) at Captain French (Lane). Also in the same house were her brother in law George Todd and his children (George`s wife Mary having died). Jane may have married in 1863 at Manchester (St. John Parish Church) to George Davis. Jane gave her father`s occupation as gardener and the certificate does not show that he was deceased (but William 1784 died in 1841). George Davis, a widower, was employed as a miller. Both Jane and George lived in Stretford, Manchester.

Thomas 1820 was not listed in Kendal in 1841. He is now known to have served 12 years in the British Cavalry ( the Second Dragoon Guards, otherwise known as the Queen`s Bays). The 1841 census finds him at the Sheffield Barracks in Yorkshire. In 1849 he was stationed as a soldier at Piershill Barracks in the parish of South Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland. Here he was married to Christian Murray b. 1826 Edinburgh (daughter of John Murray and Elizabeth his wife, nee Paterson). Christian was clearly given this name in celebration of being  born on Christmas Day. Although John Murray was a pensioner at the time of his daughter`s wedding, he had previously been a spirit dealer (Scotch Whisky no doubt ) with his premises in Shoemaker Close, off Canongate in Edinburgh. This is in the historic street now known as the Royal Mile, and Canongate is at the lower end towards Holyrood Palace.  Christian is later referred to as Christina. Thomas and Christina produced nine children (1750). They lived after their marriage at Hamilton near Glasgow, Scotland, and following the birth of their first child Sarah Elizabeth in 1850, Thomas was probably relocated to York Barracks in England. By this time he had achieved the rank of Corporal but decided to end his army service and purchased his discharge in March 1851. Soon after this date, Thomas his wife and baby travelled across to Catterall in Lancashire and gained work as a bobbin maker with his brother Robert. It appears Thomas`s family were living in one of a group of five cottages called Moor End. In 1861 the family had increased in size and was living next door to elder brother Robert at 2 Bobbin Cottage. The children at this time were too young to work. The next year saw this family back in Edinburgh, (the cotton famine resulting from the American Civil War was at this time and probably played a part in the lives of the family, business being poor at Catterall). By1866 they were living in the city of Dundee. In 1868 Thomas (aged 48) and his eldest son Robert took the big step of emigrating to America. This was just three years after the end of the Civil War. They settled at Chicago at first, and must have found plenty of work as carpenters in this expanding centre of the American cattle trade.

There was a great fire in Chicago lasting for two days on Oct 8th and 9th 1871. This fire swept through the city leaving 300 dead and 90,000 homeless. A great need therefore existed for the construction of both temporary and permanent homes for these people, and Thomas and his son must have been kept busy.

The rest of Thomas's family followed in 1872 but all relocated to the plains of Kansas, settling at Logan Township (Smith County) in 1874. This was only two years after the establishment of Smith County. The Homestead Act of 1860 allowed settlers to claim land of up to 160 acres. If they remained on the land for six months, on payment of $ 1.25 per acre, they could file ownership to the land. To obtain the land for free would require staying and working the land for a full five years. Thus Thomas became a farmer and as a carpenter he would have been well equipped to build his own house and farm buildings. It must have been a strange contrast between the cobbled gas-lit streets of Britain and the wide-open plains of Kansas. We can imagine how the young children must have loved it.

The farm was largely arable dry land (not irrigated) but a large part was used to make feed for cattle which themselves provided a good proportion of the farm income. Thomas's descendants also continued with farming, and eventually several farming corporations were formed involving both owned and rented land.

Thomas died in Oct 1889 aged 69 and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. Christina lived on until her death in 1916 aged 89 and was buried at the side of her husband.

In 1874, this was still frontier country and with the great cattle drives, the rough and ready cowtowns of Kansas were at their height e.g. Dodge City, Abilene, Ellsworth etc. Many of the tales of the American West come from that period and the famous and infamous were alive in Kansas i.e. Wyatt Earp at Dodge, Wild Bill Hickock at Abilene, and many notorious outlaws passed through the state. The Haresnapes may have read of some of the troubles, including the attempt by the Dalton Gang to rob two banks at Coffeeville, Kansas in the same day (Oct. 1892). The Dalton Gang who met their end here were apparently related to the same Daltons who were Lords of the Manor at Thurnham, Lancashire in the 1600 and 1700s. Small world!

However, Kansas was such a big state that Thomas's family probably saw none of this lawlessness and their problems were more concerned with how to adapt to a totally new way of life in a strange land. There were droughts ahead, even plagues. These were undoubtedly difficult beginnings but by the time the last of Thomas's children had died, the United States had become the richest and most powerful country in the world.

n.b. The internationally known song "Home on the Range" originated in Smith County. Smith Center, the County Seat is also the geographical mid point of the 48 contiguous states.

Agnes 1823 died as a child and was buried in 1826 at Kendal Holy Trinity.

Elizabeth may have married a Mr. Mathell?

George 1829  died at the age of about six months and was buried in 1830 at Kendal Holy Trinity.

10.Children of William 1784 and Ann Banks(nee Pickthall) (1100)

1430. Mary       b. 1837 Kendal

1440. John       b. 1840 Kendal

Mary was born in Highgate, Kendal, presumably at the family home. When her father died in Kendal in 1841, Mary was put into the care of her father's sister Betsey (Greenwood). Her mother would have found it difficult trying to support two young children. Mary is shown at her aunties home in 1841 (at Dearden Gate Haslingden) together with her half-brother Robert Haresnape (1360). Mary was listed in the 1851 census as an apprentice dressmaker aged 13, and living with her aunt Betsey at Haslingden, Blackburn. Mary married aged 19, in 1857 at St.James Chapel, (Roman Catholic), Rawtonstall, Lancashire to James Parkinson Wilcock. He was 26 years old and an overlooker in a calico mill. Mary was a milliner at that date and living at Deardon Gate, Haslingden. James`s father had been an attorney. James seems to have worked all his life in Iron Foundries or Engineering works, but on the clerical side. He started as a bookeeper but became a clerk, the later a cashier. His wife Mary is described over many years as a dressmaker. They had at least eight children. These were Anne, John, Eliza, frderick, Robert, Edwin, Mary and Lilian. The family lived in Dearden Gate at first, but through the years 1881 to 1901 were in Bury Road in Haslingden. James died in Haslingden in  1906.

John who was born at Windmill Yard, Highgate was thought to have died in Kendal in 1843. There is some evidence though that he may also have moved to live in the same Lancashire locality as his sister Mary. This is now confirmed as he is seen in1881 at William Street in Over Darwen. This is 4 miles south of Blackburn . He is described as an outdoor labourer, as were the other five lodgers at the home of William Pearson who was an excavator. Possibly worked at local quarry. 

Thus  Mary, her brother John, and half brother Robert were all most likely sent to Blackburn area following the death of their father. 

10.Children of Richard 1792 and Elizabeth Clemmet (1150)

1450. Thomas c. 1819 Kendal

1460. Agnes    c. 1821 Kendal

Both baptised at Kendal Holy Trinity.

Thomas, a bobbin turner married Ann Lee 11 May 1841 at the parish church, Kendal. Ann was a servant and a spinster. Her father John Lee was described as a Waller i.e a Mason (It is believed a family business). Ann signed her certificate whereas Thomas made his mark. In June 1841, census time the couple including  Ann Lee`s two children were living in Highgate, Kendal town. The couple produced five children (1840). It isnow understood that between 1843 and 1847 they were at Kirkland (not Kirkdale) in Kendal. Kirkland is merely the continuation of the HighgateRoad (or its immediate area) through the town. This location would place them near the other Haresnapes in Kendal in those years. Thomas and family joined their cousins Thomas, Robert and Richard at Catterall by 1851 and were living at 1 Calder Place with their five children and Anne's two other children. Sadly Thomas died at Catterall in 1853 aged 34. The death certificate states that he committed suicide by hanging himself when in a state of temporary insanity. This was at Barnacre which is in the countryside a few miles from Catterall. A tragedy for Thomas and his family. The youngest child Robert was about one year old at that time. His wife Ann died a few years later in 1856. They are buried in St. Helens Churchyard near Garstang. At the time of Anne's death, the children would have been quite young with ages ranging from 15 down to 5. Although the eldest was at work locally, these must have been hard times and it is hoped that their relations rallied round with help. It is thought that the children may have left for Blackburn or Preston sometime after 1856. It is now known that this is correct and that in 1861, two of Thomas and Anne`s children were residing with the eldest daughter Ellinor Lee and her first husband in Preston(138 Bowverie Street). The youngest boy Robert was living with Thomas`s parents (aged 70) at Scalthwaiterigg in Westmoreland.

Agnes, a wool sorter was married in Autumn 1846 at Kendal Holy Trinity to John Betts. John was born in Watford, Herts. John and Agnes had 2 children Sarah and Richard. At first the family seem to have lived in the Kendal area but must have been in the Warton area of Lancaster in 1850, where  Richard was born. Around about this time her uncle Robert (1160) may have been living in Warton, so Agnes could have been visiting. (However, uncle Robert is next seen in the 1851 census at Huddersfield in the household of his married daughter Isabella. Huddersfield is near to Halifax).  The 1851 census has Agnes and John at Brighouse, Halifax. However they returned to Westmoreland and in 1861 and 1871 (children not present) were at Low Gill Cottage, Dillicar.Dillicar is about 8 miles east of Kendal in the countryside by the river Lune/Dee. John Betts was a labourer and later a platelayer on the railways. Dillicar is quite close to the main "West Coast" railway line. The 1881 census shows them at 41 Far Cross Bank. (her parents and grandparents once lived here). The couple were still there in 1901, aged 84 and 81 (John still shown as a general labourer).  

10.Children of Robert 1796 and Ann Someone (1160)

1470. William  c. 1815 Hugil (also known as Ings)

1480. Isobella  c. 1817 Staveley

1490. Richard  c. 1822 Staveley

1500. Robert   c. 1824 Staveley

1510. Robert   c. 1826 Martindale

William, like his father, brothers and cousins was a bobbin turner. He was married in 1835 at Kendal  to Jeanette Mary Airey (b. 1815 in Kentmere, Westmoreland) 4 children (1900). In 1841 William and his wife and first children were living at Ann Street in Kendal, near brother Richard. In 1851 they had moved (as had Richard) back to his birthplace Hugil but by 1861 were at Hebblethwaite Hall in Sedbergh, Yorkshire, where William was listed as a bobbin maker. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1865 his eldest son having emigrated in 1863. He sailed on the Ida Ziegler. William's wife Jeanette died in ? at Auckland. William remarried in 1884 at Auckland to Mary McColl (b 1826 Scotland), no children. He was 69 and she 62 when they married. Mary died in 1904.

n.b. There is a letter written about a voyage in 1865 of the Ida Zeigler out to New Zealand. This was William's passage. The ship left England on 19^th July. After passing the Cape of Good Hope, there was a terrific gale lasting for 36 hours in which most things on deck were washed overboard including the quarter boat. Later the ship encountered another severe storm of hurricane force during which tremendous seas broke on board, severely damaging the lifeboat and filling the cabins with water. When there was another heavy sea the same day the boat was further damaged, and washed the second mate and two men from the wheel. The ship must have come close to sinking and it would have been somewhat of a relief for the 85 passengers and the crew to reach dry land (Auckland 12 October). In 1867 the ship was wrecked off New Zealand.

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Isobella was married in 1835 at Manchester Cathedral to Thomas Kennedy. Thomas was also a wood turner, and born 1811 in Kendal. (It seems natural that he would have known the Haresnape bobbin makers in Kendal). Thomas and Isobella had 8 children (1932). In the early years they lived in the town of Haywood. (this may be Heywood which is north of Manchester and close to Rochdale Lancashire). They then crossed the Pennines to be seen in the 1840s at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, where two of their children were born. By 1851 they were at 647 Moldgreen, Dalton, Huddersfield in Yorkshire, where they  settled down. Agnes`s blind father Robert aged 54 is included in the Kennedy family home in Dalton, Huddersfield in Yorkshire in 1851.  Isobella died in Lockwood, Huddersfield in 1875 and Thomas in 1880.

Richard came to Kendal with his parents and siblings in about 1830. He went to school in the town, and in those days his basic education had to be paid for. At the age of about 10 he started to learn weaving in Kendal, but soon became an apprentice in Kendal in a bobbin mill. It appears that this was situated in Ann Street. If this was the case, it doesn`t seem likely that it was driven by water, as this street is away from the river.

Richard 1822 was married in 1839 at Kendal to Mary Ann Eccles (b. 1819 Whitehaven), 6 children (1940). The marriage is thought to have been in a registrar`s office. In 1841 they were living at Back Lane, Kendal close by brother William 1815 and cousin William 1808. From 1842 to 1846 they were at Crossthwaite (Stornthwaite?), and Richard by this time was a journeyman bobbin-maker. They had moved to Staveley with his elder brother William by 1848 staying there until 1855, and by 1861 had joined William at Hebblethwaite Hall in Sedbergh, Yorkshire. Here Richard was known as a bobbin manufacturer. His brother William and son having emigrated to New Zealand by 1865, Richard remained to continue with the business at Hebblethwaite. It appears that bobbin making business continued there until he retired at the age of 45. This would have been about 1877. Richard left the business in the hands of his sons and by the 1881 census had returned with his wife and youngest daughter Margaret Jane to Kendal where he lived at 2 Castle Park Terrace as a "well off gentleman". His wife died in Kendal aged 70 in 1888, the 1891 census showing Richard still in the same residence together with his daughter and her husband John Brooks.  Richard died aged 91 in 1913, and was buried in the same grave as his wife. Richard was the last Haresnape to live in Kendal Town.

n.b. see  Memories  giving Richard's recollections of his life in the Kendal area. Also see Richard`s photo below in old age. This inclusion of this data and photo has been kindly permitted by the "Westmoreland Gazette". 

Robert 1824 died in infancy, unbaptised and buried at Kendal Holy Trinity in 1824.

Robert 1826, also a bobbin turner did not go to Sedbergh with his brothers but settled south in the county of Derbyshire, at New Brampton. He was married in 1853 at Brampton Parish Church, Chesterfield to Hannah Rodgers, 6 children (2020). Hannah who was born at Brampton in about 1837, was underage but married by a registrar`s certificate. They seem to have lived at Brampton then later at Fritchley then at Derby town and finally at Holymoorside. (Holymoorside, Brampton near Chesterfield in Derbyshire is just a few miles from the first water - powered cotton mill of the inventor Richard Arkwright at Cromford). In the 1871 census for Middleton, Derbyshire their home was in an un-numbered cottage, with Robert listed as a wood turner. In the 1881 census for Brampton, Robert was listed as a Head Wood Turner and Farmer of five acres, and Hannah as a Farmer`s wife. Robert died in 1899 aged 71 at Holymoorside. Hannah is shown in the 1901 census as a farmer. She died 1913 at Holymoorside aged 76.  Both Robert and Hannah were buried at St. John Church, Brampton.

10. Children of William 1811 and Susannah White Edgecombe (1190)

1511. William Robert                 b. 1839 Poplar (London)

William Robert died in infancy.

10.Children of Edward Hairsnape 1824 and Mary Ann Young (1300)

1515. Elizabeth Hairsnape          b. 1848

1520. Susannah Hairsnape          b. 1851 Blackburn

1525  John Hairsnape                 b. 1853 Lancaster

1530. Robert Edward Hairsnape b. 1855 Blackburn

1532  Thomas Hairsnape            b. 1857 Blackburn
 
1533  Agnes Hairsnape               b. 1860 Blackburn

1537  Rebecca Hairsnape            b. 1861 Blackburn

Elizabeth was born at 36 Upper Bulk Street in Lancaster 18th Dec 1848. She was married to Joseph Kenyon at the Parish Church of St.Thomas, Blackburn in 1868. Both bride and groom were registered as resident in Bradford. Joseph was described as a Grinder. and Elizabeth as a weaver. They had six children, Sarah Jane b. 1869, Mary Ann born 1870, Caroline born 1875, John born 1877, Joseph born 1884 and Edward born 1891.   Joseph Kenyon died in 1898, Elizabeth living on until 1938.

Susannah, possibly named after her grandmother, died in infancy, in 1852 in Lancaster.

John was tallish with white curly hair. He talked of a possible French connection in the family. At one time he lived with his sister and they helped to raise motherless children. He was renowned for his stoicism. When an accident with some machinery cost him an arm, he walked to the hospital. Whist walking on Whalley Nab, he fell and broke a leg, but undeterred he hopped down the hill, got a lift on a coal wagon to his home before seeking treatment.

John married in 1879 to Nancy Alice Haworth (aged 22) at Langho St.Leonard Parish Church, Blackburn. Thomas was living in the parish of St.Thomas, Blackburn at this date. Nancy`s father William was described as an Overlooker (this would be at a mill). John`s sister Rebecca was a witness at the wedding. There were five children (2062) from this marriage. In 1881 the family were living in Audley St., Blackburn which is close to his parent`s home in Eden St. In 1887 they were living at Audley Range in Blackburn. At the 1901 census, John was recorded as an assurance agent (this may have been with the Prudential Assurance Company). In 1906 he was living at 18 Napier St. Blackburn.  Nancy died in childbirth. John died in 1931 aged 77. His grave is in Blackburn cemetery.

Robert Edward was married in 1881 at the parish church of St.Thomas Blackburn, to Margaret Eddleston,(born 1859) and they had  6 children (2070). Robert and Margaret  lived at Audley Range in Blackburn. This was also in the same locality as his parent`s home. In the 1901 census, the family name was spelled as Haresnape. They lived at Canal House, Eanam, Blackburn and Robert may have been employed as a canal worker or a porter, although this is not clear. Again, Eanam is a street which appears to be closeby Audley Range. Elizabeth died in 1930 and Robert in Blackburn in 1948 aged 93. Robert and his wife have a prominent gravestone in Blackburn cemetery.

Thomas died in 1862 aged 4 at Blackburn.

Agnes died in infancy at Blackburn in 1860.

Rebecca was married in 1881 in the parish church of St.Thomas Blackburn, to Richard Redhead. She died in 1885 (aged only about 24) and is commemorated on her parent`s gravestone in New Lane, Accrington, Lancashire.

10.John William Raymond 1826

John, although not a Haresnape is an ancestor of many of the New Zealand Haresnapes and is well worth a mention. Born in Lewes, Sussex in England he at first took to a life at sea, and being a good student obtained his master's certificate by the age of 19 and was chief officer aboard the "Honduras" trading across the Atlantic. At 22 years of age he was chief officer on board the "Anna Maria" and in 1849 sailed to Melbourne where he decided to be paid off. A few years were then spent as Captain of several ships taking animals between Australia and New Zealand.

During these years he gained the idea of sheep farming in New Zealand and when the chance came in 1856, he took a cargo of sheep to Southland (South Island) to become one of the area's first pioneers. The sheep had to be landed by boat or simply swam ashore. There were no roads then and ahead lay a long journey across rough land. The area where they settled was swampy and the water table had to be lowered by several feet. By 1857 John had established himself and took a 16 year old girl Mary Ann Paulin as his wife. Mary bore him a child but sadly Mary died aged 17. John had to place the baby temporarily in the care of a local woman in order to continue with his life of sheep farming. Eventually after hard work his sheep run was well settled and his homestead contained 23 rooms. John also planted exotic trees around the area and today these are amongst the finest specimens in the country.

He married for a second time to Anne Nichol from Tasmania and she bore him a further five sons and four daughters. By 1866 John had a fine home set in broad lawns. Unfortunately, the land was under tenancy and the freehold was sold to a third person, and as a result John was forced to leave his homestead. In order to establish some permanency, he purchased some 80,000 acres nearby at Avondale. Starting again from "scratch", he built up a good sheepholding, and his home, like his first was a fine building, containing some 21 rooms with a "statesroom" on the ground floor. In the drawing room was a grand piano imported possibly from England. There were household staff and a tutor for the children. Both John and his wife were good horse-riders and John also had a four-horse coach imported from England. They also were fond of entertaining and so it appeared at this time that John was a wealthy and successful man, his land containing some 25,000 sheep and 500 cattle. By the year of 1873 he could have sold out for over 30,000 pounds, no small sum for those days.

Unfortunately for many farmers including John, the number of rabbits in the area proved to be a significant problem. Introduced by whalers, the rabbits at first seemed to be no trouble, but being rabbits they soon made their presence known. A plague of them hit John's holdings in 1874 and his sheep stock was reduced to a third. He had an ensuing battle with the rabbits and at one time employed hundreds of dogs to kill the long eared animals. However besides disposing of the rabbits, the dogs seem to have spent part of their time in shortening the lives of the sheep. John also tried poisons and he developed his own mixture, which was a success. However, this came too late to save him, and due also to a fire which destroyed his home he was forced to sell his estate, and this left him more or less penniless.

He continued with his battle, and tried to promote his poisonous mixture both in New Zealand and in Australia. Travelling from area to area, fate struck him a further blow, when visiting an infested farm, he walked into a tree branch and as a result permanently lost the use of an eye. His poison was apparently a success, but he made only a little money out of it. Seeking to gain some compensation from the Australian Government for his efforts he was partly successful, and returned to New Zealand. Here he worked as a marine surveyor and a sheep inspector, i.e. combining his knowledge and experiences from both his walks of life. He managed to pay off his debts, and then as an old man in the early years of this century, decided to visit his old home in England. On his return he found that his wife had sold the property and had moved to live with her two youngest sons, where she died in 1911.

John subsequently lived in Auckland in lodgings at Auckland Harbour, and later with his daughter Ann, where he died in 1912 aged 87.

John's pedigree has been researched by Bill Haresnape of Auckland, and this shows that John was a direct descendant via various intermarriages to William the Conqueror, and also via another lineage to earlier Kings of Scotland. Therefore, as for the South African branch, the Haresnapes in New Zealand can claim lineage back to the Royal Families of Europe.

Eleventh Generation

11.Children of William 1808 and Mary Thompson (1340)

1540. (William        c. 1831 Kendal)

1550. Sarah             c. 1831 Kendal

1560. Elizabeth       c. 1833 Staveley

1570. William T.     c. 1835 Staveley

1580. Robert           b. 1838 Littledale nr. Tatham, Lancs.

1590. Mary Ann      c. 1840 Kendal?

1600. Thomas         c. 1842 Kendal town

1610. Margaret        c. 1844 Tatham

1620. Richard         c. 1845 Tatham 

Following their marriage, William and Mary and their growing family lived in various parts of Northern England, e.g. Kendal in Westmoreland, Bradford in Yorkshire, later at Caton, Lancashire but by 1871 at 12 Hudson St. Wigan (by this date Mary had died and William had remarried).

William, it is thought was an illegitimate son of Mary 1804 (1330), (public record shows his mother as a spinster) but christened here and he appears in the 1841 Kendal census as resident at the Workhouse there. 
 

William is shown as an 11 year old boy in the Kendal Workhouse in 1841. There is no record of another Haresnape listed there at that date, so perhaps he was an orphan at that date.

He may have been at Preston in 1851 as a shoemaker. He was not living with the others at Wigan in 1871.

Sarah was baptised at Kendal Holy Trinity, parents of Strickland Roger. It is believed that she was married (aged 31) in 1864 to Randall Goeritt (or possibly Everitt), at the parish church of St.Stephen, Salford, near Manchester. Sarah`s sister Mary Ann seems to have been a witness. Randall was a widower, employed as a bootcloser (a worker who stitches boot sections together in a factory). The certificate writing is unclear and alternatively he may have been a butcher.  

Elizabeth died Kendal area 1837 (presumably Staveley)

William Thompson died aged two, in 1837 in Staveley, and was buried in Kendal Holy Trinity.

Robert, a bobbin turner, was at Caton in 1861 with his father and stepmother.  He was married at the Sion Chapel, Bridge Street, Bradford, in 1867 to Fanny Bracewell Langdon, 1 child (2115). Robert was still living in Caton at the date of his wedding, but Fanny lived at Brunswick Place, Dudley Hill, Tong. Tong is situated between Bradford and Leeds, so quite a distance from Caton. Fanny was the daughter of James Brown Langdon, deceased, a drysalter. Fanny died at Bradford in 1869-75? aged 39, and following his parents to Wigan, Robert died there in 1911 (aged 73).                                                      

Mary Ann possibly married in 1869 at Manchester to Alfred Clayton, two sons.

nb. The 1881 census for Napier Street, Salford suggests that she may have given her wrong age at Marriage, as she was older than Alfred in the census.

Thomas 1842 was baptised in Kendal Holy Trinity in 1842. In 1861 he was living with his father and stepmother Jane Nickel and the various children at Rumbell Row cottage in Caton, Lancs. A bobbin turner like many of his relatives, he married in 1866 (Christmas Eve) at Lancaster Wesleyan Chapel (at Caton?) to Ellen Littlewood, one child (2120). Ellen was born in Caton, and before her marriage she was a domestic servant, living with her parents at "Rockmajock" in Caton. Her father was Thomas Littlewood, born in Liverpool and a letter carrier and local Wesleyan preacher. His wife was a cotton winder from Bentham in Yorkshire. Ellen died aged 28 in childbirth at Newton le Willows, nr. Leyburn in Yorkshire in June 1870. Thomas was present at her death. Ellen was buried at St.Patrick`s Parish Church at nearby Patrick Brompton. It is believed that Thomas and Ellen had lived at Newton for a short period as the census for Newton in 1871 (after Thomas left the area) reveals the presence of several bobbin-makers, although a business as such has not been found. The bobbin-mill at this time would have been coal/steam driven (a railway runs through the village). Thomas left Newton with his young son William and settled in Derby, marrying a Catherine Beeton in 1873, 3 children (2130). Catherine was born in 1849 and was probably a widow. Thomas set up a woodturning business in Derby (Park St.) in 1883. In 1901 the family were still in Park St., the two unmarried sons working as woodturners. Thus eldest son William probably worked with him in this business before he emigrated to South Africa in 1903. There is the possibility that the son William also had his own sawmill business in Derby. Thomas died in 1913 and his business continued on with son John Richard. Catherine died 1920 (registered in Etwall in Derbyshire).

Margaret married in 1868 at Preston to John Holden. They had four children. By 1881 the family had moved to 121 Wigan Rd., Hindley, Lancs. They were still in Hindley, at 28 Lord Street  in 1901 when John was decribed as a commission agent aged 56. Margaret`s widowed mother Jane aged 81 was recorded as living with the family. Two unmarried sons were also in the home, Robert H., a grocer`s assistant and John E. a driver in a coal mine.                                                               

Richard 1845 a bobbin turner, was still living at his parents` home in Wigan in 1871. He married in 1872 at Wigan to (probably) Mary Ann Croft. He died in Wigan in the same year 1872 (aged 27). As his stepbrother John also died in Wigan in the last quarter of the year of smallpox, we may assume that the disease also took Richard's life. Despite a vaccine being discovered approx. 80 years earlier this disease was obviously still a problem in Britain. Mary Ann remarried in Wigan in 1878.

11.Children of William 1808 and Jane Nickal (1340)

1630. John             b. 1852 Bradford, Yorks.

1640. William N.    b. 1854 Bradford

John, a Stonemason died in Wigan in 1872 aged 20, from smallpox. The certificate shows this was at 12 Hudson Street, and his father was in attendance. His father at that date lived in Hardybulls (Street) Wigan. (this may be a transcription error, it is probably Hardybutts Street)

William Nickal Haresnape was born in the district of Horton, Bradford. He was listed as a bobbin turner in 1871, and living with his parents and older siblings at 12 Hudson St. In later years he became a joiner, and moved to Liverpool as a woodworker sometime between 1870 and 1879. He was one of the first Haresnapes to enter into the building industry trades. He lived in lodgings at first, then married in 1879 at Walton on the Hill Parish Church, Everton, Liverpool to Janet Chalmers Browne (b. in 1857 at Chirk, Oswestry, Shropshire). At this date William lived at 19 Anglesea Road (as a lodger with the Palmer family) and Janet at 43 Shaw Street, her father being a gardener. William Nickal and his wife therefore started one of the Liverpool branches of the family, 11 children (2160). (see photo) . In 1891 the family`s home was at 51 Arthur Street, Toxteth Park in Liverpool. In 1901 the family lived at 65 Fairview Place, Toxteth, Liverpool. William died of peritonitis aged 44 in June at Toxteth Park in Liverpool. It has been said that the peritonitis was the result of an injury caused when a bung he was removing from a barrel of beer came out under pressure and hit him in the stomach. The certificate shows his residence was 65 Fair View Place, Toxteth Park. When William died his wife Janet would have been aged 42 and the children's ages ranged from 22 years down to 3. The family moved from Toxteth Park to Dingle (Cope St.) The street directory for 1911 shows Janet residing at 2 Cope St, Park Hill Rd. (reference Veronica Oldham). Janet died in 1938 in Birkenhead (aged 80).

11.Children of Richard 1812 and Agnes Pickthall (1350)

1650. Jane             b. 1846 Kendal town

1660. George        b. 1851 Catterall, Lancs.

1670. Martha        b. 1853 Catterall

1680. Eliza           b. 1856 Catterall

In 1861 the children were living with their parents in 8 Mintcake Row, Catterall, Jane at 14 being employed as a cotton weaver at the local factory probably working a 12-hour day. George and the others were listed as scholars. It appears that the whole family moved to Preston sometime after the 1861 census.

Jane (as Pickthall) was registered as born at Kendal about 4 years before her mother Agnes married.

George was christened in 1852 at Preston St.John Church. His father was referred to as a being a mechanic at this time. In 1881 he was living with his widowed mother Alice and sister Martha. Both were single and George was described as a wood turner. This was at 22 Thornton Street in Preston. He then seems to have left the area and married Catherine J. Noad in 1884 at the parish church of St.John the Baptist, Little Holbeck near Leeds. However, in 1901 his wife aged 44 was shown as Mary J. (born in Birkenhead). They were then living with four children (2262), residing at 6 Spink Street, Bradford. George was shown as a bobbin turner fitter aged 49. George died in Bradford in 1905 aged 53.

Martha was recorded in 1871 as a cotton weaver aged 17, and boarding with the Hindle family at 24 Caton St., Preston. In  1881, she was again listed as a cotton weaver living with her widowed mother and her brother George, a wood turner at 22 Thornton St., Preston. Martha was married to James Narcross in 1887 in Preston. She was present at the death of her mother in Preston in 1890.    

Eliza died in Preston in 1862.

nb. A William Haresnape, infant, died in a Workhouse at Preston St.John in Jan 1864. Parents not identified as yet.

11.Children of Robert 1814 and Agnes Taylor (1360)

1690. William       b. 1846 Halton, Lancs.  

1700. Sarah A.      b. 1848 Halton

1710. Elizabeth    b. 1851 Garstang, Lancs.

1715. John           b. 1853 Claughton

1720. Mary          b. 1855 Claughton

1730. Agnes        b. 1856 Claughton

1740. Robert       b. 1858 Claughton

As explained previously the children moved with their parents to Preston in about 1862, and Robert continued in his bobbin-making trade until at least 1871.

William was baptised at Halton St. Wilfred in Lonsdale. In 1861, aged 14 he was employed as a bobbin turner at Catterall presumably in his father's business. The other three children were scholars. They were all at 1 Bobbin Cottage. He was a bobbin turner, then later a wood sawyer. He married at Preston St.John to Margaret Levett (b.1841), a weaver of Fletcher Rd., Preston. Margaret did not sign but made her mark on her wedding certificate suggesting that she was illiterate. There were at least 6 children (2270). The family at first lived in Preston perhaps near to William's father, but in about 1874 settled in Blackburn where many of their children were later employed in the cotton mills. William died in 1892.

Sarah Anne, was also baptised at St. Wilfrid. She was a cotton weaver, and was married in 1875 at Preston to Robert Aspden, one child (2300). He died in 1890 and she in 1926.

Elizabeth lived only for a few weeks and died in 1851 at Catterall.

Mary was married in 1874 at Preston to James Preston. The ceremony was in Moor Park Wesleyan Chapel. He was aged 22 and she just 20, and both of them were residents of Preston at that date. Mary`s sister Sarah Ann was one of the witnesses. James was described as a Spinner, his father being a Spinning Master. Mary was a Power Loom Cotton Weaver.

Agnes was baptised at St. Helens Church, Garstang. (her future husband James Taylor was born in the same single story thatched cottage and was baptised in 1859 at the same church). She moved with the family to Preston and as a weaver represented her mill operating a handloom in the Preston Guild procession of 1882. She was so small in height that in the mill she had to stand on a special platform (stillage) to reach her work. She married in 1884 at Withington Wesleyan Chapel, Manchester to James Taylor, b. 1859 at Claughton, Lancs., 9 children (2310).

James in 1861 lived a few doors away at Catterall from his future wife. He would then have been aged 2, she 5. On marrying, by a twist of relationships, James now found that his great aunt had become his mother in law! 

James, a mechanic was recruited to the army in 1877 and served with the 12th Brigade in England, Ireland and India. He was discharged with a very good character in 1889 (aged 30). He became a dairyman in Manchester with his shop at Chorlton on Medlock. James died in 1930 aged 70 and Agnes in 1938 aged 82, both at Withington in Manchester.

Robert died in infancy 1858.

11.Children of Thomas 1820 and Christina Murray (1390)

1750. Sarah E.         b. 1850 Hamilton, Scotland

1760. Robert S.       b. 1851 Catterall, Lancs.

1770. Mary              b. 1853 Catterall

1780. John Murray  b. 1856 Catterall

1790 William           b. 1859 Clitheroe, Lancs.

1800. Joan Agnes    b. 1861 Catterall

1810. Isobella          b. 1863 Edinburgh, Scotland

1820. Christina        b. 1869 Lochee, Dundee, Scotland

1830. Thomas         b. 1866 Dundee, Scotland

In 1851 the first children lived at 1 Calder Place, but as some of the children were born at Moor End this being a small group of five cottages at Catterall, some local movement took place. In 1861 they were at 2 Bobbin Cottage, 1862 in Edinburgh and later at Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. Finally the family emigrated to America.

In the years following their immigration, some members of the family travelled from Kansas to re-settle in the neighbouring states of Colorado and Nebraska. Eventually, some journeyed across to California.

Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) married a Mr. Hamilton. She died from tuberculosis in 1876 aged 26, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Robert S. emigrated (age 16) with his father to America in 1868 and worked as carpenter in Chicago for the first few years. These were the first Haresnapes in the USA, the other family members following in 1872.

Robert seemingly did not stay for any time in Kansas. In 1871 he went to Nebraska (Wahoo) and married Della Gibbs there in 1879. Della was born in 1860 in Detroit, Michigan.  (-see cemetery records below),  2 children (2400). They seem to have moved to Colorado by 1880.  The Boulder Geneological Society has a website listing the burials at the Columbia Cemetry in Boulder, Colorado, the list compiled by Mary McRoberts. These show that Robert (here as Robert E.Haresnape) died in June 1924, aged 74 and Della Gibbs Haresnape died in May 1935, aged 75.   The children were born in Boulder. Robert worked as a house carpenter (building contractor) and Della as a dressmaker at home. The couple had poor health in later life, Robert registered for blind aid in 1920, also suffering from a paralysing illness, and died in a local institution. 

An unidentified Edith A. Haresnape, born about 1860 is registered in 1920 as living in Boulder.

Mary (Minnie) was baptised in 1853 at St.Helen Church, Garstang Lancashire (close to Catterall). She was married in 1876 in Kansas? to Samuel Castell, 2 children (2420). Samuel died in 1943 aged 91 his wife in 1944 in Smith County Kansas at a similar age. Both are buried at Mount Hope cemetery, Smith County, Kansas.

nb. Samuel Castell was also from England. he was born in 1848 to John Castell and Jane Ward. The home seems to have been in the farming area (villages Noke and Islip) north of the university city of Oxford .

John Murray (Jack) was also baptised at Garstang. In his new life in Lebanon Kansas, he worked as a farmer. He joined the United Brethren Church at Highland and served as class leader and Sunday School Superintendent for many years. He was a farmer and married in 1885 in Kansas to Eugenia Josephine Carper. He was 29, she 27. Josephine was b. in 1858 in Craig County, West Virginia and was the youngest of 8 children. They had 4 children all sons (2440). John died in 1930 aged 73 and is buried at Mount Hope cemetery in Lebanon, Kansas. His obituary described him as "a man of noble character and amiable disposition, always standing for the right". His wife Josephine (Josie) predeceased him in 1928 aged 70 after a long period of "frail health".  Both are buried at Mount Hope cemetery, Smith County, Kansas.

William (Will) was born in Clitheroe Lancashire, married in Kansas to Alice, but she and her baby died in childbirth. William married Sadie Picket in 1889, Sadie being born in 1869 in Frankfort, Kansas. They had 3 children (2480). William may have been a pastor at a congregational church in Kansas in 1899. The couple presumably travelled west to California sometime after 1900, via Nebraska, where their daughter Eloise was born. William died in 1927 aged 68 in Los Angeles California, his wife in 1947 in Los Angeles aged 78.

Joan Agnes (Joannah at baptism) was also baptised at Garstang. She was married twice, first husband William L. Guellow in 1876,  3 children, (2505). William (also known as Edward) was a plasterer and he was born in 1850/53 in Ohio. The couple were living in Solomon, Dickinson in Kansas at the time of the 1880 census with their son Walter. Also in the same household lived William`s half brother Charles Henry aged 30. However at some time William and his wife must have relocated to the state of Iowa  and another son was born here (at Polk) in 1880. Presumably, William (Edward) died and Joan Agnes remarried in 1890 in Kansas? to Henry Charles Weber, a farmer, 3 children (2510).

The 1900 census has shown that Henry and Joan were living in Nebraska, at Pleasant Hill Township, Webster County. Also in the household was living older Henry`s brother Fred (aged 63, born 1836, a farmer and single). Fred is also found in the 1880 census at the same Nebraska location, and the son of widowed Caterine Weber.(There was also C.C Weber, his sister, a single woman living in the same household as Fred. The Weber family seem to have originated from Bavaria in Germany and came over to the USA in 1851 when Henry was just 5 years old. They seem to have adopted the Anglicised spelling of their names, Henry`s original christian name was probably Heinrich.

There are a number of families who could match this Weber group, but a good contender (I believe) is the following:

Friedrich Weber,(i.e. Fred) born Oct 1836 christened Evangelisch (church) in Mimbach, Bayern (Bavaria) Germany. Parents Georg Ludvig Weber, and Catharina Lindermann.

Henrich Carl Weber,(i.e. Henry Charles) born Dec 1846, christened Evangelisch (church) in Mimbach, Bayern (Bavaria), Germany. Parents Ludwig Weber, Katharina Lindermann.

Katherina Weber, (C.C.?) born July 1850, christened Rockenhausen? in Pfalz, Bayern, germany. Parents Ludwig Weber, Katherina Weber.

If correct, when the family emigrated to the USA in 1851, Henry would have been aged 5, and the baby Katherina just 1 year old.

Following the birth of the children Henry, Joan and their family perhaps lived in Nebraska for a time. It is understood though that Henry and Joan emigrated to Alberta in Canada in April 1902. Joan's husband died there in 1921, and Joan herself in 1924 aged 63 while visiting in Kansas.

Isobella was born in Sept. 1863 at 15 Abbey Strand, Edinburgh. She died aged two from chronic dysentery (4 weeks).

Christina (Tina) was born in 1869 at 3 Seaman`s Alley, Lochee, Scotland, but after her father had emigrated. (Lochee is a district of the town of Dundee.) She was a good-sized girl of 3-4 before he first saw her. She married in 1900 in Kansas? to George Ring, no children. George died in 1932, Christina in 1934 aged 66. They are both buried in Mount Hope cemetery, Smith County Kansas.

Thomas Haresnape junior, like his sister Christina was born in the city of Dundee in Scotland. He is listed in the 1880 USA census aged 14 and at school. He left his home in Kansas to find work. He took a job in Wyoming, herding sheep, and it was there that he lost his life in a blizzard. He was not found until the following spring by a man looking for stray stock. Thomas was identified by a ring he was wearing.

11.Children of Thomas 1819 and Anne Lee (1450)

1840. Thomas        b. 1841 Kendal, Westmoreland