Lambert

Lambert

1841 Census

1841 Redmire shows the family of John and Jane Lambert. John was baptized 18 March 1810 the son of John Lambert and Elizabeth Robinson. On 20 Dec 1830, he married Jane Horn, dau of Jeremiah Horn and Judith Storey.

John's family grew considerably during the following decade.

1. Matthew baptized: 28 Jul 1831, died March 1900 in the workhouse at Leyburn.
2. Jeremiah born c.1834 during a period when John must have left the dale for the Durham coalfields.
3. John, also born Brick Garth, Durham; buried 19 Sep 1903 Redmire.
4. Judith baptized: 21 Mar 1837 Redmire; buried 24 Mar 1837.
5. Ellen baptized: 1 Jul 1838; buried 22 Feb 1840.
6. Jane baptized: 27 Sep 1840.
7. Judith baptized: 3 Sep 1842.
8. Horn baptized: 26 May 1844
9. Thomas baptized: 20 Sep 1846
10. Ellen baptized: 18 Aug 1850
11. William, born 20 Apr 1852, baptized in the Redmire Methodist Chapel.

1851 Census

1861 Census

Son John, mistakenly labeled as b. Redmire, is married (13 Sep 1858 at Aysgarth) to Mary Moor, dau of Thomas, a farmer.

Jeremiah had also married, to Elizabeth Sarginson of Aysgarth, and was living in Redmire 1861

1. John bapt. 13 Jun 1857
2. Ann bapt. 24 Oct 1858 Redmire

William followed a year later, baptized 27 Apr 1862

1871 Census

By 1871 John and Jane had only son Matthew and grand-daughter Alice living with them.

1. Judith 1873-1875
2. Jeremiah 1875-1877 and
3. Judith baptized 19 Aug 1877

1881 Census

Ann (Storey) Lambert died in 1875: Jeremiah remarried once more on 3 June 1877, to Alice Moore, of Accrington. In 1881 they were living at The Swan, technically in Bolton Parish, but more usually associated with Redmire.

Jeremiah and Alice were subsequently to move to Accrington where Jeremiah became a watchman and the youngest sons involved in the cotton industry.

Brother John and sister Jane Elizabeth also left for Accrington.

1891 Census

By 1891, only John and Mary (Moor) with brother Matthew and daughter Judith remained in Redmire, together with their married son Thomas, his wife Alice (Robinson) and family

1901 Census

With the exception of Matthew, dead by this time, the same Lamberts are in Redmire in 1901 as the prior census:

Redmire Memorials

In loving memory of John Lambert of Redmire who d. 17 Sep 1903 aged 68 yrs. Also of Mary wife of the above who d. 11 Jul 1919 aged 81 yrs. At rest.

Other Things

John and Thomas Lambert continued as Lead Miners to the "bitter end". They worked a level known as Lambert Level.

George Harker (a railway engineer from Darlington) started Harkers Level mid 19thC. It runs as a crosscut due north for 400 yards before it cut the vein. The vein runs east to west. In the 1880's the Cradock brothers took over the mine. One brother lived in Stockton the other had an ironmongery in Leyburn. It was this time that John and Thomas Lambert were at the mine. They were working in the east end of the vein, then they drove a crosscut to try another vein further north. This area was roughly under the road to Reeth, halfway between the cattle grid and Apedale road end.

The mine surveyor or agent Simon Cherry from Fremington had noticed a discontinuity in the strata just south of the allotment wall so about 1900 Lamberts level was started to test this area. The level was like Harkers driven at a right angle to the side of the gill and cut a small string after about 100 yards. To the best of knowledge, it was unproductive and was abandoned about 1902.

John Lambert wrote to Simon Cherry,

Thomas Lambert of Redmire to Simon Cherry. 1898

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