Metcalfe
Despite Metcalfe being one of the most common dales names, 1841 sees
only one Metcalfe family in Redmire:
Name | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE James | 33 | Coalminer | Yks |
METCALFE Alice | 10 | | Yks |
METCALFE James | 8 | | Yks |
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Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE James | Head, Married | 48 | Leadminer | Ashton, LAN |
METCALFE Alice | Wife, Married | 48 | | Redmire |
METCALFE James | Son, Unmarried | 19 | Tailor | West Witton |
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This family must be the same as that in 1841, ages appearing differently
because of the rounding down in 1841. There's also the discrepancy of James'
declaration of birth location, but such errors were fairly common in census
returns.
James' wife had been Elizabeth. There is a burial record in the
Redmire parish register of Elizabeth, aged 38, 8 August 1837.
James and Alice's children were:
- Alice: baptized 28 July 1828 (West Witton)
- Margaret: baptized 29 August 1830 (West Witton); buried 13 March 1831 (Redmire)
- James: baptized 22 January 1832 (West Witton)
- William: baptized 18 Mary 1834 (Redmire)
- Christopher: baptized 16 October 1836 (Redmire); buried 28 December 1839 aged 3
James Sr. had remarried at Wensley, 6 May 1846, to Alice Mason, a widow, daughter
of Matthew Warriner, farmer of Redmire. James' father's name was Christopher.
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE Christopher | Head, Married | 35 | Leadminer | Redmire |
METCALFE Jane | Wife, Married | 41 | | Preston |
METCALFE Ann S. | Daughter | 12 | | Preston |
METCALFE Jane | Daughter | 10 | | Darlington, DUR |
METCALFE Joseph | Son | 8 | | Northallerton |
METCALFE Emma | Daughter | 5 | | Leeds |
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Another Metcalfe family above appears at The Swan in 1851. Christopher. They had a son William, baptized 15 August 1850 in Redmire Methodist Chapel,
but he lived only a few months, being buried 26 January 1851.
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALF Alice | Wife, Married | 58 | Miner's Wife | Redmire |
MASON John | Boarder, Unmarried | 28 | Wheel Maker | Redmire |
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James must have been away from home on census night, because he did not die
until 1865. John Mason was Alice's son from her first marriage.
Alice's step-son James was now married with a family of his own:
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE James | Head, Married | 29 | Tailor, Draper | West Witton |
METCALFE Elizabeth | Wife, Married | 24 | | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE Elizabeth | Daughter | 9m | | Castle Bolton |
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James had married Elizabeth Horn of Castle Bolton in 1860.
Another group of Metcalfe's are at Northgate Cottage:
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALF George | Head, Married | 22 | Farm Labourer | Askrigg |
METCALF Edith | Wife, Married | 20 | | Castle Bolton |
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By 1871, John Mason is listed as son of Alice, confirming the above
listing for 1861:
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALF Alice | Head, Widow | 69 | Farmer | Redmire |
MASON John | Son, Married | 38 | Wheel Maker | Redmire |
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Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
COATS Nathan | Head, Widower | 53 | Leadminer | Thorns, Swaledale |
METCALFE Margaret | Servant, Unmarried | 46 | Housekeeper | Burtersett |
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Another stray Metcalfe has also appeared, in the person of Margaret,
an unmarried 46 year old housekeeper to Nathan Coats, leadminer.
Margaret is listed as born in Burtersett.
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE Margery | Wife, Married | 34 | Farm Labourer's Wife | Sedbusk |
METCALFE John | Son | 10 | Scholar | Micklethwaite |
METCALFE Elizabeth | Daughter | 8 | Scholar | Crossfields |
METCALFE James | Son | 6 | Scholar | Appersett |
METCALFE Margery Whaley | Daughter | 4 | | Appersett |
METCALFE Mary | Daughter | 2 | | Appersett |
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Another Metcalfe family has arrived from `updale', and at Rose Cottage (more
recently known as `Keeper's Cottage'), was a Metcalfe family whose head was
from Coverdale:
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE Richard | Head, Married | 42 | Farm Labourer | Carlton |
METCALFE Isabella | Wife, Married | 31 | | Redmire |
METCALFE James McCombie | Son | 8 | Scholar | West Burton |
METCALFE Richard | Son | 5 | Scholar | Redmire |
METCALFE Elizabeth | Daughter | 3 | | Redmire |
METCALFE Hannah Isabella | Daughter | 1 | | Redmire |
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Richard was born in Carlton on 28 July 1836 and died circa 1881. He
was a woodcutter in Redmire, and married Isabella Hird, the daughter
of Thomas Hird and Isabella Bearpark on 18 July 1870 at Aysgarth. His
parents were Thomas Slinger Metcalfe and Elizabeth McCombie Walker.
James McCombie is buried at Preston. Elizabeth, 1878-1965, married
Joseph Hird (yes, Hird again) at a church in Nelson, LAN. He was a
policeman in Barnsley and retired in 1928-1929 to Preson-under-Scar to
a house opposite the old Memorial Hall, where he had a small holding
of three fields. He died in 1937 and is buried in Preston-under-Scar.
Richard (Dick) above, was later to own a fruit shop in Leyburn and became
father of Richard Metcalfe who owned `Combies' garage in Leyburn.
Yet another Metcalfe born outside Redmire arrived in 1881:
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE George | Head, Married | 42 | Farm Labourer | Askrigg |
METCALFE Edith | Wife, Married | 41 | | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE Sarah | Daughter, Unmarried | 17 | | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE John | Son | 15 | | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE Mary Jane | Daughter | 8 | Scholar | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE Lydia | Daughter | 6 | Scholar | Castle Bolton |
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George was born 12 December 1838 at Quarry, Lunds, son of George and
Mary (Wilkinson) Metcalfe. Father George was a carrier. He married
Edith Horn, daughter of Thomas Horn and Elizabeth Peacock, on 28
November 1860 in Castle Bolton. Apart from the children listed above,
there was another, Elizabeth and she married 3 September 1882, Thomas
Henry Hayton at Redmire. In 1884, Sarah was to marry engineman
William Harrison, in West Hartlepool.
Another child not shown on the census was son Thomas. Thomas was
born in 1868 and died February 1870. Mary Jane, like the others,
was born in Castle Bolton.
Descendents of this family still live in the village, though in
1901, George, Edith and Lydia appear in the Castle Bolton census.
In this year, Margery Metcalfe, daughter of John and Margery shown
in 1881 was now age 14, and working as a domestic servant for
James Robinson the blacksmith, at the smithy near the Bolton Arms.
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
METCALFE George | Head, Married | 52 | Gardener | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE Edith | Wife, Married | 51 | | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE John | Son, Unmarried | 25 | Coachman | Castle Bolton |
METCALFE Lydia | Daughter, Unmarried | 16 | | Castle Bolton |
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George and Edith were now living at Elm House Lodge, and both
George and John would be working on the Elm House estate.
At Wood End Farm in 1901 was an Edmund Metcalf who only knew he was
Yorkshire born, 15 years previously. Edmund was working for farmer
William Stanger as cattleman:
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
STANGER William | Head, Married | 63 | Farmer | NBL |
STANGER Ann | Wife, Married | 55 | | Castle Bolton |
STANGER William | Son, Unmarried | 21 | Farmer's Son | Preston |
STANGER Elizabeth | Daughter, Unmarried | 32 | | Newcastle, NBL |
METCALF Edmund | Servant, Unmarried | 15 | Waiting on Cattle | YKS |
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Nearby are Dora and Hannah:
Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
KING Henry J. | Head, Married | 74 | Farmer, Employer | West Witton |
KING Elizabeth | Wife, Married | 70 | | Gayles |
KING Alice B. | Daughter, Unmarried | 41 | | West Bolton |
KING Mary E. | Daughter, Unmarried | 35 | | West Bolton |
METCALFE Dora E. | Servant, Unmarried | 18 | Cook (Domestic) | Askrigg |
METCALFE Hannah | Servant, Unmarried | 15 | Housemaid (Domestic) | Askrigg |
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Dora and Hannah were actually daughters of farmer James Metcalfe
and his wife Margaret, of Woodhall near Askrigg. Henry King and family
had moved from West Bolton, to Briar House in Redmire.
©2004 David W.J. Stringer-Calvert, Christine Amsden, Larraine Williams