With Egton the matter is by no means so easy with the multitude of similar names. Christopher only twice used, gives a start. Margerie the wife of Christopher of Murkaside was a recusant in 1614. Christopher son of John, marriage 2 perhaps, was born on December 29th 1632 and was presented on the Egton lists for 1691 and 1716 with wife Jane. Richard son of Richard was born in the same year and had a son Francis born in 1661 who could be the husband of Dorothy who was presented with Francis in 1691 too. He may be the father of the bachelor brothers Ralph and Francis reported to Archbishop Blackburne in 1735. Francis 'poor' on the same list refers perhaps to Richard's son now in his old age.
In submitting the list for 1745 the Egton constable was at pains to distinguish them. Out of six Williams, one is a tailor, and one is a shopkeeper but at the moment his efforts are not very helpful. An Egton burial

commences an interesting story. Born in 1729 he is very likely one of the two Georges on the list for 1780 whilst the other is a younger man, George son of Robert the popish schoolmaster who was born in 1760. (George not Robert). Who are the fathers of these two Georges is not known, thereby making an earlier start impossible. The burial of Ann the wife of farmer George indicates the presence of yet another family but there is no indication of recusancy.
Jane the daughter of George, tailor, papist, was baptised in 1770 so her father was the elder recusant. Another daughter was baptised in 1772. It should be pointed out that an entry in the parish book of baptisms does not necessarily mean that an infant had been baptised as the practice of registration without baptism was sometimes an endorsement by a vicar besides a recusant entry. George son of George was baptised on February 24th 1775 exactly a year after that of Francis son of Francis which could be Ralph the bachelor's nephew. George also remained a bachelor until he was ?? years of age when he married Elizabeth Hoggarth at Egton on February 5th 1815. Marriage 51. He lived at Egton, carrying on the trade he learnt from his father in a little business of tailor and draper. Having no children he made bequests in his will dated 1857 to his nieces and nephews bearing the surnames Swales, Readman, Harrison and Lawson. The Swales are the children of his elder sister Jane born in 1770 who married John Swales in 1794 marriage 41a. There is doubt about the niece Elizabeth Harrison who could be the child of either Luke, marriage 50 or James marriage 58 with the weight in favour of the latter. Niece Mary Readman seems certain to be the daughter of William, marriage 55. There is some difficulty about niece Hannah Lawson with whom George's widow was living at Egton 'Head' in 1861 styled as innkeeper, and 'Head' its name or part of it. On this date Hannah was a widow as well aged 52 and being born therefore in 1809 must be the daughter of another of George's sisters whose husbands name is unknown, since it cannot be Lawson because it was not Hannah's maiden name. Elizabeth the innkeeper died at Egton Bridge on Christmas Eve 1863 aged 88. She was a native of Loftus.
Ralph died a bachelor and a yeoman. His will dated November 4th 1762 makes bequests to Mary and Jane daughters of John Smith, to nieces Elizabeth and Mary Smith who do not appear to be sisters of the first two beneficiaries, and to Ann, another Smith.
The will of a Christopher White of Long Rigg Whitby dated January 7th 1815 names William the eldest, and another Christopher with little else of value to this story.
In a will dated January 7th 1815 John who lived at Egton, mentioned Marg. his wife, two sons William and Joseph, and a daughter Ann, who was born on November 16th 1792, being one of the first of the post-recusant baptisms at Ugthorpe. Marriage 41 refers. He died aged 64 on October 8th 1814 and was buried in his own village cemetery. What appears to be a possible case of brothers marrying sisters is noticed in Marriage 39 where Esther Corner becomes the wife of Thomas who also lived at Egton paying 15s. per annum for one rood three perches of land and a cowhouse. His son was born in 1780 and was named Thomas after his father and it was he, not his father as mistakenly stated above who paid the rent of 15s. Thomas senior could quite easily, however have held tenancy in his own time. U.P.R. give a younger sister Mary to Thomas junior. She was born on March 14th 1796, having as godparents, William Readman and Hannah White, making Hannah sister or sister-in-law to the senior Thomas. In 1851 the younger puts down himself and two grown-up daughters in the census. There is nothing about his wife. He names his daughters as Mary aged 33 and Ann aged 29. An examination of the issue of marriage 48 from Fr. Woodcock's Egton register reveals Mary, with John and Mary White as godparents, the godmother being the child's aunt Mary above now aged 18. Nothing about his wife is explained in the Egton burials by

This makes marriage 39 and 48 relate to father and son. The same burials show that

and that two Thomas's were buried from Key Green

both born 1747 and one of them possibly Esther's husband. Should this be the case it points to a connection between the Whites of Egton and those of Key Green, which may eventually come to light. What happened to John's two sons William and Joseph is not at the moment, known.
The recusancy of another couple from Goathland in 1780 provides a starting point in a different direction. William and Margaret, marriage 40. Two names out of six presented and one out of two families each family having at the time two children. From this it is obvious that any reference to Whites from Goathland can only relate to William and Margaret. Two items from the parish registers have been found.

The census helps out here for there is discovered

The information is clear enough to be tabulated at once.

Tailor William (d. 1784) married Margaret (maiden name unknown)

Perhaps among others
1.	Joseph	born 1777	Goathland
2.	Mary	baptised Oct. 1st 1781.

Joseph farmer married Jane Dobson on November 13th 1803 at Egton

11.	Joseph	born 1821	although earlier children, except two Anns, have been untraced
12.	George	born 1823 June l4th	Godparents William White & Elizabeth Pearson

Joseph's godparents are unknown, his year of birth being obtained retrospectively like that of his father from the census. Those of the girls William Pearson and Ann Barton for the first, and Joseph Readman and Ann Pearson for the other shows a connection between the Pearsons and the Whites. William, George's godfather, can be given identity number 3, perhaps Tailor William's eldest son.

Joseph farmer married Mary ? of Goathland at the Catholic Chapel of Egton Bridge on January 19th 1850

111.

Ellen

born 1850

succeeding children not traced

George farmer married Lucy Harrison dau. of Ambrose at the Catholic Chapel of Egton Bridge on November 24th 1849, Lucy being 3346 in that family.

121.	Jane	born 1850
122.	Mary	born 1653 January 30th	Godparents John Hodgson & Ann Wilson.
123.	Elizabeth	born 1855 January 31st	Godparents George Hodgson & Agatha Harrison
124.	Ann	born 1856 December 12th
125.	Joseph
126.	Lucy
127.	Ellen
128.	Ambrose

Living members of the family recall the tragic end of 121 Jane who perished in trying to find her way alone from the station at Middlesbrough to her nephew's house one Christmas in the early twenties. She apparently boarded a wrong train and was found in the river at Newport.
122 Mary became the wife of James Harrison 62182 in that family, who built his home Waterloo House Grosmont, from the stone from the short-lived Beckhole Ironworks.
123 Elizabeth niarried David Pearson from Newby near Seamer, Stokesley who came in the area with the railway in 1868. He had no connection with the Pearsons already in the district. Before his marriage he boarded at Rake House, the beer house belonging to Thomas Gatenby. Elizabeth died young in 1895 six years before her husband, then an engine driver at the Glaisdale Ironworks, leaving 1231 Lucy and 1232 Edward in the care of their aunt Mary above.
About 127 Ellen there is nothing further to hand, but 126 Lucy married Martin Roes son Matthew at Ugthorpe on July 13th 1895, and died a childless widow on June 23rd 1951 aged 89. 124 Ann married Thomas son of Felix Mc Cabe of Halifax on Ju? 24th 1883, at Ugthorpe where her brother 125 Joseph married Elizabeth Harrison the daughter of Joseph 787X, a tenth child, on May 17th 1894. Elizabeth was an only child.
Some time before 1883 the family left Julian Park and settled in Scaling on part of the Turton Estate. It was from their new home that the children married. This is a significant fact indicating the first major move of the Whites from their native Egton.
128 Ambrose was born in 1866 four years after his sister Lucy. He and his family remained in Scaling but spent the last few years of his life at Eskdaleside where he died on August 10th 1952 aged 86. Joseph's children living at Ugthorpe in "The Lawns" are listed:-

1251.	George	baptised June 16th 1896	married Mary Gallon 7/11/1836	died 3/4/1960
1252.	Lucy	baptised Dec. 18th 1897	godparents Matthew Grey and Helena White
1253.	William	baptised Aug. 24th l899	Gpts. John Readman & Mgt. R.
1254.	Mary	baptised June 10th 1901	godparents Arthur and Catherine Hurt.
1255.	Ambrose	baptised Aug. 25th 1903	godparents Oswin Harrison and Lucy Pearson.
1256.	Anthony

There may be others. The question can now be asked has Ugthorpe sheltered any Whites in the two hundred years following the recusacy of George and Margaret in 1691?
There is still a group, of Egton Bridge, based on Key Green, where a start can be made with Thomas who was buried in 1820 aged 73 as from this farm. E.R.R. 1780 shows Thomas and Ann as recusants. Ann was buried on 30th December 1831 aged 86 as from Egton Bridge which makes her two years older than her husband. They are not the pair of the same names in marriage 32 who had 3 children by 1753 since being born in 1743 and 1745 respectively, they would be cbildren. The similarIty of names has caused the omission of their marriage from the list, which will be put right by adding no. 32a. No children were entered but they had two recusant servants in 1780. The census of 1851 gives John aged 68 as the tenant and Catherine aged 58. The Easter Communion list for Egton has Catherine Ann and John as communicants in 1826. U.P.R.and the census agree about a child George who was born to John and Ann Hoggarth, this points to the likelyhood that Catherine is a sister of John and both, children of Thomas and Ann who married late in life. John was born in 1783 and his sister in 1793. Ann died aged 57 on December 19th 1837, being absent therefore from the census return. Their known children are :-

John marriage 56 Ann Hoggarth The godparents of Peter could be other children of Thomas and Ann.

William marriage 54 Margaret Elders

Ann	baptised Oct. 26th 1814	godparents John Swales & Mary Harrison.
Peter	baptised Apr. 4th 1817	godparents William White & Mary White.
George	baptised Jan. 4th 1822	godparents William Swales & Helen Hutchinson

Thomas	baptised Jan. 20th 1828 at Whitby	Godparents William & Elizabeth Liddle.
John	baptised Oct 20th 1829 at Ugthorpe	Godparents George and Ann White.
William	baptised Feb 17th 1832 at Ugthorpe	Godparents Thomas White
Peter	baptised Sept. 7th 1834 at Ugthorpe	Godparents John White
Mary	baptised Jan. 27th 1837 at Egton	Godparents John & Catherine White
Francis	baptised Apr. 16th 1839 at Egton	Godparents Joseph Readman

William the father was born in 1798 and Margaret the mother was born in 1802.

Peter White was a carpenter at Key Green in 1840, but it was his brother George who took the tenancy by 1861, then a married man. Their father died two years later aged ?. It is not known whether William who married Margaret Elders was their uncle or not, for he would be the son of John who mentioned him in his will. The other son who was mentioned, Joseph, could be the husband of Jane Mead. The family as known can be told:-

Joseph marriage 65 Jane Mead

Matthew	baptized Dec. 21st 1830	Godparents Joseph F.Hoggarth & Ann Lyth
Richard	baptized Dec. 23rd 1852	Godparents George Burnett & Ellis Roe
Francis	baptized July 30th 1835	Godparents John Harrison & Ann Lyth
Mary Ann	baptized Jan. 30th 1838	Godparents John White & Rose Lyth
Henry	baptized June 8th 1840	Godparents William White & Ann Frankl.

Ann the daughter of John of Key Green married Matthew Roe, marriage 66, one of the early marriages in Egton Bridge Chapel since it, and St. Hilda's Whitby, and St. Anne's Ugthorpe were registered for marriages on November 27th 1837. Now, being a Roe occurrence, it will be dealt with in the Roe story.
Before leaving marriage 65 an interesting speculation arises, U.P.R. for June 9th 1828 gives a baptism of Richard son of Joseph and Jane Lyth without any succeeding children of the union, but Fr. Rigby and Fr. Greenhalgh gave the five entries above as children of Joseph and Jane Mead natural sequence from Richard 1828 who could have died in infancy hence the second Richard. The main thing which prompts this possibility is the presence of the Lyth godparents. Perhaps it is only a coincidence, and the surname Mead was a correct transcription, making Joseph and Jane Lyth another family altogether.
Yet there is one more Joseph White family:-

Joseph marriage 52 Sara Robinson

A girl	baptized Nov. 27th 1816	Godparents William White & Sara Roe
Mary	baptized Jan. 30th 1819	Godparents Robert Harrison & Elizabeth Swales
William	baptized May 21st 1821	Godparents George Barker & Ann Roe
Edward	baptized Apr. 5th 1823	Godparents John White & Margaret Readman
Joseph	baptized May 20th 1825	Godparents John Readman & Elizabeth White
Thomas	baptized Oct. 22nd 1827	Godparents Matthew Roe & Ann Hutchinson

The strange absence of the surnames Mead and Robinson from the godparents point to the probability of a mixed marriage, and could invalidate the speculation just made, but another raises its head at once, a possible copier's error. It concerns the marriage 59 of Richard and Sara where once more a single baptism at Ugthorpe is followed by one more at the same place but to Edward and Sara in natural sequence as in the first case, and then several more to the latterpair but in Whitby. So the queries remain, was Mead to be Lyth? or vice versa? and was Richard really Edward? Whatever the truth, the family will be discussed in the story of the Whites of Whitby. Meanwhile the Egton Thomas who succeeded his father of the same name in the tithe holding there can be followed further. His younger sister's godmother Hannah gives a hint to his grandparents namely William and Hannah who may well have had a child named after her mother. John who made the will and Thomas Sr., born respectively in 17? and 1747, would fit this marriage as it took place in 1745, but there is nothing which confirms the relationship. However continuity for three generations can be tabulated:- Thomas marriage 39 Esther Corney

Thomas	baptized 1788
Catherine	baptized Apr. 5th 1789	Ugthorpe Parish Register by conjecture
William	baptized June 6th 1790	Ugthorpe Parish Register by conjecture
Mary	baptized Mar. 14th 1796	Godparents William Readman and Hannah White

Other children have not been found, but Ann maybe one being witness at wedding:- Thomas marriage 48 Elizabeth Atkinson Perhaps two preceded

Mary	baptized Apr. 14th 1814	Godparents John ? & Mary White
John	baptized Feb. 2nd 1817	Godparents William White & Elizabeth Readman
Robert	baptized Sep. 7th 1819	Godparents John Readman & Elizabeth Swales
Ann	baptized 1822
Jane	baptized not known	married Jos. Harrison 3341 at Whitby 29/1/1???

John married Mary ? and continued the tenancy of his father and grandfathers farm.
Apparently Thomas Jr. succeeded Joseph Harrison of Egton Bridge as warden of St. Hedda's Guild holding the position until his death on December 18th 1853 aged 74. Who the prime mover was, who re-instituted this medieval guild after almost 300 years, is not known, but as the founder chaplain was Rev. Henry Greenhalgh it is likely that he was the man, and, it's so he has a lasting memorial, for it still continues. A John White of Egton was also a founder member, taking the office of Bursar's Secretary. Of which family he was, is not certain, but there's nothing to preclude him from being one of the unknown children of Thomas and Esther, and brother of the warden.

Emily	baptized Nov. 1st 1794	Godparents Francis White & Anna White
John	baptized Oct. 25th 1799	Godparents John White & Elizabeth Lawson

A Catherine White married John Liddle and a Bridget White married Thomas Robinson and the godparents to some of their children show that all three wives are sisters and possible co-lateral relatives of the two Williams. At the beginning of the 19th-century a number of family movements are noticed of which marriage 47 is an example.

John White marriage 47 Elizabeth Green

James	baptized Nov. 4th 1806	Godparents John White & Anna Readman
David	baptized Oct. 17th 1808	Godparents Ralph Hoggarth & Elizabeth Hodgson
William	baptized Aug. 26th 1811	Godparents John Liddle & Ann White

The first two children were baptized at Ugthorpe and the last at Whitby. A second married to this kind is 57, referred to earlier, the details of which are:-

Edward White marriage 57 Sara Sleightholme

Ann	baptized July 3rd 1816	Godparents John White & Ellen White
William	baptized May 24th 1818	Godparents Edmund Hall & Elizabeth White
Thomas	baptized Sept. 12th 1820	Godparents John ? & H.C.C. Golden
Sara	baptized Oct. 26th 1822	Godparents Thomas White & Jane Stanford
William	baptized Jan. 24th 1825	died off smallpox
Elizabeth	baptized Dec. 12th 1825	Godparents William White & Ann Hoggarth
William Sleightholme	baptized July 5th 1828	Godparents John Harrison & Hannah Golden
Edward	baptized Mar. 22nd 1830	Godparents Ambrose Lyth & Mary Lyth
Esther	baptized Sept. 18th 1852	Godparents William Liddle & Jane Wardale

Ann was baptized at Egton and all the rest were baptized at Whitby. Edward and Joseph were witnesses in marriage 60 where John the groom is said to be of Dandy parish. This doesn't link up with anything, but if the Godparents are all his brothers and sisters, Ann's godfather could be this John.
Fr. Hervey baptized Mary the daughter of Miles White, yeoman, and Elizabeth his wife on October t6th 1736 when the family lived at Court Houses Whitby and the mother had been reported for recusancy the previous year. A will of Elizabeth White widow from Whitby dated May 28th 1759 gives a son Thomas and a daughter Elizabeth and a brother-in-law Thomas White. If Miles is the husband it makes Thomas his brother and an interesting thing is that 92 years before Miles was the son of Thomas White of Hutton Mulgrave indicating a possible connection, but no recusancy is associated with the first Thomas whose son Miles died in infancy. It is only proper to relate this earlier information notwithstanding the statement above.
Another Whitby family from the early Whitby register is that of marriage 63.

Daniel White marriage 63 Ann Banks

Mary	baptized Dec. 12th 1836	Godparents Matthew White & Emma White
David	baptized Oct. 29th 1838	Godparents William Hall & Mary Jane Hoggarth
Thomas	baptized Oct. 29th 1838	Godparents William George Lawson & Elizabeth Mary Richards?

Two Whitby deaths:- Ann R.C. was buried on Feb. 22nd 1841 aged 64
John on Sept. 2nd 1822 aged 49 may be connected.
That Whites as still at Hutton Mulgrave is shown by the burial of six-year-old Elizabeth on Nov. 12th 1859.
Martha White was buried on June 23rd 1840 an R.C. from Burkhead aged 69.
It was this farm situated high on the south bank of East Row Beck in Hutton Mulgrave that Elizabeth Hodgson died 44 years all but six days earlier.
Although there is a hinted connection between the Hodgson's and the Whites here, non is known. Elizabeth, most likely, is Martha's granddaughter, but her parents are not traced. The Egton Easter Communion list for 1826 has John, Monte, Thomas and Elizabeth White from Glaisdale but no conjectures are offered.
Glaisdale also saw the death of Catherine aged 74 on Nov. 21st 1886,
while Egton that of John aged 69 on Nov. 20th 1866 and
George aged 30 on Feb. 25th 1896.
The publication of the Egton parish registers and the completion of those from Whitby will provide many missing pieces for the White jig-saw and for the other family patterns. When this will be is very uncertain, and before volume two for Whitby appears in print a veritable mountain of work will need to be done, for the period covers that of the ports expansion in shipbuilding, whaling and jet ornament manufacture to say nothing of the extensive alum industry in earlier years.
The agent for the Egton estate John White who farmed 76 acres at Limber Hill was born at Pickhill in 1817 and could well be a stranger to the area. He had a son named Edward who was born in 1845.
John born in Whitby in 1783 was living at Greenhouses with his wife and family in 1851. His wife was called Elizabeth, born in Danby. The son Thomas was born in 1815. This appears to be a case of a Whitby family returning to the dales from the coast and is very likely that in marriage 47 and Thomas's brothers James, David and William.
Hutton Mulgrave comes back into the picture with what appears to be the parents of Elizabeth above. John and Anna were there in 1851 with a daughter Hannah who was born in 1831 and a nephew William in 1830. Working backwards:-

	John White marriage 67 Mary Readman		third cousin
Thomas White married Elizabeth Atkinson		John Readman married Elizabeth Roe	2nd cousin
Thomas White married Esther Corner		William Readman married Mary Harrison	first cousin
William White married Anna Law		Thomas Readman married Mary White	brother and sister

The parents of William and Mary White are very probably on the recusant list for Egton 1735 but so many families are involved it is not possible to say which. The brother and sister line is contejture but with a degree of probability. The solution put forward may be incorrect as it is well-known how many other possibilities are present.

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