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Bishop Thornton 1911

There were 20 Households in the 1911 census with members descended from George Kipling born

1784 in Ripley, Yorkshire, via his children; Elizabeth (1813), George (1815), William (1817), John

(1821) and Thomas (1824).

George was the son of John Kipling. John Kipling was baptised at Bowes in 1744, the son of Thomas

Kipling and Anne Pinkney. He married Anne Armstrong at Bowes in 1768 and a son Joseph was born

there in 1775 (Joseph’s subsequent fate is unknown). A second son, Thomas, was born in 1777 (see

below - place unknown). There may also have been a daughter, Elizabeth, born around 1782/3.

Burials, Teesdale District - Record Number: 334053.2

Location: Eggleston

Church: Holy Trinity

Denomination: Anglican

15 Mar 1804 Elizabeth Kiplin, of Eggleston, age: 21, died 13 Mar, daughter of John Kiplin

(mason, of Bowes, Yorkshire) by his wife Ann

In May 1779, the account books of Sir John Ingilby of Ripley Castle record “To John Kipling, for

breaking stones for carriage and making 116 roods of finished wall at Scarah Moor £34 13s” and

there is a similar account for £10 the following month. Scarah Moor is near Ripley.

John Kipling, stone mason of Ripley, married Elizabeth Place of Pateley Bridge at PB on 1 March

1784. It is not known what happened to first wife Anne.

A son, George, was baptised at Ripley on May 30 the same year, when John was living at Whipley

Moor nearby.

A further son William was baptised at Ripley in July 1786 when John was living at Kettle Spring (a

farm between Ripley and Bishop Thornton).

A daughter Anne followed in 1787 and in August 1789, their third son, John, was born. It was

recorded that his father was the son of Thomas Kipling of Bowes.

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Wife Elizabeth died a few weeks later and was buried at Ripley…

… and the infant John died at the very end of the same year.

John remarried to Frances Knowles in 1791 (it is unclear if this was at BT or Ripon Cathedral, as both

seem to have a record) and a daughter Hannah was baptised at Ripley in 1791, when it was again

recorded that John was the son of Thomas Kipling of Bowes.

John is recorded in the Land Tax registers from 1798 to 1806 as being a tenant of Sir John Ingilby.

Ripley, 1798

John died in 1814 and Frances the same year. Both were buried at Ripley.

By 1802, son Thomas was a shoemaker in Skipton. He had married an Irishwoman. Their first child,

John, was baptised at Skipton in 1802.

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Thomas also seems to have served as an army reservist around this time.

Thomas and Catherine moved to London where a son George was baptised in 1816 (although aged 9

at the time).

St Margaret’s Westminster. 1816

A further son, Thomas, was baptised there in 1819

By 1841, Thomas was living in Grantley, north of BT, with Catherine and Thomas. George had

remained in London (see ‘Missionary 1911’)

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Catherine died in 1845 and Thomas senior died in 1848 or 49. There is (or was) a headstone to him in

Aldfield churchyard, giving his year of birth as 1777 (between the last reference to his father John at

Bowes and the first at Ripley).

Thomas junior’s life is a mystery until he ended up in the Birkenhead Workhouse in 1881.

He died in Birkenhead in 1890.

It’s possible that William joined the masonic Lodge of Amity at Steeton (near Skipton) in 1806.

William married Ann Pullen in at Ripon in 1808.

A daughter Sarah was baptised at BT in 1810 and a son John was baptised at Ripley in 1812, when

William was living at Killinghall.

William died in 1814 and was buried at Ripley.

Son John married Elizabeth Kitson at Knaresborough in 1834

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They had children William (1836), Joseph (1837) and Hannah (1838). John died in 1838 and widow

Elizabeth had an illegitimate daughter Charlotte at Killinghall in 1841

The 1841 census shows her at Killinghall I on 6th June

She married the following month, presumably to Charlotte’s father.

I also assume the children took on the name King.

John’s sister, Sarah, also married at Knaresborough in 1834.

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George married Elizabeth Herrington at Ripon in 1811

Their children were Elizabeth (1813), George (1815), William (1817), John (1821), Anne (1823) and

Thomas (1824).

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Yorkshire Gazette - Saturday 10 March 1832

Daughter Elizabeth had illegitimate children in 1835…

…and also Mary (1838) and Anne (1841).

In 1841, George was living at ‘Pot Dickey House’, with Elizabeth and two of her children (Anne not

having been born at the census date).

Sons William and John were working at Thornton Farm for Henry Rishworth

In 1851, son John was also living with them, a widowed brick and tile maker, along with son, William.

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Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: West Riding (North)

By 1861, wife Elizabeth was dead and George was living with son Thomas and daughter Elizabeth,

along with grandchildren Thomas (son of George), Anne and the younger John (illegitimate children

of Elizabeth) and the elder John (son of Thomas). Their house was named ‘Three Storeys Long and

One High’.

In 1871, George, Elizabeth and Thomas were living together at Thornton Moor, along with

Elizabeth’s children John and Hannah.

George died later in 1871.

George Kipling (1815)

In 1842, George Kipling married Ann Grange and they had a son Richard the same year.

In 1851, the family, including two daughters, was living at Sawley near BT.

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In 1861, they had only a granddaughter, Hannah Grange, living with them. A further son, Thomas,

was living with grandfather George (see above).

Voters register 1887

George died in 1889.

Voters register 1893 (also 1894-5)

Anne died in 1894.

a) Richard Kipling (1842)

In 1871, Richard was a carter at Hartwith cum Winsley

He married Susannah Hainsworth at Bradford in 1866 and in 1871 they were living at Bramley near

Leeds.

By 1881, he was a drayman.

Susannah died in 1886. Richard died in 1888 and was buried at Stanningley…

… and, as we can see from the 1891 census, eldest son George Hainsworth took over caring for his

two younger siblings.

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By 1911, son George Kipling was unmarried and living with sister Lily and [her] two illegitimate

children (#306).

George died in Bramley in 1923 and Leonard, in Wharfedale district, in 1973.

Ernest meanwhile (#308), just married, was foreman willeyer in the wool trade (a willeyer fed fibres

into a "willeying" machine to separate and comb them for carding, often blending fibres in the

process).

Ernest died in Leeds district in 1955.

Richard’s sister Betty appears to have had two children out of wedlock, Ann Ada and Arthur. In 1871,

they were living with George and Ann at Sawley

They were all still there a decade later. George died in 1889 and Ann in 1894, Betty having married

blacksmith Mark Beckwith in 1882.

By 1891, Arthur was machine fitter in Ripon, with the step-children, having married Mary Jane

Cousins earlier that year.

By 1911, they had two children of their own (#320).

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Son Richard Frances Arthur died in 1947 (having married Beatrice Marshall in 1944) and Arthur

himself in 1948.

b) Thomas Kipling (1852)

By 1877, Thomas was a miner in Leeds.

Leeds Times - Saturday 18 August 1877

In 1881, Thomas and Elizabeth were living next door to the Wright family.

1881 Perth Street, Leeds

1891. Accommodation Road, Leeds

Elizabeth died in 1898 and Thomas remarried in 1900.

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Accommodation Road, Leeds. 1901.

Having lost their only child, Thomas an Eliza were still living in Leeds in 1911 (#327)

Thomas died in 1926 in Leeds.

William Kipling (1817)

William married Miriam Cartwright in 1842 and their first son John was baptised in 1844.

A secon son, William, was born in 1848.

In the 1851 census, they are shown as living at Kettlewell Cottage.

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By 1861, they had moved to Thornton Moor.

And by 1871 to Ripon.

1871 Tomlinson’s Yard, Blossomgate, Ripon

In 1881, they had living with them two grandchildren. According to ‘England Births & Baptisms 1538-

1975, Richard was the illigitimate child of daughter Christiana, as was John WIlliam.

1881 Tomlinson’s Yard, Blossomgate, Ripon

Christiana was at that time working as a servant at a house at Embsay near Skipton. There is a later

record of her marrying in 1889 in Knaresborough district. However, Richard and John William were

still living with their grandparents in 1891.

1891 Low Skellgate, Ripon

William died in 1898.

1901 Low Skellgate, Ripon

Miriam died later in 1901 and Richard then appears to have moved to Halifax (#316). I have not

traced the future of John William.

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On his marriage in 1916, he names William Kipling, his grandfather, as his father, possibly because

he was brought up to belive this, or because illigitimacy was socially embarrassing at the time.

Richard died in 1949.

a) John Kipling (1844)

John married Margaret Haher in 1873 and their eldest son was baptised John Haher Kipling in 1880.

1881. Melmerby

By 1891, the family had moved to Eccleshill near Bradford.

1 Ferncliffe View, Calverley. 1901

Margaret was living with three of her children in nearby Greengates in 1911 (#332)

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Herbert was killed in Artois in 1918 (see ‘Kipling Deaths in the Great War 1918’).

i) Albert

In 1911, Albert was living next door to his mother, with his sister and her husband (#330), having

married in 1910.

He had married Blanch Gladys Davis 1907 at Newton Abbot (Devon). Daughter Muriel Iris was born in 1910 and baptised at Idle.

In 1911, Blanche was working in Exeter as a drapers assistant (#380)

Jane Elizabeth was living in Govan in 1911 (#375) with her cousin Ann Fairlie. Ann was the daughter of John Melling and Elizabeth Hare (probably a corruption of the Irish Haher and so possibly Elizabeth was a sister of Jane’s mother, Margaret Haher).

Lilybank gardens, Govan

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Jane died in 1951.

Albert probably died in 1933 and Blanche in 1959.

b) William Kipling (1848)

William most probably married Elizabeth Masterman in Leed in 1875.

1881. Skellgarth, Ripon

1891 Voters register (similar entries from 1887 to 1890)

William probably died in 1889.

c) James Cartwright Kipling (1856)

James was a farm worker all his life.

1871 Givendale

1881 Whitcliffe cum Thorpe

1891 Bishop Monkton

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1901 Markington

1911 Ripon( #336)

He died in 1917

d) Benjamin Kipling (1858)

In 1871, Benjamin was working on a farm at Bishop Thornton.

In 1881, he was working on a farm at Idle near Bradford

He married in 1888.

In 1891, he was living in Brakendale, Idle.

Mary Ann died in 1896 amd Benjamin married again in 1903.

Church Hill, Calverley. 1901

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He and Edith were still living in Calverley in 1911 (#333)

Benjamin died in 1938 and Edith in 1959.

Calverley, St Wilfreds. 1938

John Kipling (1821)

John married Jane Moore in 1843…

…and their first son William was born in 1845 (BT)

And John in 1848 (Ripley)

Jane and son John died in 1848 and John and William were living with father George at the time of

the 1851 census (see above). In 1861, John was working as a labourer on a farm.

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He later moved to Pannal near Harrogate where he remarried and had another son, Benjamin.

By 1871, John and Margaret were living at Worksop with young son Benjamin.

By 1881 they were living at Netherthong.

Huddersfield Chronicle - Saturday 31 January 1885

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John died in 1894. By 1901, Ben was living in Slaithwaite, with Jane, mother Margaret and two

children. They were all still there in 1911 (#317).

Margaret died in 1914 and Ben in 1926

Colin enlisted in 1916, was posted to France in 1917 and was demobbed in 1919.

Colin married at Christ Church, Linthwaite in 1921 and died in 1958.

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William Kipling (1848)

Son William married Elizabeth Richmond at Ripon in 1867 (he appears to have added three years to

when his age).

A son, Thomas, was born the following year.

William then got into trouble with the law on several occasions between 1868 and 1873, culminating

in a sentence of 7 years’ imprisonment (see Appendix).

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Leeds Times - Wednesday 08 June 1870

By the time of the 1871 census, young son Thomas (Tom) was living with his uncler and aunt in Ripon (Elizabeth’s sister Anne had married Joseph Leeming in 1859). What happened to Elizabeth is not clear (no death was registered).

1871. Aismunderby with Bondgate, Ripon

On his release, William married Priscilla Atkinson in Leeds in late 1879. He states that he is a

bachelor rather than a widower, so possibly this second marriage was bigamous. This time he

subtracted a year from his age.

In 1881, they were living at Seacroft near Leeds and in 1891 at Barwick-in-Elmet.

1881. Railway Cottages, Seacroft, Leeds

1891. Barwick in Elmet

William died in 1892. Priscilla remarried the following year.

Son Thomas married Emily Florence Forrester in Hull in 1897. He was a fisherman, who followed his

father to prison in 1907.

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Anlaby Road, Hull. 1939

Florence died in 1943 and Thomas in 1953.

Thomas Kipling (1824)

In 1851, Thomas was married with a young daughter and working in Bradford.

1851 Gelderd Yard, Bradford

It seems likely that Elizabeth died in 1855 at BT as in 1861 and 1871, Thomas was widowed and living

with his father (see above). In 1881 he was living with his sister Elizabeth and (great-)niece Beatrice,

daughter of Betty’s son George.

1881. Thornton Moor Cot.

Voters register 1887

Thomas died in 1888.

a. John William Kipling (1855)

John was the son of Thomas Kipling

1871. Thornton Moor, BT

John married Margaret Hainsworth at BT in 1875.

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and they later moved to Holbeck near Leeds.

1881. Holbeck, Leeds

1891. Kimberley Street, Wortley, Leeds

Daughter Dorothy Lily was born in 1895 but only baptised in 1898…

… doubtless because Margaret died in 1896.

1901. Derwent Street, Holbeck, Leeds

John William snr died in 1902.

i) John William jnr

In 1911, John Willian was living in a lodging house in Leeds (#325).

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7 New Lane Meadow Lane Leeds

He married in 1915.

Later in the year he joined the army.

He was posted to India in 1917, where in 1918 he received 7 days confined to barracks for

drunkenness.

He was discharged in 1919.

A son, also John William (III), was born in 1916. John William (II) died in 1934.

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Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 26 March 1955

ii) Albert

Albert married Ethel Dyson in 1910 and they were living with her father in 1911 (#318).

Albert joined up in November 1914, was medically discharged in 1915 and reenlisted at the end of

that year

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After the war, he enlisted in the territorial Army.

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Note son Arthur born in 1920. Also in the record was the death certificate of another son who died

whilst Albert was in the army.

Albert died in 1933. I have found no record of son Albert Edward’s death. Son Arthur died in 1929.

iii) Thomas

Thomas married Emma Dodsworth in 1907.

and they were living in Leeds in 1911 with one daughter (#322).

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Thomas most probably died in 1939 and Emma in 1949. (iv) Elizabeth Daughter Elizabeth was baptised at the age of 15.

St Andrew, Leeds

In 1911 she was working as a domestic servant.

(#307) Vickers Ave., Kirkstall 1911

In 1921, she had an illegitimate son Harold

1939. Rosebank View, Leeds

Elizabeth died in 1969 and Harold in 1991. (v) Dorothy Lily In 1911, (Dorothy) Lily was working as a servant (#)

1911. Home of John Hartley Dawson, cycle factor, 120 Kirkstall Road, Leeds.

She married in 1915. Her sister was a witness.

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Elizabeth Kipling (1813)

a) George Kipling

George married Mary Reed in Leeds in 1865.

Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 05 September 1865

Later that year, George was injured at work, form which he appears to have recovered.

Leeds Mercury - Friday 15 December 1865

Son Benjamin was born the following year.

Leeds, St Mary

By 1871, George and Mary had two further children.

1871. Green Street, Leeds

A further son, Walter Henry, was born in 1872.

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Walter died the same year, as did mother Mary. George remarried, to Elizabeth Heaney, in 1877. A

son George was born in 1879.

Leeds, St John the Baptist

Living with the family in 1881 was George’s brother, John. The entry relating to Henry cannot be

explained as no other records appear to exist about him.

1881. Chapman Street, Leeds

In 1883, youngest son, Herbert was born. Living with, the family in 1891 was George’s mother,

mother, Elizabeth.

1891. 38 Nippet Terrace, Leeds

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Nippet Terrace, Leeds c 1960 (38 is the right hand of the block of four)

Mother Elizabeth died in 1892 and George himself in 1895.

Son Herbert was later a trawlerman. In 1911, he had two entries in the Scottish census, one for his

home address (#374) and one for his ship. He died in December 1918 when his vessel, the Grecian

Prince, hit a mine (see ‘Kiplings in the Great War - 1918’)

Son Benjamin married in 1909 (he appears to have understated his age somewhat, as he was

actually 42).

In 1911, they were living with Emily’s presumably illegitimate daughter (#326).

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It is likley that Benjamin died at Tadcaster in 1945.

b) John Kipling

1891. Ney Street, Leeds

In 1892, John married Sarah Jane Simpson. He appears to have made up a name for his father to

hide his illegitimacy.

John and Sarah jane had two daughters.

1901. Darby St, Leeds

Living with the family in 1911 (#323) was George Albert, son of George (1835).

John probably died in Hunslet district 1929. George Albert died in Leeds district in 1954.

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Appendix - William in Trouble

Bradford Observer - Friday 17 June 1870

York Herald - Saturday 18 June 1870

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Sheffield Independent - Friday 12 August 1870

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 26 September 1873

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