The Ancestors of Sam Luty
Sam Herman Luty – 1893 – 1969
Michael Binns – Author
The Ancestors of Samuel Luty
Peter Luty 1812 – 1852
The Ancestors of Elsie Violet Parkinson
I first became interested in researching my family history when the census for 1901 became available online. I idly looked to see what I could find and there was my dad age one living in Rawdon with his parents and older sisters. After that I started to look further back and soon became hooked.
As I explored further I decided two things:
Firstly that everyone was important. Many people just follow the surname (in other words the male line), I decided to try and follow all lines. This also meant that I started to research Pauline’s ancestors as well as my own. It is more difficult to follow the female line, particularly once you get back before civil registration and censuses in the first half of the nineteenth century, so I have not always been totally successful with this.
Secondly I wanted more than just a list of names, I wanted to know about how people lived. Obviously I could never know my ancestors as people, but I could try and understand something of their lives and times.
For example, my great great grandfather, Charles Binns, was born in Leeds in 1810 and died near there in 1883. For the first part of his life he was a clothier, making cloth on a handloom in his own home with small scale farming as a sideline. He would have seen his sons growing up to work in the local mills on power looms and he ended his days as a check weigher at a local coal mine. The social change he lived through must have been in many ways as great as we are living through today – in his lifetime England moved from being a predominantly rural, agricultural country to an urban, industrialised society; the population of England and Wales rose from just over ten million in 1811 to nearly 26 million by 1881 and by the middle of the century more people in England were living in urban areas than in rural areas. In the woollen industry, which played a large part in his life, the change was from a largely domestic industry to a highly mechanised one carried out in large mills. Transport and communications were revolutionised with the coming of the railways and living conditions for working people, although still very austere by today’s standards, showed a dramatic improvement over the period.
The thing that really struck me when looking at the Victorian period and earlier was the appallingly high level of infant mortality. Charles and his wife, Isabella, had seven sons, the first three of whom died in infancy and Isabella died giving birth to her last son. Their son Charles and his wife, Ann, had six children, two of whom died in infancy. And they were not untypical.
My ancestors were not the sort of people whose lives left much in the historical record, so I hope that by recording and making available what I can this will go some way to act as a monument for them. So, many thanks to Paul for giving me this opportunity to share the results of my researches into Pauline’s Luty ancestors. I will be happy to hear from anyone who wants further information or can point out any errors I have made.
Introduction
The Samuel Luty on which this history of my wife’s Luty ancestors is based is her grandfather, Samuel Herman Luty (1893-1969), known as Sam Luty.
Sam was born in Yeadon as were his father and grandfather, but his great grandfather, Peter Luty, was born in Nidderdale and the family goes back in that area until at least the early part of the sixteenth century.
I have also looked at the Hindles and the Slaters, the family of Sam’s mother Martha Hindle, and the Yeadons, the family of his paternal grandmother Eliza Yeadon.
The story begins with the birth of Peter Luty in Hartwith near Ripley in the 1760s and goes back to the earliest Lutys I have found in that area. Then it moves forward with Peter’s marriage and move to Yeadon and his descendents.
Chapter 1. Nidderdale
Using birth, marriage and death records and Victorian census returns it was possible to get back to Peter Luty, Samuel Herman Luty’s great grandfather. According to the 1851 census, which was held on 31 March, Peter was born in “Artwith”, Yorkshire and was 84 years of age. He died five years later and was buried in Rawdon on 3 August 1856; in the parish register he was recorded as being 91 years old. The two ages do not quite tally with each other, but suggest that he was born sometime between 1764 and 1767. I then looked for a Peter Luty baptised in or near a place called Artwith.
The only candidate I have come up with is a Peter Luty baptised at St Jude’s Church, Hartwith (Hartwith cum Winsley is a chapelry in the parish of Kirby Malzeard) on 20 August 1769.
Hartwith is a village in Nidderdale, on the north side of the valley between Pateley Bridge and Ripley.
According to the parish register Peter’s father was called Samuel Luty.1
Samuel’s Great Great Grandparents
There were four families with father Samuel Luty in Hartwith or adjacent parishes around the time Peter was born so it is difficult to positively identify Peter’s parents. However, I think it most likely that Peter Luty was the son of Samuel Luty and Jane Sleigh who married at Kirkby Malzeard on 27 December 1749. I cannot prove this absolutely, so I have detailed my reasons for reaching this conclusion in appendix A.
I should perhaps at this point issue another disclaimer – the generations I outline going back from here are not proven, they are my best guesses based on the information available, which is why I have included the detailed information and my reasoning in appendices a and b. What is certain, however, is that there were Lutys in Clint going back to the early years of the sixteenth century and the line of Samuel’s ancestry goes back through those families in that location. To be certain of the makeup of the actual families in each generation needs more information than I have been able to find to date.
Initially Samuel and Jane lived in Winsley, which was in the parish of Kirkby Malzeard. When their first child, John, was born in the autumn of 1750 they had him baptised across the river in Hampsthwaite as this church was much nearer than the church in Kirkby Malzeard. The entry for the baptism records that Samuel was working as a blacksmith.
By the time their next child, daughter Sarah, was born in 1753 the church at Hartwith had been built and this is where they had seven children baptised between 1753 and 1769 (it was built as a chapel of ease to save people in the Hartwith and Winsley area the twelve mile journey to the main church and was opened in 1751). Peter was Samuel and Jane’s last child, baptised at the new church on 20 August 1769.
At some point, possibly during the 1770’s, Samuel and Jane moved across the river to Felliscliffe in Hampsthwaite parish where Jane died in 1807 aged 88 and Samuel in 1814 aged 90.
Samuel and Jane’s daughter Sarah gave birth to an illegitimate son, John, born in Hampsthwaite in 1783. She also features in the Hampsthwaite parish register in 1785 where it is recorded that she was excommunicated for contumacy. John appeared in Yeadon in 1810 and lived there until about 1820 – see appendix C.
Samuel’s sister Mary married Peter Blakey at Knaresborough in 1745 and they initially lived in Ripley parish, where their first two children were born. They then moved to Hartwith where they had five more children between 1752 and 1764; so they were probably living close to Samuel and Jane. Around 1765 they moved to Norwood in the parish of Fewston. I assume that Peter Luty was named after Peter Blakey and it seems probable that he was living with Peter and Mary in Fewston when he met and married Amelia Lund there in 1804.
3 x Great Grandparents
Samuel was born in 1723 and baptised at Ripley parish church on 16 June. His parents were John Luty and Mary Umpleby of Pye Green who married at Ripley on 19 January 1717/18. Their first child, William, was born in the following year and baptised on 12 July 1719. When their second child, Mary, was baptised in September 1721 John was recorded as being a farmer living at “west end of Clint”. Two years later when Samuel was baptised John was “of Whipley Moor” and in 1725 when son John was baptised he was “of Whipley Moor Hilltop”. This is by no means certain – appendix A gives the rationale.
4 x Great Grandparents
I think that John’s parents were John Luty and Thomasin Atkinson who probably married in 1694; information from another researcher gives their marriage as taking place on 1 February 1694 at Ripley, but I have not been able to verify this. They lived in Burnt Yates and appear to have had sixteen children over the next 27 years, eight of whom died in infancy.
They lived in Burnt Yates and appear to have had sixteen children over the next 27 years, eight of whom died in infancy.
5 x Great Grandparents
John Luty was born in 1661. His father was another John and his mother was probably called Bridget; I have not found their marriage, but there was a burial of “Bridgitt the wife of John of Clint” at Ripley in 1686. John and Bridget had five children born in Clint between 1661 and 1675.
6 x Great Grandparents
This generation is the most difficult of all. There are three possible parents for John:
1 John Luty and Margaret Fairbarne married at Ripley on 6 June 1616. They lived at Clint and had a son John baptised at Ripley on 4 July 1624; this is the only baptism I have found for this couple, but John died in 1626 and his will indicates that, as well as John, he had two older children.
2 Leonard Luty of Clint and Ann Beane of Newbrigg in Hampsthwaite married at Hampsthwaite on 26 November 1623. They had a son John baptised at Ripley on 26 March 1624/25 followed by seven more over the next ten years.
3 Thomas Luty was the father of six children baptised at Ripley between 1616 and 1635; the last being John baptised on 7 June.
One of these must be the father of the John who was born in 1661, but it is impossible to be sure which one. I think the first family (John and Margaret) is the most likely, but this is really just guesswork – see appendix B for further details.
7 x great grandparents
This generation is easier as I think that John, Leonard and Thomas were brothers, sons of Thomas Luty of Ripley:
William baptised at Ripley on 2 November 1585
Thomas baptised at Ripley on 2 February 1588
John baptised at Ripley on 17 April 1590
Leonard baptised at Ripley on 13 October 1594
Thomas died at Clint and was buried at Ripley on 10 October 1596; his will indicates that his wife was called Ellen.
So, whether the grandparents of the John born in 1661 were John and Margaret, or Leonard and Ann, or Thomas and his wife, I think that his great grandparents would have been Thomas and Ellen. Also, even if I have gone wrong in putting together the later parts of the tree, I think that the line would connect back to Thomas and Ellen in the latter part of the sixteenth century – in other words that Thomas and Ellen would almost certainly be the seven times great grandparents of Samuel Luty.
Winter over the fields of Clint near Ripley
Earlier Luty’s
Going further back seems impossible. However, even if there is not enough information to build a complete family tree, it is clear that there were Luty’s living in Ripley or adjacent parishes throughout the sixteenth century:
1519 will of ‘Agnes Lewtie of Clyntt’ includes the following people:
sons Richard and William
daughter Agnes married to Richard Hardestie
Robert Lute and his brother Thomas
William Lewtie and his children (including daughter Katteryn)
William Lewtie of Yerwith ‘yt hath been good servaunt to me’
(I am not sure whether there were three Williams, or whether two of the entries refer to the same person – details of this will are given in appendix D)
1519 approx – birth of William Luty (see 1589 below)
1530 Richard and Robert Lewty of Clint, yeomen – witnesses to will
1545 approx – birth of Richard Luty (see 1589 below)
1560 Robert Leuty of Burnt Yates – sublet land
1564 burial of Isabelle Lewetie at Ripley
1567 Robert Lewtie and Johanna his wife – transfer of land in Clint
1570 marriage of Richard Luty and Joanna Elsworth
1573 death of Robert Lewty of Clint – administration to widow Johanna Lewty2
1575 Richard Leuty – defendant in suit re water mill in Hampsthwaite parish
1576 William Leuty – plaintiff in suit re Burnt Yates & Clint
1577 baptism of Wilfred son of Richard, burial in 1579
1580 baptism of William son of Richard
1589 William Lutie husbandman of Hampsthwaite, age 70, witness in case re tithes in Ripley parish
1589 Richard Lewtie of Clint, age 44, witness in case re tithes
1590 Richard Lewtie – defendant in case re payment of tithes
1595 Richard Lewtye – witness to will
1597 Richard Lewtie of Clint – defendant in case re payment of tithes
1601 marriage of Matthew and subsequent baptisms (see above)
1603 Francis Lewtye buried at Ripley
1606 Jane Lutye buried at Ripley
1608 ? Lutye buried at Ripley
We can go even further back as a muster roll for the Wapentake of Claro in the time of Henry VIII lists several Lutys:
Clynte
Robert Lewty Archers, able persons, harnessed
Fellisclyff cum Fernell
William Lewty Archers, able persons, having no harnez
Thomas Lewty Bylles, able persons, parcel harnessed
William Lewty Bylles, able persons, parcel harnessed
Spoffurth
Leonard Lewty Bylles, able persons, not harnessed
The militia was a local defence force of a temporary nature which had very little military training. The rolls contain the name of every male between the age of fifteen and sixty.
Harness usually consisted of sallet (a light helmet), jack (a leather and canvas jerkin covered with small iron plates), gorget (a small piece of armour plate to protect the throat and neck) and splints (pieces of armour to protect the elbows). A bill consisted of an axe blade and spear combined on a pole, five to seven feet in length used to unhorse cavalry.
George Redmonds gives his view on the origin of the surname and examples of the earliest recorded instances of the name:
Leuty, Lewty, Luty – Probably a nickname , from the Old Frencg word for ‘loyalty’. Early examples of the by-name and surname include: 1380 Stephen Lewtie, York; 1468 William Lewty, York. The main expansion was in Nidderdale where the three spellings listed were interchangeable: 1519 Robert Lutie, Clint; 1628 John Lewtye, Clint; 1685 John Leuty, Clint. In 1672 Leonard Luty was taxed in Clint, probably the Leonard Lewty who made his will in 1690. The totals in 1881 were: Leuty (93), Lewty (101) and Luty (394): they were all well represented in Yorkshire but the distribution maps point to a possible second origin in Cornwall.3
This map illustrates the distribution of the 394 Lutys recorded in the 1881 census – 261 of them were in the West Riding of Yorkshire and most of the rest in the surrounding counties. The main locations within the West Riding were, in addition to Nidderdale, the Wharfedale, Bradford and Halifax areas – suggesting a gradual emigration into the industrial areas to the south during the first part of the nineteenth century.
There were 46 Lutys in Cornwall. The Cornwall Lutys seem to have been there since before the sixteenth century, which supports Redmonds suggestion that this was a second, and separate, origin of the surname.
Distribution of the 394 Lutys recorded in the 1881 census
Clint
What is clear from the above is that there were Luty’s living in and around Clint for at least three hundred years.
A few years ago I drove around the area looking for Clint and it proved very difficult to find. There seemed to be a few fairly modern houses and not much else; certainly no sign of a village as the modern OS map shows.
Richard Muir describes it:
At first glance Clint seems to be composed of a line of unexciting early-twentieth century houses, but these dwellings stand on the site of the deserted medieval and Elizabethan village inhabited by makers of spurs and spinners of wool and flax. The main clue stands right at the roadside – the old village cross base and stocks. Carved on the cross are the words “Palliser the tailor”, chipped into the stone by a Knaresborough draper who left several advertisements of this kind. At the other end of Clint are the isolated ruins of the late-medieval hall of the Beckwith family.4
and also:
This village of medieval Foresters and assarters of the greenwood had survived the Middle Ages, but during the nineteenth century it just faded away. There was no monstrous landlord involved, and probably no single cause. We last met it as a place of smallholders, small farmers, cloth-makers and flax spinners. The devastation of cottage industries by new, riverside mills must have played a part. So many in Clint had relied on multiple occupations. Also, Clint’s old high street was now a backwater and the Knaresborough-Pateley Bridge turnpike was carrying the commercial traffic.
Clint old village cross base & stocks
Thus, the growth, in the same township, of Burnt Yates must also have had an effect. During the eighteenth century, the village, which had run westwards towards the (ruined) Beckwith manor, contracted into a hamlet on the flanksof the eastern end of the old green. Before the nineteenth century was over, only one house from the old village remained (it still does). Then, in the century that followed, history gave a strange twist to events and a string of houses was built to capture the view across the Dale. They more of less follow the line of medieval houses on the northern edge of the green – but surely more by coincidence than by design.5
The map above shows the area in the late eighteenth century6 and the decline must already have been underway as Clint is no longer shown (I have circled it just off the road between Ripley and Hampsthwaite), although other places where the Luty’s lived in those years (Whipley Moor, Hill Top, Burnt Yates) are shown.
Nidderdale was, compared with the flatter farming areas to the east, a relatively poor area. Because of the poorness of most of the land and the small size of holdings few of the inhabitants could live by farming alone and many households depended on a mixture of small-scale agriculture and domestic spinning and weaving.
This is illustrated by John Lewty (who was probably Sam Luty’s six times great grandfather) who died in Clint in 1627. His possessions, which were listed as part of the probate procedure, included:
11 cattle
1 black horse
7 ewes and followers
3 hoggs (sheep of either sex from six months old to the first shearing)
5 hens a goose and goslings
1 steg (an old gander)
1 turkey hen
1 day’s work of oats
hay
1 cart body and wheels
3 pairs of cards (for carding yarn)
8 score herden and samoron yarn
(samoran was a cloth of mixed harden or hemp and linen yarns)
3 lbs tow
2 ½ lbs line
2 lbs colured yarn
5 ¾ yards hersey
4 yards blue hersey
1 yard white hersey
Similarly the inventory of John Lewty (Sam’s five times great grandfather) who died in 1686 can be summarised:
Purse and apparel £4. 0. 0
In the House Stead
various items of furniture and domestic equipment £0. 14. 6
In the Parlour
furniture including one bed £2. 10. 0
In the Chamber
two beds, chests, dough trough, spinning wheel etc £2. 10. 0
In the Shop
one loom with associated equipment, a tenter
and a quantity of muslin £2. 17. 6
One mare & colt, two kine, four young beasts, eight sheep
and one little pig £15. 0 .0
Corn that is sown £0. 15. 0
This totals £28. 7. 0 – his debts total £24 and funeral expenses £4, which seems to leave 7 shillings.
Aprill the Nineteenth Anno Dm 1686
A true inventory of the Goods & Chattells of John Lewty of Clint decd then made and appraised by us whose names are hereunto subscribed below
Notes
Before the nineteenth century the Luty name was spelled in various ways depending on who was writing it down (and sometimes differently by the same person). At a time when most people were not literate the spelling often depended on how the name sounded to the person writing it. Leuty, Leauty, Lewty, Lewtie etc I have standardised as Luty.
The National Burial Index has three entries for burials at Ripley – Robertus Lewetye on 18 July 1573, Robt Lewtie on 16 September 1575 and Robtus Lewtie on 18 Jun 1577 – it is not clear where this information comes from.
Chapter 2. Peter Luty & Amelia Lund
Yeadon in the Early Nineteenth Century
Yeadon & Rawdon in 1822
Yeadon, on a lofty moorland hill, on the north side of Airedale . . . is a large clothing village, in three divisions, called Upper and Lower Yeadon and Henshaw, the first of which is the largest …. Most of the inhabitants are small clothiers, not remarkable for the politeness of their manners.
White’s Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1838
In 1800 the population of Yeadon was under 2,000; mainly small farmers and hand loom weavers. The woollen trade was still a domestic industry and the clothiers, well known for their plain speaking and independence (the origin of the stereotypical Yorkshireman), relied on the labour of themselves and their family and continued to work part time on their farms.
Most crops, at this time predominantly oats, were grown in Lower Yeadon, whilst Upper Yeadon was predominantly livestock, with cattle sheep and geese.
Philemon Slater, writing in the 1870s, described the lifestyle at the beginning of the century – “The men wore blue smocks . . . aprons, knee breeches and leggings. Their shoes were adorned with large buckles and their heads covered with knitted caps . . . mothers wore large, white frilled caps . . . grandmothers indulged in large, drawn, silk bonnets . . . only the more affluent wore printed cotton dresses”. Diet was simple “consisting generally of porridge, which was made of oatmeal and eaten with milk. Those who could not afford milk had to content themselves with treacle. Corn cakes too were much favoured. . . For drinking they had home brewed beer’. A diet based predominantly on oatmeal porridge, oatbread and oatcake meant that the children were prone to suffer from scurvy and other diseases that resulted from dietary deficiencies1
However, it was not the woollen industry that brought Peter and Amelia to Yeadon, Peter worked as an agricultural labourer and dry stone waller, as did most of his sons.
Guiseley Moor was enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1796 and Yeadon Moor in 1806. This was followed by much road and wall construction and a large increase in the amount of agricultural land. 2
Before enclosure Upper Yeadon was a small village clustered around the Green and most of the land around it was common or moorland. Yeadon Moor started at what is now Albert Square.
Dry Stone Wall
Women Making Oat Cakes
from The Costumes of Yorkshire by George Walker
” Haver Cake … is almost exclusively made in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and constitutes the principal food of the labouring classes in that district. It is a thin cake composed of oatmeal and water only, and by no means unpalatable, particularly while it is new.”
Peter & Amelia
Peter Luty married Amelia Lund at Fewston Parish Church on 10 December 1804. At the time they were both living in Fewston Parish. By the time their son John (who, as far as I can tell, was their first child) was born in 1806 they were living in Yeadon.
They had twelve children:
John Luty born 6 June 1806
James Luty born 20 December 1807
Samuel Luty born 5 March 1810 (Samuel’s grandfather)
Peter Luty born 24 April 1812
William Luty born 23 September 1814
Eleanor Luty born 10 December 1816
Emmanuel Luty born 1819
Daniel Luty born 1822
Jane Luty born 1823
Mary Luty born 1827
Benjamin Luty born 1830
Joseph Luty born 1832 – he died in July 1833 age 9 months
In 1811 the family were recorded in the census at Yeadon, the household comprising four males and one female. Peter and Amelia do not show up in the 1821 and 1831 censuses of Yeadon, but when their children were baptised at Guiseley Parish Church up to 1832 Peter was always described as ‘of Yeadon’; although in the 1851 census Benjamin (who had been baptised in 1830) was recorded as born in Rawdon However, when their son Peter was tried at York in March 1833 he was described as ‘of Rawdon’ and when their youngest child, Joseph, died in July 1833 he was buried at Rawdon Church. So it seems likely that the family moved from Yeadon to Rawdon around 1832.
The Rawdon tithe map of 1838 shows Peter Luty renting a house and garden at the top of Green Lane. The house can be seen on this 1851 map at the junction of Green Lane and Harrogate Road. As well as the house and the garden behind it he also had two small plots of land across the road. The land he rented amounted to about three quarters of an acre in total.
At the 1841 census the family was recorded as living at Halfway House, Rawdon and Peter was described as an agricultural labourer and in 1851 they were living in Green Lane, Rawdon and Peter was a waller. I think that in both cases they were living at the house shown on the map opposite (top).
Although in Rawdon, Green Lane was almost equidistant between Yeadon and Rawdon. So although the family moved into Rawdon township, they were not very far from Yeadon and never lived in Rawdon village itself.
In 1851 the family comprised:
| Name | Relationship | Age | Occuption | Where born |
| Peter Luty | Head | 84 | Waller | Artwith |
| Amelia Luty | Wife | 66 | Wife | Kildwick |
| Daniel Luty | Son | 29 | Waller | Yeadon |
| Benjamin Luty | Son | 20 | Waller | Rawdon |
| Jabez Luty | Grandson | 7 | Scholar | Bramhope |
| John Naylor | Son in Law | 27 | Waller | Rawdon |
| Mary Naylor | Wife | 23 | Wife | Rawdon |
| Thomas Naylor | Son | 3 | At Home | Rawdon |
| Willm. Henry Naylor | Son | 3 mo. | At home | Rawdon |
So at this point there were four dry stone wallers in the household.
Grandson Jabez was the son of Emmanuel.
Mary had married John Naylor in 1846.
Peter died in 1856 and was buried at Rawdon Parish Church on 3 August. According to his death certificate he was 91 years of age and a master fence waller and he died of old age.
At the 1861 census Amelia was living in Canada, Rawdon. Canada was a street of club houses built in the early years of the nineteenth century to the north west of Rawdon and quite separate from the rest of the village. It stands out quite clearly on the map in the right hand column above.
Canada. Rawdon. A street of club houses.
In the census Amelia was recorded as being 76 years of age and her occupation was listed as “Keeps School”. In those days, before widespread public education, most children, if they got any education at all, would receive some rudimentary education in what was known as a “Dame” school. They were often run by an elderly person who looked after local children in their parlour and would teach them to read or perhaps knit or sew for a few pennies a week. This is probably what Amelia was doing.
Marriage Certificate of Amelia Luty & James Leadbeater
In 1869 Amelia married again. She married 73-year-old widower James Leadbeater at the local register office.
She died four years later on 17 February 1873.
Amelia’s Parents
Amelia was the seventh of eight children born to James Lund and his wife Margaret nee Harrison who married in the early 1770s. They lived in Kildwick where both their families had lived since at least the early part of the seventeenth century.
Amelia was born at Farnhill in Kildwick parish in 1786 and at that time her father was described as being a husbandman – probably a tenant farmer.
However, when their last child, Mary, was born in 1793 they were living in Timble in the parish of Fewston.
Margaret died at some point after Mary was born. I have not found any record of her burial, but there must have been gaps in the Fewston parish register as no deaths were recorded between December 1790 and May 1793. Given that Mary was born on 5 February it seems likely that Mary died giving birth or shortly afterwards.
James remained in Fewston and remarried in 1811, to Ann Demaine, a widow, and, at some point, he changed his occupation and became an innkeeper. He died in 1833 at the age of 82 and Ann in 1841 aged 87.
Peter & Amelia’s Children
John Luty
He married Elizabeth Hudson in 1830 and they were recorded in the 1831 census living in Yeadon. John and Elizabeth had at least five children and, after living in Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield, settled in Sowerby Bridge where John died some time in the 1860s.
James Luty
He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1836 and their son John was born in Bramley in1837. They moved to Rawdon around 1840 and later lived in Yeadon. James worked as a dry stone waller. He died in 1878.
Samuel Luty
Samuel Luty is featured in the next chapter.
Peter Luty
Peter was arrested in 1832 and, after a trial at York Assizes, transported to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen’s Land). I have covered the story of his trial and transportation in a separate booklet.
William Luty
William married Mary Ann Gration in 1836 and they lived in Shipley where William worked as a tailor. Although they had eight children, only two of them survived into adulthood – Caroline their oldest child and Elizabeth who was born on 10 August 1849, only six weeks before they set sail for Australia.
They left England on 22 September and arrived in Adelaide on 26 December. After a year in Adelaide, they moved to Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne. Mary died in 1875 and William in the following year. They feature in the story of Peter Luty.
Eleanor Luty
Eleanor married David Long, a clothier, in 1836. They had two daughters, but I have not been able to trace the family after 1841.
Emmanuel Luty
In 1841 Emmanuel was living in Rawdon with his parents and his occupation was “delver” . This term was often used to describe a ditch digger, but it could also have been someone working in a stone quarry – given his later occupations the latter seems more likely. He married Emma Houlden in 1842 and their son Jabez was born in Bramhope in 1843. Emma died in 1847. Emmanuel married Hannah Littlewood, a widow, in 1857. He worked most of his life as a mason or dry stone waller.
Daniel Luty
He married Mary Fieldhouse (c1826-1890) in Yeadon in 1856. They had three children, Martha, Joseph and Henry. Daniel was also a dry waller; he died in 1857.
Jane Luty
Jane married Richard Thompson in 1845, but she died in 1847.
Mary Luty
She married John Naylor (another dry stone waller) in 1846. They had six children, but Mary died in 1862
Benjamin Luty
He married Hannah Mawson (c1830-1883) in 1853 and they had a daughter, Jane. After Hannah’s death he remarried to widow Mary Loft (formerly Wilson) and they had a son Benjmain Wilson Luty born in about 1889. Benjamin was also a stone mason; in 1881 he was living temporarily in Thurnham, Lancashire working as a mason on the sea wall. He died in Rawdon in 1899.
Chapter 3. Samuel Luty & Eliza Yeadon
Yeadon in the Mid Nineteenth Century
By the middle of the century the population of Yeadon had more than doubled, to over 4,000, and it was becoming much less isolated. The Kirkstall, Otley and Shipley Turnpike (the present A65) had opened in 1825 and the railways had reached Apperley Bridge in 1846 and would reach Guiseley in 1865.
Although power looms were not introduced until the 1860s, some processes, such as spinning, had become factory based. But the handloom weavers still mainly worked at home. The Factories Acts had begun to regulate the employment of children, for example the 1833 Act prohibited the employment of children under nine years of age in textile mills and provided that children under thirteen years of age should receive schooling for at least two hours a day. But these requirements were widely ignored.
Infant mortality was high in the first half of the century with a quarter of children dead before their first birthday and a further quarter before the age of five. Many people were still living in very squalid conditions and diseases like cholera and scarlet fever were commonplace. However, things did begin to improve during the second half of the century.
It is noticeable that, although Samuel remained a stone waller, most of his children were to work in the woollen mills.
Samuel & Mary
Samuel married Mary Marshall at Guiseley Parish Church on
8th December 1833.
Guiseley Parish Church
The entry in the parish register reads:
Samuel Leuty of Rawdon in this Parish & Mary Marshall of this Parish were married in this Church by Banns this eighth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three By me William Lindley, Curate.
This marriage was solemnized between us Samuel Luty x his mark
Mary Marshall x her mark
In the presence of James Brown x his mark
Elisabeth Rhodes x her mark
It is noticeable that the bride and groom and both witnesses were unable to write their names. This was by no means unusual at this time; at the beginning of the nineteenth century two third of brides and grooms in Guiseley Parish put X for their signature (for witnesses, mainly parents, the proportion was even higher). As the century progressed literacy improved, but it must be recognised that not being able to write their name does not necessarily mean that a person was totally illiterate. Efforts to improve education initially concentrated on teaching children to read the Bible, and to “train them in habits of piety and industry”. Writing was considered unimportant and its teaching was often opposed.
After their marriage Samuel and Mary lived in Guiseley where they rented a house near the centre of the village.
Circle on the map shows where Samuel & Mary lived in Guiseley
Samuel and Mary had eight children, two of whom died in infancy and one in her teens:-
Joseph Renton Luty born 1835
Jane Luty born 1836
Reuben Luty born 1837 – he died in May 1838
Edmund Luty born 1839
Amelia Luty born 1840 – she died in June 1857 age 16
Mary Ellen Luty born 1842
Margaret Luty born 1845 – she died in 1850 age 6
Sarah Anne Luty born 1848
When his children were baptised Samuel was variously described as delver, stone mason and labourer.
Samuel did not have an entirely unblemished character as this advertisement form the Leeds Mercury of 4 March 1837 shows:
PARDON ASKED – Whereas we, SAMUEL LEUTY of Guiseley, and DAVID LONG, of Rawden did, on the 19th February last, assault and strike Thomas Booth, of Rawden, without Provocation, for which Offence he has commenced Prosecution against us, but in Consideration of our publicly asking Pardon, and paying all Expenses, he has kindly consented to forego the same. We, therefore, humbly ask Pardon of the said Thomas Booth, thank him for his Lenity, and promise not to be guilty again.
As Witness our Hands this First of March, 1837
Saml. LEUTY, his X Mark.
DAVID LONG, his X Mark.
Witness, W. GRIMSHAW
Pardon asked for Samuel Leuty of Guiseley
David Long was the husband of Samuel’s sister Eleanor
At the 1841 census Samuel and Mary were living in Union Street, Guiseley and Samuel was described as a “stone getter”.
By 1848 Mary was pregnant with her eighth child and, like so many women in those days, she must have died either giving birth or shortly afterwards. She was buried at Guiseley Parish Church on 11 June. Her daughter, Sarah Ann, was baptised on the same day.
In 1851 Samuel was living with his six surviving children in Carlton Lane, Guiseley, but they moved to Yeadon sometime after that.
Samuel & Eliza
Samuel married Eliza Yeadon in the local register office in September 1853. Eliza was seventeen years younger than Samuel and the mother of a six year old son, Thomas Yeadon.
Marriage Certificate of Samuel & Eliza
Samuel and Eliza had seven children:
Albert Luty born 27 June 1854
Oliver Luty born 1855
Alfred Luty born 4 January 1857 (Sam Luty’s father)
Benjamin Luty born 1860 – died 1861
Alice Luty born 1861
Lois Luty born 1872
They lived in what, at the time, was known as Old Club Houses (now Club Row) at the top end of the village.
In the early nineteenth century workers were able to buy cottages indirectly through joining building clubs. Members subscribed a sum of money on a regular basis and, when the club was able to do so, it bought a plot of land and started to build houses. Expenses would be kept low by using the labour and skills of the members. As houses were completed they were allocated to a member by lottery. The club would be wound up once all the members were housed.
Throughout the 1860’s Samuel continued to work as a builder of dry stone walls, but his children were working in the local woollen mills. In 1871 Thomas Yeadon and sons Oliver and Alfred were still with the family and were all working as mill hands.
Samuel died in 1876 and Eliza in 1888.
Eliza Yeadon’s Parents
Eliza was the daughter of James Yeadon (born c1789) and Hannah Hudson (born c1792) who married at Guiseley Parish Church on 24 October 1813. James was a clothier. They had ten children:
Joseph Yeadon born 16 February 1814
Mary Yeadon born 1815
John Yeadon born 1816
Elizabeth Yeadon born 1819
Jane Yeadon born 1821
Thomas Yeadon born 1822
Richard Yeadon born 1824
Eliza Yeadon born 1827
Oliver Yeadon born 1829
Martha Yeadon born 1833
There was another couple, James Yeadon and Hannah nee Marshall, who married in 1815 and had about seven children. It has been very difficult to decide which children were born to which couple as the parish register tends to describe them as son/daughter of James and Hannah Yeadon.
A further complication is that the two James Yeadon’s were both born at about the same time. One was baptised in March 1791, the son of William Yeadon; the other was baptised in October 1792, the son of Richard Yeadon. I think that the James Yeadon who married Hannah Hudson was the son of Richard, but this is by no means certain. For more information on all this see appendix E.
At the 1841 census our James and Hannah were living at Moor End, Yeadon with the four younger children. In 1851 they were still at the same address and James and sons John and Oliver were working as clothiers and daughters Eliza and Martha were cloth burlers. A burler was responsible for quality control, picking out irregular threads, hairs or dirt from the finished cloth.
In 1861 James, now a widower, was still living at Moor End; his occupation was “woollen cloth weaver”. He died sometime before the 1871 census.
Although I have not yet traced Eliza’s family further back than the late eighteenth century it is clear that their connection with the town must go back many hundreds of years. The family name evolved from the name of the town and has been recorded as far back as Richard II’s poll tax in 1379 (John de Yeadon). Other early instances of the name are Richard Yeadon (1459), Christopher Yedon (1545) and Richard Yeadon (1641).
Samuel & Mary’s Children
Joseph Renton Luty
Initially Joseph worked as a weaver and in the early 1860s married Elizabeth. They had a son, also called Joseph Renton, and a daughter, Mary. He died in 1885.
Jane Luty
Jane married Abraham Roberts in 1856. They lived in Armley, Leeds in the early 1860s where Abraham worked as a weaver and then were in County Wexford, Ireland for two or three years in the mid-1860s. They returned to Yeadon in the late 1860s and Abraham must have died shortly afterwards. They had ten children and at the census in April 1871 Jane was a widow living in Sandy Way, Yeadon with her six youngest children, including her youngest child, John, aged two weeks. She worked as a burler and died in 1894.
Edmund Luty
Edmund has proved a bit difficult to track down. He married Sarah Ann Smith in 1862 and they had a daughter, Clara born shortly afterwards. Sarah died in 1869 and Clara lived with her aunt Jane until she married in 1882.
In 1870 Edmund married Mary Wood, formerly Lister, previously Waterhouse, but by 1871, when he was living in lodgings in Elland and working as a stone waller, he had been widowed for a second time.
He married Eliza Jane Speight in Bradford in1888 and by 1901 he was back in Yeadon, but by 1911 they had returned to Bradford
Sarah Anne Luty
Sarah married Edward Tennant in 1867 and they had a son, John, born the following year, but Edward died in 1869. Sarah remarried in 1870 to John Conroy and they had twelve children.
Samuel & Eliza’s Children
Albert Luty
Samuel and Eliza’s eldest son, Albert, was informally adopted by William Denison and his wife Elizabeth nee Yeadon. Elizabeth was Eliza Yeadon’s sister.
Elizabeth had married William Denison in 1839 and in 1841 they were living at Moor End, Yeadon and William was working as a clothier.
However, in 1851 Elizabeth was recorded in the census as head of household; with her she had Samuel Long age 18, apprentice clothier, presumably William’s apprentice. William was in the Debtors Prison at York.
Debtors Prison at York
When William was recorded as being a clothier, he would have been a hand loom weaver, working from home. At some point in the 1850s he changed to being a grocer.
In 1861 William and Elizabeth were still living at Moor End, with Albert, a couple of doors away from Samuel and Eliza.
William died sometime in the 1860s and Elizabeth and Albert continued with the grocery business and by 1881 occupied premises in Yeadon High Street.
Albert married Mary Jane Birdsall on 14 August 1883 and nine days later he was killed during a local cricket match at Yeadon. He was hit on the head by a ball from Merritt Preston
This poem appeared in a Bradford newspaper
Mary Jane remarried in 1886. She married Edwin Jeffrey, a Guiseley mill manager.
Oliver Luty
Oliver married Sarah Moseley in 1880. They had seven children Initially Oliver worked in one of the local woollen mills as a spinner and the family lived at Cemetery Road and then in Club Row. At the 1901 census they were living at 104 High Street, Yeadon and Oliver was in business as a fish merchant. He died in 1941 at the age of 85.
Oliver’s daughter, Linnie Luty ran a fish and chip shop at the top end of High Street for a number of years. She married Arthur Marshall in 1907.
Alfred Luty
Alfred was Sam’s father and is dealt with in the next chapter.
Alice Luty
Alice married George Shaw in 1887 and in 1891 they were living in Club Row next door to Oliver and his family. George died in 1898 at the age of 38 and in 1901 Alice was living at 10 Clayton’s Yard with her six children. She married John Cumming, a corn merchant, in 1904
Two of Alice’s sons, Horace and Roland, were killed in the First World War.
Jasper Luty
Jasper married Hannah Speakman in 1893. In 1901 they were living at 10 Back Club Row and Jasper was working as a rag grinder; Eliza’s son Thomas Yeadon living with Jasper and his family.
Lois Luty
Lois married Richard Wood Wharton of Bradford in 1896. At that time Richard was working as a railway platelayer, but they moved to Skipton and then back to Yeadon where Richard worked as a house painter. They had five children, but two of them died in infancy.
Chapter 4. Alfred Luty & Martha Hindle
Yeadon in 1906
Yeadon at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Yeadon Town Hall
Writing in the late 1870’s Philemon Slater said that Yeadon was ‘noted for anything but its architectural beauty . . . High Street is the only thoroughfare that has any pretensions to any regularity in its construction. The remainder of Yeadon consists of a bewildering labyrinth of yards and courts and intricate lanes’.1
The later years of the century saw many improvements in the physical environment of the town and services were improved and new houses were built. Yeadon’s most prominent landmark, the Town Hall, was opened in 1880.
Manor Mills
Power looms were introduced in Yeadon in 1865. They caught on quickly and by 1883 there were twelve mills with 1,200 power looms. The transformation from a domestic to a factory-based economy was quite dramatic and Yeadon changed from a rural village to an industrial township during the third quarter of the nineteenth century.
Trade was good in the 1860’s and 1870’s, but progress was not uniform and, as the century progressed, periods of growth alternated with periods of recession. An 1892 newspaper report headed ‘Distress at Yeadon’:
‘The free meal in the Temperance Hall on Saturday, Dec. 15th, provided by Wm. Murgatroyd of Moorfield Mill, was attended by between 400 and 500 people. The soup consisted of 107 lbs. of beef, ham, bones, peas and carrots. Many had not had such a meal for a long time, and what was left was sent to those who did not attend.’2
High Street
Ivegate
Alfred & Martha
Alfred married Martha Sophia Hindle at Guiseley Parish Church on 26 June 1880.
Marriage Certificate of Alfred Luty & Sophia Hindle
The witnesses were Martha’s father William Hindle, Joseph Poole and Martha’s sister Mary Elizabeth Hindle.
Alfred and Martha had nine children:
Frances Lois Luty born 1880 – died 1881
Florence Hilda Luty born 1881
Albert D Luty born 1883
Fred Luty born 1888
Lawrence Hindle Luty born 1890
Samuel Herman Luty born 18 April 1893
William Hindle Luty born 1895
Peter E Luty born 1897
Horace Luty born 1901
Martha Hindle
Alfred Luty
At the census in April 1881 Alfred and Martha, with six-month-old Frances, were living in King Street, Yeadon. Alfred was working as a weaver.
By 1891 they had moved to Club Row and Alfred was working as a spinner at a local woollen mill.
The Albert Inn
The picture above of Albert Square shows the Albert Inn on the right. Behind it are Club Row, Queen Street and Lower Green Street; three rows of ‘club’ houses built early in the nineteenth century.
By 1901 Albert and Fred had started work – Albert as a piecer and Fred working in a boot factory. A piecer repaired threads broken during the spinning or weaving process.
In 1911 Fred was working as a cloth packer, Laurence and Sam were cloth finishers and Willie was a pattern warper.
Martha died in 1927 and Alfred in 1934.
This item from the Wharfedale and Airedale Observer on 13 March 1896 relates to a dispute over the ownership or occupation of one of the houses on Club Row:
A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY – At the Otley Police Court on Friday last before Messrs. A. Fawkes, W. Fison and E. Willis – Oliver Luty, mill hand, residing at Back Club Row, Yeadon, was summoned for assaulting Zillah Dennison, a widow woman nearly seventy years of age, on the 27th. February. Mr. Gladstone appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Edgar Newstead represented the defendant, – Mr. Gladstone stated that between six and seven o clock on Thursday evening, the 27th ult., Mrs. Dennison and her daughter, Mrs. Flesher, went to an unoccupied house in Back Club Row for the purpose of taking it. They there found the defendants wife, who said that the complainant’s daughter had nothing to do with the house and took the key out of the door. She also sent her little girl for the defendant to come. When he did so he took the younger woman by the neck and hair and put her out of the house, and the complainant, who was standing in the yard, he struck on the face, hitting her on the mouth, and making her lips swell. Such an assault by a young man on an old woman could not be tolerated, and he asked their worships to inflict such a penalty as they thought his conduct deserved. – Mrs. Dennison, the complainant, and her daughter Mrs. Flesher, gave evidence as to the assault, but from the cross examination of Mr. Newstead it appeared that the parties had not been on good terms for some time on an account of a dispute as to the ownership of a house, in which Mrs. Dennison and Mrs. Flesher claimed some interest as well as the Luty family. Both witnesses swore emphatically that Oliver Luty was the person who assaulted Mrs. Dennison – Mr. Newstead said he gave an emphatic denial to the charge, as his client was not present at all when the affair took place. Alfred Luty, brother of the defendant, was the man who put Mrs. Flesher out of the house and he was present in court prepared to admit it, – Alfred Luty said he was in his own house in Back Club Row on the night in question when he heard something going on outside. He went out, and saw Mrs. Dennison stood at the door of the empty house. Mrs. Flesher was inside, saying that she had a share in the house and wanted the key. He went in, took her by the neck, and put her out, but he did not do anything to Mrs. Dennison. His brother Oliver was not present at all during the time this occurrence was taking place – Linnie Luty (14) daughter of the defendant and Florence Luty (14) daughter of Alfred Luty both stated that Alfred Luty was the man who put Mrs. Flesher out, and not Oliver Luty, who was not present at all. They also said that no one touched Mrs. Dennison – The Bench dismissed the case – Mrs. Dennison; It is the biggest untruth that was ever spoken. I wonder how they can fashion to come and tell such untruths.
I am told that the picture above is a Luty family outside one of the Club Row houses. In the 1901 census Jasper Luty was recorded as living at 10 Back Club Row and Alfred Luty at number 11, but in the 1911 census Alfred was recorded as living at 10 Club Row. So, I suppose the photograph could be of either family.
Alfred & Martha’s Children
Florence Hilda Luty
Florence married James Horace Walton in 1909. They had one daughter, Lilian Mary Walton (known as Mary), who was born in 1909.
Mary Walton
Albert D Luty
Albert married Hepsy Peel Hudson in 1909 (this is not an abbreviation – her birth was registered as Hepsy Peel Hudson and the record of her marriage at Yeadon St Andrew describes her as Hepsy P Hudson). Their son Jack was born the same year.
The picture above shows the Yeadon Celtic football team. Albert is on the far right. Note Sam in front on the right.
Fred Luty
Fred married Hilda Smith in 1917. They had two sons – Norman Alfred Luty and Eric Luty.
The photograph indicates that Fred served in the army and, judging by the similarity of uniform with the picture of Lawrence Hindle Luty, I assume that he was in the Seaforth Highlanders.
Lawrence Hindle Luty
During the First World War Lawrence served in the Seaforth Highlanders and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
He did not marry.
William Hindle Luty
William served in the Royal Naval Air Service. The main role of the RNAS was fleet reconnaissance, patrolling coastal waters for enemy ships and submarines, attacking enemy coastal territory and defence from enemy air raids.
His service record shows that he joined on 15 February 1916, that his civilian occupation was warehouseman and that he was 5′ 3″ tall. They missed one distinguishing feature however; he had one blue eye and one brown eye
The details of his service are as follows: –
Killingholme 15.2.1916 – 18.7.1917
Dunkirk 19.7.1917 – 22.7.1917
Manston 23.7.1917 – 16.11.1917
Daedalus 17.11.1917- 10.1.1918
Stonehenge 11.1.1918 – 31.3.1918
Killingholme was a naval air station on the Humber estuary near Grimsby, Manston was an air base in Kent and during the period when William was serving there was used to launch a vigorous air offensive in support of the army during the Battle of Ypres, and H M S Daedalus was the name used for the RNAS seaplane base at Lee on Solent. I do not know what Stonehenge was, although there was a destroyer of that name in operation at the time.
William was not discharged from the services after his period with the RNAS. The Royal Flying Corps and the RNAS were merged to form the RAF from 1 April 1918 and William would have continued to serve in the RAF until the end of the War.
He married Mary Evelyn Scott in 1926; they did not have any children.
Peter Luty
Peter served in the West Yorkshire Regiment and the Border Regiment.
He married Winnie Clayton in 1933.
Horace Luty
Horace served in the Duke of Wellington’s (West Yorkshire) Regiment
He did not marry.
Chapter 5. William Hindle & Phebe Slater
William & Phebe
William Hindle and Phebe Slater married in the local register office on 7th February 1857.
Marriage Certificate of William Hindle & Phebe Slater
The witnesses were Joseph Peel and James Brown.
William and Phebe had nine children, six of whom died in infancy:
Mary Elizabeth Hindle 1857-1934
Pickard Ewart Hindle 1859-1861
Maria Sophia Hindle 1861-1927
Clarissa Hindle 1862-1864
Frank Hindle 1863-1869
Lucy Hindle 1865-1867
Hilda Hindle 1867-1867
Frances Alice Hindle 1869-1895
Uriah John Bright Hindle 1871-1871
At the 1861 census William and Phebe were living in Upper High Street, Yeadon and William was described as “Woollen Cloth Manufacturer employing two men and one girl”. In1871 they were living in Hawthorn Crescent, Yeadon and William was “Weaver Woollen”
Phebe died on 27 February 1878 at the age of 41.
The memorial in Yeadon Cemetery reads:
Phoebe wife of William Hindle of Yeadon died Feb. 27th 1878 aged 41 years
also their children Pickard Ewart b. Sep 27th 1859 died May 11th 1861,
Clarissa b. Sep 29th 1862 died Jan. 12th 1864,
Lucy b. mar. 13th 1865 died Mar. 31st 1867,
Hilda b. May 22nd 1867 died Nov. 24th 1867,
Frank b. Nov. 25th 1863 died Oct. 15th 1869,
Uriah John Bright b. Feb. 3rd 1871 died Oct. 20th 1871.
All children interred in Wesleyan Cemetery, Yeadon.
Also the above William Hindle died Apr. 7th 1896 age 67 years.
Also Martha Sophia wife of Alfred Luty and daughter of the above died Feb. 17th 1927 aged 66 years.
These pictures of William must have been taken shortly after Phebe’s death.
The girl in the second picture is his Daughter Frances.
The pictures below must have been taken at about the same time. They are (Left) Frances and (Right) Martha and Mary.
In 1881 William and his daughter Mary were still living in Hawthorn Crescent. William’s occupation was “woollen warp dresser” and Mary was a dressmaker. Frances does not appear on the census return with William and Mary, but as I have not been able to find her living anywhere else, I suspect that she was with them, but got missed off by the enumerator.
In 1891 William and Frances were at the same address, Frances working as a woollen weaver.
William died in Yeadon on 7 April 1896.
The Hindles
William’s parents, John Hindle and Elizabeth Pickard, married at Leeds Parish Church on 22 February 1833. The entry in the parish register reads:
John Hindle of Holbeck in this Parish Tailor and Elizabeth Pickard of Chapel Allerton of this Parish Spinster were married in this Church by Banns published Jan 27 Feb 3 and 10 this Twenty Second Day of February in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Three
By me John Urquhart Clerk
This marriage was solemnized by us John Hindle
Elizabeth Pickard mark
In the presence of John Hindle
Susanna Baldwin’s mark
John Hindle was born in Holback, Leeds on 21 January 1805 and was a tailor. He was the youngest of seven children and his father was also called John and he died in 1812.
Elizabeth, although the parish register entry says she was living in Chapel Allerton, was from Yeadon. I assume that she was living and working at Chapel Allerton at the time of her marriage. She was the daughter of Andrew Pickard and Elizabeth Denison who married at Guiseley Parish Church on 25th March 1799 and had five children:
Mary Pickard born 1800
Elizabeth Pickard born 21 December 1803
Joseph Pickard born 1806
William Pickard born 1808
Thomas Pickard born 1811
William Hindle was John and Elizabeth’s only child. He was born in late 1833 or early 1834 and baptised in Leeds on 11 February 1834.
John died in 1837 and was buried at Holbeck Chapel on 4 March. After his death Elizabeth returned to Yeadon where she died at 9am on 26 October 1838. The death was registered by her brother Thomas and the cause of death was given as ‘nervous debility’.
So, William was orphaned before he was five years old. At the 1841 census he was living with his uncle, Joseph Pickard, and his family at Henshaw, Yeadon.
Joseph had married his wife Mary nee Brown in 1834 and they had four children before Joseph died in the late 1840s. At the 1851 census Mary was living with her parents at Starkey’s Field, Yeadon:
Name Relationship Age Occupation Where born
Joseph Barritt Head 63 Clothier Rawdon
Judith Barritt Wife 66 Yeadon
Mary Pickard Daur Wid 42 Spinner Horsforth
Elizabeth Pickard G Daur 16 Yeadon
Paulina Pickard G Daur 11 Spinner Yeadon
Mary A Pickard G Daur 9 Factory Girl Scholar Yeadon
Martha Pickard G Daur 5 Scholar Yeadon
James Brown G Son 18 Clothier Yeadon
William Hindle Lodger 17 Clothier Holbeck
Judith Barritt was Mary’s mother who had remarried in 1817 after the death of Mary’s father. James Brown was the illegitimate son of Mary’s sister Sarah.
Nine-year-old Mary, described as ‘Factory Girl Scholar’ would have been working part time and also receiving some sort of education on a part time basis. Ten- or twenty-years earlier children of that age were often working full time. A Rawdon mill owner, justifying his employment of children in 1833, wrote “We have been at work nearly forty years and we may say that we have never found eleven hours work a day to injure the health of any children employed by us”.
This photograph of Starkey’s Field was taken in the 1950’s, before it was demolished to make way for Morrison’s Supermarket
The Slaters
Phebe Slater was the daughter of Joseph Slater (born c1807) and Mary Booth (born 31 August 1807, daughter of Samuel Booth) who married on 20 October 1834. They had four children:
Hannah Slater born 1835
Phebe Slater born c1836
Rispah Slater born c1840
Uriah Slater born c1844
A tree showing Joseph’s ancestors is shown below.
The Slaters were a Yeadon family going back several generations. Phebe’s grandparents were Joseph Slater (born 1766) and Hannah Preston who married in 1793; her great grandparents were James Slater (born 1735) and Mary Wilkinson who married in 1758; her great grandparents were John Slater and Martha Hall who married in 1731. John was born across the valley in Idle, then part of Calverley parish. His parents, James and Mary, had moved to Carlton, a hamlet a mile or two to the north of Yeadon, in about 1710. James was described as being a husbandman – in other words a tenant farmer.
The tree in the column on the left also shows a link to the Denison family and, therefore, to my family tree. Abraham Denison born in 1679/80 as well as being Pauline’s 7 times great grandfather is my 6 times great grandfather. Abraham was a Quaker and the births of his six children were recorded in the records of the Rawdon Quakers. After his death his daughter Grace was baptised, as an adult, at the parish church prior to her marriage to William Wilkinson. More details of this family are contained in my booklet William Denison 1785-1876.
In 1841 Phebe’s family were living in Queen Street, Yeadon and in 1851 at Bunker Hill, Yeadon and Phebe was working as a handloom weaver, no doubt helping her parents:
| Name | Age | Occupation | Where born |
| Joseph Slater | 43 | Cloth Maker | Yeadon |
| Mary Slater | 43 | Cloth Maker | Yeadon |
| Phoebe Slater | 14 | Hand Loom Weaver | Yeadon |
| Rispah Slater | 10 | Scholar | Yeadon |
| Uriah Slater | 6 | Scholar | Yeadon |
Mary died during the 1850s and Joseph remarried in 1859. He married Hannah Farrar (formerly Hardisty), a widow, at Leeds Parish Church.
In 1861 Joseph and Mary were living at Wormald Fold, Yeadon:
| Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Where born |
| Joseph Slater | Head | 43 | Woollen Hand Loom Weaver | Yeadon |
| Hannah Slater | Wife | 53 | Shrewsbury | |
| Rizfrah Slater | Daur | 20 | Woollen Hand Loom Weaver | Yeadon |
| Clementia Slater | Gr Daur | 1 | Yeadon | |
| Uriah Slater | Son | 16 | Woollen Hand Loom Weaver | Yeadon |
Although Hannah was born in Shrewsbury, her family was from Horsforth.
Joseph’s grand daughter, Clementia, who was born in 1859 was, I think the daughter of Rispah.
Joseph died on 8 September 1869. The death was registered on the same day by William Hindle and the cause of death was given as “Gravel – 4 Months – Not certified”.
Rispah married Charles Steel at Yeadon St John on 7 February 1863. At some point after that they emigrated to the United States, as did Uriah. At the US census in 1880 they were living in Brooklyn, New York:
| Name | Relationship | Age | Occupation | Where born |
| Charles Steel | Self | 41 | Machinist | England |
| Elizabeth Steel | Wife | 39 | Keeping House | England |
| Clemtia Steel | Daur | 20 | At Home | England |
| Thomas Steel | Brother | 43 | Laborer | England |
| Uriah Steel | Other | 35 | Machinist | England |
I do not know whether Rispah had died and Charles remarried or whether she preferred the name Elizabeth to Rispah.
Mary Elizabeth Hindle
Mary Hindle married Thomas Wormald in 1888. They had three children:
Phebe Elizabeth Wormald 1892-1937
Annie Wormald 1893-1894
Nathaniel Briggs Wormald 1898-1918
Thomas died in 1914.
Their son Nathaniel Briggs Wormald served in the Machine Gun Corps and was killed in action in France on 1 August 1918.
Nathaniel was named after Thomas’s father, another Nathaniel Briggs Wormald, who was born in 1828 and married Thomas’s mother, Elizabeth Slater, in 1854.
Mary died in 1934.
Mary Elizabeth Hindle
The Wormald family ran a grocers shop on Town Street, Yeadon (The Steep) for many years.
Someone who remembered the shop recalled that they sold “dry goods out of sacks all around the floor; dark and old fashioned it had a lovely smell of flour, oatmeal and dog-biscuits. Mr. Wormald’s daughter Phoebe worked in the shop and they were keen Queen Street Methodists”.
Frances Hindle
William and Phebe’s daughter Frances married William Lee in 1893.
She died in childbirth in 1895.
Frances Hindle
Chapter 6. Samuel Luty & Elsie Parkinson
Yeadon in the Early Twentieth Century
Unemployment was high in the early years of the twentieth century and wages were low. In 1913 2,500 operatives in Yeadon and Guiseley asked for better rates of pay. When the employers and the union representatives could not reach agreement, the employers responded by locking out workers. This picture shows a demonstration of workers on the steps of Yeadon Town Hall.
After eight weeks union funds were almost exhausted. Attempts were made to raise funds by a hunger march, but in the end the workers returned to work having made little or no real progress.
However, the outbreak of war in the following year must have made these events pale into insignificance.
Sam’s Early Life
One thing that has puzzled us is why Samuel’s second name was Herman. It seems to have been a very popular name in Yeadon at the time, but we do not know why. In the 1871 and 1881 censuses there were two Hermans recorded in the Yeadon area, in 1891 ten and in 1901 28 (this is an underestimate, as anyone whose second name was Herman would not show up unless both forenames had been recorded in the census), but very few in the surrounding towns.
Sam left school and began full time work in 1906 at the age of thirteen, but had already been working on a part time basis. The Factory Acts provided that young children could no longer work full time in the mills, but there was a system of part time working. They would work from 6.00 am to 12.30 pm and then attend school in the afternoons; the following week they would attend school in the mornings and work in the mill from 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm.
In his youth Sam was a keen player of both cricket and football and first played for Yeadon Celtic in 1908.
This newspaper cutting together with the team photograph is from 1968.
During the First World War Sam served with the Royal Field Artillery as a driver. The RFA was the most numerous arm of the artillery and was responsible for the medium calibre guns and howitzers deployed close to the line and reasonably mobile. He served on the Italian Front.
The photographs are from Sam’s military service.
Sam & Elsie
Marriage Certificate of Sam & Elsie (Parkinson) 29th August 1918
The witnesses were Elsie’s father Richard Parkinson and Sam’s brother Lawrence Luty. Sam must have been allowed home on leave as, according to the certificate, he was still in the army.
Sam and Elsie had three children:
Iris Luty born 22 March 1921
Richard Luty born 7 March 1925
Audrey Luty born 3 October 1928
In 1921, when Iris was born, Sam and Elsie were living at 29 Springfield Place, Guiseley and Sam was working as a stuff dyer’s labourer (stuff is the term used for worsted cloth).
They later moved to Yeadon and in the 1930s bought a house in Hawthorn Road.
Elsie died on 5 December 1945 while still in her early fifties. Sam died on 23 April 1969 a few days after his seventy sixth birthday.
Sam & Elsie Luty
Appendix A. The Parents of Peter Luty
Peter Luty married Amelia Lund at Fewston Parish Church in 1804. The entry in the parish register reads: “Peter Leuty of this parish, bachelor, and Amelia Lund of this parish, spinster, after banns 10th Dec. 1804”
At some point after this they moved to Guiseley parish and had twelve children, all born in Yeadon.
At the census on 6 June 1841 his age was given as 65 (this was an approximation as in that census ages of adults were rounded down to the nearest five years) and his county of birth was Yorkshire. At the census on 30 March 1851 his age was given as 84 and his place of birth as “Artwith”.
He died on 31 July 1856. His age was given on both his death certificate and in the parish register as 91 years.
Peter’s Parents
The only place that seems to match his quoted birthplace of “Arthwith” was Hartwith cum Winsley, in Nidderdale a few miles west of Knaresborough. This seems to be the area where the Luty’s originated; particularly in the adjacent parish of Ripley and across the river in Hampsthwaite.
Peters birth date would, from the census returns, be around 1766 or 1767. His quoted age at death would put it a little earlier, in 1764 or 1765.
The only baptism that I can find that comes anywhere near the place and dates quoted in the census is at Hartwith cum Winsley where Peter son of Samuel Luty was baptised on 20 August 1769. The name of his mother was not recorded.
It seems likely that Peter’s age was misquoted in the census returns and at his death, by no means uncommon in those times. Alternatively, it is possible, although I think less likely, that he was baptised when he was a few years old.
Children of Samuel Luty
To try and place Peter in context I have looked for marriages for and baptisms of children of Samuel Luty in that area around that time. There seem to have been four families with father Samuel:
Family 1
| Marriage | Samuel & Thomasin Bland | 14 Oct 1738 | Pateley Bridge | ||
| Baptism | ? | Samuel of Burnt Yates | 24 Oct 1739 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Alice | Samuel of Pye Green | 31 Dec 1742 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Thomasin | wife of Samuel of Whipley Moor | 4 Aug 1767 | Ripley | |
| Marriage | Samuel – widower & Ann Isles | 21 Jun 1775 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | Matthew | Samuel of Clint | 9 Mar 1777 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Matthew | son of Samuel of Clint | 28 Aug 1777 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Mary | Samuel of Clint | 24 Nov 1778 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Ann | wife of Samuel of Burnt Yates, poor | 19 May 1786 | Ripley | |
| Marriage | Samuel | married Mary Kendall | 8 Jun 1789 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Edward | Samuel (aet 75) & Mary (50) | 6 Jun 1790 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Samuel | of Clint, aet 85, poor | 31 Dec 1792 | Ripley |
Family 2
| Baptism | John | Samuel of Winsley, Blacksmith | 27 Dec 1750 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Sarah | Samuel | 29 Apr 1753 | Hartwith cum Winsley | |
| Baptism | Samuel | Samuel | 23 May 1756 | Hartwith cum Winsley | |
| Baptism | Mary | Samuel | 12 Nov 1758 | Hartwith cum Winsley | |
| Baptism | Thomas | Samuel | 17 May 1761 | Hartwith cum Winsley | |
| Baptism | Ann | Samuel | 30 Oct 1763 | Hartwith cum Winsley | |
| Burial | Ann | daughter of Samuel & Jane | 28 Jan 1766 | Hartwith cum Winsley | |
| Burial | Jane | of Felliscliffe, age 88 | 22 Dec 1807 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Burial | Samuel | of Felliscliffe, age 90 | 1 Aug 1814 | Hampsthwaite |
Family 3
| Marriage | Samuel & Sarah Parker | 8 Jun 1777 | Hampsthwaite | ||
| Baptism | Jonathan | Samuel & Sarah, Labourer | 17 Feb 1779 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Burial | Jonathan | age 4, son of Samuel | 7 Apr 1783 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Mary | Samuel & Sarah, Weaver | 23 Feb 1783 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Elizabeth | Samuel & Sarah, Labourer, poor | 21 Nov 1784 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Frances | Samuel & Sarah | 31 Aug 1788 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Rachel | Samuel & Sarah (poor) | 23 Aug 1790 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Burial | Rachel | daug. of Samuel & Sarah, poor | 8 Mar 1791 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Jane | Samuel & Sarah, poor | 5 Aug 1792 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Christie | Samuel & Sarah | 12 Aug 1794 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Samuel | Samuel & Sarah | 7 Aug 1796 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Hannah | Samuel & Sarah of Kettlesing | 30 Apr 1798 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Joseph | Samuel & Sarah | 3 Mar 1799 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | John | Samuel & Sarah | 6 Sep 1806 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | Henry | Samuel & Sarah | 25 Dec 1807 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Baptism | William | Samuel & Sarah | 16 Dec 1810 | Hampsthwaite | |
| Burial | Samuel | of Felliscliffe, age 57 | 8 Aug 1813 | Hampsthwaite |
Family 4
| Marriage | Samuel, bachelor & Mary Groves, spinster | 11 Apr 1762 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | Elizabeth | Samuel & Mary | 21 Aug 1763 | Knaresborough | ||
| Baptism | John | Samuel | 17 Dec 1770 | Hartwith cum Winsley | ||
| Baptism | Samuel | Samuel | 16 May 1773 | Hartwith cum Winsley | ||
| Baptism | Ann | Samuel & Mary, Weaver | 30 Oct 1777 | Hampsthwaite | ||
| Burial | Samuel of Shaw Mill | 24 Feb 1795 | Ripley | |||
Family 1 seems quite clear cut. There is conflicting information about Samuel’s age, but it seems likely that he was born within a few years either side of 1710.
Similarly, with family 2. The burial of Jane at Hampsthwaite must be Jane Sleigh as there are no other contenders, so it seems reasonable to assume that the 1814 burial was her husband. The age given would suggest that Samuel was born in the early to mid-1720s.
The Samuel in family 3 is the son from family 2, the age at death ties in with the 1756 baptism. Also place of death, Felliscliffe, ties in with his parents.
Family 4 is the problem. We have no ages and no likely baptism for a Samuel marrying in 1762. I did wonder if Samuel was a widower, but the parish register entry does specify that he was a bachelor. There was a baptism of a Mary Groves at Ripley in 1730; if this is the same Mary (which it may not be – there was another Mary Groves married at Ripley, in 1754) a likely birth date for Samuel would be around the second half of the 1720s.
There are two other baptisms of children of Samuel Luty who could fit into either family 2 or family 4 :
| Baptism | Alice | Samuel | 26 Aug 1768 | Hartwith cum Winsley | |
| Baptism | Peter | Samuel | 20 Aug 1769 | Hartwith cum Winsley |
The youngest child of Samuel Luty and Jane Sleigh that I can be sure about is Ann who was born in 1763 and died in 1766; her burial entry in the parish register specifically lists her as a child of Samuel and Jane. Alice and Peter could quite well be further children of this couple.
Some researchers also have John baptised 1770 and Samuel baptised 1773 at Hartwith as children of this couple. This seems very unlikely as they already had a John and a Samuel and we know definitely that Samuel did not die in childhood as he married Sarah Parker in 1777.
Following the marriage of Samuel Luty and Mary Groves in 1762 there was a baptism in Knaresborough in 1763. In the absence of any other candidates I have assumed that this is a child of Samuel and Mary. There was also a baptism at Hampsthwaite in 1777 which I have assumed was a child of theirs. Alice in 1768 and Peter in 1769 would fit between these.
Three other Luty families had sons who they named Samuel:
| Baptism | Samuel | William & Ann | 8 Sep 1746 | Knaresborough |
William’s wife, Ann, was buried on 8th September and son Samuel on the 10th.
| Baptism | Samuel | John | 11 Oct 1757 | Knaresborough | |
| Baptism | Samuel | John of Killinghall | 16 Sep 1780 | Ripley |
Parents of Samuel Luty
I have only found two baptisms of Samuel Lutys in the early 18th century, both at Ripley:
Samuel Lewty son of John of Burnt Yates baptised 17 April 1711
Samuel Lewty son of John junior of Whipley Moor baptised on 16 June 1723
Samuel baptised in 1711 would seem most likely to be the one who married Thomasin Bland in 1738 (family 1) and Samuel baptised in 1723 to have married Jane Sleigh in 1749 (family 2)
The problem is that I have found 28 baptisms of children of John Luty between 1694 and 1731 and four marriages in the same period. So it is very difficult to sort out which children belong to which John and therefore to find out how they might relate to each other.
Several John Luty’s
There was a burial at Ripley on 17 July 1748 of John Leuty of Markington age 55. His wife Mary died a week later and was buried on 24 July (of Markington, wife of John, age 60).
John left a will. In the will he is described as “of Whitelease parish of Ripon”. Markington is about three miles north of Ripley and on the modern ordnance survey map there is a White Lease Farm marked just outside the village.
The will lists John’s children as John, Edward, Mary and Ann.
The age quoted at burial suggests that John was born c1692 or 1693. There are two possible baptisms at Ripley:
3 January 1694/95 John son of William of Hill Top
9 June 1695 John son of John of Clint
Another John Leuty died and was buried at Ripley on 13 Aug 1782 – “of Clint, age 58”.
This John died intestate, but an admon dealing with his estate certifies that his only next of kin were his sisters Ann Trees wife of Thomas Trees (of Ripon weaver) and Mary Robinson wife of James Robinson (of Ripon innholder).
I have found marriages for Ann Leuty of Clint and Thomas Trees at Ripley on 29 December 1750 and Mary Leuty and James Robinson at Ripon on 2 February 1751. There is also a burial of Edward Luty at Hartwith on 28 November 1776.
This ties in with the first will and identifies this John as son of the first John
This John would have been born c1723 or 1724. Possible baptisms (both at Ripley) are:
12 Feb 1720/21 son of John junior of Whipley Moorside, weaver
23 April 1725 John son of John of Whipley Moor Hilltop
The following parish registers entries show two William Lutys in Ripley parish in the early 18th century:
| Marriage | William & Susannah Burton of Kirkby Malzeard | 1 Oct 1691 | Hampsthwaite | |||
| Marriage | William & Mary Reynard | 29 Mar 1692 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | William | William of Hill-top, Clint | 15 Jan 1692/93 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | William | William of Westend of Clint | 6 Feb 1693/94 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | John | William of Hilltop | 3 Jan 1694/95 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | Mary | William of Clint | 23 May 1696 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | Ann | William of Burntyates | 1 Feb 1696/97 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | Thomas | William of Whipley Moor | 12 Jan 1699/00 | Ripley | ||
| Burial | Mary | wife of William of Whipley Moor | 12 Jan 1699/00 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | John | William of Clint | 2 Feb 1699/00 | Ripley | ||
| Burial | Thomas | son of William of Whipley Moor | 6 Feb 1699/00 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | Thomas | William of Clint | 7 Jul 1704 | Ripley | ||
| Marriage | William & Dorothy Colback | 12 Nov 1704 | Ripley | |||
| Burial | Susannah | wife of William of Clint | 25 Mar 1713/14 | Ripley | ||
Possible families from the above:
| William Luty and Susannah Burton | William Luty and Mary Reynard | |||||
| 1691 | married at Hampsthwaite | 1692 | married at Ripley | |||
| 1694 | birth of son William | 1693 | birth of son William | |||
| 1696 | birth of daughter Mary | 1695 | birth of son John | |||
| 1700 | birth of son John | 1697 | birth of daughter Ann | |||
| 1704 | birth of son Thomas | 1700 | birth and death of son Thomas and death of Mary | |||
| 1714 | death of Susannah | 1704 | marriage to Dorothy Colbeck | |||
There was also a marriage by licence at Hampsthwaite on 18 January 1720 of William Leuty, yeoman of Ripley and Mary Longbottom of Hampsthwaite. The marriage bond/allegation gives their ages at 50 for Willam and 40 for Mary.
All the following entries seem to relate to one couple:
| Marriage | John & Thomasin Atkinson | 1 Feb 1694 | Ripley** | ||
| Baptism | John | John of Clint | 9 Jun 1695 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Ann | John of Burntyates | 2 May 1696 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Ann | daughter of John of Burntyates | 3 May 1696 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Thomas | John of Burntyates | 4 Jun 1697 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Thomas | son of John of Burntyates | 1 Oct 1697 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | William | John of Clint | 31 Jul 1698 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Thomas | John of Burntyates | 12 Oct 1699 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Thomas | son of John of Burntyates | 10 Oct 1701 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Christopher | John of Burntyates | 11 May 1701 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Christopher | son of John of Burntyates | 30 May 1702 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Barnabus | John of Burntyates | 20 Jun 1702 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Ann | John of Burntyates | 7 Nov 1703 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Barnabus | son of John of Burntyates | 28 Mar 1703/04 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | James | John of Burntyates | 17 Jun 1705 | Ripley | |
| Burial | James | son of John of Burntyates | 5 Jul 1705 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Mary | John of Burntyates | 29 Sep 1706 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Jonathan | John of Burntyates | 24 Sep 1709 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Jonathan | son of John of Burntyates | 8 Nov 1709 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Samuel | John of Burntyates | 17 Apr 1711 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | James | John of Burntyates | 15 Mar 1712/13 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Leonard | John of Burntyates | 13 Apr 1714 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Edward | John of Burntyates | 4 Apr 1715 | Ripley | |
| Baptism | Daniel | John of Burntyates | 6 Oct 1717 | Ripley | |
| Burial | Daniel | son of John of Burntyates | 22 Nov 1722 | Ripley |
** this is based on information from another researcher; I have not found it in the Ripley registers
Note- bap 26 May 1708 Robert son of John of Killinghall + burial 29 Aug 1708 Robert son of John of Burnt Yates also bap 26 Apr 1712 Jane dau of John of Killinghall. These are the only references to John of Killinghall
After 1717 we have three John Lutys marrying in the area:
| Marriage | John 7 Mary Umpleby | both of Pye Green | 19 Jan 1717/18 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | William | John of Pye Green | 12 Jul 1719 | Ripley | |||
| Marriage | John & Mary Cooke of Ripon | 3 Dec 1720 | *** | ||||
| Baptism | John | John junior of Whipley Moorside, weaver | 12 Feb 1720/21 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | Mary | John of west end of Clint, farmer | 20 Sep 1721 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | Samuel | John junior of Whipley Moor | 16 Jun 1723 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | John | John of Whipley Moor Hilltop | 23 Apr 1725 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | Ann | John of Whipley Moor, weaver | 12 Jun 1725 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | Mary | John of Whipley Moor, weaver | 12 Jun 1725 | Ripley | |||
| Burial | Mary | daughter of John of Whipley Moor, weaver | 12 Aug 1725 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | Mary | John of Whipley Moor | 22 Oct 1727 | Ripley | |||
| Marriage | John & Mary Richardson | both of Clint | 13 Nov 1729 | Ripley | |||
| Baptism | Mary | John of West end of Clint | 30 Mar 1730/31 | Ripley | |||
*** Licence for marriage of John Lutey of Ripley (age 26) and Mary Cooke of Ripon at Ripley Parish Church or Sawley Chapel – not found anything in the Ripley registers, so assume that the marriage took place at Sawley
There is an entry in the Ripon Cathedral Church register of a baptism on 12 May 1728 twins of John Lutye of Whitelease – no names given. Perhaps one of these could be Edward.
Possible families from above:
| John Luty and Mary Umpleby | John Luty and Mary Cooke | ||||||
| 1718 | married at Ripley | 1720 | married at Sawley | ||||
| 1719 | birth of son William | 1721 | birth of son John | ||||
| 1721 | birth of daughter Mary | 1725 | birth and death of daughter Mary | ||||
| 1723 | birth of son Samuel | birth of daughter Ann | |||||
| 1725 | birth of son John | 1727 | birth of daughter Mary | ||||
| 1728 | possible birth of son Edward | ||||||
| John Lewty and Mary Richardson | |||||||
| 1729 | married at Ripley | ||||||
| 1731 | birth of daughter Mary | ||||||
On the basis of this I am identifying the John Leuty who died in 1782 as the son of John Leuty and Mary Cooke born on 1721 and the John Leuty who died in 1748 as his father and son of William Leuty and Mary Reynard born in 1694/95.
I assume the John who married Mary Richardson in 1729 was born 1700, son of William Luty and Susannah Burton.
However, it is the other family in which I am interested. If the above is correct, a John Luty married Thomasin Atkinson in 1694 and they had a son John in 1695. They were also the parents of Samuel born in 1711 (i.e. family 1) .
Their son John married Mary Umpleby in 1718 and they had four children – William, Mary, Samuel and John.
This Samuel married Jane Sleigh (family 2). I think that the other children all married in Knaresborough:
William married Ann Fawcett on 27 January 1741/42
Mary married Peter Blakey on 16 November 1745
John married Hannah Baker on 29 September 1746
William and Ann had a son Samuel who died in infancy.
So the Samuel in family 1 was the uncle of Samuel in family 2 and Samuel in family 3 was the son of Samuel in family 2.
This still leaves the Samuel in family 4 – I still don’t know how he fits in, but I think that he must be fairly closely related. I think that it is possible that he was the child of Samuel Luty and Thomasin Bland baptised on 24 October 1739, but have no way of proving this.
Why Peter?
One thing that had puzzled me is why Peter Luty was called Peter. At that time the Lutys, in common with many other families, tended to stick to a fairly narrow range of names. In fact the only Peter I can find amongst the Lutys dates back to 1604.
The only Peter I have found remotely connected with the family is Peter Blakey the husband of (family 2) Samuel’s sister Mary Luty.
This is what I have managed to find out about Peter Blakey (from the IGI):
| Marriage | Robert Blakey & Ann Tompson | 7 Oct 1712/13 | Spofforth | |||
| Baptism | William | Robert Blakey | 7 Feb 1714/15 | Spofforth | ||
| Baptism | William | Robert Blakey | 9 Dec 1716 | Spofforth | ||
| Baptism | Robert | Robert Blakey | 27 Jan 1717/18 | Spofforth | ||
| Baptism | Peter | Robert Blakey | 7 May 1721 | Spofforth | ||
| Baptism | Major | Robert Blakey | 27 Mar 1722/23 | Spofforth | ||
| Baptism | Robert | Robert Blakey | 29 Sep 1724 | Spofforth | ||
| Baptism | Ann | Robert Blakey | 27 Aug 1727 | Spofforth | ||
| Marriage | Peter Blakey & Mary Luty | 16 Nov 1745 | Knaresborough | |||
| Baptism | Robert | Peter Blakey | 6 Nov 1746 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | Peter | Peter Blakey | 19 Oct 1749 | Ripley | ||
| Baptism | Elizabeth | Peter Blakey | 6 Oct 1752 | Hartwith cum Winsley | ||
| Baptism | Elizabeth | Peter Blakey | 4 Aug 1754 | Hartwith cum Winsley | ||
| Baptism | Jane | Peter Blakey | 22 Oct 1759 | Hartwith cum Winsley | ||
| Baptism | John | Peter Blakey | 31 Jan 1762 | Hartwith cum Winsley | ||
| Baptism | Thomas | Peter Blakey | 10 Feb 1764 | Hartwith cum Winsley | ||
| Burial | John | son of Peter Blakey, Norwood | 20 Jun 1766 | Fewston | ||
| Marriage | Peter Blakey of Kirkby Malzeard & Sarah Jeffray | 26 Nov 1771 | Fewston | |||
| Baptism | William | Peter Blakey | 27 Sep 1772 | Fewston | ||
| Baptism | Peter | Peter Blakey | 16 Feb 1777 | Fewston | ||
This is interesting. Although they married at Knaresborough, Peter and Mary were in Ripley when their first two children were baptised and after that were in Hartwith at the same time as Samuel Luty and Jane Sleigh. Later they moved to Fewston parish, which is where Peter Luty was living when he married Amelia Lund years later. So as well as a family relationship between Samuel and Mary the families were also living closely together.
I think a case can be made that Peter Luty was named after Peter Blakey and that he was the last child of Samuel Luty and Jane Sleigh; Peter Blakey’s wife Mary being Samuel Luty’s sister. On that basis I think that I would also put Alice as a child of Samuel and Jane.
Peter’s Ancestors
This would give Peter’s ancestors as follows:
Parents – Samuel Luty (1723-1814) and Jane Sleigh (c1719-1807)
Grandparents – John Luty (1695-?) and Mary Umpleby
Great grandparents – John Luty (1661-?) and Thomasin Atkinson
John married Thomasin Atkinson in 1694 (although I have not been able to find the details). He was born in Clint in 1661 and baptised at Ripley on 21 July. His father was also called John. Before that things are a little unclear as there were three Johns baptised between 1624 and 1635.
Appendix B.The Parents of John Luty of Clint
The John Luty who married Thomasin Atkinson in Ripley in 1694 was born in Clint in 1661 & baptised at Ripley on 21 July of that year and his father was recorded as John. His mother was probably Bridget – there was a burial of ‘Bridgitt the wife of John of Clint’ on 11 Dec 1679. John, his father, was buried in Ripley on 8 Apr 1686.
John and Bridget’s children were:
| John | born in Clint | baptised at Ripley 21Jul 1661 | |
| William | born in Clint | baptised at Ripley 1 Nov 1663 | |
| Anne | born in Clint | baptised at Ripley 2 Apr 1665 | |
| Margaret | born in Clint | baptised at Ripley 11 Apr 1667 | |
| Isabel | born in Clint | baptised at Ripley 25 Apr 1675 |
Who were the parents of John?
Four possibilities:
- born Clint, bap Ripley 4 Jul 1624 son of John of Clint
- bap Ripley 26 Mar 1624/25 son of Leonard
- bap Ripley 7 Jun 1635 son of Thomas
- bap Hampsthwaite 12 Feb 1636/37 son of William
Family 1
John son of John of Clint bap Ripley 4 Jul 1624
Assume parents were John Luty and Margaret Fairbarne who married at Ripley on 6 Jun 1616. I am assuming that this was the John Luty who died in 1626 and whose will was as follows:
I John Lewtye of the Westend of Clint, yeoman, to be buried at Ripley, and as touchinge my temporall goodes I doe devide them into three partes, one I doe give to my wiffe Margrett, an other to my two youngest children, Thomas and John Lewtye, the third I will that I be honestlye broughte forthe of the same, and the residew I dooe give the same to my two youngest children. I maicke my wiffe full executrix &c. Witnesses, Will. Longe, Will. Lewtye, Will. Jeffrey, Tho. Cowlinge.
John must have had at least three children, although I have only found a baptism for his son John. Thomas would have been older than John and the third child must have been older than Thomas.
Family 2
Leonard Luty married Ann Beane at Hampsthwaite on 26 Nov 1623 (‘Leonard of Clint, Ann of Newbrigg in Hampsthwaite’), their children were:
| John | baptised at Ripley 26 Mar 1624/25 | |
| Thomas | baptised at Ripley 4 Jun 1626, buried 4 Sep 1626 | |
| Margaret | baptised at Ripley 6 Jan 1627/28 | |
| Anne | baptised at Ripley 22 Mar 1628/28, buried 31 Mar 1629 | |
| Mary | baptised at Ripley 30 Nov 1630 | |
| Dorothy | baptised at Ripley 8 Jul 1632 | |
| Leonard | baptised at Ripley 23 Feb 1633/34 | |
| Elizabeth | baptised at Ripley 22 Nov 1635 |
Family 3
The following children of Thomas Luty were baptised at Ripley:
| Steven | baptised at Ripley 23 Sep 1616 | |
| Thomas | baptised at Ripley 17 Mar 1620/21 | |
| Mary | baptised at Ripley 24 Jul 1625 | |
| William | baptised at Ripley 7 Oct 1627 | |
| Christopher | baptised at Ripley 29 Apr 1642 | |
| John | baptised at Ripley 7 Jun 1635 |
There was a marriage of Thomas Luty and Mary Rayley at Ripley on 24 Nov 1607
Family 4
William Luty married Susan Day at Hampsthwaite on 19 Oct 1613, their children were:
| Elizabeth | baptised at Hampsthwaite 29 Sep 1616 | |
| Thomas | baptised at Hampsthwaite 15 Nov 1618 | |
| Elinor | baptised at Hampsthwaite 29 Apr 1621 | |
| William | baptised at Hampsthwaite 2 Jan 1624/25 | |
| Isabel | baptised at Hampsthwaite 13 Jan 1627/28 | |
| Margaret | baptised at Hampsthwaite 31 Oct 1630 | |
| Francis | baptised at Hampsthwaite 8 Jun 1634 | |
| John | baptised at Hampsthwaite 12 Feb 1636/37 |
Which of the four were the parents of John?
First of all I am going to rule out the John in family 4. I have not found a marriage, but there were baptisms of children of John Luty at Hampsthwaite on 3 Feb 1668/69 and I think it is reasonable to assume that they are children of the John who was born and baptised there.
That leaves the Johns in families 1, 2 and 3.
Apart from the parent of the children baptised in Hampsthwaite in 1668/69, the only John Luty I have found marrying and/or producing children between the 1630s and 1690 is the one whose children were baptised at Ripley between 1661 and 1675. So what happened to the other two Johns? They could have moved away, but so far I have not found any trace of them elsewhere. They could have died (bear in mind the Civil Wars in the 1640s), but I have not found a burial. They could have remained in the area but not married or had any children. They could have married and had children in the 1640s and 1650s when, because of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth, there are large gaps in the parish registers.
Assuming that John Luty married in 1660 (which is not necessarily the case – the gaps in the parish registers mean that John baptised in 1661 was not necessarily his first child) the age at marriage of the three candidates would be 36, 35 and 25 respectively. The third one would seem at first glance a more likely age for marriage, but I do not think that this would rule out any of the three. The upheavals which took place over the past twenty years would I think make a later marriage not unlikely.
Of the three, the first two families are specifically linked to Clint, which I think makes them more likely contenders than the third one.
In the absence of other evidence I have looked at naming patterns. John named his children John, William, Anne, Margaret and Isabel. Looking at the three families I do not think that naming patterns lead to any conclusive conclusions, particularly because of the predominance of John, William and Thomas for boys and Ann and Margaret for girls. However, for the moment I have put family 1 as the most likely on the basis of naming patterns, but admit that this is pure guesswork.
The previous generation
I think that the fathers of all four of the above families could have been the sons of Thomas Luty of Ripley:
| William | baptised at Ripley 2 Nov 1585 | |
| John | baptised at Ripley 2 Feb 1588 | |
| Thomas | baptised at Ripley 17 Apr 1590 | |
| Leonard | baptised at Ripley 13 Oct 1594 |
This Thomas died at Clint and was buried at Ripley on 10 Oct 1596. His will dated 8 Oct reads as follows:
I, Thomas Lewtye of the Westend of Clynte, yoman, &c., to be buried in Rypley Churche yeard, &c. My will is thatt my goodes be devided into three partes, one I gyve to Ellyn, my wief, for her thirde parte; an other I gyve to my three yonger children, which ys Thomas, Johne and Leonarde Lewtie, equallie amngest theim; and the other I will thatt I be honestlie brought forthe of the same, and the remainder, my debts &c. paid, I gyve to my siad sonnes and to Margarett Hardcastell, my sister, equallie amongst them. I will thatt my eldest sonne William shall have my grey fyllye. I gyve to Thos. Waite, my servaunte, one yewe, and I make my wief and my sonne Will. executors &c. Witnesses, Will. Longe, Rich. Lewtie, Leonard Stele.
As I understand it the will divides Thomas’s goods into three parts – one to his widow, one divided between his younger sons and one to cover funeral expenses and any outstanding debts (any balance remaining to be divided between his sons and his sister). William, his eldest son, is not mentioned apart from getting a grey filly. This is because as eldest son he would inherit any real estate – either by freehold or, more likely, copyhold. If he was a copyholder the property would usually be passed on via the manorial court. If this was the case and William did take over the property it would seem less likely that he was the William living in Hampsthwaite.
Another possibility is that the William of family 4 is the son of Richard Luty baptised at Ripley in 1580.
There are further doubts regarding William. The earliest available parish records for Hampsthwaite date from 1603 and it is possible that Lutys were in the parish before 1613 – in fact there is a burial of Grace Luty, wife of William, on 26 June 1612 and also a reference in The History of Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough by William Grange to the 1597 murder of William Leuty and one of his daughters in Menwith-with-Darley (which was in Hampsthwaite parish). There is also a record of a William Luty of Hampsthwaite (aged 70) being called as a witness in a case regarding payment of tithes in Ripley Parish in 1589; so perhaps this William was born and grew up in Ripley (hence his being a witness in the matter of Ripley tithes) and moved to Hampsthwaite later in life and perhaps he was a forebear of the William who married in 1613.
So I think it reasonable to accept that the fathers of families 1, 2 and 3 are sons of Thomas Luty, but for William of family 4 I am not at all sure.
The Luty Tree
On the basis of the above the Luty tree goes like this:
| John Luty (1661-?) | = | Thomasin Atkinson | |
| John Luty (1624/25-1686) | = | Bridgitt ? (?-1679) | |
| John Luty (1590-1626) | = | Margaret Fairbarne | |
| Thomas Luty (?-1596) | = | Ellen ? |
or alternatively:
| John Luty (1661-?) | = | Thomasin Atkinson | |
| John Luty (1624/25-1686) | = | Bridgitt ? (?-1679) | |
| Leonard Luty (1594-?) | = | Ann Beane | |
| Thomas Luty (?-1596) | = | Ellen ? |
or possibly:
| John Luty (1661-?) | = | Thomasin Atkinson | |
| John Luty (1635/25-1686) | = | Bridgitt ? (?-1679) | |
| Thomas Luty (1588-1661/62) | = | Mary Rayley | |
| Thomas Luty (?-1596) | = | Ellen ? |
Appendix C. John Luty (1783-1854)
Peter Luty and Amelia Lund moved to Yeadon shortly after their marriage and were living there until the 1830s. The only other person with the same surname anywhere near that area was John Luty who was living in Yeadon up to about 1820. Given that people often followed family or friends when moving to another area, it seems possible that Peter and John were related in some way.
John Luty married Sarah Long at Guiseley Parish Church on 13 November 1809. They had the following children:
| Event | Forenames | Date | Church | Abode | Occupation | |
| Baptism | Hannah Binns | 25 Nov 1810 | Guiseley | Yeadon | ||
| Baptism | Sarah | 19 Jun 1814 | Guiseley | Rawdon | Husbandman | |
| Baptism | Amelia | 14 Apr 1816 | Guiseley | Yeadon | Labourer | |
| Baptism | Mary | 25 Jan 1818 | Guiseley | Yeadon | Labourer | |
| Burial | Mary | 20 Feb 1818 | Guiseley | Yeadon | ||
| Baptism | Robert Robinson | 18 Apr 1819 | Guiseley | Yeadon | Husbandman | |
| Baptism | Thomas Binns | 27 May 1821 | Bradford | Bradford | ||
| Burial | Thomas Binns | 11 Jun 1822 | Bradford | Bradford | ||
| Burial | Amelia | 30 Sep 1822 | Bradford | Bradford |
Sarah was, I believe, the widow of Samuel Long and formerly Sarah Binns. She was born in 1777 the daughter of Thomas Binns and Sarah Eastburn (and was my first cousin five times removed).
At first I thought that John might be Peter’s brother as there was a John Luty, son of Samuel, baptised in Hartwith in 1770. However, this proved not to be the case as John’s age, given in the 1841 and 1851 censuses, ruled this out.
John was recorded in the 1841 census age 55 (ages were rounded down to the nearest five years in this census) and born in Yorkshire. In the 1851 census he was recorded as age 67 born “Hampstead”. This would put his birth around 1783. The only birth I can find that could be him was John Luty baptised at Hampsthwaite on 8 February 1783. This John was the illegitimate son of Sarah Luty. Interestingly Sarah is also recorded in the Hampsthwaite registers on 24 July 1785 as being excommunicated for contumacy.
This Sarah would be the daughter of Samuel Luty and Jane Sleigh born in 1753. So John would be Peter Luty’s nephew.
One other point to note is that John Luty’s third child was called Amelia. Could this be after Amelia Luty nee Lund?
Sarah died in Bradford in February 1856 and was described as widow of John Luty, so John must have died between the 1851 census and February 1856.
Appendix D. The Will of Agnes Luty of Clint
Clint was part of the Forest of Knaresborough and, therefore, it would have been necessary for her will to be taken before the Court of the Forest for the will to be proved and her son Richard to be allowed to administer it.
When the will was taken before the Forest Court it would have been entered into the court rolls and the first part identifies it as being entered in membrane 7 of the Court Rolls on 18 April 1519 and confirms Richard’s appointment as executor. The will was then entered into the court rolls.
In 1519, when Agnes made her will, England was still a catholic country, hence the sums of money to people to pray for her soul and the legacy to be given to poor people ‘for God’s sake’. Her mortuary was a customary ‘gift’ paid to the incumbent on the death of a parishioner.
Her eldest son Richard would inherit her lands, probably held on copyhold from the Court of the Forest of Knaresborough.
A whye was the term for a heifer or female calf up to three years old, a stirk a young bullock or heifer usually one to two years old.
Appendix E. Eliza Yeadon
Sam’s grandparents were Samuel Luty and Eliza Yeadon who married on 18 September 1863. According to the marriage certificate Eliza’s father was James Yeadon, a clothier.
Her age in various censuses was 33 in 1861, 41 in 1871 and 54 in 1881. In each case she was recorded as having been born in Yeadon. She would, therefore, have been born sometime between 1826 and 1830 (although if the age given in the 1861 census is correct we could narrow this down to 1827/28).
The only birth I have found that fits is Eliza Yeadon baptised at Guiseley on 15 July 1827, parents James Yeadon and Hannah.
There were two couples called James Yeadon and Hannah:
| James Yeadon and Hannah Hudson | married at Guiseley 24 Oct 1813 | |
| James Yeadon and Hannah Marshall | married at Guiseley 9 July 1815 |
and 15 baptisms with parents James Yeadon and Hannah between 1814 and the 1830s:
| Joseph | Mar 1814 | ||
| Mary | Jun 1815 | ||
| John | Nov 1816 | ||
| Mary | Sep 1817 | ||
| Elizabeth | Feb 1819 | ||
| Nancy | Feb 1820 | ||
| Jane | Feb 1821 | ||
| Samuel | Jun 1822 | ||
| Thomas | Aug 1822 | ||
| Richard | May 1824 | parents James & Ann | |
| Joseph | Oct 1824 | ||
| Eliza | Jul 1827 | ||
| James | Nov 1828 | ||
| Oliver | Jun 1829 | ||
| Martha | Jan 1834 |
in each case James was a clothier and the family living in Yeadon.
The 1841 census gives the family at Moor End, Yeadon:
| James Yeadon | 45 | Clothier | |||
| Hannah Yeadon | 50 | ||||
| Richard Yeadon | 15 | ||||
| Eliza Yeadon | 13 | ||||
| Oliver Yeadon | 12 | ||||
| Martha Yeadon | 7 |
and in 1851, still at Moor End:
| James Yeadon | Head | 58 | Clothier | Yeadon | |
| Hannah Yeadon | Wife | 61 | Yeadon | ||
| John Yeadon | Son | 34 | Clothier | Yeadon | |
| Eliza Yeadon | Daur | 23 | Cloth Burler | Yeadon | |
| Oliver Yeadon | Son | 21 | Clothier | Yeadon | |
| Martha Yeadon | Daur | 17 | Cloth Burler | Yeadon | |
| Thomas Yeadon | Grandson | 3 | Yeadon |
and living nearby:
| Richard Yeadon | Head | 27 | Clothier | Yeadon | |
| Mary Yeadon | Wife | 25 | Yeadon | ||
| Martha Langley | Step Daur | 7 | Yeadon | ||
| Eliza Yeadon | Step Daur | 5 | Scholar | Yeadon | |
| Langley Yeadon | Son | 1 | Yeadon |
In 1881 Eliza was widowed and living at Old Club House, Yeadon:
| Eliza Luty widow | Head | 54 | Yeadon | ||
| Thomas Yeadon | Male | 33 | Woollen Millhand | Yeadon | |
| Alice Luty | Daur | 19 | Woollen Millhand | Yeadon | |
| Jasper Luty | Son | 14 | Yeadon | ||
| Lois Luty | Daur | 8 | Yeadon |
Thomas had been with the family in 1861 when he was recorded as stepson and 1871 when he was recorded as son. I suspect he was Eliza’s son, born before her marriage to Samuel.
Living next door was Joseph Yeadon:
| Joseph Yeadon | 66 | Woollen Weaver | Yeadon | |
| Martha Yeadon | 57 | Guiseley | ||
| Thomas Hudson Yeadon | 22 | Woollen Weaver | Yeadon |
who I suspect is Eliza’s brother.
Looking for the other James and Hannah I found a memorial inscription at Yeadon Chapel Hill Wesleyan Methodist:
James Yeadon, died Nov 20 1837, age 46 years. John, William, Samuel, Joseph, children of the above, died in infancy. Hannah wife of above, died March 7 1853, aged 64 years.
and the following burials:
| Dec 1829 | Samuel Yeadon | age 7 | son of James Yeadon | |
| Aug 1831 | Joseph Yeadon | age 6 | son of James Yeadon |
The following census entries also relate to this family:
| 1841 | William Slater | 25 | Clothier | |
| Mary Slater | 20 | |||
| Hannah Yeadon | 50 | |||
| Nanny Yeadon | 20 | Dressmaker |
| 1851 | William Slater | Head | 36 | Clothier Spinner |
| Mary Slater | Wife | 33 | Dress Maker | |
| Hannah Yeadon | Mother in law | 62 | Formerly Clothier Spinner | |
| Nathan Driver | Apprentice | 19 | Clothier | |
Mary Yeadon married William Slater at Guiseley Parish Church on 5 April 1837.
This would suggest a split of the baptisms as follows:
| Family 1 | Family 2 | ||
| Joseph | 20 Mar 1814 | Mary | 14 Sep 1817 |
| Mary | 25 Jun 1815 | Nancy | 13 Feb 1820 |
| John | 24 Nov 1816 | Samuel | 21 Jul 1822 |
| Elizabeth | 21 Feb 1819 | Joseph | 10 Oct 1824 |
| Jane | 4 Feb 1821 | James | 23 Nov 1828 |
| Thomas | 4 Aug 1822 | ||
| Richard | 2 May 1824 | ||
| Eliza | 15 Jul 1827 | ||
| Oliver | 28 Jun 1829 | ||
| Martha | 26 Jan 1834 |
It may seem strange that I have put Elizabeth in family 1, given that they already have Eliza, but I can only assume that they regarded them as different names. I am sure that they were in the same family because an Elizabeth Yeadon (daughter of James Yeadon) married William Denison in 1839. Elizabeth and William did not have any children of their own, but they informally adopted Eliza and Samuel Luty’s eldest child, Alfred Luty, some time before 1861 and in the three subsequent censuses he was described as ‘nephew’.
On the basis of the name given to Joseph and Martha’s son, I assume that family 1 is that of James Yeadon and Hannah Hudson and family 2 that of James Yeadon and Hannah Marshall. So Eliza’s parents were probably James Yeadon and Hannah Hudson.
This is all a bit tentative as it just rests on Joseph and Eliza living next door to each other in 1881. If Joseph and Eliza were not siblings then Eliza’s parents must be James Yeadon and Hannah Marshall.
Who were the parents of Eliza’s father James Yeadon?
In the 1851 census James was 58 and in the 1861 census he was 69, which would put his year of birth as 1792 (give or take a year). There were two James Yeadons baptised in Guisley Parish around then:
20 March 1791 Father: William Yeadon
20 October 1792 Father: Richard Yeadon
Given that one of James’ sons was named Richard it seems more likely that his father was Richard Yeadon. If this is the case, his mother was probably Mary Child (marriage at Guiseley on 5 July 1789).
If his father was William Yeadon, then there are several possibilities (there were a lot of Yeadons in Yeadon).