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WILL of WILLIAM BULMER From: The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York. Probate reg. 33 f. 11v (Volume 33, folio 11) Probate of WILLIAM BULMER, Dugleby, Yorkshire The last will & testament of Willim Bulmer of Dugleby (made) the ________ of November. Deceased the 29 of November 1613xxxxx In the name of god Amen. I Willim Bulmer of Dugleby in _______ of Kir(k)by in xx Gryndallyte being sick of body but of good (mind) & for remembrance do (&) make this my last will and testamt in mannr and forme following. First I give and bequeth my soule into the handes of Almighty god my Creator and redem and my body to be buryed in the churchyard of Kirkby or elsewhere if shall please god to call me. Then I give and bequeth to Willim Bulmr my brother's first sonne one x gammon hogg. To the rest of my goode i give soly and holy to Kathereine my wife and John my sonne whom I make my Executors of this my last will and testament. These being witnesses Robert Merry, Richard Wreggam, Richard Farkhome. The above translation was by Robert A. Jackson.
Name Katherine (spelled Kathereine) located on will for William Bulmer, deceased the 29 of November 1613. William named his wife and his son John as executors. Will made 28 Nov 1613. Probate reg 33f.11v and proved at York 30 March 1614.
Also of Sherburn.
Referred to as "of Filey".
William Bulmer of Settrington (ref Timothy J Owston 1992). Two previous children: One (female) buried 28 Jun 1655; one born & buried 28 Sep 1656; no names given.
Marr. Robert Hunter 14 Nov 1727 in Settrington(Tim.J Owston, 1992).
He was not the William Marshall Chr in 1692 at Settrington, as he died aged nine years.
12 April 2001 I have had a look for William Athorn, and can only find 2 Christenings in the whole of England. The nearest one in terms of date is 9 Jun 1754 at Stoke on Trent, which is quite a long way away from Monk Fryston. The next nearest Christening was 1734 if I remember correctly. Either way, I know that these were the only two christenings that trunes up on the FamilySearch website. Also, if William was born in 1754, then his parents would be William and Elizabeth, but I can find no mention of their marriage at all! It is likely that they are from a praish that has not been Extracted before, and also that might not have been handed in to its local County Records office. Either way, I am stuck at the moment.
I have found a few possible candidates for Mary Christening, both of which are in Pontefract.
!1:) MAry daughter of Thomas Johnson, Christened 17 Jun 1765.
!2:) Mary, daughter of John Johnson, Christened 25 Dec 1765.
There may well be more possibilities, but I have not looked thoroughly enough, Looking on the IGI would help. Mary may have been born about 1770.
PETER OWSTON 1731-1817
A Yeoman who lived at Rillington and Thorpe Bassett and left a Will. He married (see above) in 1777 Charlotte Cowper at Thorpe Bassett by license with consent of Guardians (his cousin John Owston). Peter had a bond to marry Susannah Pape in 1774 but the marriage did not take place. At the death of his younger brother Thomas junior he came into all his father's lands. His late marriage may have been influenced by his lack of inheritance at an earlier period, though the age gap of thirty years is somewhat remarkable and would have been a cause for comment at the time. Charlotte's brother John Cowper died without issue it seems. Despite the age gap Charlotte died before Peter, bearing her last child in 1801 when she was over 40 and her husband over seventy.
ISSUE:
1. Elizabeth 1780-1845 Married in 1805 John Allison who died in 1825. She did not it seems have issue. 2. Charles Owston 1782-1852, Farmer of Rillington. Married and had issue. 3. Thomas Owston 1784-1852, Farmer of Rillington and Thorpe Bassett 1784-1852. He had two hundred acres and employed at one time 5 labourers. He died unmarried. 4. Mary 1787-1859 Married in 1827 Robert Lamplough and had no issue. 5. Hannah 1789-1834 died unmarried. 6. Charlotte 1801-1815 died unmarried.
Will
This is the last Will and Testament of me Peter Owston of Thorpbassett in the County of York Gentleman made the third day of October One thousand eight hundred and eleven _ I give and devise unto my son Charles Owston his heirs and assigns for ever. All those two Dwellinghouses with the yards or Garths and Appurtenances thereto adjoing or belonging situate in Rillington in the said County of Yorks and now occupied by John Bielby Isaac Linton and Thomas Harrison. Also all that my sleights close situate in Rillington aforesaid containing about nine acres Also all that my Westernmost Close situate in the West Field of Rillington aforesaid containing about seven acres and a half. Also all that my Low Moor Close containing about five acres And also two acres of land in the West Moors of Rillington aforesaid all which said last mentioned lands are now in my own occupation. Subject to and charged and chargeable with the payments of the sum of seven hundred poiunds to my Daughter Elixabeth as hereunafter mentioned. I give and devise unto my son Thomas Owston and to his Heirs and assigns for ever All that my Easternmost close situate in the West Field of Rillington aforesaid containing about six acres and a half also a close in Rillington aforesaid called Breckney Close containing about tow acres. Also all that yard or Garth in Sledgate in Rillington aforesaid containing about three Roods and occupied by John Bielby. I give and devise unto my Friend Robert Owston of New Malton in the said County Merchant and to his Heirs and assigns All that my messuage or tenement with the Farm of lands Grounds hereditaments and premised with the appurtenances now occupied by me situate at Thorpbassett aforesaid containing about one hundred and fifty one acres three roods and twenty six perches more or less Subject to the payment of the three several legacies hereinafter by me bequeathed to my three daughters (Mary, Hannah and Charlotte) upon trust to permit and suffer my dear wife Charlotte and my said son Thomas Owston to occupy the same and receive the rents issue and profits thereof during the natural life of my said wife for their joint and equal benefit and from and after the decease of my said wife upon Trust for my said son Thomas Owston his Heirs and assigns for ever. But my mind and Will nevertheless is that if my said wife shall at any time be desireous of leaving my son then I give and bequeath to her during her natural life one annuity of eighty pounds payable as hereinafter mentioned and also as much Furniture as she shall choose sufficient to furnish two rooms. I give and bequeath to my Daughters Elizabeth Mary Hannah and Charlotte the sum of seven hundred poiunds each which three first mentioned legacies I direct shall be paid at the end of twelve Calendar Months after my death with lawful interest in the mean time and the Legacy given to my Daughter Charlotte when she shall attain the age of twenty one years the interest whereof to be paid to my said Dear wife for the purpose of enabling her to maintain educate and support my said Daughter Charlotte during her minority from such time only as my said wife shall discontinue to live with my said son Thomas and that instead of such interest my said son Thomas shall maintain educate and support my Daughter Charlotte in the mean time. And I hereby charge all and singular the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments above by me devised to my side son Charles with the full payment of the said seven hundred Pounds Legacy to my said Daughter Elizabeth. And thereby charge all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments above by me devised to my said son Thomas with the full payment of the said Legacy of Seven hundred Pounds to my said Daughter Mary also with the full payments of the said Legacy of Seven hundred Piunds to my said Daughter Hannah and also with the full payment of the said Legacy of seven hundred Pounds to my said Daughter Charlotte and it is my will that if my said Daughter Charlotte shall happen to die under Age and without lawful issue that the said Legacy so given and bequeathed to her shall become the property of her surviving sisters in such proportions and manner as my said wife shall by any writing signed by her in the presence of two credible witnesses think proper to direct for the purpose of enabling her the better to equalize the situation of my said daughters in points of fortune according to their then circumstances. I give my said wife one full undivided moety or half part of my said Farm of lands tenements and hereditaments at Thorpbassett aforesaid for and during her natural life if it shall happen to be agreeable to her and my said son Thomas to reside together so long and if not I then give her one clear annuity of Eighty Pounds payable half yearly on the sixth Day of April and tenth Day of October in each year from the time she shall happen to leave my said son Thomas the first payment to be maide six months after such of the said Days as shall first happen after that event. I hereby declare that the provision herein made for my said wife shall be in lieu of and full satisfaction of all Dower or thirds whatever and it is my will that in case the annuity so as aforesaid to become payable to my said wife shall be behind or unpaid by the space of twenty days after any of the said Days of payment whereon the same as herinbefore directed to be paid ... to and for my said wife and her assigns to enter and distrain as for rent for the same to and for the my said wife and her assigns to enter and distrain as for rent forthe same and all charges into and upon all and singular my said Hereditaments at Thorpbassett aforesaid. I give and bequeath unto my said son Charles Owston all and singular the Household Furniture Stock, Crop, Farming Utensils, implements of Husbandry and personalty of every description in or about the Farm at Rillington occupied by me under Mr John Simpson. I give devise and bequeath unto my said son Thomas Owston his heirs executors administrators and assisgns all and singular other my real and personal estate and effects whatsoever not hereinby disposed of subject to and chargeable with the payment of my jus Debts Funeral expences andthe expences of proiving and executing this my will. I appoint my said son Thomas Owston sole Executor and hereby revoke all former Wills by me made. In Witness whereof I the said Peter Owston have to this my Will contained in this and the preceding sheet of Paper set my Hand at the bottom of the same prededing sheet and my Hand and Seal to this sheet the Day and year above written.
Signed by Peter Owston, Witness, William Rider, Thomas Chapman, Joe Chapman.
Note: Possible parents: Richard Wallis & Ann Shields mar 10 Apr 1695 in Settrington. Children of Robert & Isabel: Mary bpt 5 Feb 1726; Ann bpt 6 May 1729; Robert Bpt 9 Jan 1732 Settrington, bur 2 Apr 1733 Thorp Basset; Thomas bpt 21 Aug 1734, Settrington.
CHARLES OWSTON 1782-1852 Farmer of Rillington who marred in 1803 Elizabeth Ruston of Rillington 1781-1850. She was the daughter of Nicholas Ruston and his wife Ann Petch. She was also the first cousin of Elizabeth Ruston, wife of John Hudson of Howsham, parents of George Hudson 'the Railway King', 1800-1871. There are numerous monumental inscriptions in Rillington Churchyard connected to the family of Ruston.
ISSUE: 1. John Cooper Owston 1804-1870 of Westfield House, Rillington, farmer and married to Mary Mook (died 1887) in 1853, from an old Thorpe Bassett and Rillington family, and a descendant of Ann Melton, the daughter of Elizabeth, Peter Owston's, widow, and Thomas Melton of Thorpe Bassett. She had illegitmate issue called John Mook, but otherwise no known children by John Cooper Owston. 2. Charles Owston 1810-1862, Farmer of Rillington. 3. Jane 1813-1836 died unmarried. 4. Charlotte 1815- Married to Edward Thorpe of Ryton in Craven. 5. Elizabeth 1818- Married to Samuel Bailey a Hind of Norton in 1852. 6. Ann 1820-1847 - Married to David Spink in 1844 and had issue. 7. Mary 1822- Married to John Nicholson of Wold Street, Norton and had issue.
CHARLES OWSTON 1810-1862 Farmer of Rillington and Thorpe Bassett. He probably lived in a house which is adjacent to the Church in Thorpe Bassett. He married three times and had issue by all three wives. Any family connected with Thorpe Bassett is well remembered in the records as there are so many estate connected records in the East Riding Record Office at Beverley under 'DDTB'. At Norton in 1839 he married the daughter of Joseph Cook, Sarah who probably died subsequent to childbirth in early 1841.
ISSUE: 1. Elizabeth 1841- A nursechild in the 1841 Census at Welham. She married at Norton in 1860 John Richardson Ingram and had issue.
In Rillington in 1844 Charles married Margaret Spink the sister of David Spink (above) and daughter of another David Spink. She was a straw hat maker in 1851 and lived with her children in Rillington. On the night of the 1851 Census Elizabeth her step-daughter was with relatives of Sarah Cook at Settrington.
ISSUE: 2. William Spink Owston 1845-1919 of Rillington and York. He married in 1867 at Rillington, Fanny Freer, and had five children. One of his grandsons Alfred Owston Ward was extremely encouraging in compiling the family history information. 3. Jane 1848- Married at Malton in 1887 Thomas Cooper. 4. Esther Ann 1851- Married at St Thomas's, York, Frederick William Stowe in 1874. Not found in 1881 Index. 5. Sarah Emily 1855- Married at Helperthorpe to John Midgley in 1875 and had issue. They later lived in York.
In 1857 he married Frances Ann Dennis who survived him, and had further issue. She was baptised on the 24th November 1830 the daughter of Francis Dennis. Francis Dennis of Thorpe Bassett had married Jane Peacock at Burythorpe in 1830. Francis Ann Dennis remarried at Norton in 1867 William Robinson of Settrington, a labourer.
ISSUE: 6. Thomas John Owston 1859-1893 of Malton, North Yorkshire and Bishop Auckland, County Durham. Married and had issue. The only descendants of this family in the male line still extant. 7. Frances Ann Dennis 1862- (Registered as Frances Eleanor Dennis Owston) Married at Norton in 1888 to Albert Newrick Yeoman of Menithorpe and lived at Norton near Malton and had issue.
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