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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Yorkshire (West Riding) => Topic started by: ellerydesign on Friday 21 July 23 08:26 BST (UK)
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Does anyone have any information of the Walker family who bought Gawthorpe Hall in 1596 (by Anthony Walker).
I'm trying to identify that a Frances Lowther (born and bap. Ingleton 1612, daughter of William Lowther of Ingleton), married "a Mr Walker of Gawthorpe".
I can find barely anything online, except the following:
The Walkers were an old local family, and had been living at Bingley from at least the time of Edward III. They gradually acquiring property at Bingley before Anthony Walker purchased Gawthorpe Hall in 1596. He probably built the that the present Gawthorpe Hall. Anthony married in 1580 Agnes Wooller, in 1580 (possibly a connection of the William Wooller, who in 1597 left 50 for the purchase of an estate in Bingley for the benefit of the poor).
There was also an Anthony Walker, of Gilstead, clerke, who died in 1607. The Walkers were living at Gawthorpe Hall in 1634, and they sold the estate and manor to Henry Currer (grandson of Hugh Currer, of Marley), who resided at Gawthorpe in 1654, if not up to its sale in 1668. To confuse things this Henry Currer was probably the 2nd husband of Frances sister Eleanor Lowther, widow of William Newby.
If anyone can help I'd be grateful.
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This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?
Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?
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This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?
Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?
Gawthorpe Hall was a pre-cursor to Harewood House.
https://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/remains-of-gawthorpe-hall-discovered-in-yorkshire/
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This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?
Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?
Gawthorpe Hall was a pre-cursor to Harewood House.
https://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/remains-of-gawthorpe-hall-discovered-in-yorkshire/
That article has this paragraph
Gawthorpe Hall was built by the Gascoigne family in the 13th century. It was acquired by the 1st Earl of Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, in 1614, and several modifications and additions were made before its sale to Sir John Cutler, in 1656. The medieval manor house again changed hands in 1738 to Henry Lascelles, a wealthy trader with business interests in the West Indies, and was inherited in 1753 by its final owner, Edwin Lascelles.
Doesn't match with what OP said
"There was also an Anthony Walker, of Gilstead, clerke, who died in 1607. The Walkers were living at Gawthorpe Hall in 1634, and they sold the estate and manor to Henry Currer (grandson of Hugh Currer, of Marley), who resided at Gawthorpe in 1654, if not up to its sale in 1668. "
There is a Gawthorpe on the outskirts of Ossett. Maybe that had a Hall once, but now disappeared.
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Here it is near Bingley
now under a new development
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=53.85736&lon=-1.83667&layers=168&b=1
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Maybe the building is still there, just most of the land developed. Not clear from the aerial overlay
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This could be it
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8570313,-1.834466,3a,75y,343.88h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjP7JOoeizU3-k3cDNP3-uw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
sorry about long link, usually when I try shrinking I manage to delete it
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Listed building
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101199532-gawthorpe-hall-including-south-wing-gawthorpe-hall-bingley#.ZLpDfHbMLIU
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more description here
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1199532?section=official-list-entry
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Bottom of page in this article
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42661329
mentions Curver family, could be Currer - see OP
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This article says it's now appartments - at least it wasn't demolished as I feared at first
https://mapcarta.com/W365905452
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Thanks all for identifying the Bingley Gawthorpe! I was getting quite confused as there is another Gawthorpe Hall associated with the Gascoigne family.
This one in the Bingley district is correct as the baptism and burial entries for Ellenor Currer (1647-50) state her father to be 'Henery Currer de Gathorppe, Gent'. who seems to have purchased the estate from the Walkers.
Online sources are a bit confusing and wrong I think. They state that Frances Lowther married Wm Newby and Henry Currer and her sister Eleanor marr. a Mr Walker of Gawthorpe. However the records definitely show Eleanor marr. Wm Newby and I think Henry Currer.
I'm trying to find out if Frances made a connection with the Walkers of Gawthorpe, which seems to have been passed around between the families.
Craig
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Chronicles and Stories of Old Bingley: A Full Account of the History, Antiquities, Natural Productions, Scenery, Customs and Folk-lore, by Harry Speight, 1899
[page 113]
Bingley was held by the Harcourts only till the close of the 14th century, when Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Richard Harcourt, married Sir Thomas Astley, Kt. For more than two centuries the manor was held by this old Staffordshire family. In 39-40th Elizabeth (1696-7) the manor, with appurtenances, was sold by Thos. Astley, Esq., and Margery, his wife, to Anthony Walker for the sum of £400 sterling. This transfer I shall refer to again in the chapter on Chronicles of the Sixteenth Century.
[page 142]
I have said, on page 113, that the manor of Bingley belonged to the Walkers, of Gawthorpe Hall. The transfer in 1596-7 included 12 messuages, 12 tofts, 12 cottages, 12 barns, one water-mill for corn [the old mill mentioned in 1278], one fulling-mill [these mills were erected by statute in 1376, as no woollen cloth was to be exported before it was fulled], 12 gardens, — orchards, 140 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 1,000 acres of furze and heath, t- acres of moor, 500 acres of turbary [peats for fuel], 500 acres of mossy ground, and 100 solidates of rent, with appurtenances in Bingley, Micklethwaite, Gilstead, &c. It was probably this Anthony Walker who rebuilt the old house at Gawthorpe, which continued for a century and half afterwards to be the residence of the lords of the manor.
The above description of the manorial property more than bears out the assertion that one-third of the whole of England was moor and waste in the time of Queen Elizabeth. At Bingley the proportion of moor and moss to the cultivated area looks excessive, but the population it is obvious was proportionately small, as appears by the number of messuages and cottages. There must then have been a fair reach of woodland on the Priesthorpe side of the town, and a small vestige of this old forest tract still remains. Fish in the river and game on the moors must have been plentiful at this time. Doubtless a good many sheep were maintained on the wastes, too, as wool was in great demand locally; many neighbouring towns, such as Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, and Wakefield, were at this time, Leland tells us, "standing by clothing." There were several thousand acres of moorland, and the heather probably at one time descended nearer the town than it does at present. A small patch still exists near the park gates. May this bright spot of golden furze and purple heather of Nature's planting long continue here as a reminder of Bingley in the olden days!
Before the Civil War the manor had been acquired by Hugh Currer, Esq., of Marley, a connection of the family of Currer who purchased the manor of Kildwick in 1558. His cousin, Henry Currer, of Holling Hall, co. York, left a family of two sons and two daughters; the younger of the latter was Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Walker, of Gawthorpe Hall. Anthony Walker died in 1629, and there was a Nicholas Walker, apparently his son, who died before him in 1617, and was buried at Bolton Abbey. During the Commonwealth Henry Currer, grandson of Hugh, was living at Gawthorpe Hall. He sold the manor of Bingley in 1668 to Robert Benson, father of the first Lord Bingley, who had purchased the manor of Elslack shortly before.
When the Treaty of Seville had been completed in 1729, the roads in England, we are told, were full of disbanded soldiers. John Walker was at this time Recorder of Leeds. Thoresby mentions that he was the son of John Walker, of Headingley, who was descended from "a very ancient family formerly residing at Gawthorpe Hall, Bingley." If the family was "very ancient" in Thoresby 's time, it must have been of some standing long before the Reformation and the date of parish registers.
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Ancient Bingley by J Horsfall Turner, 1897
Walker, 1560. Arms, a chevron between three crescents azure. Crest, a moorcock treading a hen, proper, (Thoresby, p. 152.)
Walkers were an old family at Gawthorpe, near Bingley. John Walker, recorder of Leeds, 1710, was of this family. Thoresby writes from hearsay probably, when he states that the family at Gawthorpe Hall had held the manor for 250 or 300 years, unless they held a manor within a manor, of which there is no proof.
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From the same source as my previous post:
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Michael Broadley of Bingley made a will 29 April 1613 in which he left Anthonie Walker of Gawthorp £5, George Walker of Bingley £3 6s 8d and £40 to the school at Bingley to be disposed of at the discretion of Nicholas Walker and Thomas Howgill schoolmaster. Nicholas Walker and Thomas Howgill were executors of the will. Probate by Nicholas Walker 14 May.
Some time after this there was a written complaint by Daniel Broadley (Michael's brother) and others that the school had not received any money. It states that Walker is now dead and he and Howgill have shared the money. (This appears in Halifax parish register)
There followed a codicil. The date in the text is 30 April 1618 but the margin clearly says 1613. It states that Michael Broadley, the day after making his will, said that the money for the school was really for Thomas Howgill and would leave with him. All the witnesses to this codicil are named Walker; George Walker, Robert Walker, Alice Walker and Mary Walker. Probate was granted for this codicil 20 April 1621. Nicholas Walker was said to be dead and a William Bradley of Silsden was the administrator. From other documents we have, this William Bradley was a liar and worse. There appears to be no relationship between this William Bradley, and Michael and Daniel Broadley.
Daniel Broadley was the father of William "Bradley", Daniel Broadley and younger children by his second wife, all of whom were early emigrants to America, although some of the family remained behind.
If you would like a transcription of the will, let me know.
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This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?
Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?
My first thought too,Shuttleworth .
The Shuttleworth Collection of needlework is at Gawthorpe, a lovely place to visit.
Viktoria.
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Sounds like there are a few Gawthorpes
Lascelles family who owned Harewood house Leeds is associated to a Gawthorpe Hall (See Link)
https://harewood.org/explore/gardens-and-grounds/gawthorpe-hall/
Then Lascelles Hall Gawthorpe Huddersfield
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.644491,-1.7165998,15.75z?entry=ttu
Also found these
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/gawthrop/192/
Chronicles and stories of old Bingley - full text - BaildonWiki
baildonwiki.co.uk
https://www.baildonwiki.co.uk › wiki › index.php › C...
10 Nov 2021 — York, left a family of two sons and two daughters ; the younger of the latter was Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Walker, of Gawthorpe Hall.