Hello, sorry to take you by suprise! I am very confused by all this, i will explain. My HARLAND line farmed at knayton grange for years. My great grandfather is Christopher Thompson HARLAND b.1898 and married Elsie STEELE b.1894. Elsie was one of something like 12 or 13 children to Joseph STEELE and Emma HYDE. My grandmother remembers most of these (aunties and uncles) and managed to reel most of their names off to me, which i then confirmed on various censuses. This includes a george and a richard, although he was more commonly called Dick, and the census records his name as this too. So this would also link in as George being a witness to his brothers wedding. I think that Dick perhaps inherited the farm at knayton grange somehow? But why would he get that farm, it was in the HARLAND family at the time, and when Elsie STEELE (his sister?) married my great grandfather Christopher Thompson HARLAND they went to live in Ellerbeck, Northallerton where my grandmother and mother were born. This is very mysterious! I will stop now as i am most probably barking up the wrong tree (haha!), but let me know if im not, its all a bit exciting! Laura Broughton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ailsa Petrie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:18 AM Subject: Re: [NYorks] Ailsa Petrie: a question! > Hi Laura, > > I'm not used to having questions being asked of me - it's more usually me > doing the asking! > > I'm sorry, I'm not related to the Steel family, Richard Steel married into > my family of interest. The woman he married, Eliza Harriet HAMILTON was > born at Knayton Grange, the family is listed there in the 1891 census - > Richard & Emma HAMILTON and family. They had been married in 1881, after > the census of that year. I don't know when they moved to Knayton Grange, > or who was there before then. > > Richard HAMILTON died in 1902 and it's possible that his widow, Emma, > continued to farm the property. In a 1913 trade directory, she is listed > as a farmer of Knayton. Did Richard STEEL move to Knayton Grange when Emma > left, perhaps? > > Richard STEEL and Eliza HAMILTON married in 1918 and his address is given > as Knayton Grange, hers as Knayton. He was aged 32, a bachelor and his > father was Joseph STEEL, also a farmer. A witness to the marriage was a > George STEEL. Richard died in 1947 and is buried in the churchyard of St > Mary's Church, Leake. Eliza died in 1974 and is also buried in the same > churchyard, although there is no headstone to mark her resting place. I > assume she would be in the same plot as Richard. They had no children. > > That's all I know of Richard STEEL. If you are able to give me more > information about him, it would add to the overall picture for me. I do > have a photo of Richard and Eliza on their wedding day, if you are > interested. It was given to me by another distant relative. > > Last year I visited the area and met a lady who thought that the property > she lived on was once called Knayton Grange. It now has another name. I > was never able to confirm it, though. > > If any of this is of assistance to you, I'm pleased to help. I look > forward to hearing from you again. > > Regards > Ailsa Petrie > Hamilton > New Zealand > > Laura Broughton wrote: >> Hi, this is for Ailsa who i have seen every so often on the list. >> >> Whilst researching on the rootsweb forums i came across an old old >> message of yours regarding a Richard Steel who farmed at knayton grange. >> Knayton Grange is where many of my family farmed (the harland family) and >> they married into the Steele family, so this is of great interest to me! >> >> Are you decended from the steele family at all? They were a large family >> and i have been hoping to find any decendants :-) >> >> Sorry if i am totally on the wrong tracks, ignore me if i am! >> Laura Broughton > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/273 - Release Date: 2/03/2006 > > > ==== ENG-NORTH-YORKS Mailing List ==== > We have archives! Search for your ENG-NORTH-YORKS information here..... > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=ENG-NORTH-YORKS > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

Laura, I was very interested to see your reference to a Christopher Thompson HARLAND. In my THOMPSON family tree there are 5 Christopher THOMPSONs dating from 1699 in Northallerton including my great great grandfather born 1824. The youngest was born in 1859 and died 1886. Could it be another 'twig' in my tree. Jackie Harris, Spain Laura Broughton wrote: > Hello, sorry to take you by suprise! > > I am very confused by all this, i will explain. My HARLAND line > farmed at knayton grange for years. My great grandfather is > Christopher Thompson HARLAND b.1898 and married Elsie STEELE b.1894. > Elsie was one of something like 12 or 13 children to Joseph STEELE and > Emma HYDE. My grandmother remembers most of these (aunties and uncles) > and managed to reel most of their names off to me, which i then > confirmed on various censuses. This includes a george and a richard, > although he was more commonly called Dick, and the census records his > name as this too. So this would also link in as George being a > witness to his brothers wedding. > > I think that Dick perhaps inherited the farm at knayton grange > somehow? But why would he get that farm, it was in the HARLAND family > at the time, and when Elsie STEELE (his sister?) married my great > grandfather Christopher Thompson HARLAND they went to live in > Ellerbeck, Northallerton where my grandmother and mother were born. > This is very mysterious! > > I will stop now as i am most probably barking up the wrong tree > (haha!), but let me know if im not, its all a bit exciting! > > Laura Broughton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ailsa Petrie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:18 AM > Subject: Re: [NYorks] Ailsa Petrie: a question! > > >> Hi Laura, >> >> I'm not used to having questions being asked of me - it's more >> usually me doing the asking! >> >> I'm sorry, I'm not related to the Steel family, Richard Steel married >> into my family of interest. The woman he married, Eliza Harriet >> HAMILTON was born at Knayton Grange, the family is listed there in >> the 1891 census - Richard & Emma HAMILTON and family. They had been >> married in 1881, after the census of that year. I don't know when >> they moved to Knayton Grange, or who was there before then. >> >> Richard HAMILTON died in 1902 and it's possible that his widow, Emma, >> continued to farm the property. In a 1913 trade directory, she is >> listed as a farmer of Knayton. Did Richard STEEL move to Knayton >> Grange when Emma left, perhaps? >> >> Richard STEEL and Eliza HAMILTON married in 1918 and his address is >> given as Knayton Grange, hers as Knayton. He was aged 32, a bachelor >> and his father was Joseph STEEL, also a farmer. A witness to the >> marriage was a George STEEL. Richard died in 1947 and is buried in >> the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Leake. Eliza died in 1974 and is >> also buried in the same churchyard, although there is no headstone to >> mark her resting place. I assume she would be in the same plot as >> Richard. They had no children. >> >> That's all I know of Richard STEEL. If you are able to give me more >> information about him, it would add to the overall picture for me. I >> do have a photo of Richard and Eliza on their wedding day, if you are >> interested. It was given to me by another distant relative. >> >> Last year I visited the area and met a lady who thought that the >> property she lived on was once called Knayton Grange. It now has >> another name. I was never able to confirm it, though. >> >> If any of this is of assistance to you, I'm pleased to help. I look >> forward to hearing from you again. >> >> Regards >> Ailsa Petrie >> Hamilton >> New Zealand >> >> Laura Broughton wrote: >> >>> Hi, this is for Ailsa who i have seen every so often on the list. >>> >>> Whilst researching on the rootsweb forums i came across an old old >>> message of yours regarding a Richard Steel who farmed at knayton >>> grange. Knayton Grange is where many of my family farmed (the >>> harland family) and they married into the Steele family, so this is >>> of great interest to me! >>> >>> Are you decended from the steele family at all? They were a large >>> family and i have been hoping to find any decendants :-) >>> >>> Sorry if i am totally on the wrong tracks, ignore me if i am! >>> Laura Broughton >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/273 - Release Date: 2/03/2006 >> >> >> ==== ENG-NORTH-YORKS Mailing List ==== >> We have archives! 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