Metcalfe

Metcalfe

1841 Census

Despite Metcalfe being one of the most common dales names, 1841 sees only one Metcalfe family in Redmire:

Name	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE James	33	Coalminer	Yks
METCALFE Alice	10		Yks
METCALFE James	8		Yks

1851 Census

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE James	Head, Married	48	Leadminer	Ashton, LAN
METCALFE Alice	Wife, Married	48		Redmire
METCALFE James	Son, Unmarried	19	Tailor	West Witton

This family must be the same as that in 1841, ages appearing differently because of the rounding down in 1841. There's also the discrepancy of James' declaration of birth location, but such errors were fairly common in census returns.

James' wife had been Elizabeth. There is a burial record in the Redmire parish register of Elizabeth, aged 38, 8 August 1837.

James and Alice's children were:

Alice: baptized 28 July 1828 (West Witton)
Margaret: baptized 29 August 1830 (West Witton); buried 13 March 1831 (Redmire)
James: baptized 22 January 1832 (West Witton)
William: baptized 18 Mary 1834 (Redmire)
Christopher: baptized 16 October 1836 (Redmire); buried 28 December 1839 aged 3

James Sr. had remarried at Wensley, 6 May 1846, to Alice Mason, a widow, daughter of Matthew Warriner, farmer of Redmire. James' father's name was Christopher.

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE Christopher	Head, Married	35	Leadminer	Redmire
METCALFE Jane	Wife, Married	41		Preston
METCALFE Ann S.	Daughter	12		Preston
METCALFE Jane	Daughter	10		Darlington, DUR
METCALFE Joseph	Son	8		Northallerton
METCALFE Emma	Daughter	5		Leeds

Another Metcalfe family above appears at The Swan in 1851. Christopher. They had a son William, baptized 15 August 1850 in Redmire Methodist Chapel, but he lived only a few months, being buried 26 January 1851.

1861 Census

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALF Alice	Wife, Married	58	Miner's Wife	Redmire
MASON John	Boarder, Unmarried	28	Wheel Maker	Redmire

James must have been away from home on census night, because he did not die until 1865. John Mason was Alice's son from her first marriage.

Alice's step-son James was now married with a family of his own:

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE James	Head, Married	29	Tailor, Draper	West Witton
METCALFE Elizabeth	Wife, Married	24		Castle Bolton
METCALFE Elizabeth	Daughter	9m		Castle Bolton

James had married Elizabeth Horn of Castle Bolton in 1860.

Another group of Metcalfe's are at Northgate Cottage:

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALF George	Head, Married	22	Farm Labourer	Askrigg
METCALF Edith	Wife, Married	20		Castle Bolton

1871 Census

By 1871, John Mason is listed as son of Alice, confirming the above listing for 1861:

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALF Alice	Head, Widow	69	Farmer	Redmire
MASON John	Son, Married	38	Wheel Maker	Redmire

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
COATS Nathan	Head, Widower	53	Leadminer	Thorns, Swaledale
METCALFE Margaret	Servant, Unmarried	46	Housekeeper	Burtersett

Another stray Metcalfe has also appeared, in the person of Margaret, an unmarried 46 year old housekeeper to Nathan Coats, leadminer. Margaret is listed as born in Burtersett.

1881 Census

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE Margery	Wife, Married	34	Farm Labourer's Wife	Sedbusk
METCALFE John	Son	10	Scholar	Micklethwaite
METCALFE Elizabeth	Daughter	8	Scholar	Crossfields
METCALFE James	Son	6	Scholar	Appersett
METCALFE Margery Whaley	Daughter	4		Appersett
METCALFE Mary	Daughter	2		Appersett

Another Metcalfe family has arrived from `updale', and at Rose Cottage (more recently known as `Keeper's Cottage'), was a Metcalfe family whose head was from Coverdale:

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE Richard	Head, Married	42	Farm Labourer	Carlton
METCALFE Isabella	Wife, Married	31		Redmire
METCALFE James McCombie	Son	8	Scholar	West Burton
METCALFE Richard	Son	5	Scholar	Redmire
METCALFE Elizabeth	Daughter	3		Redmire
METCALFE Hannah Isabella	Daughter	1		Redmire

Richard was born in Carlton on 28 July 1836 and died circa 1881. He was a woodcutter in Redmire, and married Isabella Hird, the daughter of Thomas Hird and Isabella Bearpark on 18 July 1870 at Aysgarth. His parents were Thomas Slinger Metcalfe and Elizabeth McCombie Walker. James McCombie is buried at Preston. Elizabeth, 1878-1965, married Joseph Hird (yes, Hird again) at a church in Nelson, LAN. He was a policeman in Barnsley and retired in 1928-1929 to Preson-under-Scar to a house opposite the old Memorial Hall, where he had a small holding of three fields. He died in 1937 and is buried in Preston-under-Scar.

Richard (Dick) above, was later to own a fruit shop in Leyburn and became father of Richard Metcalfe who owned `Combies' garage in Leyburn.

Yet another Metcalfe born outside Redmire arrived in 1881:

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE George	Head, Married	42	Farm Labourer	Askrigg
METCALFE Edith	Wife, Married	41		Castle Bolton
METCALFE Sarah	Daughter, Unmarried	17		Castle Bolton
METCALFE John	Son	15		Castle Bolton
METCALFE Mary Jane	Daughter	8	Scholar	Castle Bolton
METCALFE Lydia	Daughter	6	Scholar	Castle Bolton

George was born 12 December 1838 at Quarry, Lunds, son of George and Mary (Wilkinson) Metcalfe. Father George was a carrier. He married Edith Horn, daughter of Thomas Horn and Elizabeth Peacock, on 28 November 1860 in Castle Bolton. Apart from the children listed above, there was another, Elizabeth and she married 3 September 1882, Thomas Henry Hayton at Redmire. In 1884, Sarah was to marry engineman William Harrison, in West Hartlepool.

Another child not shown on the census was son Thomas. Thomas was born in 1868 and died February 1870. Mary Jane, like the others, was born in Castle Bolton.

Descendents of this family still live in the village, though in 1901, George, Edith and Lydia appear in the Castle Bolton census.

1891 Census

In this year, Margery Metcalfe, daughter of John and Margery shown in 1881 was now age 14, and working as a domestic servant for James Robinson the blacksmith, at the smithy near the Bolton Arms.

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
METCALFE George	Head, Married	52	Gardener	Castle Bolton
METCALFE Edith	Wife, Married	51		Castle Bolton
METCALFE John	Son, Unmarried	25	Coachman	Castle Bolton
METCALFE Lydia	Daughter, Unmarried	16		Castle Bolton

George and Edith were now living at Elm House Lodge, and both George and John would be working on the Elm House estate.

1901 Census

At Wood End Farm in 1901 was an Edmund Metcalf who only knew he was Yorkshire born, 15 years previously. Edmund was working for farmer William Stanger as cattleman:

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
STANGER William	Head, Married	63	Farmer	NBL
STANGER Ann	Wife, Married	55		Castle Bolton
STANGER William	Son, Unmarried	21	Farmer's Son	Preston
STANGER Elizabeth	Daughter, Unmarried	32		Newcastle, NBL
METCALF Edmund	Servant, Unmarried	15	Waiting on Cattle	YKS

Nearby are Dora and Hannah:

Name	Relationship	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
KING Henry J.	Head, Married	74	Farmer, Employer	West Witton
KING Elizabeth	Wife, Married	70		Gayles
KING Alice B.	Daughter, Unmarried	41		West Bolton
KING Mary E.	Daughter, Unmarried	35		West Bolton
METCALFE Dora E.	Servant, Unmarried	18	Cook (Domestic)	Askrigg
METCALFE Hannah	Servant, Unmarried	15	Housemaid (Domestic)	Askrigg

Dora and Hannah were actually daughters of farmer James Metcalfe and his wife Margaret, of Woodhall near Askrigg. Henry King and family had moved from West Bolton, to Briar House in Redmire.

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