Return to Worthies, Families and Celebrities of Barnsley and district.

Please note that this index is given in good faith as a guide to the contents of the book, but there may be errors in both the original index and the transcription of the index.

• Abbot, Charles, afterwards Lord Tenterden, a pupil of Baron Wood's,
• Abinger, Lord ( Mr. Scarlett), his references to Baron Wood, (2)
• Anne, Queen, to have visited her favourite minister, Thomas Earl of Strafford, at Stainborough - the state apartments there,
• Argyll, John, Duke of, a great friend of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, (2)
• Armyne, Lady Mary, resides at Monk Bretton Priory - granddaughter of the Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury,
  • a friend of Richard Baxter's - a religious and benevolent lady - founds alms houses at Burton Grange gives sums of money to be distributed among poor ministers in the counties of Huntingdon, Derby, and York,
  • her memoirs in the Rev Samuel Clark's Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons - extracts from, (4)
  • takes £500 to Mr. Edmund Calamy to be distributed among the families of the ejected ministers,
  • dies in 1675 - inscription commemorating the endowment of her alms houses at Burton Grange,
• Armyne, Sir William and Lady Mary,
• Armyne, Sir William, notice of in The Lives of Eminent and Worthy Persons, by Christopher Shute,
  • also in Noble's Lives of the English Regicides created a baronet in 1619 - declares for the parliament - named a commissioner to attend the king when his majesty went towards the Scots,
  • one of the judges at the trial of King Charles I. - never attends any of the sittings in the High Court of Justice, and avoids committing himself in the king's death
  • sincere aversion to the royal cause,
  • elected a member of the Council of State in 1649-51 possession of the Coucher Book of MonkBretton Priory,
• Armytage Family, the history of (3)
  • of Kirklees,
  • of Keresforth Hill and Barnsley (5)
• Armytage, Mr, of Barnsley, an apothecary,
• Armytage, Edward, of Keresforth Hill, attended before Richard St. George, the herald, in 1612 and proved his arms and pedigree,
• Armytage, Sir George, of Kirklees, marries Anna Maria daughter and co heir of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq, of Woolley and Hickleton,
• Armytage, Gervase, of Keresforth Hill, a considerable traveller
• Armytage, Godfrey, of Woolley and Hickleton, assumes the surname and arms of Wentworth in compliance with the will of his maternal grandfather, (2)
• Armytage, Sir John ( son of Sir Samuel), M. P. for York - a volunteer under General Blythe killed in the Bay of St. Cas elegy on the death of, by Eugene Aram, (2)
• Armytage, Sir Samuel, the first of the four families who passed into the baronetage from Barnsley,
  • born at Barnsley in 1695,
  • his succession to the Kirklees estates in 1737 - a baronetcy conferred upon him in 1738 - dies in 1747, (2)
• Arnold, John, head gardener many years at Stainborough in the early part of last century - his verses on Stainborough addressed to Lord and Lady Strafford, (2)
• Bacon, Sir Hickman Beckett, (4)
  • Lady,
• Balaclava, Battle of, Sir George Wombwell's gallantry in the memorable cavalry charge of (2)
• Bamford, Samuel, author of Passages in the Life of a Radical, his account of Baron Wood,
• Barnsley, Church Living at, augmented by the enclosure of
  • 30 acres of commons,
  • the birth place of Sir Samuel Armytage
  • of the first Sir John Beckett,
  • of Sir Francis Wood,
  • Sir George Wombwell,
  • Freeholders, list of who voted at the election of registrar of deeds for the West Riding, in 1809,
  • Manor of
  • sold to the Duke of Leeds in 1735 - revenue of,
  • Lord Strafford gives a piece of plate to be run for, in 1717
• Bathurst, Lord, his letter to Lord Strafford about Stainborough
• Bayldon, members of the family of, legatees under the will of Sir George Wood, (2)
  • Bayldon, Susannah, Baron Wood's favourite sister Beckett,
• Beckett Christopher,
  • Daniel an apothecary and medical practitioner at Barnsley - the Town's Doctor, " (2)
  • Beckett and Hall,
  • Sir Edmund (2)
  • Eleanor, married Henry Cutler, of Stainborough, in 1750,
  • Rev. George, rector of Epworth, and prebend of Lincoln -
  • Gervase, wire drawer at Barnsley, 1669 1718 - takes part in augmenting the living of Barnsley Church,
  • Gervase ( the second) prosperous in business - a trustee of the Shaw lands - churchwarden for Barnsley - died 1766, (2)
  • Henry a merchant in America,
  • Richard, a captain in the Guards,
  • Sir Thomas, (2)
  • William, M. P. for Leeds,
• Beckett family, extracts from Barnsley parish register relating to, (3)
  • their connection with Barnsley in the 17th century,
  • their great wealth,
• Beckett Hospital and Dispensary founded by Mr. John Staniforth Beckett - foundation deed of
• Beckett, John, grocer, commences business in a small way - occupies a shop on Market Hill Barnsley - builds Copper Hall in Church Street - pays the workmen's wages in copper - marries, firstly, Mary Crookes of Burton, and, secondly, Elizabeth Wilson, sister to William Wilson, the founder of the Barnsley linen trade - father of Sir John Beckett, of Leeds, and Joseph Beckett, of Barnsley, and grandfather to three baronets, Sir John, Sir Thomas, and Sir Edmund Beckett - dies 1767 - his will, (5)
• Beckett, John ( afterwards Sir John) - born at Barnsley - mayor of Leeds, 1775 - distinguished for his legal knowledge principal partner in the Leeds bank,
  • his capacity for busines, takes an active part in putting down the Luddite riots and wins for himself golden opinions - rewarded with a baronetcy in 1813 - retires from business - settles at Gledhow dies in 1826 in the 84th year of his age - his funeral, (2)
• Beckett, the Right Hon. Sir John second baronet), Judge Advocate General, (2)
• Beckett, John Staniforth, his intimate business connection with Barnsley - largely interested in the Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank - his many years' residence in Barnsley - removes to Torquay - builds and endows the Beckett Hospital and Dispensary at Barnsley (2)
  • dies in 1868 at Wombwell - his personal estate sworn under £350,000 his niece, Lady Bacon - his other charities,
• Beckett, Joseph, of Barnsley, succeeds to his father's business - linen manufacturer and grocer in 1789 - styled the father of the Barnsley linen trade - anecdotes of - Edward Taylor and William Wilson, (3)
  • brother to Sir John Beckett, uncle to the second Sir John, and uncle and father in law to Sir Thomas Beckett,
  • carries on the banking business at Barnsley with Mr. Clarke, as Beckett and Clarke, and subsequently as Beckett, Birks, and Co. - public spirited and liberal - an active and useful magistrate and chairman for many years of the Barnsley Improvement Commissioners - his inflexible integrity,
  • dies in 1840, aged 78 his widow dies two days afterwards, aged 79
  • interred together in Barnsley parish churchyard - his arms, (2)
• Blacker Common, pyramid built on by Lord Strafford,
  • Sir George Wombwell contemplates building a seat on,
• Bolingbroke, Lord, his letters to Thomas, Earl of Strafford, (4)
  • congratulates him on the birth of a daughter
• Boughton, Lord Strafford's seat at, description of, (2)
• Bowling Hall, the seat of Captain Charles Wood,
• Bramah Lock, The, (2)
• Bramah, Joseph, father of the inventor, a coachman in the employ of Lord Strafford - afterwards a farmer on his Lordship's estate, (2)
• Bramah, Joseph, the inventor born at Stainborough, near Barnsley, in 1749 - intended for a farmer - meets with an accident which disqualifies him for that business - apprenticed to Thomas Allott, of Stainborough Fold, to be a joiner, (2)
  • of a mechanical turn of mind, and evinces a bias for mechanics - executes various pieces of handiwork, which display no small ingenuity, (2)
  • on the expiration of his apprenticeship goes to London on foot,
  • suceeds in business - takes out a
  • Index patent for a water closet in 1778, which has continued to be employed with but few alterations until the present day - sends for the blacksmith at Stainborough who had made him his tools when a boy,
  • patents his celebrated lock in 1784,
  • account and description of it,
  • the challenge lock picked by Hobbs in 1851 (2)
  • the locks manufactured on a large scale,
  • invents the hydrostatic machine in 1785
  • the hydraulic press in 1795,
  • description of it
  • beer pump in 1787
  • the fire engine,
  • several patents for the improvement of the steam engine,
  • Bramah and Watt,
  • applied to by the Bank of England in 1806 to construct a machine for more accurately printing the numbers and date lines on bank notes - succeeds - an important invention, (3)
  • other inventions,
  • his death caused by a severe cold in 1814,
  • buried in Paddington churchyard,
  • Dr Cullen Brown's article on Bramah in the New Monthly Magazine, (3)
  • account of in Gentleman's Magazine, (3)
  • marble tablet placed to his memory in Silkstone church,
  • the locksmith's family, (3)
• Bramah, Timothy, the locksmith's eldest son, marries Anne, daughter of Thomas West, of Cawthorne,
• Bramah, Thomas Joseph,
• Bramah, Rev. Joseph West,
• Bramah's works at Pimlico, the scene of a destructive fire in 1843,
• Bramhall, Archbishop, related to the family of Keresforth of Keresforth,
  • letters from to the Countess of Strafford (2)
• Bretton Hall, King Henry VIII said to have visited during his northern progress in 1541,
• Brooke Family, the principal one in Dodworth for nearly two centuries,
  • their residences in Dodworth, the Old Hall, Fieldhead, and Pond House farm
  • family history,
• Brooke, John Charles, the Herald employed to compile a pedigree of the Wombwell family,
  • inherits the tastes of his ancestors and evinces a warm interest in genealogical and antiquarina pursuits,
  • succeeds to the MS. collections of his uncle, the Rev. John Brooke, which he greatly enlarges by his own industry,
  • draws a pedigree of the Howard family, which procures for him the patronage of the then Duke of Norfolk
  • obtains admission into the College of Arms - made Rouge Croix Pursuivant in the College in 1773 - a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1775
  • his collections for a History of the County of York,
  • contributes to the Archaeologia of the Society of Antiquaries and the Gentleman's Magazine
  • assists in other works (2)
  • a constant attender of the meetings of the Society of Antiquaries,
  • extracts from his letters to Mr. Gough, the antiquary, (5)
  • his melancholy death in the catastrophe at the Haymarket theatre in 1794,
  • his funeral attended by the Duke of Norfolk and many distinguished men,
  • his monumental inscription (2)
  • notice of him in the Gentleman's Magazine, (2)
  • his will - list of his manuscript collections bequeathed to the College of Arms, (3)
• Brooke, Rev. John, D. D, rector of Emley and vicar of Silkstone
• Brooke, Rev. John, M. A, rector of High Hoyland, distinguishes himself as an antiquarian - makes collections towards a History of the County of York
• Brooke, Margaret, marries Buller Rolle Langford, Esq, of Wakefield, lived many years at Dodworth, anecdotes
• relating to (3)
• Brooke, Thomas, of Dodworth pays a fine for declining to receive the honour of knighthood,
  • refuses to attend the summons of Sir William Dugdale to record his arms and pedigree at the visitation of 1665,
• Brooke, Rev. Thomas, rector of Richmond,
• Brooke, William, a musketeer in Sir Michael Wentworth's regiment of militia,
• Brooke, William, M. D, of Fieldhead - in the commission of the peace,
  • in possession of a copy of Doomsday Book for Yorkshire,
  • by a fall from his horse,
• Brooke, William, an attorney,
• Brown, Capability, the eminent landscape gardener - lays out the grounds at Stainborough
  • Brown Dr. Cullen, his account of Bramah in the New Monthly Magazine, (3)
• Burdett, Sir Francis, of Birthwaite, transcribes some charters from the Coucher Book of Monk Bretton Priory,
  • notes made by him in the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum
• Burials in woollen,
• Burnet, Bishop, his account of Archbishop Holgate,
• Burton " Lords, " (3)
  • Smithies ironworks at in early times,
  • litigation concerning in the 16th century,
  • paperworks. at in 1729,
• Byg, William, alias Lech, a magician at Wombwell - carried on a lucrative trade - his recantation,
• Byng, George, Esq, M. P. for Middlesex, succeeds to the estates of his uncle, the Right Hon. Thomas Conolly,
• Byng, General Sir John, created Earl of Strafford in 1847
• Canning, George, a pupil of Baron Wood's,
• Carrington, Henry, of the Yews mixed up much in the affairs of the Rockley family, (6)
  • account of his death from Hobson's Journal, (2)
• Charles I, the trial of - Sir William Armyne appointed one of the Judges,
• College of Arms, the collections of John Charles Brooke, the Herald, bequeathed to,
• Commons, House of, debate in respecting Lord Strafford's impeachment, (2)
• Commonwealth marriages, (3)
• Conolly, the Right Hon. William marries Lady Anne Wentworth (2)
  • their daughter Anne marries George Byng, M. P. for Middlesex, who succeeds to a portion of the Strafford estates
• Constantine Well in Rockley Wood, building of by Lord Strafford,
• Cromwell, Thomas, Vicar General letters from to Archbishop Holgate, (2)
• Cranmer, Archbishop, the superior, contemporary, and intimate friend of Archbishop Holgate, (2)
• Crookes, Mary, of Monk Bretton marries Mr. John Beckett, grocer,
• Cutler, Henry, marries Eleanor Beckett,
• Darfield Church, long inscription in to the memory of Thomas' Wombwell and other members of the Wombwell family,
• Darfield Shroggs, the militia called to assemble on, in 1661 - copy of the order,
• Deira, Monarchy of - Wombwell connected with - tradition respecting,
• Denison, Edmund Beckett, (2)
  • William Beckett,
  • Christopher Beckett,
• Denton, Mary, mother of Joseph Bramah the locksmith,
  • accident to on Keresforth hill which caused her death,
• Denton, Nathan, an ejected clergyman, minister at Houghton Chapel,
• Dethick, a celebrated herald employed to compile a pedigree of the family of Wombwell
• Dodsworth, the Yorkshire Antiquary, at Roystone, in 1621,
• Dodworth, the birth place of John Charles Brooke, the herald,
  • Old Hall, the residence of the Brooke family in the 17th century, (2)
• Doncaster, Alderman George Hallifax, twice mayor of,
• East India Company, Sir George Wombwell, Chairman of,
• Edmunds, Mr, and the Rockley family, (3)
• Enfield, the residence of Sir Thomas Hallifax
• Erskine, the Hon. Thomas, afterwards Lord Erskine, a pupil of Baron Wood's,
• Everingham, Adam de, Knt, excommunicated.
• Fenton, Richard, of Bank Top, Clerk of the Peace for the West Riding - marries a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Brooke, and sister to Dr. Brooke, of Fieldhead,
  • agent to Lord Strafford,
  • William, of Savile Hall, law agent to Lord Strafford,
• Fitzwilliam, Earl, his dismissal from the lord lieutenancy of the West Riding - large meeting at Wakefield, under the presidency of Sir Francis Lindley Wood to present an address of sympathy to him, (2)
• Fletcher, Isabel, of Cawthome takes the veil,
• Gascoigne MSS, the wholesale destruction of, by Lord Malton (2)
• Gaskell, Charles Milnes, of Thornes House,
• George II. borrows six horses of Lord Strafford on his landing at Lowestoft, on his return from Hanover,
• a probability of his visiting Stainborough in 1731, (2)
• George IV, when Prince of Wales pays a morning visit to Lord Strafford at Stainborough in 1789 - present at a magnificent fete at Wentworth House,
• Goddard, Francis, parish clerk of Silkstone, dies through fatigue at the election of 1734,
• Gough, Mr, his correspondence with John Charles Brooke, the herald, (2)
• Glyn, Mills, Hallifax & Co, the London bankers, Sir Thomas Hallifax one of the originators of the firm of,
• Gray, the poet, visits Wentworth Castle in 1762,
• Hacket, Catherine, ( Francis Rockley's widow), her letter to Lord Strafford, (2)
• Halifax, Lord, see Wood Family Sir Charles Wood, (2)
• Hallifax, Ellen, died, 1873 possessed of great wealth - her will,
• Hallifax, George, of Doncaster clock maker - marries Mrs. Ann Heron, of Darton - twice mayor of Doncaster, (3)
• George of Lockport, near New York
• Hallifax, John, settled in Barnsley in the early part of the 18thcentury as a clock maker,
  • noted for the superiority of his clocks, specimens of which are still to be met with,
  • dies in 1750, and buried in the parish church yard at Barnsley
• Hallifax, Rev. John Savile, of Edwardstone House - dies in 1872,
• Hallifax, Joseph, of Barnsley clock maker and postmaster
• Hallifax, Thomas, of Chadacre Hall ( eldest son of Sir Thomas) presented with the freedom of the city of London in 1795
  • citizen and goldsmith - admitted a partner in the firm of Glyn, Mills, Hallifax, & Co
• Hallifax, Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor of London - descended from the family of Waterhouse, of Halifax, (3)
  • born, 1721-2 at Barnsley - apprenticed to a grocer in Barnsley - goes to London - becomes a banker and one of the originators of the banking firm of Glyn, Mills Hallifax, & Co,
  • obtains the freedom of the city of London in 1752 described as a goldsmith and banker,
  • account of the firm of Glyn and Co. from Mr. Hilton Price's book on London bankers,
  • elected Alderman of Aldersgate Ward in 1766 - sheriff in 1768
  • Lord Mayor of London in 1776,
  • his address on his election - his entertainment at the Guildhall,
  • upholds the office with dignity and splendour, (3)
  • goes to court with the Lady Mayoress on the occasion of a grand ball on January 18th 1777
  • his opposition to press gangs, (2)
  • thanks to by the common council for supporting the office with splendour and hospitality
  • recieves the honour of knighthood,
  • extracts from court books relating to - his residence at Enfield M. P. for Aylesbury, (3)
  • his sudden death in 1789,
  • buried in Enfield church yard - monumental inscription,
  • his portrait,
• Haselden Hall, Wakefield, the seat of Sir William Wentworth
• Heath Hall, the residence of John Wombwell, a native of Barnsley
• Hemsworth, the birthplace of Archbishop Holgate,
• Heywood, Oliver, the nonconformist divine - his visits to Houghton, (2)
• Hobbs, the American, picks the Bramah lock in 1851, (2)
• Holgate, Robert, Archbishop of York, a native of Hemsworth - the house in which he was born pulled down about 1808,
  • Holgates of Stapleton, South Kirkby, Clayton, Grimethorpe and Brierley, some account of (3)
  • born about 1487,
  • brought up a monk - becomes a canon of the order' of St Gilbert of Sempringham in Lincolnshire - holds the benefice of Cadney - quits his living and goes to London - law suit with Sir Francis Ayscough,
  • constituted one of the preachers to the University in 1524 - prior of the house of Watton - elected Bishop of Llandaff in 1536-7
  • obtains the degree of D. D, in 1537 - surrenders the house of Watton to the king in 1539
  • letters to, from Thomas Cromwell, vicar general,
  • one of a commission including all the bishops, etc,
  • appointed to the important office of Lord President of the North - takes an active part in quelling two commotions, one at Wakefield, and the other at Seamier when from 10,000 to 12,000
  • rebels assembled and 23 were executed,
  • assists in a new version of the Scriptures,
  • King Henry VIII. visits York during his lord presidency,
  • sits upon the trial of Queen Catherine Howard at Doncaster translated to the See of York in 1544-5
  • never enters into religious controversies,
  • takes a new form of oath renouncing the Pope's supremacy (3)
  • Sets about reforming things in his province" - said to be promoted to the See to assist in bringing about the Reformation,
  • passes over to the king many manors belonging to the See of York,
  • founds, in 1546, free schools at York, Malton, and Hemsworth, and liberally endows them - commission to make a survey of the chantries, hospitals, colleges, etc, within the county of York,
  • takes part in the celebration of the obsequies of the French king, Francis at St. Paul's Cathedral, in 1547 sent for to wait upon Prince Edward, and to receive him at Hampton Court - went up from York with a cavalcade of 70 horse - one of a committee of selected bishops and divines to reform the " offices " and prepare a new Liturgy - his infirmities begin to come upon him
  • writes to the Earl of Shrewsbury asking to be excused from attending Parliament in 1548 - his request refused,
  • presents the manor of Scroby to the See of York,
  • marriage with Barbara Wentworth,
  • account of the marriage, (2)
  • a heinous offence,
  • committed to the Tower, (3)
  • account of by Bishop Burnet,
  • houses at Cawood and Battersea seized upon, and his goods, plate jewels, etc, confiscated,
  • inventory of the same,
  • petitions for his liberty - copy of petition from State Paper Office, (4)
  • restored to his liberty in Jan, 1554-5 after having lain a year and a half in the Tower,
  • gives security for his good behaviour in a bond of twenty thousand marks,
  • lives in retirement - dies in London in 1556,
  • inquisition taken after his death,
  • his will - his charitable foundations - founds an hospital at Hemsworth - his grammar schools,
  • his arms,
  • portrait of,
• Holroyd, Mr, an intimate friend of Baron Wood's,
• Hooton Roberts, the residence of Lady Strafford after the execution of her lord,
• Houghton Hall, the seat of Sir Edward Rodes, attacked by a party of Royalists in the Civil War,
  • Presbyterian Chapel at, erected by Sir Edward Rodes the hall now in a state of decay,
  • of in Hunter's Itinerary,
• Houghton, Lord, the representative of the family of Rodes, of Great Houghton,
• Howard, Queen Catherine, Archbishop Holgate sits on the trial of, at Doncaster, as Lord President of the north,
• Hunter, Rev. Joseph, on John Charles Brooke, the Herald
• Huntington, William, S. S. ( sinner saved), and Joseph Bramah, the locksmith,
• Impeachment of Lords Strafford Bolingbroke, Oxford, Ormond and Mortimer of high crimes and misdemeanours,
• Iron works at Burton Smithies said to be carried on by the family of Wortley, of Wortley in the
• century - discontinued in the time of Charles I
• Jackson, William, rector of Darfield, deprived of his living for being a married priest, in the reign of Queen Mary,
• Johnson, Sir Henry, a rich shipbuilder of Poplar, marries Martha, only daughter of Lord Lovelace, who afterwards became Baroness Wentworth, of Nettlestead,
  • his only daughter marries Thomas, Earl of Strafford, of Stainborough
• Kaye, Mrs. Hatfield, succeeds to the Wentworth Castle estates on the death of her brother Frederick, Earl of Strafford without issue,
• Kaye, John Hatfield, of Hatfield Hall and Wentworth Castle undertakes along with Richard Henry Beaumont, of Whitley Hall, Mr. Wilson, of Broomhead, and John Charles Brooke to assist in compiling a history of the West Riding of the County of York,
• Kimberley, the Earl of, descended from a daughter of Sir William Armyne's,
• King's Head Hotel, Barnsley, the ancestral residence of the family of Wood, now represented by Lord Halifax,
• Knighthood, order of, list of persons in the district around Barnsley who declined the honour of, on the coronation of King Charles I,
• Langford, Mrs, of Dodworth anecdotes relating to, (3)
  • Adolphus, drowned whilst skating on the Serpentine in Regent's Park,
• Law, Mr, afterwards Lord Ellenborough, a pupil of Baron Wood,
• Lawton, Mary, of Mapplewell wife of Joseph Bramah, ihe inventor,
  • accident to on visiting Mr. West's, of Cawthorne
• Leeds, the Duke of, purchases the manor of Barnsley cum Dodworth in 1735,
• Liturgy, New, Archbishop Holgate one of a committee of selected Bishops and Divines to prepare,
• Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Hallifax, a native of Barnsley elected to the office of, in 1776 (3)
• Luddite riots, John Beckett made a Baronet for his activity in,73.
• Lushington, Mr, afterwards a judge in Ceylon, trained in Baron Wood's chambers,
• Marlborough, Duke of, Lord Strafford a bitter political opponent of,
  • congratulates Lord Strafford on his marriage and accession of honours, (2)
• Malton, Lord, a supporter of the Hanoverian succession,
  • is forestalled by Lord Strafford in the purchase of the Rockley estate,
  • jealousy and rivalry between him and Lord Strafford, (2)
  • account of from the Yorkshire Archeological Journal by Dr. Gatty,
  • gives a great dinner to his tenantry - Richard Wardman and Mr. Phipps' letters relating to (2)
  • takes great interest in the county election of 1734
• Mason, William, the poet, a friend of Lord Strafford,
  • his visits to Wentworth Castle,
  • his letters to Horace Walpole (2)
• Matson, Rev. Thomas, vicar of Hunmanby, leaves Baron Wood several thousand pounds,
• Maudslay, Henry, an assistant of Joseph Bramah, the inventor
• Micklethwaite, Dr, grants a certificate to Sir Godfrey Rodes and his daughter to eat meat during Lent,
• Milner Family, The, of Burton Grange,
• Milner, Jeremiah, an ejected minister, officiates at Houghton chapel,
• Milnes Family, letter from Mr Woodcock, of Hemsworth, respecting,
  • James, of Thornes House,
  • Richard Slater, succeeds to Great Houghton,
• Monk Bretton Priory had ironworks at Smithies in early times
• Newby Ferry catastrophe, Sir George Wombwell's narrow escape from drowning,
• Nocturnal Funerals,
• Norfolk, the Duke of, a friend and patron of John Charles Brooke, the Herald,
• Oaks Quarry stone, Wentworth Castle built of,
• Oldys, William, the antiquary his account of the destruction of the Gascoigne MSS. by Lord Malton, (2)
  • believed to have assisted Dr. Knowler in the editorship of the great Lord Strafford's letters and despatches,
• Pingo, Mr, of York, falls a victim with John Charles Brooke in the catastrophe at the Haymarket Theatre,
• Platt, Mr. John, of Rotherham employed by Lord Strafford to execute the superior work at Wentworth Castle - his accounts, (2)
• Poll tax for Wombwell in 1379
• Press gangs, Sir Thomas Hallifax's opposition to, (2)
• Pretender, The, Lord Strafford favours the designs of - mixed up in some of the intrigues of (3)
  • subscription at Barnsley to oppose the claims of,
• Quarter Sessions restored to Barnsley at the close of the 17th century,
• Rawlinson, Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor of London in 1746 father in law of the first Sir George Wombwell,
• Riche, Aymer, of Bullhouse,
  • George of Stainborough working for Joseph Bramah, at Pimlico in 1799,
• Robinson, Henry Crabb, references in his diary to Baron Wood,
• Rockley Estate, The, sold to Lord Strafford about 1723 - valuation of, (3)
• Rockley Family, extracts from Hobson's journal relating to (3)
  • Rockley House, (3)
  • Rockley, Mr, of Rockley assisted in the compilation of Vincent's Discovery of Errors in 1619,
  • Rockley Robert the last of the male line of the family - original letters of
• Romilly, Sir Samuel, Life of - references to Baron Wood in (2)
• Ross, Charles, an architect employed by Lord Strafford when erecting the south front of Wentworth Castle,
• Rodes, Sir Edward, and the family of Rodes of Great Houghton,
• Sir Edward son of Sir Godfrey Rodes, of Great Houghton - the former a man of note as a Parliamentarian during the Commonwealth,
  • his residence at Great Houghton attacked by a party of Royalists,
  • reparation to be made for the injury done him - published as a traitor by Lord Newcastle - a commissioner for raising of money plate, and horse, for the defence of the king and kingdom in 1642,
  • power given to him along with Mr. Hotham, to apprehend all delinquents,
  • appointed a Commissioner for the punishment of mendacious clergymen,
  • arrested at Hull, along with the two Hothams, and sent to the Tower - acquitted, (3)
  • the two Hothams executed - employed in the military operations before Pontefract during the siege,
  • appointed to levy troops - served under Cromwell at the battle of Preston - sent in pursuit of the Duke of Hamilton,
  • had a colonel's commission from Cromwell in 1654, and was one of the Privy Council - much in Scotland during the Protectorate - returned to one of Cromwell's Parliaments for the shire of Perth - twice High Sheriff of Yorkshire,
  • the great Lord Strafford's brother in law,
  • records his arms and pedigree at Sir William Dugdale's Visitation in 1665 - dies in 1666,
  • buried in Darfield Church
  • his monumental inscription,
• Rodes, Elizabeth ( sister to Sir Edward) the third wife of the great Lord Strafford,
  • accompanies her lord to Ireland when Lord Deputy,
  • letters of at Fryston Hall in the possession of Lord Houghton
  • letters of in the Rawden Papers, (2)
  • retires to Hooton Roberts, near Wentworth after the execution of the Earl and there lives in a state of retirement for a period of 40 years - dies in 1688,
• Rodes, the family of, eminent for their nonconformity - friends of the ejected clergy,
  • frequently visited by the Rev Oliver Heywood, (2)
  • by Ralph Thoresby, of Leeds, the antiquary,
  • letter from Dr Oxley respecting, (2)
  • memorials of in Darfield Church parish register of Darfield, extracts from, relating to,
  • Oliver Heywood and Ralph Thoresby's diaries, extracts from, (4)
• Rodes, Sir Godfrey, seated by his father on the estate at Great Houghton,
  • description of the mansion there,
  • certtificate for Sir Godfrey and his daughter Anne to eat meat during Lent,
  • Rodes Hammond, chaplain to the Countess Dowager of Strafford,
  • Rodes, Madam,
  • Rodes Martha, marries Hans Busk, of Leeds, merchant,
  • Rodes Richard, marries Martha Riche of Bullhouse,
  • Rodes William, of Great Houghton
• Rodes, Lady, a great upholder of meetings - buried at night at Darfield,
  • funeral elegy upon the death of - her piety and nonconformity,
• St. Leger, Lieut. General Anthony, from whom the Doncaster St. Leger takes its name marries Margaret Wombwell of Wombwell,
• Savile, Sir Henry, of Tankersley destroys valuable manuscripts relating to the Fitzwilliam family, (2)
  • Elizabeth of Tankersley, takes the vow of chastity,
• Scarlett, Mr, afterwards Lord Abinger, a pupil of Baron Wood,
• Scrooby, Manor of, presented to the See of York by Archbishop Holgate,
• Sentence of death passed upon II persons at York Assizes in 1820 by Baron Wood,
• Sessions Hall built at Barnsley at the close of the 17th century
• Sessions (Quarter) held at Barnsley till the close of the 18th century,
• Shaw Land Trust, coal pit belonging to let to John Shippen in 1716,
• Shrewsbury, Earl of, a large purchaser of land which had belonged to Monk Bretton Priory
  • Chancery proceedings against, relating to - settles this estate upon his fourth son Henry Talbot, who resides at Burton Grange,
• Silvester, Mr, of Birthwaite Hall his rage at being forestalled in the purchase of the Rockley estate by Lord Strafford,
• Simms, Margaret, of Barnsley takes the veil,
• Smithies, ironworks at in early times,
  • litigation concerning in the 16th century,
  • paperworks there in 1729,
• Staincross Regiment of Volunteers - false alarm of invasion - their march to Hemsworth,
• Stainborough, the birthplace of Joseph Bramah, the inventor of the celebrated Bramah lock
• Stainborough, description of by Horace Walpole,
  • by Arthur Young, in his Northern Tour,
  • by Roger Dodsworth, the antiquary - the hall built on the site of an ancient fortress - some bones and armour found in digging the foundations of, said to be of the age of the Conquest,
  • the gardens and grounds at (2)
  • rentals in 1728,
  • rhyming epistle written from by Lord Strafford's nephew describing the domestic life there in the early part of the
  • century, (4)
  • view of in Britannica Illustrata - payments on account of the building of by Lord Strafford, (2)
• State Trials, The - pompously socalled - Baron Wood earns for himself the title of the " Righteous Judge, " (2)
• Strafford, the Countess of - daughter of Sir Henry Johnson, of Bradenham - marries Thomas Earl of Strafford accompanies Lord Strafford to the Hague
  • letter to Lord Strafford about Lady Rawstorne's jewels
  • letter about their portraits
  • the King and the Prince of Wales play at ombre with
  • her letters about being at Court, (3)
  • letters to, from Richard Wardman after her lord's death, (2)
  • letter to from William Richardson gamekeeper at Stainborough (3)
  • dies at her house at Twickenham, 1739-40
  • her will - list of her plate, (2)
• Strafford, Countess of ( Lady Anne Campbell) - her marriage with William, Earl of Strafford, in 1740,
  • one of the constellation of beauties described by Horace Walpole in his epistle to Eckhardt,
  • acrostic addressed to - Campbell beauty and goodness,
  • sad accident to, in 1784, which resulted in her death, (2)
  • buried at Toddington,
• Strafford, Thomas Wentworth Earl of - first Earl of the second creation,
  • born at Stanley Hall, near Wakefield,
  • becomes on the death of his brother the eldest son and heir inherits the dignity of baronet by descent on the death of his father, and on the death of his cousin, William, Earl of Strafford, succeeds to the Barony of Raby - the family estates alienated from him - causes much bitterness of feeling between the two houses - Chancery proceedings instituted against the representatives of his cousin William, Earl of Strafford, . to recover money advanced by his father,
  • contests the legality of the disposition by his cousin of the Wentworth estates,
  • statement of money advanced by his father to Lord Strafford
  • petition and appeals in the House of Lords,
  • his early career,
  • appears in the list of pages to Mary, the queen of James II, when only 14years of age,
  • appointed a cornet in Lord Colchester's regiment of horse - sent into the Highlands, where he suffered great fatigue,
  • served afterwards in every campaign with King William in Flanders
  • at the battle of Steinkirk where he distinguished himself sent for by the king, who promises to advance him in the army, and makes him his aidede camp,
  • the battle of Landen, in 1693 - the king makes him cornet major in the first troop of horse guards, and a Groom of his Bed chamber
  • succeeds to the title of Lord Raby in 1695,
  • introduced into the House of Peers the king gives him the royal regiment of dragoons - "Raby's Dragoons " - one of the king's escort in 1698 when he goes to meet the Duke of Zell at the Goor - has a narrow escape - becomes acquainted with the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and her grandson afterwards George II,
  • sent by King ' William in 1701 to congratulate Frederick I King of Prussia,
  • King William every day after his accident up to the time of his death on the 8th March 1701-2
  • serves with his regiment in Flanders in 1702 - made brigadier general of her majesty's forces,
  • appointed envoy extraordinary to the King of Prussia,
  • waits on the Duke of Marlborough,
  • made major general Jan. 1st 1703 -4
  • gives an entertainment to the Duke of Marlborough after the ' battle of Hockset, at which the king, with the margrave, his brother, were present his mission to Poland - ambassador extraordinary to the King of Prussia in 1705, nevertheless served in the campaign under the Duke of Marlborough constituted lieutenant general of her majesty's forces, Jan 1. 1706-7
  • the King of Prussia, with the Prince and Princess Royal, dine with his lordship at Berlin, (3)
  • his lordship's establishment at Berlin, (2)
  • makes flying visits to England and to his Yorkshire estates,
  • his desire to settle near Wentworth, the seat of his illustrious ancestor - purchases the Stainborough estate of Henry Cutler, for £14,000
  • letters and copy of the agreement relating to the purchase (3)
  • law bill for the same - list of tenants on the estate - rentals of the same,
  • letter to General Cadogan - dissatisfied with his position abroad, (3)
  • has many enemies,
  • a b itter political opponent of the Duke of Marlborough,
  • allusions to, (4)
  • succeeds Lord Townshend at the Hague,
  • letters and instructions from Lord Bolingbroke, (4)
  • sworn in of the Privy Council in 1711 - advanced to the dignities of earl and viscount by the style and title of Earl of Strafford etc,
  • preamble to the patent, (4)
  • letters from his mother and his brother Peter Wentworth, respecting the earldom, (3)
  • marries Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Johnson, of Bradenham, Bucks
  • acquires great wealth by his marriage - Dean Swift's reference to in his journal to Stella,
  • returns to the Hague - letters from Lord Bolingbroke, (2)
  • appointed ambassador extraordinary, (4)
  • has all the honours paid to him as to a crowned head, (4)
  • continues the negotiations for the treaty of peace,
  • elected a knight companion of the order of the Garter in 1712,
  • highly esteemed by Sophia Electress of Hanover, mother of George I,
  • the Kings of Denmark, Poland, and Prussia with the Queen of Prussia, dine with his lordship, and afterwards present him with their portraits,
  • these portraits to be seen at Wentworth Castle
  • the treaty of peace signed at his lordship's house - great rejoicings - letter from Lord Bolingbroke,
  • his new building at Stainborough - anxious about the progress of letters describing it to Sir William Wentworth of Bretton (2)
  • his pictures purchased in Rome, (2)
  • accompanied by Lady Strafford to the Hague,
  • letter from Lady Strafford about Lady Rawstorne's jewels, (3)
  • a particular of his lordship's estate in land and money, (2)
  • money out at interest,
  • takes part in a debate on the Treaty of Peace in the House of Lords,
  • his pride - Dean Swift on,
  • appointed one of the lords justices on the death of Queen Anne for the administration of the kingdom till the arrival of the king from Hanover,
  • the new king shows him particular marks of his esteem - presented with a gold medal and chain, valued at 6000 guilders, on leaving the Hague,
  • the storm bursts his recall - his instructions and papers seized, (2)
  • impeachment along with Bolingbroke, Oxford, Ormond, and Mortimer, of high crimes and misdemeanours - debate in the House of Commons relating to (5)
  • his answers to the articles of impeachment, (4)
  • spends much time at Stainborough - his new building there - payments on account of (3)
  • quits public life in disgust,
  • secretly favours the claims of the Pretender - mixed up in some of the Jacobite intrigues of the times, (3)
  • letter from Lord Bathurst respecting Stainborough,
  • purchases the Rockley estate - forestalls his rival, his Honour Wentworth, of Went worth Woodhouse, (3)
  • interesting original correspondence relating to the purchase of,
  • litigation respecting,
  • letters to his lordship from Robert Rockley, the last of the male line of the family,
  • from Lewis Wescombe Catherine Wescombe, and Catherine Hacket,
  • purchases Savile Hall of the family of Savile, and the Keresforth Hill estate - Stainborough rentals, (2)
  • minute instructions written out for his steward
  • the Strafford chapel in Barnsley parish church,
  • erects the castle, the menagerie, the obelisk to the memory of Queen Anne, and other interesting structures,
  • his jealousy and rivalry with Lord Malton, (2)
  • letters to, from his steward, Richard Wardman, on current events - more particularly relating to the election of 1734, letters from Mr. Phipps on ditto (2)
  • takes great interest in the election - letter from his chaplain, Rev. David Traviss
  • builds the circular temple in Stainborough park - said to have been intended for a mausoleum, (2)
  • to Lady Strafford from Freston on the value of his estate there - projected marriage of his eldest daughter with Lord Milsinton
  • lends George II. six horses on his landing at Lowestoft on his return from Hanover
  • description of his estate at Boughton, in Northamptonshire, (2)
  • his health begins seriously to fail in 1736 - letter from Lord Bathurst on, (2)
  • his death in 1739 - burial at Toddington, (3)
  • an anonymous defender of his lordship writes of him at the time of his impeachment,
  • marble statue by Rysbrack erected to his memory in the castle yard at Stainborough,
• Strafford, Thomas Wentworth Earl of ( the great Lord) marries for his third wife Elizabeth Rodes, of Great Houghton,
• Strafford, William Wentworth Earl of, marries Anne, second daughter of John Duke of Argyll - being a minor has to obtain the consent of Parliament to make a settlement upon her - extracts from journals of the House of Lords relating
• thereto,
  • spends his honeymoon on the continent, - meets with Lady Mary Wortley Montague at Rome, (2)
  • returns to England - takes his seat in the House of Lords in 1742 - proud of his wife and his alliance with the Campbells
  • listof plate belonging to
  • erects a column to the memory of the Duke of Argyll
  • visited by Horace Walpole at Wentworth Castle, in 1756 accompanies him to Wortley Wharncliffe, Wentworth, and other places in the district,
  • commences to build the southfront of Wentworth Castle in 1759, from his own designs assisted by Walpole, (2)
  • the Prince of Wales ( afterwards George IV), pays him a morning visit at Wentworth Castle in 1789,
  • his failing health - death of in 1791 - the oldest peer in the kingdom - Walpole on the death of - his remains laid in state at Wentworth Castle interred at Toddington,
  • particulars and cost of the funeral, (2)
  • estates descend to his cousin Frederick Thomas Wentworth, of Henbury, in Dorsetshire,
  • property held in his own right bequeathed to his daughters, (2)
• Strafford, Frederick Thomas, Earl of - succeeds his cousin in the earldom of Strafford - grandson of Peter Wentworth, of Henbury, brother to the first earl of the second creation, (2)
  • in the first regiment of the guards
  • came to reside at Wentworth castle - a Fellow of the Royal Society - " the shortarmed lord " - died suddenly at Nottingham in 1799 - his estates devolve upon his sister Augusta Anne, wife of John Hatfield Kaye, of Hatfield Hall
• Swaithe Hall inherited by the family of Milnes of Wakefield
• Swift, Dean, on Lord Strafford's pride,
• Talbot, Henry, fourth son of the Earl of Shrewsbury, owner of and resides at Monk Bretton Priory,
• Taylor, Edward, William Wilson and Joseph Beckett, anecdote relating to, (2)
  • Richard an ejected minister, officiates for some time at the chapel at Great Houghton,
• Temple Church, Baron Wood buried in,
• Thoresby, Ralph, of Leeds, the antiquary, visits the Rodes family at Great Houghton,
  • distributes Lady Armyne's benefaction,
• Thornhill Lees, capture of delegates at a meeting there, by Sir Francis Lindley Wood and Mr Offley Edmunds, of Worsborough,
• Tithes and tithe law, observations on by Baron Wood
• Toddington Church, the burial place of the family of Wentworth - inscriptions from the coffin plates in the vault there taken in 1785, (2)
• Utrecht, The Peace of, signed at Lord Strafford's house in 1713 great rejoicing on its proclamation,
  • Lord Boling broke on - how received in England by different parties
  • debate on in the Lords and Commons,
• Vallyance, Elizabeth, brings an action against the Earl of Shrewsbury concerning ironworks at Burton Smithies,
• Vernon, Admiral, uncle to Mr Vernon Wentworth, of Wentworth Castle, near Barnsley
• Henry Esq, grandfather of Mr. Vernon Wentworth marries Harriet, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, of Stainborough, in 1743,
• Vernon, Frederick William Thomas, succeeds to the Wentworth Castle estates - great grandson of Thomas, Earl of Strafford of the second creation
  • assumes the surname and arms of Wentworth - been the worthy owner of the estates and shed a benignant influence over Stainborough for a period of 80 years, (2)
• Vernon, the family of, of Hilton Park - some particulars of (2)
• Walpole, Horace, his descriptions of and references to Wentworth Castle,
  • temple in the menagerie, (2)
  • assists in the erection of the south front of Wentworth Castle, (2)
  • letter to Miss Berry
• Wardman, Richard, steward at Wentworth Castle, letters to Lord Strafford,
  • to Lady Strafford,
• Wath upon Dearne, Thomas Wombwell, vicar of - builds a school there,
• Wentworth, Lady, of Bretton, her visit to Wentworth Castle (2)
• Wentworth, Lord, letter to his father, Lord Strafford, about the Duke of Devonshire's ball
  • attendance at Court - the queen vastly pleased with him
• Wentworth, Mr, of Woolley takes great interest in the county election of 1734, (2)
• Wentworth, Lady Anne ( Lord Strafford's eldest daughter), had Queen Anne for her godmother
  • the Right Hon William Conolly,
• Wentworth, Allen, brother to Lord Strafford, page of honour to King William III and a cornet in his brother's, then Lord Raby's, regiment of dragoons - killed in mounting the breach in the attack on the citadel of Liege, in 1702,
• Wentworth, Barbara, marries Archbishop Holgate, (2)
• Wentworth Castle, descriptions of by Horace Walpole,
  • in Mr. Arthur Young's Northern Tour,
  • east front of designed by the Prussian architect, Bott,
  • built of Oaks Quarry stone,
• Wentworth family, of Woolley descended from Sir Samuel Armytage, of Barnsley,
• Wentworth, Frances Arabella maid of honour to Queen Mary queen of James II. ) - marries Walter, Lord Bellew,
• Wentworth, Henrietta, Baroness of England - mistress to the illfated Duke of Monmouth (3)
• Wentworth, His Honour, of Wentworth Woodhouse, a supporter of the Hanoverian succession
• Wentworth, Lady Isabella ( mother of Thomas, Earl of Strafford, of Stainborough), lady of the bedchamber of the Queen of James II, at the time of the birth of the Prince of Wales afterwards known as the Pretender - gives evidence respecting his birth,
  • letter to Lord Strafford on her visit to Wakefield and Stainborough
  • favours the claim of the Pretender - mixed up in some of the Jacobite intrigues,
  • dies at Twickenham, (2)
• Wentworth, Paul, the fourth son of Sir William Wentworth, and brother to Lord Strafford, killed at the siege of Namur in 1695
• Wentworth, Peter, third son of Sir William Wentworth, and brother to Lord Strafford equerry to Prince George of Denmark,
  • became seated at Henbury, in Dorsetshire,
  • his letter to Lord Strafford about the new building at Stainborough, (3)
  • the distressing circumstances connected with his death,
• Wentworth, William, eldest son of Sir William Wentworth served in Flanders up to the time of his death in 1693,
• Wentworth, Sir William, killed at Marston Moor - brother to the great Earl - grandfather to Thomas, Earl of Strafford, of Stainborough,
• Wentworth, Sir William, of Bretton - likely to marry Betty sister of Thomas, Earl of Strafford,
  • letters to from Lord Strafford, (4)
  • Richard Wardman's allusions to,
• Wentworth, Sir William, of Haselden Hall, Wakefield father of Thomas, Earl of Strafford - inherits the greater part of the Savile estates at Wakefield in right of his mother - serves the office of High Sheriff for Yorkshire in 1672,
  • M. P. for Thirsk - removes to London - his sudden death, in 1693, from apoplexy,
• Wescombe, Catherine, the heiress of the main line of the Rockleys her distressed circumstances letters to Lord Strafford relating to the Rockley estate (2)
• Wescombe, Lewis, marries Catherine, the only daughter and heiress of Francis Rockley, of Rockley - his letters to Lord Strafford about the Rockley estate, (3)
• West, Jonathan, of Cawthorne, a lawyer in large practice - Baron Wood articled to,
• Williams, John, the eminent serjeant at law, a pupil of Baron Wood,
• Wilson, Mr. John, of Broomhead undertakes to assist in compiling a history of the County of York,
• Wilson, William, the founder of the Barnsley linen trade,
  • anecdote of,
• Winn, Sir Rowland, a candidate in the election of 1734, (2)
• Wombwell, connected with the monarchy of Deira, tradition respecting,
• Wombwell, Mr, attorney, of Barnsley, (2)
• Wombwell, Catherine, the last survivor of the main line of the family died in 1794, aged 87.
• Wombwell Estates, the, sold off in parcels, when Sir George Wombwell, the representative of a younger branch of the family, became the purchaser of the
• Wombwell, Catherine, the last survivor of the main line of the family died in 1794, aged 87.
• Wombwell Estates, the, sold off in parcels, when Sir George Wombwell, the representative of a younger branch of the family, became the purchaser of the manor and other portions of,
• Wombwell Family, early history and pedigree of - connected with the township of Wombwell from the
• 12th century,
  • the younger branch, represented by Sir George Wombwell, settled in Barnsley
  • description of the feudal mansion of,
  • extracts from Glover's Visitation of 1584, and that of Richard St George in 1612 relating to,
  • Dr. Oxley's account of their burial place and tombs in Darfield Church,
  • his personal recollections of the family
• Wombwell, Sir George, the first baronet - born at Barnsley in 1734 - son of Roger Wombwell of Barnsley - enters the East India Company's service and goes out to India - amasses great wealth - Dr. Oxley's recollections of him - repurchases part of the family estates - chairman of the East India Company and M. P. for Huntingdon - created a Baronet in 1778 - dies of consumption in 1780,
  • at one time contemplated building a seat on Blacker Common, near Wombwell - planted forest trees and made preparations for doing so abandonsthe project
• Wombwell, Sir George, the second baronet - a minor at his father's death - the trustees purchase the Burton Grange estate during his minority for £30,000
  • distinguished as a man of fashion and owner of a large racing stud - marries a daughter of the second Earl of Fauconberg - succeeds to the estate of Newburgh - account of his family - dies in 1847, (2)
• Wombwell, Sir George, the third baronet, born 1792 - served in the Peninsula - Lord William Lennox's recollections of him - his death in 1855 - his funeral account of him in the " Celebrities at Home " series in the World newspaper, (3)
• Wombwell, Sir George Orby, the present baronet - his career - promoted for his gallantry in the memorable cavalry charge at the battle of Balaclava - his narrow escape from drowning in the Newby Ferry catastrophe interesting account of him from the " Celebrities at Home " series in the World newspaper (3)
  • his residence, Newburgh Park, and its associations Laurence Sterne - Shandy Hall - relics of Oliver Cromwell,
• Wombwell, Hugh de, slain by John D'Eyvile, of Hemingfield in 1335,
• Wombwell, Joan, widow of Thomas Wombwell, takes the veil,
• Wombwell, John, of Wombwell his name mixed up in the case of William Byg, alias Lech a magician at Wombwell in 1467, (2)
  • John de, returned in Kirkby's inquest as holding lands in Wombwell in 1277,
  • John, a Justice of the Peace temp Elizabeth,
  • John second son of Roger Wombwell of Barnsley, goes out to India on his return settles at Heath Hall, near Wakefield,
  • John Wentworth, of Leeds and Barnsley,
• Wombwell, Margaret, marries Lieut. General Anthony St Leger, from whom the Doncaster St. Leger race takes its name,
• Wombwell, Michael, of Wakefield, attorney, killed by a fall from his horse in 1742,
• Wombwell, Richard de, Prior of Nostel in 1372,
  • Richard gave all his lands to the Prior and monks of Bretton,
• Wombwell, Roger, founds a chantry at Wombwell in 1507
  • Roger carries on business as a grocer on Market Hill Barnsley,
  • his eldest son George, afterwards Sir George born at Barnsley, (2)
• Wombwell, Thomas de, deed of dated 1405,
  • seal of,
  • dispensation from the Pope to marry Joan Bosvile,
  • dies in 1452 - buried in Darfield church
  • his will,
• Wombwell, Thomas, Vicar of Wath - ejected from his college for refusing to take the engagement in 1652 - restored in
  • built a school at Wath,
• Wombwell township, poll tax in in 1379,
• Wombwell, William, captain of a company of foot in the trained bands - married by Thomas Westby, a Justice of the Peace during the Commonwealth,
  • order signed by him calling upon the militia to assemble for training at Darfield Shroggs, in 1661
  • dies in 1665 - long inscription to his memory, in Latin, in Darfield church,
• Wombwell, William, of Leeds succeeds to the Wombwell estates on the death of his cousin William Wombwell, of Wombwell,
• Wood, Charles, an eminent naval officer - killed in the East Indies and buried with military honours at Madras - as a recognition of his great services a baronetcy was conferred upon his brother Sir Francis Wood, of Barnsley
• Wood, Sir Charles, afterwards Lord Halifax, one of the most distinguished men of the day - born 1800
  • returned for the borough of Great Grimsby in 1826 - for Wareham in 1831 - many years member for the borough of Halifax - appointed secretary to Earl Grey in 1830 marries the youngest daughter of Earl Grey - one of the Secretaries to the Treasury -
  • Secretary to the Admiralty -
  • Mr Grant's sketch of " Mr. Charles Wood, "
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1846
  • President of the Board of Control - First Lord of the Admiralty - Secretary of State for India and President of the Indian Council - serious accident to whilst hunting - resigns his post in the ministry,
  • elevated to the peerage under the title of Viscount Halifax, of Monk Bretton The Times on " Sir Charles Wood, "
  • appointed Lord Privy Seal in 1870 - the Hon Charles Lindley Wood, and other members of the family
• Wood, of Monk Bretton and Barnsley, the family of, account of,
• Wood, Francis, a lawyer, well known as Justice Wood - occupied the family residence in Barnsley now known as the King's Head Hotel - description of his residence - an influential man in the district around Barnsley,
  • one of the persons who took steps for the erection of the first workhouse in Barnsley - the leading business man in the town - a candidate for the office of Registrar of Deeds for the West Riding,
  • dies in 1775, in the 79th year of his age - his monumental inscription - some items of charges from his law bills
• Wood, Sir Francis, of Barnsley - many years in the service of the East India Company - baronetcy conferred upon him as a recognition of the services rendered to his country by his brother Captain Charles Wood, who was killed in action,
  • dies in 1795, in the 65th year of his age,
• Wood, Sir Francis Lindley, of Hemsworth Hall - purchases Hickleton in 1828, and goes to reside there,
  • was much associated with Barnsley - lieutenant colonel of the Staincross Volunteers, and also of the Staincross and Osgoldcross militia,
  • presented with a very handsome sword on peace being declared - the colours of the regiment deposited with Sir Francis at Hickleton,
  • hugh sheriff of Yorkshire in 1814
  • vice lieutenant of the West Riding in 1819,
  • his clever capture of delegates at a meeting at Thornhill Lees
  • takes an active part in a meeting held at Wakefield to present Earl Fitzwilliam with an address of sympathy on his dismissal from the lord lieutenancy of the West Riding - presides at a great meeting held at York in favour of the Reform Bill - designated the father of reform in the West Riding - appointed a commissioner on the first Improvement Act being obtained for Barnsley - a fine specimen of the English country gentleman,
  • dies in 1846
  • his will,
• Wood, George, of Smithies slain at St. Helen's well
• Wood, George, of Burton, buried 1589 - had a lease of Smithies from the Crown in 1579 - described as of the Manor House in Burton - collector of the revenues of the dissolved monastery of Monk Bretton in 1609 grant made to, along with John Broadhead, of the manor of Burton, in trust for the freeholders at large,
  • his name under " Munk Bretton " in the Subsidy Roll of 1598 - purchases Smithies of the Crown,
  • dies in 1638
• Wood family, of Smithies, (2)
  • settled at Smithies at the beginning of the 17th century
  • their residence at Smithies initials on different parts of the buildings, (3)
  • extracts from the Roystone parish registers relating to,
• Wood, Rev. George, vicar of Roystone, father of Baron Wood,
  • his marriage - his family,
• Wood, Sir George, Baron of the Exchequer, born at Roystone in 1744 - son of the vicar of Roystone,
  • educated at Roystone Grammar School - articled to Lawyer West, of Cawthorne
  • Mr West prognosticates that George Wood would one day be a Judge,
  • goes to London - pursues the usual course of preparation at the Middle Temple - commences business as a special pleader - obtains a large practice,
  • his distinguished pupils - Mr Law, afterwards Lord Ellenborough,
  • Charles Abbot afterwards Lord Tenterden,
  • the Hon. Thomas Erskine afterwards Lord Erskine,
  • John Williams,
  • Mr Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger
  • Mr. Lushington - Mr Trench, afterwards Lord Clancarty - Mr. Sturges Bourne,
  • George Canning,
  • Mr Wood's celebrity as a special pleader,
  • called to the Bar engaged on the part of the Crown in State prosecutions - joins the Northern Circuit,
  • special pleading joke about his horse demurring - robbed of his watch by a highwayman on Finchley Common - " What's the time, Wood ? "
  • anecdotes, (2)
  • made a Baron of the Exchequer in 1807 - amasses a large fortune,
  • his personal appearance,
  • Father of the English Bar, "
  • Righteous Judge, "
  • from the Bench in 1823
  • dies in 1824 - leaves a fortune of £300,000 buried in the Ternple church - his monumental inscription, copy of,
  • extracts from his will,
  • prints some valuable " Observations on Tithes and Tithe Law, "
  • his portrait,
  • appointed one of the Commissioners on the first Improvement Act being obtained for Barnsley,
• Wood, Henry, settled at Barnsley in the 17th century, and founded a family there which is now represented by Lord Halifax,
  • a Justice of the Peace,
  • assisted in getting the Quarter Sessions restored to Barnsley at the close of the 17th century
  • an attorney - his charges - a benefactor to Barnsley church
  • leases a coal pit belonging to the Shaw Lands Trust - dies in 1720 - memorial to in Barnsley church,
• Wood, Henry, of Barnsley, ( the second Henry), extracts relating to from Hobson's Journal - dies in 1741,
• Wood, Henry, rector of Hemsworth and vicar of Halifax,
• Wood, James, purchases a moiety of the tithes of Barnsley in 1660 dies at Barnsley in 1662,
• Wood, John, enters the army under the patronage of General Wolfe - killed while in command of a body of forces in North America in 1760,
• Wood, Robert, named in Subsidy Roll of 1663 - a churchwarden for Roystone in 1623,
• one of the trustees of the Shaw Lands in 1631,
• Wood, Robert, succeeds to the estates at Monk Bretton in 1735 marries Frances, daughter of Gamaliel Milner, of Burton Grange,
• Wood, Simpson, a lieutenant in the foot guards, dies 1746,
• Wood, William, clerk of the peace for the West Riding, dies in 1668,
• Wordsworth, Adam de, chaplain absolved for killing John de Staynton at Barnsley in 1366
• Workhouse, the first erected in Barnsley, in 1736,
• Worsborough Common, artificial ruins on, erected by the Earl of Strafford, of Stainborough (2)
• Wortley, Sir Francis, and Sir William Armyne, called upon to give up books relating to the Priory of Bretton,
• Wortley, Mr, of Wortley, a candidate in the county election of 1734, (2)
• Yorkshire, collections for a History of, made by John Charles Brooke, the Herald,
  • by Mr. John Wilson, of Broomhead, (2)
  • election for the county of, 1734, interesting correspondence relating thereto
• Young, Arthur, his description of Wentworth Castle, (2)
• Zouch, Rev. Thomas, D. D marries Margaret Brooke, of Dodworth,