Publications
We have produced a number of booklets and newsletters: the latest include a reprint of a series of articles on everyday life in a local farming community in the 1860s, listings of all Barningham baptisms and marriages, and an A-Z listings of all census returns for Brignall and Rokeby. See below for details
Books
Where Lyeth Ye Bodies
A complete A-Z list of every known burial in Barningham since 1503, with a history and description of the church, transcriptions of all memorials in the graveyard, and maps. £10 + £1 p&p.
A Child of Hope
The childhood memories of a girl growing up on a remote Teesdale farm in mid-Victorian days, written in 1895 and first published in 2009. £5 + £1 p&p.
A Farmer’s Boy
Everyday life in the Gayles/Dalton area in mid-Victorian days, based on the autoboiography of Isaac Coates who emigrated to New Zealand in 1867. Written by Merryne Watson. £10 + £1 p&p.
Barningham Vestry Minutes
A transcript of the last Minutes Book, covering 1869-1894. £5 + £1 p&p.
Counted: Census returns 1841-1911. Volume 1: Barningham, Scargill & Hope; Volume 2: Newsham & New Forest; Volume 3: Brignall and Rokeby
A complete A-Z of the census records, £10+ £1 p&p per volume
Barningham Parish Meeting Minutes 1894-1931
A complete transcript of these meetings. £5 + £1 p&p
Aback to Yuvvin
A reprint of an 1849 glossary of Teesdale words, games and customs. £5 + £1 p&p.
Barningham Baptisms
Listings of all baptisms from 1580 to 1950, arranged by date, name and parents. Two volumes, covering 1580-1800 and 1801-1950. £10 each + £1 p&p.
Barningham Brides
Listings of all marriages from 1582-1950, arranged by date, groom and bride. £10 + £1 p&p.
All the above are A5 booklets with laminated cover.
The Archive
Monthly newsletter of the history group containing details of history group activities and details of members’ research. Annual subscription £12 (+ £3 postage). Back issues £2 each, incl p&p.
Archive 1 (October 2009): Features: Scargill School, Barningham charities, haymaking, war memorial. Notes: Alderson, Todd, Turner. Letters: Robson, Hutchinson, Sellers, Binks. Photos: church interior pre-1891, pupils 1900 and 1901, Birtwhistle 1906, Todd wedding 1913, Black Horse Inn 1916, Turner wedding 1922, Turner bus and garage 1922, haymaking 1950s.
Archive 2 (December 2009): Features: Barningham post service (Brass, Holmes, Birtwhistle, Shepherd, Atherton), Hollies postcard 1921, wells, house histories (Moor End, West End, Prospect House, West End Cottage), Alderson award 1860. Notes: Letters: Binks, Atkinson, Shepherd, Watson. Photos: village green 1900, church choir 1926, Brass/Brown wedding 1930, Coronation celebrations 1953,
Archive 3 (January 2010): Brown families, 1841 census (overview and focus on village pubs), Alderson/Coates links and will, parish bull 1878, house histories (Heath Cottages, The Nook), enclosures 1807. Notes: Spenceley, Macdonald. Letters: James, Leonards, Atkinson, Watson. Photos: Brown family 1898, Bainbridge 1900, ladies’ cricket team 1929, Milbank wedding trip 1970, snow 1979.
Archive 4 (February 2010): Features: John Todd (disgraced vestry clerk 1882), vestry meetings 1869-1894, great blizzard of 1900, house histories (Heath House, Moor Lea), 1841 census trail (Pearson, Holmes, Wharton). Notes: Blumer, Jackson. Letters: Marriner, Armstrong, Hind. Photos: village green 1890/1920s, military band 1901, chapel sunday school pupils 1948.
Archive 5 (March 2010): Features: Clockmaker Thomas Binks — both of them — and family tree, Low Lane mystery stone, Rectory hoard, parish magazines, Milbanks’ Byron bride, 1841 census trail (Wilkinsons, Heslop, Todd), house histories (Hill Top, Hillside). Notes: Confirmation records, Jackson, Atkinson, Huchinson, Fawcett. Letters: Binks, Berry, Wilkinson, Longstaff. Photos: Village 1895, 1902, 1930; Jubilee 1977; Aldersons.
Archive 6 (April 2010): Features: 1831 census details, Miss Cash — the first woman to venture into a parish meeting, vestry and parish meetings analyses, the 1928 Park House blaze, wartime childhood memories, 1841 census trail (The Academy, Lambs), house histories (Heather Cottage, Banks House), Neil’s Notes. Notes: The Archive Awards, Shepherd death. Letters: Coates, Thomas, Bell, cat-whipping. Photos: 1928 Park House, 1936 Turner children outside Sharon Cottage.
Archive 7 (May 2010): Features: Ellwood Robinsons, old wills, 1609 enclosures, 1690 sale of Barningham Park to Milbanks, 1663 mill fire, 1930 Rokeby fire, Danish Hussar, 1841 census trail (Sowerby, Scrafton, Lambert, Ewbank), 1896 moor skeleton, Neil’s Notes, house histories (Woodbine, Ivy, Holly, Rose Cottages, Beornhow, Hillside update). Notes: Archaeology project. Letters: Scargill, women in wartime. Photos: 1907 Ellwoods, Atkinsons of Hope.
Archive 8 (June 2010): Features: Hay Meadows Project, Barningham Atkinsons, 1838 Tithe Maps; 1841 census trail (Todds, Pinsents, Porter, Goundry), Teesdale Glossary, house histories (How Tallon, Shaw House, Byresbron, Brantfell, Raby View, North View). Letters: Marriners, Woodbine Cottages, Gjertsen, Aldersons, Dickens at Greta Bridge, Sowerbys. Photographs: 1904 Church Choir, Atkinson family, 1838 map.
Archive 9 (August 2010): Features: The 1862 by-election, 1841 census trail (Clarkson, Pearson, Monkhouse, Law, Bowman), house histories (East View, The Cottage, Rosebank Cottage), 1890 church renovation, the Sprent Bridge Ghost, Neil’s Notes. Letters: Binks, Porter, tithe maps, glossary, Upper Dales Family History group. Picture: Excerpt from Teesdale Mercury 1854. Photographs: Barningham green c1915, Sir Frederick Milbank, haytimers’ picnic c1950.
Archive 10 (September 2010): Features: Newsham history, 1838 Barningham occupants, census trail (update, Robinsons), house histories (The Laurels, Westoe), 1972 schoolgirl’s letter, 1888 school log. Letters: Kipling, Close, Todds. Photographs: 1950 cricket team, 1930s Newsham, Shepherd grave.
Archive 11 (October 2010): Features: Archive Award winners, Methodists and the Old Chapel, Molecatching, Agnes Robinson’s lost love, Scargill Castle, Todd v Milbank 1880, The Marriners of Barningham, Village School opening 1875, house histories (Elim Cottage). Letters: Farmers in wartime, South African link. Photographs: Sunday School pupils c1905.
Archive 12 (December 2010): Features: Goodall wedding 1930, Whitby Museums visit, BBC magazine feature, 1817 valuation, Bell/Pearson families of Newsham, WWI soldier, 1841 census trail (Nicholsons, Coates, Nelson, Hardy, Proctor, Lee), Barningham butler, house histories (Heatherlands, Gillback House), DVD notes. Letters: Holmes family, Ellwoods. Index to all Archives 1-12.
Archive 13 (January 2011): Features: Missing clock, village school and teachers 1684-1944, house histories (The Yews, Post Cottage), 1841 census trail (Cockfield, Walker, Garforth, Elliott, Appleby, Carter, Moore, Alderson, Bainbridge, Pearson), 1893 waxworks show. Letters: Judsons, Westmarlands, Clarksons, Cameron/Collinson, Wiseman. Photo: giant monkey puzzle tree, pupils 1897, pupils 1926.
Archive 14 (February 2011): Features: Barningham church pew allocation 1655; church roll 1932; 1841 census trail (Clarkson, Smithson, Metcalfe, Anderson); Gjertsens; house histories (Britannia Cottage, 1 & 2 Park View, Smithy Cottage, Old Smithy); Miss McCulloch’s lost legacy; Texas Lanny’s links to Barningham and the gods. Letters: Dent tragedy 1871, schoolmaster’s pay 1819, Squance, Coates, Cameron, Wilkinson. Photos: Etherington children 1911, New Year fundraiser.
Archive 15 (March 2011): Features: Brides and baptisms 1580-1800 analysis; trout imports 1889; William Todd’s will 1857; Barningham moor stints 1843-; nightmare in Newsham 1832; house history (Park View); 1841 census trail (Muncaster, Sowerby). Letters: Bridges, Scargill school, Marriners, Johnsons, Seymour, Lees Seattle link, Hunts. Photos: Winter 1963, Park View dovecot.
Archive 16 (April 2011): Features: Captain Joseph Hanby RN; 1841 census trail (Carter, Barker, Hutchinson, Chapman, Sowerby, Jackson, Kirkley); Rev Crauford Bowen’s 1877 balloon trip; Lee family emigrees to Nebraska; house histories (Peartree Cottage, Sunniside, Fountain View, Hawthorn Cottage). Letters: Newsham pubs, Sayers, Allisons, Fairview, Marriners, Merryweather, Dent, Hunt. Photos: WI fete 1956, Newsham forge c1900, old vehicles.
Archive 17 (June 2011): Features: Rev E. Spencer Gough and Augustus Morand; Teesdale’s Napoleonic ‘invasion’; 1896 street lighting veto; Rosser family and USA; house history (Fountain Cottage); 1841 census trail (Harrison, Spooner, Metcalfe, Thexton, Moss, Johnson, Wiseman, Swire); 1892 servant whipping court case; 1760 Thomas Head will; 1609 Newsham wall destruction; headmasters; 1904-05 school log; 1864 wild man; Rev Richard Alderson. Letters: Hind, Alsop, Heslop, Lee, women in wartime. Photos: 1927 punch and judy, 1905 shooting party.
Archive 18 (July 2011): Features: Rokeby Hall; Cricket in 1855; Barningham’s apocalyptic methodist of 1763; Dalton/Gayles in the mid-1860s; Coates family and New Zealand emigrants; governesses; house history: Sharon Cottage; 1841 census trail (Etherington, Grainger, Harrison, Clarkson, Todd); Teesdale’s battle for a railway. Letters: Ann Heys’ family research; Mawsons; Gough; Bowes well. Photos: Chrstopher and Jane Brown, 1890s; railway disaster of 1905.
Archive 19 (September 2011): Features: Barningham Reading Room – and missing clock; Victorian butter-making; Binchester dig; Poacher George; How Tallon wartime bomber crash; September 1891 — a memorable month; 1841 census trail (Waggott, Atkinson, Binks, Jennison, Bellwood, Craggs); House histories (Kavenbury, Granville); Reluctant bridegroom. Letters: Thomas family 1891; Hay Time; Academy pupils; Rodhams; Gibsons.
Archive 20 (October 2011): Features: Barningham field barns; 2011 Archive Award winners; Reading room papers; Boy sweeps; 1841 census trail (Littelfair, Coates, Shaw, Thompson, Brown, Gibbon, Nelson); Barningham survey 2011; House histories (Manor House Farm); Scargill school terror 1896; old recipes (red wound ointment, honey of roses, herring-pie). Letters: Cockfields and Coates; Hogg; rosehips; Newsham memories postwar; Academy pupils 1860s.
Archive 21 (November 2011): Features: Lest you forget: Christopher Brown Johnson; Rosehip picking; clogs; Haytime book; Penny Readings; Westmarland family; house histories (Fairview, Fairview Cottage); old recipes (hedgerow jellies); farmer’s tragic trip 1869. Letters: Chapman, McDonalds, Applebys, Tweddalls, Nelsons, Westmarland.
Arcchive 22 (December 2011): Features: York visit; Nor Beck bridges; Glebe Lands; Phoenix Park murders; Girl in White ghost; Langirls & lumberjills; Christmas 1891; Postman’s shot dog 1872; old recipes (Yorkshire goose pie); 1841 trail (Westmarlands, Lax, Nelson, Coulthard, Clarkson, Hodgson, Thompson, Harrison). Letters: Hunters, Westmarland, Fairview, Todd, woman photographer. Index to issues 1-22.
Archive 23 (February 2012): Features: Primitive Methodists; Truancy court case 1886; family pig; 1841 trail (Wiseman, Neesom, Hooker, Johnson, Moss, Waistell, Macdonald, Harland); house history (Rectory, Old Rectory, Glebe Farm); Devil-beating; Reading Room rules; coal carrier; old recipes (Martlemas Beef, Pot Pourri). Photos: Wings for Victory 1945, Milbanks 1890s, church choir 1904, Newsham Mill Dame 1890, George Alderson 1970s.
Click on the Archive Index link on the right to find an index to all items published so far.
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Contact the Editor:
Jon Smith, Heath House, Barningham, Richmond, North Yorks DL11 7DU
01833 621374 — 07740 844183
history@smithj90.fsnet.co.uk