Greystock 1911

Seven 1911 census Kipling family groups descend from Henry Greystock Kipling,

born in Hull in the early 19th century. Henry’s ancestry can be traced back to

Kirkbymoorside in the 18th century, York in the late 17th century and, most probably,

back to Bowes before that

Henry Greystock

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Bertha Horatio Arthur Henry = Emma (#262)

,---------- ------,------ -----| |----- -------¬ |----- -------¬

Meta Metta (#361) Henry Henry Arthur Arthur Henry/Harry

(#287) | Theodore Herbert Edward Alfred (#263)

| | (#287) (#260) (#261) (#367)

Dorothy Harold |

Wray Henry

(#287)

Henry Greystock Kipling was born in 1823, the son of John Kipling and Jane Lacey.

Hull Catholic Chapel 1823

He was a merchant seaman as the records show.

Henry married Ann Banks at Sculcoats in 1846 and daughter Bertha was born the

following year.

Hull, Holy Trinity 1847

Children Fanny and Horatio were born the following year.

Hull 1851

Children Arthur, Henry and Annie arrived in the following decade and Arthur

suffered an unfortunate accident.

Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette, 10 October 1857

Bertha and her mother were in serious trouble with the law in 1858.

Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette - Saturday 10 April 1858

Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette - Saturday 10 April 1858

Hull Packet - Friday 30 April 1858

Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette - Saturday 08 May 1858

Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette - Saturday 10 July 1858

Being a catholic, Bertha was sent to the Arnos Court Reformatory School (see

Appendix) in Brislington near Bristol, where she sadly died of pneumonia in February

1862.

Henry was not present at the time of the 1861 census, probably being away at sea.

Hull 1861

Brother Arthur was soon also engaging in petty criminal behaviour.

Hull Packet December 1863

Hull Packet - Friday 12 January 1866

Horatio followed his father to sea in 1866.

Hull 1871

Daughter Annie married in 1878. Brother Arthur was a witness as Henry may have

been away at sea.

Henry was probably again away at sea in 1881. Grandchildren Bertha and Henry were

the children of son Henry (see below).

Hull 1881

Hull 1891

Henry died in 1891 and Ann in 1897.

Hull Daily Mail - Monday 15 February 1897

Horatio Kipling

Horatio married Meta Meier, a German, at Hull in 1873. She died in 1875 and he

married her sister Metta at Sculcoats in 1877.

Crew of ‘Alster’, off Spurn Head 1881

They named two of their daughters after the two sisters. Horatio died in 1887 and

daughter Bertha in 1889.

Hull 1891

Henry Theodore was living at a local orphanage.

Hull 1891

In 1901 he was back home.

Hampton Rd Scarborough, 1901

Both daughters had illegitimate children in 1908. Meta in Scarborough and Metta in

Eckington, Derbyshire.

There was a (married) man by the name of William Wray living in the same street as

the Kiplings in Scarborough and it is possible that he was the father of Harold.

Dorothy’s father may have been called Webster, but remains unidentified.

Both children were living with grandmother Metta, mother/aunt Meta and uncle

Henry Theodore in Scarborough in 1911. Metta was working in Hove, although

returned to Scarborough where she registered Harold’s birth.

(#287)

(#361)

Later in 1911, Metta senior died in Scarborough and Metta junior married in

Harrogate, naming her grandfather as her father.

They had children Phillis, Charles, Mary and Alan.

Voters’ List, Claro Road, Harrogate, 1930

1939. Anchor Rd., Knaresborough

.

Voters’ List. Roseville Drive, Harrogate. 1961

Metta Maxon died in 1981.

Henry Theodore married Edith Emma Wilson in Scarborough in 1915. Nephew

Harold Wray Kipling was brought up by his uncle, with whom he was still living in

1939.

1939. Scarborough

Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough

Henry Theodore in 1961 (thanks to Mike Kipling, grandson)

Harold Wray Kipling died in Scarborough in 1981.

Meta married a Marc Vessaz in Scarborough in 1913. They had a son, Henry T

Vessaz in 1914. Meta Vessaz died in 1953. Dorothy Kipling/Vessaz married Thomas

Morrison in 1933 in Marylebone. Dorothy Morrison died in Leeds in 1992.

Arthur Kipling

Arthur maried Sarah Jane Woods in 1879 at St James’s Church, Hull.

Andrew Marvel Terrace, Hull, 1881

Arthur died in 1886. They had had sons Arthur Edward (1883) and Henry Herbert

(1887, posthumously).

Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 15 February 1887

Sarah Jane remarried in 1890.

1891(Martha is probably a misunderstanding forArthur!)

The teenage Arthur had several brushes with the law.

Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 12 November 1896

Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 27 January 1898

Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 01 February 1898

1901

Hull 1901

Henry Herbert seems to have followed in his brother’s footsteps.

Hull Daily Mail - Friday 24 April 1903

Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 29 April 1903

Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 24 June 1903

(It is possible that these incidents relate to his cousin Harry, see below, although the

age given in the third item is correct. Henry does describes himself as ‘Harry’ in the

1939 national register, also below),

(#261)

Henry Herbert married Katherine Egan in 1907.

A son, Henry, was born in 1908.

(#260)

HT, Hull

HT, Hull

1939. 73 Lister St, Hull

1939 Hull

1939 Hull

Hull Daily Mail - Monday 29 September 1941

Arthur Edward and Henry Herbert both died in 1950. Henry jnr died in 1987.

Henry Kipling

Henry married Emma Weston in 1878.

1881 Walker St., Hull

An Alphabetical Directory of Trades and Professions for Hull, from Bulmer's Gazetteer (1892)

Morehead & Kipling, general undertakers, 11 Midland street

Kelly’s N&E Ridings 1893

They had sons Arthur Alfred (1885) and Henry (1892)

1901 Sculcoats, Hull

Henry died in 1903. In 1911, son Harry was briefly imprisoned.

Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 30 March 1911

Widow Emma was living alone in 1911.

(#262)

Son Arthur Alfred was living in a boarding house.

(#367)

Son Henry was in jail, serving the sentence he had received a week earlier (census

date was 2 April).

(#263. Age given as 22 when he was only 19)

Emma remarried later in 1911. Harry joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1915 (his

father is, oddly, listed as Alfred rather than Henry, possibly a refrence to his brother)

He was posted to HMS Egmont, which was actually the naval name for Fort St

Angelo in Malta.

He was demobbed in 1919 although may have been in trouble fairly quickly theerafter

(again, this could possibly have been his cousin).

Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 27 December 1919

1939. 6 Ferriby Grove, Hull

Arthur Alfred died in 1962 and Harry in 1965.

John Greystock Kipling

Henry’s parents, John and Jane Theresa Lacey, married in 1814, as their licence

application below shows.

The following year daughter Theresa arrived.

Hull Catholic Chapel 1815

Later that year, John was bankrupted.

Hull Packet - Tuesday 29 August 1815

Henry and four other children arrived over the next decade.

Bains Directory (N & E Ridings) 1823

John was fined in 1826.

Hull Packet - Tuesday 04 July 1826

Wife Jane died in 1828.

Hull Packet - Tuesday 15 July 1828

It’s likely that Fanny Anna and Thomas were also children of John and Jane.

Holy Trinity 1831(=>b1814 and 1826)

John remarried in 1829, to a widow, Mary Purdon (nee Ellerby).

A son William may have been born and died in 1832.

HT 1832 (age 1 mo)

Catholic baptismal records definitely show children Mary Francis (1833), Ann

Elizabeth (1835), John Ellerby (1838) and Horatio Nelson (1840).

Hull Catholic Chapel (Mary and Ann were baptised together at the ages of 3½ and 1½).

Step-sister Theresa Kipling was godmother to the final two sons, once before and

once after her 1838 marriage to John Copeland.

John Ellerby Kipling died in 1840.

Bishop Lane, Hull. 1841

Horatio died later in 1841 and daughter Sarah Ann married in 1842 (one witness was

her brother-in-law).

The 1851 census shows John senior as a grocer, Mary as a “professor of music” (aged

17), one servant and eight lodgers.

48 North Street, Hull. 1851

Mary was also reported in the local press around this time featuring in concerts.

Hull Packet - Friday 16 January 1852

John died in 1852 and daughter Mary Frances married in 1854.

Ann Elizabeth married in 1859:

One of their sons was Samuel Graystock Jones.

Anne Elizabeth Kipling

(from Dennison-Young family tree by taff1966 at Ancestry.co.uk)

In 1861, widow Mary was keeping a lodging house, managing to have three daughters

and a grand-daughter resident on the census night..

3 South Street Hull. 1861

John Kipling and Mary Graystock

Given his middle name, John Greystock Kipling was probably the son of John Kipling

and Mary Greystock who married in Pickering in 1777. However, I have not been

able to find any record of his baptism.

In the accompanying bond, John is described as a ‘house carpenter’.

Pickering,1777

John Kipling was probably born at Kirkbymoorside (KM) in August 1747, the son of

Charles Kipling.

The age on the licence (‘forty years and upwards’) seems excessive, however.

Mary was born in 1746, the daughter of Ralph Greystock of Normanby (making her

age correct on the licence).

John and Mary had children baptised at KM, Ann (1778, December)…

… Sarah (1780) and Charles (1783) when John is described as ‘innkeeper’.

In 1783, the death is recorded of Nancy (i.e. Ann), aged 5.

KM, BT Sept 1783.

There are no further records of the family in KM, so supporting the possibility of a

move to Hull after 1783, where John Greystock Kipling records he was born around

1793 (the ages given in the 1851 census and the marriage licence do not quite agree).

Son Charles and daughter Sarah probably also died in Hull.

Holy Trinity, Hull 1798

Mary died in 1822 (age matches).

Holy Trinity, Hull 1822

In 1830, John was registered to vote for the MP for York. This would imply he owned

property in York; had he inherited some from his father Charles?

John died in 1831, aged 85 (=>b1746)

Holy Trinity, Hull

It’s possible that he married a Jane Chapman at Hull in 1827, who died there in 1864.

An illegitimate son of a Jane Yowart , John Kipling Yowart, was baptised in KM in

1774.

The death of a “Jane Yoward, age 66” is recorded at KM in 1802, although there is no

sign of her birth in KM around 1736. John Kipling Yoward is likely to be the natural

son of John Kipling.

He was probably also the John Yoward (of Simmington) who married Elizabeth

Hugill in KM in 1797. Daughters Jane (1813) and Mary Anne (1815) were born in

Acklam By Malton, daughters of “John Yoward and Elizabeth”.

John died in KM in 1824.

In his will (in which he describes himself as a ‘house carpenter’, like his putative

father), John leaves his estate, including a small property in KM, to wife Elizabeth

and daughters Jane and Mary Ann.

Mary Ann Yoward married tailor Jonathan Mason at KM in 1837. When their

daughter Ann Elizabeth was baptised at KM in 1840, Mary Ann was described as

“daughter of John and Eliz. Kiplin”.

Charles Kipling

Charles Kipling was born at KM in 1718, the son of “Thomas Kipling, Gentillman”.

Charles married there in 1744.

Sarah was born in 1721, the daughter of John Barker (possibly the John Baker (sic)

who married Elizabeth Clarke in 1712 in KM).

Apart from son John, they also had a daughter Elizabeth at KM in 1745. Elizabeth

Kipling married George Ward at KM in 1770.

Little is known of Charles’s life, other than that he was a mariner. He was admitted a

freeman of York by patrimony in 1758 (see below for confusion between him and his

brother at this time).

Sarah (70) and Charles (84) died in KM in 1791 and 1803 respectively.

Thomas Kipling

Apart from Charles, Thomas’s other children were Gertrude Kipling daughter of

“Thomas Kipling, gentleman” (b1716)…

…Elizabeth (1720), Mary (1722) and Thomas (1726).

Thomas was an attorney, as the register of 1730 below shows.

Additional Lists Of Attornies And Solicitors, Admitted in Pursuance of the late Act, For the better Regulation of Attornies and Solicitors. Presented to the House of Commons, Pursuant to their Order of the 22d Day of February 1730.

In 1721, he recorded a property transaction in the the City of York deeds registry.

Daughter Mary died in 1731

and Thomas Kipling himself in 1750.

KM 1750

The death of his widow, “Mrs Elizabeth Kipling”, is recorded in 1774.

In his will, Thomas left one shilling to son Charles, £5 to each of Elizabeth and

Gertrude and the remained to wife Elizabeth and son Thomas.

His assets were valued at £19 6s, including a debt of £11 due from Nicholas Barker.

The nominal legacy to Charles was probably because money had been given to him

previously (e.g. on his marriage).

Gertrude was mentioned in court case in 1735 and married in York in 1747.

QSB 1735 6/49

Bill of indictment of Dorathy Bell wife of Thomas Bell late of Kirby Moorside

yeoman for stealing one blue and white apron value 10d, the property of Gartrude

Kipling

Offence committed at Kirby Moorside on 24 June 1735

Son Thomas married in 1750.

Dunnington, 1750

They had daughters Mary (1751) and Elizabeth (1752) and son Thomas (December

1754).

In August 1755 the death of “Mary Skelton, wife of Mr Thomas Kipling” is recorded.

Skelton was Mary’s mother’s maiden name.

Thomas was a coroner, as three records from the North Riding quarter sessions show.

In 1736 and 1756, Thomas was involved in a property transaction at Barugh and Little

Barugh.

In 1754, Thomas and wife mary witnessed a property transaction in nearby

Keldholme.

NR Deeds Register Y353 538

In 1758, Thomas was (like his brother) admitted to the freedom of York by

patrimony. He is erroneously described as being a “mariner” (which was his brother’s

occupation, see above).

Thomas died in 1760.

Public Ledger or The Daily Register of Commerce and Intelligence (London, England), Saturday, April 4, 1761

Son Thomas most probably died in 1762.

In 1774, daughter Mary (of Pickering) sold to her sister Elizabeth (of York) her share

in property at Appleton-in-the-Moor they had inherited from their mother’s family.

Elizabeth then sold the whole property later in the year.

Elizabeth then married a Joseph Volens, a linen draper of York, at St Martins & St

Gregory in 1774. Their daughter Mary Kipling Volens was christened at Holy Trinity

(Christ Church) in 1776.

Mary married a Thomas Campion at Pickering in 1780.

York

Thomas Kipling was christened on 10 Feb 1693 at Holy Trinity Goodramgate York in

1695, son of Charles Kipling. He married Elizabeth Rhodes on 27 Dec 1715 at Saint

Laurence, York.

His father, Charles, was christened on 13 Dec 1668 at Saint Sampson, York, son of

James Kipling. James had been admitted as a freeman of York in 1664 as a tailor.

For more details, see “The Kiplings of York”

It is possible that James Kipling was the James born in Bowes in 1615, son of

Anthony Kipling (or was related to him).

Anthony’s origins are unclear, although the name Anthony Kipling was well

represented in Baldersdale in the neighbouring parish of Romaldkirk in the mid-16th

century. For more details, see “The Kiplings of Bowes”

DNA testing

A descendent of John Greystock Kipling has participated in a DNA testing

programme which shows a close relationship to several other Kiplings known to have

origins in Baldersdale, Bowes and Barnard Castle.

Appendix – Arnos Court School

The convent was founded in July 1851 and only two months later received a visit

from Cardinal Wiseman. 'The Good Shepherd Sisters had arrived in England from

their Mother Homes in Angers, France in May 1841 and opened a convent and Home

for Women in Hammersmith, London. The Bristol property at Arnos Court was

purchased for the sisters by William Austin Gillow who, having visited the

Hammersmith convent and seen the good work done for women who had been

brought from a life on the streets, 'desired earnestly that a similar house be set up in

Bristol for the same purpose'. Gillow was a member of an old Lancashire Catholic

family who married Miss Agnes Markland of Pemberton Villa, Clifton Park, in 1851.

Included in the gift was the land which is now the Cemetery of the Holy Souls.

At first a room in the house was used as a chapel, but in May 1858 the foundation of

the present building was laid, and the completed building was dedicated by Bishop

Clifford in March 1859. By that time the sisters had spent large sums in the erection

of' buildings, including a laundry. Bishop Clifford took a great interest in the chapel,

to which he was a generous benefactor, his gifts including a chalice given to him by

Pope Pius IX, and the four marble pillars, still to be seen in the present day restaurant,

which divided the sanctuary from the sisters' choir. The first apostolic work

established in Arnos Court was the traditional one of the sisters, a Voluntary Home

for older teenagers and women who had personal and social problems. Their ages

could range from seventeen to forty years.

Later, in 1856, another apostolate was started. In view of the great need in England

for a home for Catholic girl ex-prisoners, the ecclesiastical authorities asked the

Provincial Superior of the Good Shepherd Sisters to consider undertaking the

direction of a Reformatory School instead of the Voluntary Home in Bristol. At this

time child offenders as young as nine years of age were being sent to prison to serve

time in hard labour followed by a specified time in Reformatory Schools. Since there

was no such provision for Catholic girls they were being sent to non-Catholic

establishments.

After due consideration, and because the number of 'women seeking places in the

Voluntary Home had decreased, it was agreed that this new apostolic work for girls

be undertaken. The Certificate of Registration for Arnos Court as a Reformatory

School for Catholic girls up to the age of sixteen was accorded by the Home Office

on 22 April 1856. Thus was Arnos Court Reformatory School, known as St. Joseph's

School, established and it was to continue uninterrupted under the direction of the

Good Shepherd Sisters through the statutory changes of name, and changes of

location (Eagle House, Bathford, and Ashwicke Hall, near Chippenham) from that

day until November 1986.

The two separately run apostolates flourished for many years. During the wartime

blitzes on Bristol in 1940 and 1941 the property suffered so severely that it was

estimated that more than two-thirds had been destroyed. The Home Office insisted

that the School be evacuated to a safer area. After much search Eagle House,

Bathford was found and accepted by the Home Office as being suitable. On 3 March

1941 two sisters left Arnos Court with twenty of the girls for their new temporary

home. Three days later they were joined by four more sisters, seven auxiliaries and

the remaining sixty girls. By this time the name Reformatory School had give way to

that of Approved School.

After a very severe bombardment on the night of l0 September 1943 the sisters

decided to sell Arnos Court and look for another property. It was a sad decision as the

house had been established in the lifetime of the Foundress, St. Mary Euphrasia

Pelletier.