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Stanley
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Ribblesdale connections, Gisburn, Bracewell
BRACEWELL HALL
Lancshalls site on internet says that Hopwood went bankrupt and the Manor was sold to a family called Riley. Not sure Hopwoods banked because he moved to Ketton Hall and took the organ with him. I have an idea that after Hopwood Lord Ribblesdale had the estate before Riley. Thomas Fawcett Riley of Ewood Hall, Mytholmroyd (died December 1928 aged 68) was part owner of the Bracewell Estate where he is said to have entertained many of his friends.
FAWCETT. REV T C
Slater’s directory of 1855 shows the Rev T C Fawcett as being vicar of St Andrew’s church, Kildwick, ‘The Lang Kirk o’ Craven’. See entries relating to Baptists in Barlick, Fawcett and Sutton Baptists as they are all inter-connected. Was Richard Fawcett of Newfield Edge the son of T C Fawcett? Any connection with Thomas Fawcett Riley of Bracewell Hall?
RIBBLESDALE. LORD (FAMILY NAME, LISTER)
Lister is the family name of Lord Ribblesdale of Gisburn. Listers first mentioned in Gisburn in 1312. A Lister of West Derby married Isabel de Bolton who was widow of Roger de Clitheroe who had died young. Isabel was descended for Leofric, King of Mercia and his wife, Lady Godiva of Coventry who also had two sons the youngest of whom was Hereward the Wake. The eldest was Algar who succeeded Leofric to the throne. Clitheroe being part of Mercia at that time. Hereward became general of the English forces after 1066 and held out on the Isle of Ely. So, the Listers of Gisburn hold direct kinship with the Mercian royal family and the coronet on top of their coat of arms in the Ribblesdale chapel in Gisburn parish church is the heraldic emblem of this connection.
RIBBLESDALE. FOURTH BARON. B.C.1856. D. 1925
Thomas, 4th baron Ribblesdale was widowed when his wife Charlotte died in 1911. He met Mary Ava Pilling who was the divorced wife of Col. John Jacob Astor who died on the Titanic in 1912. They married in 1919, he for money and she for the title. He had lost both his sons in WW1. When he died in 1925 this was the end of the line. Ava only came to Gisburn once for the honeymoon and lived after that in the family house in Grosvenor Square, London. In 1940 she returned to the States to escape the war, relinquished the title and regained US citizenship. She died in 1958 aged 89 leaving $1 million in trust for her four grandchildren.
LISTER FAMILY OF GISBURN
In 1780, Thomas Lister of Gisburn who later became Lord Ribblesdale, bought an isolated house and lands at Malham Tarn which was built 1570/1630. He enlarged the old house in the Georgian style. In 1852 the house was sold to James Morrison whose son Walter inherited in 1857, enlarged it further between 1862 and 1885 and lived there until he died in 1921. The house later came to the National Trust.
GISBURN MARKET
The Abbey of Whalley was granted a royal charter on 21st November 1260 for a market every Monday at their manor of Gisburn and a fair of 3 days duration once a year. The last street market was held on 16th October 1911 being superseded by the first Gisburn Auction Market built by 4th baron, Lord Ribblesdale and leased to Rowland I Robinson, Land Agent; Henry Jackson, auctioneer and Henry Charles Starkie, farmer on a yearly rental plus headage of 1d for every beast, 4d for each score of sheep, 1d per pig and 6d per horse. Later, Messrs. Jackson and Starkie bought the market and in turn sold it to the CWS who ran it with Edgar Jackson as auctioneer until 1922 when they sold it to C Bullock, R Campbell, J W Gill, E Johnstone, H C Starkie and A Tattersall. It traded as Gisburn Auction Mart Ltd and in 1948 Skipton Auction Mart Ltd bought a half share and it became Gisburn Auction Marts Ltd. In 1952 they sold out to A Pickles, J Aldersley, G W Bargh, H Maude, E Drake, J T Pratt and H F Taylor, all farmers. They appointed Richard Turner and Son of Bentham (1803) as auctioneers and administrators.
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Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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AiredalePete
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Posted - 24/10/2011 : 08:45
You may be interested in my stepmother, Dorothy Taylor's research on Lord Ribblesdale:
http://www.gisburn.org.uk/gisburnvillage/ribblesdales2.htm
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