We recently welcomed another former pupil of Fell End School who was delighted to see the fireguard which used to fit round the stove in the schoolroom, which we think was made by the local blacksmith. Like one of the visitors who came to our Schools exhibition in October 2016, she last saw this iron fireguard, probably made by the local blacksmith, before the school closed in 1946.
We gave her some information about an Akrigg ancestor and in return she told us many anecdotes about the village – and she also identified herself and her siblings as the three pupils mentioned in Fell End School logbook who were unable to get to school one day from their remote farm because of deep snowdrifts.
A brother and sister descended from Thomas Carver contacted us last year as a result of a newspaper report of Val’s talk on the Carver family and their connections to the village, and we were able to show them, among other things, the family gravestone in High Chapel burial ground (which incidentally is duplicated in St Oswald’s Churchyard). Thomas Carver and his brother John were both trustees of High Chapel, and in the 1890’s were responsible for renovating the Chapel, the upstairs Schoolroom and the Manse and for enlarging the burial ground in memory of their mother Elizabeth Airey. This is recorded on a wall plaque in the main part of High Chapel which the visitors were able to photograph. We have subsequently sent them copies of some of our archive photographs, including one of their ancestor Elizabeth Airey. We thank them for their kind donation to the History Group.
Dear Val,
I have DNA confirmation of our Fawcett line back to Ravenstonedale to approx.1529. I would love to make contact if an email address is convenient as I live in Western Australia.
Thanks and regards
Anthea Nee Fawcett
akalazich@bigpond.com.au
Hi Anthea thanks for your messages. We’ll email you about them – we do have a copy of your book in the archives thanks.
You dont seem to have any information on my grandad and grandma Smith who owned the Black Swan from 1943 to 1959 and my mother Margaret Law who ran the kings Head from the 1961 along side my step father Jack (john) Law who ran a mobile fish,fruit and veg van. My mother was the first person to obtain a liquor table licence for the kings head, which was formerly a Temperance hotel, in 1962. It is her handwriting on the framed picture of a meal bill on the wall in the kings head bar
Thank you for the information Christopher. We have added it to the Archive.
Thanks for contacting us Stephen. We will check the information we have on the Aldersons and let you know by email.
I am a descendent from the Aldersons of Ravenstonedale (previously Muker in Swaledale). My line dating from the last Alderson is;
Simon Alderson (1839-1919)
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Isabella Alderson (1864-1942) m Thomas Kendal Tinkler
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Ethel Mary Tinkler (1895-1975) m Frederick Dobinson
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Anne Isabel Dobinson (1934-2002) m Anthony Hodgson
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Stephen Anthony Hodgson (me)
I have located a bit of information off the Ancestry website, but would be interested in sharing any information