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During our Family History researches we became fascinated with the Reverend William Holbrey when we discovered that he had been married to two Langhorn sisters. He first married 22 year-old Elizabeth Langhorn on 10 Mar 1818 in Ferry Fryston where Elizabeth's father, Thomas, worked as a butcher. Sadly, Thomas Langhorn died only a few weeks after this marriage at the age of 55. William and Elizabeth Holbrey had five children between 1819 and 1826. Elizabeth died a few weeks after the birth her last child James. James himself survived his mother by only a few days. This must have been a difficult and very sad time for William Holbrey - by the middle of 1826 William had lost his wife and four of their five children. Only his second child Mary Langhorne Holbrey survived, she was just 4½ years old when her mother died.
Three and a half years later William Holbrey married his late wife's younger sister, Ann Langhorn, on New Year's Day 1829, again at Ferry Fryston. William and Ann also had five children starting with another James in 1830. The second child was Hannah Broadley Holbrey, only Hannah and James survived infancy, the remaining three children all died before they were two years old.
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We are very grateful to the current Vicar of Fishlake, the Reverend Eve Atherfold, |
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Similar entries in the Poor lists are repeated for 1828, 29, 30, 32, 33 but not in 1834. |
William Holbrey died in 1839, a year after his last child was born; his memorial inside St Cuthbert's Church shows him to have been 45 years old. The memorial claims that William Holbrey was the "Vicar of Barnby Dunn", but the records for Barnby Dun do not confirm this appointment (he is actually shown as curate there from 1832 until his death). William was curate of Sykehouse from 1818 to 1839 but there was no parsonage in that village so he probably lived at Fishlake or Stainforth.
William's widow, Ann Holbrey, lived to be 75 years old. She was buried at St Cuthbert's Fishlake on 17 December 1877.
Of the three surviving children, James Holbrey (recorded as a druggist in the 1851 census for Fishlake) died in November 1854 at the age of 24. Only his sister Hannah and his half-sister Mary lived into old age. Mary did not get married but seems to have stayed in close contact with her half-sister and was staying with her sister's widowed husband at the 1881 census. Mary died at the age of 74 in 1895, her will and codicil both written in 1891 give further clues to the Family History.Mary left her estate to be divided equally between the son's of her half-sister (Hannah Broadley Hunter) -
George Holbrey Hunter |
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of Hawley in the County of Suffolk, Surgeon |
Frank William Hunter |
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of Seven Hills N.S.W., Gent |
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Hannah Broadley Holbrey married William Wilks Hunter, shown in the 1881 census as a bank manager with Wakefield & Barnsley Bank in Ossett cum Gawthorpe. They had the two sons mentioned above and a daughter Ella, who was at home with her widowed father in 1881. Ella died in 1890 at the age of 30.
The oldest known son, George Holbrey Hunter (1858-1937) was a medical student in London at the 1881 census and was a medical practitioner at Haughley Old Street in Suffolk in 1901. George married Charlotte Ann Elwick Bladworth (date/location unknown) and they had at least two children. We can trace the Bladworth family in Fishlake for at least two generations before Charlotte. As we see from the bequest above, George's brother Frank was in New South Wales, Australia. It appears that George and his wife had also gone there at some point as at least one child, Ella Beatrice Hunter, was born in new South Wales on 27 Feb 1896. A second daughter, Dorothy Bladworth Hunter, was born on 13 Jan 1899, probably in Haughley, Suffolk after their return to England. Dorothy married Colin Butler, they had one daughter Judith in 1923 in Haughley. Judith Butler married Timothy John Hannay and had two sons, Patrick and William. William Hannay has kindly provided details of his family.
Frank William Hunter was born in 1863 in Wakefield, he was a bank clerk when he was living at home for the 1881 census. We have yet to establish when he went to NSW, Australia and what happened to him there before he became rated as a 'Gent' in Seven Hills in the above 1895 bequest.
Other Outstanding Holbrey Issues:As yet, we do not know the birth date or place of William Holbrey and still have no clues to his parentage. There is an interesting IGI entry which needs further investigation showing the Christening of a William Holbrey on 11 June 1786 in the neighbouring town of Hatfield; however this is about 10 years adrift of the date indicated by the age given on his memorial stone.
We would also be interested to learn where William trained and qualified for his vocation.
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