THOMPSON [continued]
The Fairfax rent rolls of 1708, 1719, 1732 and 1750 continued to show John Thompson as a tenant and he was probably the man who was described as a husbandman when he died in 1751 at the age of 75
The next surviving rent roll of 1770 showed William Thompson paying rent for a medium size farm but there is no record of his baptism or his death though that seems to have been before 1790 when George Fisher was shown to have the tenancy of a farm late William Thompson.
Simon Thompson who was also listed as a tenant in 1770 was described as a weaver when the baptisms of his four children were recorded. He and his wife Elizabeth lived at Hagg Hall and the tenancy was taken by their son John after Simon died in 1809 at the age of 87. John was also a weaver and married Sarah Bovill and they had two children, William for whom no further record could be found and George who in 1807 married Hannah the daughter of Richard Belt, another Scawton tenant by whom he had three children, George, Mark and Richard. Another John Thompson who married Hannah’s cousin Ann in 1804 was said to come from Cold Kirby and they had four children, Ester, Jane, Mary and William before Ann died at the young age of 31 in 1811 when her husband John was said to be a tailor. Yet another John Thompson married Elizabeth Blenckhorn in 1800 and they had eight children, Charlotte, Christopher, Ellen, Harwood, James, John, Robert and William.
The John Thompson who was tenant of 62 acres in 1812 could have been the son of John and Sarah who was born in 1783 and Simon Thompson was tenant of 33 acres at Hagg Hall in the same year. Ten years later John was shown to have a house, garden and land and George, grandson of Simon had the same but no acreages were recorded and we turn to the survey made in 1839 for the Commutation of Tithes to find John Thompson with 63 acres which the map clearly shows to be the site of the present-day farm of Bungdale Head and George Thompson sharing 17 acres at Hagg Hall with Christopher Barker.
Things had changed by 1851 when William the son of John and Elizabeth nee Blenckhorn was shown to have 50 acres at what the census enumerator mistakenly recorded as Hagget Mouth but is more likely to have been Bungdale Head where William employed two labourers and a servant. Christopher Barker was the sole tenant of Hagg Hall and Mark Thompson the son of George who was born there in 1817 was working as a farm labourer and said to be living at a dwelling in Scawton Howl but when his daughter Ellen died age 6 in 1863 the place of death was said to be Manor House, Scawton [another name for Hagget Mouth].The William Thompson described as the brother-in-law of George Dobson with whom he was living at Hill Top is thought to be from a different family.
Thirty years later Mark was still living in Scawton Howl and his son Thomas was the tenant of the 30 acres that became known as Hill Top farm and William’s holding at Bungdale Head had increased to 111 acres. The 1901 census recorded Thomas still at Hill Top and the John Thompson who was tenant of Bungdale Head is thought to have been the son of William but there is no record of his baptism.
Mark Thompson died in 1897 at the age of 83 and the place of death was listed as the White House which was a name once given to Bungdale Head Farm
