THOMPSON [continued]
When William Thompson died in 1886 the tenancy was taken by his younger brother Harwood and had passed to William’s son John by 1901. He and his wife Hannah had five children, Henry Mark, William Abel, George John, Mary Ellen and Hannah Olive May. Henry Mark and his younger brother George John were living at the farm in 1927 and Henry Mark held the tenancy when it was purchased by John Hetherington in 1939 and lived at the farm until retiring to Helmsley in 1955 being the last member of the family with the name of Thompson to live in Scawton but Ken Garbut who still farms at Manor Farm is the grandson of James Thompson who was born in the village in 1857 so the family connection with Scawton still continues and the name has been recorded continuously for a period of 416 years.
YORK
This is the only other family whose length of tenure in the village compares with that of the Thompsons and the first record of their presence in Scawton was the baptism in 1678 of Thomas the son of William York who was the tenant of 5 acres in 1694 and paid the tenth highest rent of £9 7s 6d in 1708 which had risen to £12 when according to the rent roll it was paid by his widow in 1719 which is strange as William did not die until 1725 when he was described as a yeoman. No record could be found of the baptism of John York but as he was paying the same rent in 1732 it is assumed that he was another son of William and he and his wife Mary nee Wright had six children, William [1720], Anne [1721], Elizabeth [1723], Mary [1724], Jane [1725] and Robert [1735]. When John died in 1758 he was described as a wheelwright and successive generations of York men were carpenters.
A John York married Elizabeth Tyreman of Cold Kirby in 1753 and as he was born in 1722 he may have been another son of John and Mary. John and Elizabeth had five boys, Robert [1754], Thomas [1756], John [1762], Richard [1768] and David [1775] who it is thought were born at Rectory farm where John was tenant until his death at the age of 81 in 1803 when his son John took the tenancy and held 12 acres of pasture in 1812. John’s brother David was a farm servant when he died in 1802 at the age of 26 and brother Thomas married Mary Robinson of Masham in 1787 and they had a son John who was described as a carpenter when in 1819 he married Jane Lumley the daughter of Thomas who was another farm tenant and they had three children Elizabeth [1820], David [1822] and John [1823]. David followed the family trade of carpentry and he and his wife Mary had seven children, John Anna [1852], John [1858], Rebecca [1860], Thomas [1864], David [1867], William [1869] and Wilkinson [1871] whose Christian name may have been his mother’s maiden name.
There are two members of the family whose baptismal and marriage records may have been lost in the fire. William York [joiner] and his wife Jane had four children, Ann [1846], twins John and Hannah [1848] and Thomas [1862] and another Thomas York born in 1844 and also a joiner married Catherine Brown the daughter of the licensee of the Hare Inn in 1866 by whom he fathered five children Helena [1866], William Lumley [1868], Sarah [1871] Mary Ann [1873] and Elizabeth Annie [1875]. When Helena was baptised Thomas was described as a farmer and five years later when Sarah was baptised he was said to be an innkeeper and must have followed his father-in-law as licensee. In 1881 his brother John born 1848 was working as a groom and living at the Hare Inn.
