BRADLEY [continued]
In 1750 Thomas Bradley was paying the second highest rent on the estate and he and his wife Elizabeth had five children Elinor [1750], Elizabeth [1754], Thomas [1757], John [1761] and Jane [1764] and after his first wife died Thomas married Ann Dobson. They had two children Thomas [1774] and James [1775] and after his father died at the age of 82 in 1801 it was Thomas the son from the second marriage who took the farm tenancy and he married Mary Sturdy from Kilburn and they had four children Thomas [1814], Ann [1816], Rebecca [1820] and Mary [1823].
In 1839 Thomas Bradley was farming 164 acres which was clearly land that became known as Stocking House Farm and he still held the tenancy in 1851 when according to the census it had been reduced to 42 acres and his son Thomas was still living on the farm but it had been taken by John Banks by 1869. Thomas Bradley’s daughter Elinor married Benjamin Smith of Kilburn in 1774 and they moved to Scawton Park Farm some time between 1790 and 1812 and when Elinor died in 1813 Benjamin who was 71 married a young girl named Elizabeth who was 19 and after he died in 1823 she married William Houlston of Helmsley who had been employed as a servant on the farm. She was 27 and he was 23.
The last record of the Bradley family in the parish registers was the marriage of Mary to William Hall in 1856 but Thomas the son of Thomas was still at Stocking House in 1866 but had left in 1869 ending the 136 yearperiod of Bradley tenure in Scawton byt the family name is perpetuated by Bradley Bank and Bradley Howl which are on each side of the farm where they were tenants.
HOULSTON
William Houlston was born in Helmsley in 1804 and was employed as a farm servant at Scawton Park Farm when he married Elizabeth the widow of Benjamin Smith the previous tenant in 1827. She had retained the farm tenancy and was 27 to his 23 so it could be said that ‘he landed on his feet’ as he was listed as the tenant in 1839 paying the second highest rent on the estate. In 1851 he was living at the farm with his wife and three children, Mary age 20, Andrew Job age 19 and William age 14.
Andrew Job married Elizabeth Bulmer of Hambleton and they had four children Elizabeth [1861], Mary [1863], Sarah [1865] and William [1872]. His brother William and wife Ann first lived at Carlton where their first son William was born in 1867 and between then and 1870 William became tenant of Moor House Farm where seven children were born Hannah [1870], Robert [1872], Job [1874], John [1876],Herbert [1878], Kirby [1882] and Fred [1886].
The 1881 census recorded Andrew Job with 145 acres at Scawton Park and after he and his wife Elizabeth died in 1898 the tenancy was taken by their son William who was living at the farm with his sister Mary in 1901.
William Houlston moved to Wass where he died in 1905 but he left his son William Leonard as tenant at Moor House where in 1901 he was living with his sister Hannah and brothers Job and Herbert. William Leonard was still at Moor House in 1927 but had left by 1932 and the last member of the family to live in Scawton was his son Francis William Leonard who married Florence Wood at Scawton Church in 1933 so the Houlston presence had lasted for 112 years.
