William and Grace lived in
Sandenhouse, just to the north of Abbeytown, across the river Waver
from Grace's family home in Raby.
They had at least three children: William (#1307),
born in 1683, Thomas (#1316), who died in infancy, in 1687,
and Elizabeth (#1317), born in 1689; all were born at Sandenhouse and
baptised in the parish church of St. Mary, Abbeytown. The church of St.
Mary is the only surviving building of the old abbey, which fell into
ruin after the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th
century, so providing the building materials from which much of the
village was built. William junior married Mary
BRIGG (#1308, probably a second-cousin) on 15 Nov 1705
and they lived initially in Raby (probably at Mary's
parents' home), where there first child, William,
was born in 1706; they then moved to Swinstie, a district of Abbeytown
between Mary's home in Raby and William's parents' home in Sandenhouse.
Here a second child, Mabell (#1309), was born in August 1709, but died
within two months. Finally, they moved to Sandenhouse, (possibly the
old family home; William's father had died by this time) where they
remained for the rest of their lives and where four more children were
born: Mary (#1310, b.1711), who died in infancy, Elizabeth (#1311, b.
1715), a second Mary (#1312, b.1719) and Jonathan (#1313,
b.1727). In 1728, William died at the age of 45 and the parish register
entry for his burial notes that he was: "an
excommunicated man without ye benefit of the Clergy".
This is something we must look into further - I don't think they
excommunicated people for minor offences!! He may turn out to be a
black sheep of the family, or more probably, was one of the early
protesters against the established church (we find many Wesleyans and
Methodists in the family in the following century).
The eldest son of William and Mary, William, married
Thomason BARNE (#1299)
on 25 May 1727. Their first child, Joseph
(#1176) was baptised on 8 Sep 1728; their second, William (#1302) on 19
Oct 1731. Thomason died in Sep 1745 and three months later, William
remarried - on 23 Dec 1745 he married Ann LANGRIGG (#1325), and they
left Sandenhouse to live in Abbeytown, where two children were born:
Jonathan (#1324, b. 1748) and Langrigg (#1326, b.1752).
There is no reference to the occupation of the ancestors
before this time - although, subjectively, I feel they may have been
farmers - but William's occupation is given as 'Miller'
Joseph, the eldest son of
William and Thomason, married Jane PRINGLE (#1179) on 10 Jun 1764, and
they had six children between 1765 and 1781: Thomasin (#1295, b.1765)
and Ann Barnes Hudson (#1296, b.1767), who both died in infancy, Joseph
(#1770), Robert (#1772), William (#1776), and a second Ann Barns Hudson
(#1781). Joseph was a churchwarden and Parish Clerk and the
family lived in Abbeytown.
Eldest son of Joseph and Jane, Joseph junior,
trained as a shoemaker and lived and worked first in Raby Cote, where
he was at the time of his marriage in 1790 to Mary STUBBS,
and where the couple remained until the birth of their first child,
Anne in 1791. But by 1793, when a second daughter, Ruth, was born, they
had moved to the centre of Abbeytown, a mile and a half to the south,
where presumably there would have been more passing trade and more
business for Joseph. He was to remain in business in Abbeytown for the
rest of his life, but that business changed twice. By 1806, at the
baptism of his son Joseph, his occupation was shown as butcher, and by
1809 he had become an innkeeper. By 1816, the couple had a family of
nine children, including our great-great grandfather Hodgson BROUGH
(#1169, b. 1796).