Bellasis i.162 (per JMH) quotes an
inscription on an E. altar tomb in
Burton-in-Kendal
(SD5376), the parish church for Holme also:
To Mr George Hoggan and Richard his
brother, both of Holme.
G.H. died 17 June 1750
aet. 55
R.H. died 26 August
1773 aet. 69
George H. Toulmin out of gratitude
to the above gentlemen,
his relatives, erected this monument.
[I
could not find this when I visited the church recently: it was extensively
restored
in 1844 and again in 1872.] As George Hoggart Toulmin (**132132) was
apprenticed
at Burton, in 1771, it was presumably he who erected the monument. The
name
Hoggan seems to be unknown. Not only is
it not in the PR of Burton, but it
happens
that there was in effect a census in 1695, in connection with a tax on
batchelors
and widowers etc, of which the records for some Westmoreland parishes are
preserved
(in magnificent condition) at Kendal (WD/Ry), so I can say positively
there
were no Hoggans in Holme (or Burton) then.
There was, however, a family of
Hoggarts
(Hogart in WD/Ry, for which "George Hogart" was one of the assessors,
but
Hoggart
in PR), which can be reconstructed thus:
George Hoggart bur 9 Aug
1689 Christopher Beetham
___________________|_____________________ of Burton
|
| | |
|
Jane
Richard Alice George = Margaret Beetham
d.unm.
[butcher, [living with Richard]
[butcher] m. 25.1.1693/4 c.16.8.1664
26.2
batchelor] bur.unm.
15.1.1710/1 bur.11.5.1734 |
1684/5
bur.26.5.1713 |
______________________________________________________|_____
| |
| | |
*George John
Richard Edward *Richard
c.21.3.1694/5 c.24.4.1697
c.27.10.1699 c.4.10.1701 c.17.10.1703
bur.1.7.1750 bur.1.2.1721/2 bur.16.11.1702 bur.4.1.1702/3 bur.28.8.1773
Notes
in [] from the 1695 return; other details from PR (Kendal, WPR/10/1,2); I have
not checked
baptisms ("c.") before 1670 systematically, so Jane, Richard, Alice,
and
George
may well all be there.
With 3 Georges & 3 Richards involved,
there is some guesswork about putting them
together.
There is no doubt at all that the two marked * were GHT's "G.H." and
"R.H.". I guess G.H. may have d. 27 June, not 17th,
as he was undoubtedly buried on
1 July.
I found, however, no indication at all of
how they came to be GHT's relatives.
His
grandmother was "Mrs Margaret Todd" when she married, presumably a
young widow
(though
she is not so described, and the "Mrs" is not conclusive), but I
found no
Miss
Hoggarts who might have married a Mr Todd about 1709. Before learning that
GHT's
father Robert married a Miss Harvey, I made a check of baptisms to 1756,
finding
no daughter of GH or RH who might have been his mother. There were no
Toulmins
or Todds in the 1695 return (card-indexed, luckily), which covers Kirkby
Lonsdale
as well as Burton and other parishes in the area (but not necessarily as
thoroughly).
There is also at Kendal a return for 1787 (WQSP/C) covering Holme,
which
lists no Hoggarts or Toulmins.
GHT's "gratitude" is also
puzzling, especially since GH was buried four years
before
GHT was born. One guess is that the
Hoggart brothers gave GHT's grandmother
some
assistance, and perhaps a home, in what must have been a very difficult time
for her
after her husband, the Rev. Thomas Toulmin, died leaving her with 7 children
under
16. As she was still living (apparently
at Ravenstonedale) when GHT was
apprenticed
to the surgeon in Burton (14 Nov 1771), he would surely have seen her
and
heard the story.
The name Hoggart was quite common in the
area. There was also a George Hoggart
at
Silverdale, parish of Warton (SD4675) in 1696 (Oaths), and there was,
intriguingly,
an Alice Hoggart (or Hoggard or Huggard) who had a bastard son Thomas
by John
Toulmin of Slyne in 1679: see App.B, section 5a.