Thomas More 1527 by Hans Holbein the younger

Martin Wood posted on the Pocklington History Forum on 2 Jan 2009 the following:

The Ullathorne family of Pocklington and elsewhere were extensively researched in the 1960s by Basil Kentish (a descendant) and the results privately printed in "The Chronicles of an Ancient Yorkshire Family". I have incorporated some of this into my own research which may be of interest to those trying to make connections.

The Ullathornes of Pocklington and their connection with Sir/Saint Thomas More:

Anne More (5x great-granddaughter of Sir/Saint Thomas More) and William Binks:

Anne, the daughter of Christopher Cresacre More and his wife Katherine (nee Wharton), was born at North Mymms, Hertfordshire, on 9 June 1689.

Anne married William Binks/Bynks (1685-1748), a ‘Gentleman’ of Richmond, York and Easingwold. The marriage would have been conducted by a Catholic missionary priest and its date has not been discovered.

William and Anne had two children:
1. William: Date of birth not known. Recorded as having died in the Indies.
2. Mary: Born 1726. Inherited her father’s estates. Married John Ullathorne. [See Below]

John Ullathorne and Mary Binks:

John Ullathorne, born at Easingwold and baptised at Ampleforth on 28 March 1725, was the son of John Ullathorne (1698-1727) a tailor and draper of Easingwold and his wife Ann (b.1702). In addition to John, they also had a daughter, Elizabeth, baptised at All Saints, Easingwold on 1 February 1727. John (Snr.) died in 1727 and his widow, Ann, married John Oard at All Saints, Easingwold, on 11 September 1737.
John Ullathorne married Mary Binks on 17 December 1749. The marriage would have been conducted by a Catholic Priest. John followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a successful draper in Easingwold, probably using some of the income from the property Mary inherited after the death of her father to establish himself in business. John was not a Catholic, but all their seven children were brought up as Catholics, a faith to which they and most of their descendants remained faithful. The children were:

1. James 1751-1781.
2. John (1752-1832): See below, “The Pocklington connection”
3. Ann: Born 1755. Baptism on 5 February entered in the Register of All Saints Church, Easingwold. Married George Wilden of Terrington in 1774.
4. William (1757-1816): Adopted ‘Ullithorne’ an earlier spelling of the family name. Became Land Agent at Lartington Hall, the ancestral home of the Catholic Maire and Witham families. Lartington, not far from Starforth and Barnard Castle. Married Barbara Clifton (c.1770-1856), on 7 August 1792. They had twelve children, all baptised in the Catholic Chapel adjacent to Lartington Hall. Only three of the children (two sons and a daughter) had issue. After William’s death Barbara moved with her younger children to Galgate in Barnard Castle where she ran a School for the Catholic children of the town.
5. Francis: 1760-1837: Apprenticed to an apothecary in York in 1773. Moved to London, where he set up his own business as a ‘tow spinner and grindery warehouseman’ at 12 Gate Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. In partnership with four of his sons and Owen Longstaff, his son-in-law, he later established Ullathorne & Co., flax and shoe thread mills at Startforth and at Barnard Castle. Married Mary Ann Simpson in a Catholic ceremony at Great Ormond Street. However as the law then required, this was followed by a marriage in their local parish church of St. George the Martyr, Bloomsbury on 23 April 1786. Mary Ann, born c.1765, also died in 1837. Francis and Mary Ann had eleven children all baptized Catholics.
6. Thomas: Born 1766. At the age of fourteen, on 31 July 1780, he was apprenticed to John Robinson, a Carpenter/Joiner in York. He completed his apprenticeship and became a carpenter in his own right.
7. Catherine: c.1771-1823.

Mary Ullathorne (nee Binks) died in 1788 and was buried at All Saints, Easingwold. Then, at the age of sixty-three, John married Anne Rawlin/Rawlins (born 1756) at All Saints Church, Easingwold on 17 September 1789. They had two children:
1. John Ord/Oard Ullathorne, born 17 February, and baptized at All Saints on 4 April 1791.
2. Sarah Ullathorne, born 22 October 1793 and baptized at All Saints on 4 January 1794. Sarah married John Terry.
John Ullathorne died in 1794 and was buried at All Saints, Easingwold. Ann, age 90, died at Easingwold, in 1846.

The Pocklington connection:

John Ullathorne (1572-1832): Second son of John Ullathorne and Mary Binks became a shoemaker and later a tenant farmer of lands around Pocklington, lands probably belonging to the Constable family of Everingham. John married Mary Robinson the daughter of a local Catholic family. They had four sons and, probably, two daughters.
The sons:
1. Thomas: Baptized 1782 in the Catholic Chapel of the Constable family at Everingham Hall.
2. William: Born 1786 (see below).
3. James: Baptized at Everingham in 1789.
4. Francis (1790-1850): Became a wealthy draper and mercer in Hull and Hessle, he also had businesses in Market Weighton,
Howden, Pontefract and York. Gave up the Catholic faith. Married twice and had issue by both wives.
The daughters:
1. One daughter could be the Mary Ullathorne born at Pocklington on 27 March and baptized in the Parish Church on 24th April 1785.
2. The other daughter could be the Anne Ullathorne born at Pocklington on 30 September and baptized in the Parish Church on 21 October 1787. [Note: Baptism in a Protestant Church was not absolutely forbidden to Catholics, and could have occurred if a Catholic Chaplain or missionary priest was not available at the time.]
One of the daughters – probably Mary - is known to have married into the Buttle family of Pocklington, and their descendants were said to be still living there in the 1960s.

William Ullathorne: Born 1786 (2nd son of John above) married Hannah Longstaff who became a Catholic. Hannah, born 14 July 1781, was the daughter of John Longstaff, Chief Constable of Spilsby, and later of Halton Holgate, Lincolnshire. Hannah was born at Halton Holgate on 14 July and baptised there on 25 September 1781. The couple met while working at Townshend’s Drapery in Holborn, London, and after a private Catholic marriage, they married at the Church of St. Mary Le Bow on 25 June 1805.

After their marriage William and Hannah settled in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, where William became prosperous running a general store in the Market Place. William and Hannah had ten children, six born at Pocklington, and four at Scarborough after the family business, called Ullathorne & Sons, moved to 65 Newborough, Scarborough, around 1812. William and Hannah had ten children. A Catholic Chapel was established at Pocklington in 1807, and it seems likely that, apart from William, the other children born at Pocklington would have been baptized there. The children born at Scarborough would, most likely, have been baptised at the Catholic Chapel in Auborough Street. The Catholic registers for these places have not survived. The children were:

1. William Bernard: Born at Pocklington on 7 May 1806, and probably baptised in the Catholic Chapel at Everingham, or in the Catholic Chapel at York. Became a Benedictine Monk and eventually the first Catholic Bishop of Birmingham. Later, after his retirement, he was granted the honorary title of Archbishop of Cabasa.
2. Owen, born 1807. Settled in Liverpool where he died in 1850.
3. James: Born 1808.
4. Charles: Born 1810, Married his second cousin, Jane Elizabeth Ullathorne at Scarborough in 1838. Settled in Liverpool
where he died in 1846. Jane then married George Foreman.
5. Lucy: Born 1812; died 1851. Married her first cousin, John Charles Longstaffe (1818-1879).
6. Bernard: Born 1814; died 1886. Married (1842) Elizabeth Hartell and had eight children three of whom became nuns and one (John) a priest.
7. Francis: Born 1816. Settled in Liverpool where he died in 1869.
8. Rebecca: Born 1818,
9. Christopher: Born 1819, Settled in Liverpool. Died at Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1898.
10. Hannah: Born 1821; died age three months.
William Ullathorne senior died in November 1829. In his will he left his property at Pillmoors, Pocklington and York to Hannah. The family business continued in Pocklington until 1847 around which time Owen transferred it to Liverpool where it continued until his death in 1850. Hannah died on 14 September 1860. Her son, Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, was at her bedside and he arranged for her body to be taken to the Convent of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena (St. Dominic’s Convent) at Stone, Staffordshire, where she was buried in the Convent Chapel on 19 September 1860. Archbishop Ullathorne was buried next to her after his death at Oscott College, Warwickshire, on 21 March 1889.

© Martin Wood. 1st January 2009.
[Author of “The Family and Descendants of St Thomas More”
Published by Gracewing. April 2008. ISBN 978 0 85244 681 2]

Posted by John on 8 May 2010:

I have typed out this transcription of John Ullathorne’s family bible. This came to us via my father’s great aunt Lucy Wilson (daughter of Christiana Wilson nee Rhodes born in Pocklington) who lived in Sandhoe NBL. My father says that she did have the original but GA Lucy told him she was visited by a slightly related Canadian airman who, while she was out of the room, tore out the pages and took them. Fortunately she had transcribed the detail and for those interested in the family here it is. I have changed nothing, and the spellings (i.e. Ullathorne with an E are as they appear).
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My dear Farther John Ullathorne died the 11th day of Nov 1728
My dear wife Mary Ullathorne died the 25th day of August at one oclock at noon 1788 and was buried on Wednesday the 27th August.
My dear Farther John Ullathorne died the 2nd day of February.
My dear mother Mary Ullathorne died Dec 13th 1812 aged 61.
My dear son James Ullathorne died at St Lucin 14th April 1781
John Ullathorne born Aug 29th 1776
James ---“--- “ June 22nd
My dear friend poor Miss Moore died 9th of August 3 past 2 oclock in the morning.
My mother died on Wednesday morning May 25th 1774
John Ullathorne was born 28th of March 1725
Thomas Nathaniel Ullathorne was born Oct 22nd 5 minutes before 2 in the morning 1766 died July.
Catherine Ullathorne was born Feb 18th.
John Ullathorne & Mary Bincks was married 17th of Dec 1749
James the son of Mary and John Ullathorne was born 10th day of January 1750
John the son of Mary and John Ullathorne was born the 27th day of July 1752 died Aug 27th 1832 aged 80.
Ann the daughter of John and Mary Ullathorne was born the 12th day of January 1755.
William was born 19th Dec 1757 died 5th of June 1816 aged 59
Francis Ullathorne was born 30th of January 1760 Died 1837.
Mary Rhodes the daughter of John Ullathorne was born March 27th 1785. Her portrait was painted by Mr Blanchard of Hull June 1845 and his now at Sandhoe.
This Bible belongs to me John Ullathorne
Sept 27 1767
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Christina posted on the Forum 4 Dec 2010 the link back to William the Conquerer:

William the Conqueror ( b.1028) m Matilda, Countess of Flanders (1032)
Their son Henry I, king of England (1070) m Matilda of Scotland (1079)
Their daughter Matilda (1102) m Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113)
Their son Henry II king of England (1133) m Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122)
Their son John, King of England (1167) m Isabella of Angouleme (1188)
Their son Henry III, King of England (1207) m Eleanor (?) Countess of Provence (1217)
Their son Edmund 'Crouchback', Prince of England (1244) m Blanche D' Artois (1245)
Their son Henry, 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster (1281) m Maud de Chaworth (1282)
Their daughter Mary Plantagenet (1320) m Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy (1300)
Their son Henry de Percy,1st Earl of Northumberland (1341) m Margaret Neville (1329)
Their son Henry ' Hotspur' de Percy (1364) m Elizabeth Mortimer (1371)
Their son Henry de Percy (1392) m Eleanor Neville (1396) ( Eleanor's mother Joan was a Beaufort and a daughter of John of Gaunt)
Their son Henry Percy (1421) m Eleanor Poynings (1422)
Their daughter Elizabeth Percy (1468) m Henry Le Scrope (1468)
Their son John Scrope (1496) m Phillis Rokeby (1489)
Their daughter Mary or Maria Scrope (1538) m Thomas More II (1531)
Their son Christopher Cresacre More I (1572) m Elisabeth Gage (1576)
Their son Thomas More III (1603) m Mary Brooke (1608)
Their son Basil More (1632) m Anne Humble (1664)
Their son Christopher Cresacre II (1666) m Catherine Wharton (1666)
Their daughter Ann More (1689) m William Binks (1685)
Their daughter Mary Binks (1726) m John Ullathorne (1725)