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Frederick Jabez Lyth

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Re: Frederick Jabez Lyth

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Frederick Jabez Lyth
Hi there
Before I shut the computer down, I couldn't resist taking Jabez Lyth's details a step further. At 18 years was noted on Census as being apprenticed to a grocer in Pickering (the nearest town to Cropton - a busy market town), but sadly he was dead a year later - was Frederick named in memory of him? I don't know if you know the area we are talking about. Cropton is on the top of a high hill, which is surrounded by other hills and deep valleys. Across one of these hill tops is Levisham. A much smaller place than Cropton, which is itself small. I have stayed there a few times through a railway connection and Scouting. There is a station here which is part of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (very popular with tourists - they have a web site). My partner knows one of the main members of the station staff well, who in turn knows people round about. Dwellings well spaced. Can be approached by rail, and a road in and out of the valley. One of these roads is very spectacular, narrow, steep and bending. Not for the faint hearted. The station is in the valley bottom and does not get a lot of sun on one side in the winter. One winter visit, Scouts found icicles two feet long and very thick, on the roadside bank. I suspect that people were tough to live there. Will sound out the volunteers, they may know an elder who may be worth speaking to. There was a small school in the adjoining village - up on the hill top (much bigger than Levisham) named Lockton, now an eco youth hostel - will probably also have a web site.

I have a note of some of the Lyth children, as I had to study them in an effort to untangle what I wanted to know and, as it turns out, I do have an ancestral link to some of them.

I am awaiting a CD which I am hoping will give me some more information re the burial area at Cropton.

Have you any idea how Mrs Harland fits in? I see that Sarah Harland was listed as Jabez Lyth's mother on 1871 Census. He was 8, she was 51 - too old to produce FJL. No one else living with them.

Regards
Pam
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