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• Anthems for Doomed Youth

  Thomas Wyse advocated musical education. Writing in 1836, Wyse bemoaned the fact that middle class boys were given no musical education whatsoever. Music as a subject, was deemed to be effeminate. Yet working class boys may well have got a musical...

• Bibliography

  Bibliography This bibliography is by no means exhaustive, but is a starting point.   T.Balston, The Life of Jonathan Martin, Macmillian, 1945 Juliet Barker, The Brontes, Phoenix, 1994 Prudence Bebb, Shopping in Regen...

• Fatal Accident Near York

  York Herald, Tues 28 December, 1833 FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR YORK. ELEVEN PERSONS DROWNED. IT is our painful duty, this week, to narrate a most melancholy occurrence which took place on Thursday afternoon last, on the river Ouse, about ...

• Fatal Accident On The River Ouse

  From The York Gazette, Jan 4th, 1834 Photo right: Thumbnail - click to enlarge. Mid 19thC coffin repro, from The Castle Museum, York. This coffin is like those Paul Beilby Thompson bought for the victims. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER OUSE. FU...

• Food Glorious Food?

  We know that several of the families involved in our story, had some experience with the workhouse. Poor relief records and workhouse records from this period in York and surrounding parishes, are sparse. We were unable to find any extant wo...

• Hannah Beedham: The Nine Days Wonder of Kelfield

  Hannah Beedham: 'The Nine Days' Wonder' of Kelfield. In the summer of 1833, the Yorkshire and national newspapers were gripped by the story of 'the Kelfield Prophetess', a young girl called Hannah Beedham. Hannah described having a vision where she was...

• Narrow Escape

  The Singers were buried on the Sunday. The following Thursday, two days after the hurricane, this happened: "...NARROW ESCAPE. - A little girl had a narrow escape of being drowned on Thursday last, at Stillingfleet. She fell into the water,...

• References to the Fisher family

  Here follow all the references to the FISHER family of Stillingfleet/Cawood we have been able to find in the Stillingfleet and Cawood Parish Records, at the Borthwick Institute, York University, & other sources. Arranged in decade order. ...

• References to the Toes family

  The youngest man onboard, survivor Richard Toes came from Osbaldwick, 2 miles East of York. (Stilingfleet is 7 miles South of York). He was the first Toes to come to Stillingfleet and maybe the nearest thing to an 'outsider' onboard, that night. Below are...

• Shocking Event, Eleven Persons Drowned

  SHOCKING EVENT, ELEVEN PERSONS DROWNED, IN THE OUSE, NEAR THIS CITY York Courant, December 28th, 1833 God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. ...

• Specifications for the West Gallery at Stillingfleet

  Specifications/contract for the new West Gallery at Stillingfleet. The Gallery had to be built by November 1832 - or else! No trace of it remains in the West side of the church. Mike Bailey, of the West Gallery Music Association, told us: "... In ...

• Stordys in Cawood Parish Records

  Cawood Church. Clarissa Sturdy's ancestor was Churchwarden here, in the 1720s Clarissa's father, William Sturdy and his brother, James Sturdy were christened here. As were Stephen Green the hauling man, in 1792 and John Fisher, survivor, in 1793. John Fi...

• The Christmas Hymn

  'The' Christmas Hymn? "... 'I am a labourer, and reside at Stillingfleet; I am one of the singers at the parish church, and went along with the deceased persons whose bodies are found, and George Eccles, Richard Toes, Sarah Spencer, and Sarah Eccle...

• The Female Prophet

  From 'The Yorkshire Gazette', August 3rd, 1833. THE FEMALE PROPHET - We sometime ago noticed the ravings of a young woman, - who pretends, that she laid in a trance at the County Hospital (not at Easingwold, as it was previously stated) ...

• The Inquest

  (From The Yorkshire Gazette, 28 Dec 1833).   Unfortunately, no inquest reports for 19thC York area are extant. A 20thC coroner took it on himself to burn the lot! We do have a detailed report of the inquest and the words that follow are...

• The Selby Serpent

  Just a few miles down the road from Stillingfleet, is Selby Abbey. On display there is an instrument contemporaneous to our Singers. The serpent was a popular instrument for church bands. This one is inscribed 'F.PRETTY.MAKER'. Pretty was one of the best-...

• The Stillingfleet Orphans

  The Stillingfleet Orphans 19thC 'Live Aid'! From 'The York Courant', January 1st, 1834 and 'The York Herald', January 18th, 1834 Taken from an account of a grand ball, at the York Assemby Rooms on January 16th, 1834, "in...

• Victims and Survivors

  Markham's Burial Register Entry, Stillingfleet, 1833, is rather stark. On Dec 24th, he had buried 82 year old George Simpson. Entry 299 following, reads: William Bristow, Stillingfleet, Dec 29th, 55 ...

• Why on Earth did They...

  RIVER CROSSINGINTHE 1830'sHAULERS & TURNERS Click on images to enlarge. Bend in the Ouse, at Cawood. Turner's boat was found around here. Left: Photo: David Hunt, 2008. Right: Hand coloured print from 'History of Sherburn a...