Cedric Wrathall's Lineage
In September, 2007, Derek Wrathall (dwrathall(at)totalise(dot)co(dot)uk) mentioned the following about his meeting with Cedric Wrathall:
.... I attended the funeral of a cousin in Lancaster and the subsequent gathering and meal were held at an hotel in Bare, Morecambe. In conversations with other cousins I found that the local Fisher Wrathall office was just a few minutes walk from the hotel and that this is the base of Cedric Wrathall. This was obviously too good an opportunity to miss, so I walked round and had a long chat with Cedric. He is interested and has some family history documents so I will now hopefully be able to find out more about his branch of the family. As he was born in Sedbergh I had thought that it was highly likely that his family would have come from Westhouse but the places he has mentioned so far are Skipton, Pateley Bridge and Harrogate so it should be interesting.
Derek added the following in November, 2007:
Just a quick update on Cedric. .... he is in fact a second cousin of Robert William Wrathall of Leicestershire. Tom Wrathall (1886-1950) was his grandfather, and Robert George (Bob) Wrathall (1916-1964) his father. Tom married Clara Augusta Hartley 6 Oct 1908 and Robert George married Lily Metcalfe in the 2nd qtr of 1944. .....
[Cedric] has also sent a bundle of Wrathall trees for the older generations .... These were apparently produced in 1984 ....
Another interesting bit of information [Cedric] sent is from a book "The Gunpowder Mills of Cumbria (A History of Cumbria's Gunpowder Industry)" by Ian Tyler.
- Page 46 - Reference is made to John Wrathall, working at Gatebeck, near Sedgewick, in May 1859, when there was an explosion in a building. He, with John Hunter, pulled from the ruins the two victims, William Stevenson and William Hewittson. The former was dead and the other died later.
- Page 259 - is the first of 28 listing workers at various gunpowder factories.
- Page 259 shows - 1851, Robert Wrathall, powderman, Sedgewick
- Page 260 shows - 1859, John Wrathall, powderman, Sedgewick.
"The author does not specify what the information conveys. ..... "
Attached is a copy of the obituary for Tom Wrathall which Cedric also sent. From the obituary it would appear that Tom was much in the same mould as his brother Willie who farmed at Skipton.
Derek supplied scans of pages 46, 259 and 260 above in Dec. 2007. The Wrathall listings coincide with the years in which their names were recorded in the powdermill logbooks, apparently also their last years of work.
Wrathalls of Westmorland lists IGI data for Robert Rathall (Wrathell) and son John; christening: 24 NOV 1839, Crosscrake.
John Wrathall is listed in the
Lancashire 1881 Census: Upper Holker as a boarder (age 41); birthplace: Sedgewick.
1901 Census: Westmorland lists John Wrathall (age 61), born in Heversham.
In Nov. 2007, the International Genealogical Index had the following Individual Records :
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Robert Wrathall
Birth: 19 NOV 1811
Christening: 22 DEC 1811, Thornton In Lonsdale, Yorkshire, England
Father: WILLIAM WRATHALL
Mother: MARY
- WILLIAM RATHALL
Spouse: MARY BALLOM
Marriage: 18 JUL 1802 , Cathedral Saint Peter, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
- William WRATHALL
Birth: <1777> Gatehouse, England
Spouse: Mary
Marriage: Before 1802 , Thornton-In-Lonsdale, Lancashire, England
The line of the above William is apparently the same as one listed by Kathleen Hayhurst. SInce some of the Thornton-In-Lonsdale Wrathalls were descendants of Linton-in-Craven Wrathalls, it's possible the above William was also a descendant of Linton Wrathalls.
From the Thornton-in-Lonsdale Parish Registers :
19 ??? 1811 Robert, son of William WRATHALL of Hardflats, farmer, and Mary, his wife
Wrathall Deaths: 1851 - 1863 :
Robert Wrathell, 3rd quarter 1851, Kendal District