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Margaret Watson was born on the 31st July 1786 at Staindrop, Durham.1
Of Staindrop, she married [K2] George Binns
there on the 30th January 1805. Their
children were: Eliza (1805), Ann (1808), Henry (1810), Thomas Watson (1811), Rachel (1814), George (1815), John (1817), William (1819), Watson (1820), Margaret (1822), Frederick (1825), Sarah (1826), Edward (1827), Sophia (1828), [K1] Lucy (1830); all were born at Sunderland.2
At least during the period 1818-21 she and George regularly attended local monthly meetings and, in 1818, the Ackworth General Meeting. In the summer of 1820 they spent three weeks 'on a very pleasant journey' in Lancashire. In August 1821 she was appointed by Newcastle Monthly Meeting as overseer in Sunderland meeting.2A
It is known that she bottle-fed her son Frederick. She was much better loved by Frederick than was George Binns, his father. In 1832, 1833, and 1835 she witnessed the birth of three of her grandchildren.3
In 1834 she was co-executor of her husband's will. In February 1836 she was described as Relict, of Sunderland, Durham.4
She died on Christmas Eve, 1836, and was buried at Nile Street, Bishopwearmouth, on the 29th.5
Margaret Watson was one of the daughters of [L2] Joshua and
[L26]
Rachel Watson.6
1 Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends' House Library, typescript); PRO RG 6/626, /628, /775, 1149
2 Dictionary of Quaker Biography; Watson Binns obit. in Ackworth School Book 1905; RG 6/527, /628, /775, /1149
2A David Binns, Ms diary (photocopy of transcript in my possession); minutes of Newcastle Monthly Meeting, TWAS MF 169
3 Reminiscences of Frederick Binns; photocopy possessed by Margaret Viney; genealogical notes by Sidney Beck; RG 6/1149
4 PRO IR 26/1140, IR 27/1140
5 DQB; RG 6/228, /1151
6 DQB; Ms Pedigree in Watson box, Society of Genealogists' library document collection
Joshua Watson was born on the 28th April 1747 at Staindrop, Durham.1
He was apprenticed to John Ecroyde [(Acroyd(e)], apothecary, of Kendal, Westmorland, for a term of 7 years and for a premium of 45 pounds sterling. His indenture was dated 23 March 1762, which means that he was 14 or 15 years old when he began his apprenticeship – a typical age.1A
He lived in Staindrop at the time of his marriage, on the 27th February 1770, to [L26] Rachel Grainger. They married in Raby. Their children were: Joseph, Hannah (1777), Grainger, William, Elizabeth, Sarah (1780), Henry (1782), Hannah (1784), [L1] Margaret (1786), and Rachael (1788); all dated births were at Staindrop.2
In 1777 he was recorded as a surgeon, but in 1780 and 1782 as an apothecary. From 1786 to 1809 his occupation was again given as surgeon. On 8 May 1789 Joshua Watson, apothecary and druggist of Staindrop, was a bankrupt; his assignees were among the parties of the first part to a lease for 1 year of a close in Staindrop, formerly part of the glebe of Staindrop. By 15 February 1806 Joshua Watson had sold a parcel of land at the lower end of Staindrop to Christopher Atkinson the elder of Staindrop. In early 1823 he was living, with his wife and daughter Sarah, next door to the Staindrop drapery managed by David Binns. The latter found them ‘very kind neighbours’, and ‘deeply sympathized’ with Binns in his difficulties, saying, at the onset, “I wonder thou does not run away”. Binns refers to Watson’s wife and daughter as ‘very worthy members’ of Staindrop meeting, but omits reference to Joshua himself; possibly he had been disowned for bankruptcy. Pigot’s Directory for 1828/9, however, lists him as a gentleman in Staindrop.3
Late surgeon of Staindrop, he died on 29 August 1832, and was buried at Staindrop on 2 September.3A
Joshua Watson was the eldest child of [L3] Hugh and [L12] Hannah Watson .4
1 entry in digests of Society of Friends; PRO RG 6/1151
1A email to me from Dee Cook, Archivist to the Society of Apothecaries, 2002-07-04, citing P.J. & R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics, 2nd edition 1988
2 entry in digests of Society of Friends; Ms Pedigree in Watson box, Society of Genealogists' library document collection; RG 6/527, /626, /1012, /1157
3 entry in digests of Society of Friends; RG 6/527, /626, /1156, /1157; Pigot & Co’s Directory of Cheshire, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Durham &c.; South Durham Deeds, 293, Durham University Archives & Special Collections; Durham RO D/St/D1/14/105; David Binns, Ms diary (photocopy of transcript in my possession)
3A RG 6/1151
4 entry in digests of Society of Friends
Hugh Watson was born on the 23rd December 1702 at Allendale, Northumberland. In 1727 he was left 10s. in the will of his uncle William Fairless; and in 1730 he was left £5 in the will of his grandfather Robert Rutter.1
He married [L12] Hannah Dixon, after the 4th March 1746. The Watsons lived at Raby, where their four children were born: Michael, [L2] Joshua (1747) Michael or Mitchell (1749), and Joseph (1753). They settled in Staindrop, where Hugh was a shopkeeper.2
He died on the 15th April 1767, the event being recorded by Raby Monthly Meeting. On the 22nd June the administration of Hugh Watson of Staindrop was granted to Hannah, the widow and sole executrix.3
Hugh Watson was the fourth child, and first son, of [L4] Joshua and [L10] Ann
Watson .4
1 Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends' House Library, typescript); photocopied will, administration, inventory and journal articles supplied to me by John Ayton; Robert Rutter's will, transcript by John Wintrip
2 Dictionary of Quaker Biography; Ms Pedigree in Watson box, Society of Genealogists' library document collection; the latter refers to him as 'Sir' Hugh Watson; J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
3 DQB; Percy Corder: The Life of Robert Spence Watson. London: Headley, 1914; PRO RG 6/1012, /1549
4 DQB
Joshua Watson was born at Huntwell, Allendale, Northumberland on the 10th September 1672, his birth being registered by Allendale Monthly Meeting.1
He married [L10] Ann Rutter on the 16th December 1697, at Rounton,
Yorks. They lived in Huntwell, Allendale, Northumberland, and had 14 children: Elizabeth (1698/9), Mary (1700), Sarah (1701), [L3] Hugh (1702), Joshua (1704), Hannah (1706), Joshua (1708), Robert (1710), Phebe (1712), Ann (1714), Ann (1716), Deborah (1717/8), Joseph (1720), and Jacob (1724).2
He consistently bore testimony against oaths and against payment of tithes. In 1717 alone, for example, he and two other Friends were amerced in May for refusing to take the juryman's oath at Hexham Head Court, and pewter was seized to cover the amount in October; in July he suffered distraint of 12 lambs worth £1.16s for small tythes, and in December of 8 sheep worth £2.11s.6d; and on the latter occasion "they took forcibly out of his Pockett in Money" 5s.6d. He witnessed the will of his brother-in-law William Fairless in 1727. In 1730 he was left £10 in the will of his father-in-law Robert Rutter.3
He died on the 14th June 1757 and was buried at Bournfoot on the 17th. The Newcastle Journal of the 2nd July 1757 carried a note of his death. This estimated the number of his descendants within his lifetime at 97, and remarked on the general regret felt in the neighbourhood at his death, "for he was and had long been a very useful man in his neighbourhood being well skilled both in classical learning and the laws of his country, which added to good natural parts, great probity and a candid disposition, made him frequently be chosen referee and often umpire on matters of difference and dispute among his neighbours. He was from his youth a great lover and encourager of planting, the fruits of which accompanied him to his grave, for his corpse was buried in a coffin made out of a tree of his own raising."4
Joshua Watson was the fifth child, and by the death of his brother Hugh in January 1693 the eldest surviving son, of [L5] Anthony and [L8] Elizabeth Watson .5
1 PRO RG 6/1271; Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends' House Library, typescript); www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
2 Dictionary of Quaker Biography; Percy Corder (1914) The Life of Robert Spence Watson. London: Headley; RG 6/1271
3 DQB; photocopied will, administration, inventory and journal articles supplied to me by John Ayton; Robert Rutter's will, transcript by John Wintrip
4 DQB; Corder (1914); www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
5 DQB; Corder (1914)
Anthony Watson lived in Allendale in 1660. In that year, with others, he was "taken by Wm. Errington, papist Justice & other papists, and by them Carried to Hexham, and put in a Stinking Dungeon, and by the Gaoler there kept several dayes, who would scarce suffere anything to come to them; but walled up the window where severall of them were kept severel weeks, and then Carried to Morpeth Gaole, and there Continued Prisoners till the King's proclamation. They were taken at a meeting at New Shele, being there met together to Worship God, and Committed to Gaol for no other cause. All cleared at Quarter Sessions." It is not quite clear which proclamation of the King's is alluded to above, as he made two, ostensibly in favour of the Protestant Dissenters, but it is probably that of December, 1662, which was not sanctioned by Parliament.1
He married [L8] Elizabeth Nevin on the 29th March 1663, at the Steel. Their children were: Jane (1663), Elizabeth (1665), Ann (1666), Hugh (1670), [L4] Joshua (1672), Sarah (1675), and Joseph (1678).2
In 1682 "Anthony Watson, of Huntwell, yeoman, was fined five shillings for himself for being at a meeting at Burnfoot, and fifteen shillings for the supposed poverty of another Friend for being at two meetings, one of which meetings A. Watson was not at, for which was taken a heifer worth £1 10s. 0d." On the 28th November that year he was fined 10s for being present at a Conventicle on the 11th Nov at the dwelling house of Francis Shield at Bournefoot.2A
In 1694 he lived in Huntwell; he and three others "in scorn called Quakers, were commit to prison ye 1st day of ye third month, 1694, and soe continued prisoners about a year and six months, till freed at the assizes, upon pleading the statute called the Act of Grace after the death of Queen Mary." "The Gaoler was moderate, and gave them liberty sometimes to go home and there abide until he sent for them, which made their imprisonment pretty easie."3
He died in 1704/5, at which time he was living in Swinhopesheel, Allendale. He was buried at Allendale on 5th February 1704/5. His inventory shows him possessed of the following:
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£ : s : d |
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His horse purse & apperral |
10:00:00 |
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The household goods |
10:00:00 |
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Four kine & three hiefers |
14:00:00 |
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A kow & a hiefer |
3:00:00 |
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Four Mares |
8:00:00 |
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68 English sheep |
15:00:00 |
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34 hogs |
6:00:00 |
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66 Scots sheep |
13:04:00 |
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The husbandry geer |
1:10:00 |
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The hay |
6:00:00 |
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The Apprizal amounts to: |
86:14:00 |
He was owed £16:13:06, but had debts of £227:13:09. After deduction of funeral expenses of £7:05:00, his estate was £131:11:03 in the red.4
Anthony Watson was the second child and second son of [L6] Hugh and [L7] Jane Watson.5
1 Percy Corder (1914) The Life of Robert Spence Watson. London: Headley; photocopied will, administration, inventory and journal articles supplied to me by John Ayton; Joseph Besse (1753/2000) Sufferings of Early Quakers. Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham & Northumberland, Isle of Man, Lancashire. ed. Michael Gandy. York: Sessions: 173-4
2 Corder (1914); PRO RG 6/1271; www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
2A photocopied will, administration, inventory and journal articles supplied to me by John Ayton
3 Corder (1914); photocopied will, administration, inventory and journal articles supplied to me by John Ayton
4 Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends' House Library, typescript); photocopied will, administration, inventory and journal articles supplied to me by John Ayton; according to John Wintrip he was buried at the Holmes, Allendale, but the National Burial Index shows the burial at St Cuthbert’s, Allendale
5 Corder (1914)
Hugh Watson of the Holmes married [L7] Jane ____. Their children were: William, [L5] Anthony , Robert, Cuthbert, and Elizabeth.1
He was among the first of the Allendale folk who fell under the powerful influence of George Fox.2
He made his will on the 23rd May 1674.3
1-3 Percy Corder (1914) The Life of Robert Spence Watson.
London: Headley
Jane ____ married [L6] Hugh Watson. Their children were: William, [L5] Anthony , Robert, Cuthbert, and Elizabeth.1
She was buried on the 20th November 1675, at the Holmes.2
1-2 Percy Corder (1914) The Life of Robert Spence Watson.
London: Headley; www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915. Wintrip gives the date as 20 Jan 1676.
Elizabeth Nevin married [L5] Anthony Watson on the 29th March 1663, at the Steel, Allendale. Their children were: Jane (1663), Elizabeth (1665), Ann (1666), Hugh (1670), [L4] Joshua (1672), Sarah (1675), and Joseph (1678).1
She died at Huntwell and was buried at the Holmes on the 7th August 1679.2
Elizabeth Nevin was the daughter of [L9] Thomas Nevin .3
1 Percy Corder (1914) The Life of Robert Spence Watson. London: Headley; www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915; PRO RG 6/1271 (which gives her surname as ‘Neving’)
2 Corder (1914); www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
3 Corder (1914)
Thomas Nevin flourished before 1647.1
1 Percy Corder (1914) The Life of Robert Spence Watson.
London: Headley
Ann Rutter was born on the 19th February 1679/80 at Busby, Yorks.1
She married [L4] Joshua Watson on the 16th December 1697, at Rounton, Yorks. They lived in Huntwell, Allendale, Northumberland, and had 14 children: Elizabeth (1698/9), Mary (1700), Sarah (1701), [L3] Hugh (1702), Joshua (1704), Hannah (1706), Joshua (1708), Robert (1710), Phebe (1712), Ann (1714), Ann (1716), Deborah (1717/8), Joseph (1720), and Jacob (1724).2
She died at Huntwell on the 11th January 1726/7, and was buried at Bournfoot on the 14th.3
Ann Rutter was the only known child and daughter of [L11] Robert and [L11E] Mary Rutter.4
1 Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends’ House Library, typescript), entry in digests of Society of Friends; PRO RG 6/1092
2 Dictionary of Quaker Biography; RG 6/1271 (of Huntwell in East Allendale 1714)
3 DQB; www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
4 DQB; www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
Robert Rutter was baptised at Stokesley, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on the 8th January 1643.0
He married [11E] Mary Trowsdale on the 11th May 1679, at Great Broughton meeting house, in the North Riding. Robert Rutter lived in Appleton, Yorks., in 1679/80.1
Describing himself as a yeoman of Huntwell, in the parish of Allendale, Northumberland, he made his will on the 13th May 1729, leaving cash sums varying between £1 and £100 to each of his grandchildren and some nephews and nieces; included in his estate is his mortgage of Midlope. He died at Huntwell on the 20th November 1729, and was buried at Burnfoot, Northumberland, on the 23rd. Probate was granted in the Prerogative Court of York on the 15th May 1730, the estate being valued at £1,000.2
Robert Rutter was the third child and third son of [L11A] Thomas and [L11D] Isabel Rutter.3
0 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
1 Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends’ House Library, typescript); www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
2 Robert Rutter’s will, transcript by John Wintrip; www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
3 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
Thomas Rutter was baptised at Stokesley, Yorkshire, on the 6th March 1609.1
He married [L11D] Isabel ____. Their children were: John (1634), George (1638), Thomas (1640), [L11] Robert (1643), and Elizabeth; all the boys were baptised at Stokesley.2
He was buried on the 18th February 1677, at Stokesley.3
Thomas Rutter was the third child and eldest son of [L11B] John and [L11C] Elizabeth Rutter.4
1–4 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
John Rutter married [L11C] Elizabeth Wilkinson at Stokesley, Yorkshire, on the 8th May 1598. Their children were: Ann (1599), Jane (1606), [L11A] Thomas (1609), Margaret (1611), Averell (1614), and Joan (1518); all were baptised at Stokesley.1
He was buried at Stokesley on the 8th October 1634.2
1–2 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
Elizabeth Rutter married [L11B] John Rutter at Stokesley, Yorkshire, on the 8th May 1598.1
Their children were: Ann (1599), Jane (1606), [L11A] Thomas (1609), Margaret (1611), Averell (1614), and Joan (1518); all were baptised at Stokesley.2
1–2 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
Isabel ____ married [L11A] Thomas Rutter. Their children were: John (1634), George (1638), Thomas (1640), [L11] Robert (1643), and Elizabeth; all the boys were baptised at Stokesley.1
Isabel Rutter was buried at Stokesley on the 3rd December 1680.2
1–2 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
Mary Trowsdale was baptised at Westerdale, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on the 10th May 1644.1
She married [L11] Robert Rutter on the 11th May 1679, at Great Broughton meeting house, in the North Riding. Their only known child was [L10] Ann (1679/80).2
She died at Busby, North Riding, on the 3rd March 1720, and was buried at Browton Friends’ burial ground.3
Mary Trowsdale was the fifth child and second daughter of [L11F] John and [L11G] Alice Trowsdale.4
1–4 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
John Trowsdale married [L11G] Alice Watson in 1632, at Westerdale, in the North Riding. Their children were: Helen (1633), Richard (1636), John (1638), Bernard (1641) and [L11E] Mary (1644); all were baptised at Westerdale.1
1 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
Alice Watson married [L11F] John Trowsdale in 1632, at Westerdale, in the North Riding.1
Their children were: Helen (1633), Richard (1636), John (1638), Bernard (1641) and [L11E] Mary (1644); all were baptised at Westerdale.2
1–2 www.wintrip.org.uk/john/a10.htm#i915
Hannah Coates was born on the 15th October 1709, at Case Lee.1
She married, firstly, John Dixon; they lived in Langley-dale, and had two children: Michael (1736), and Margaret (1738/9); Margaret was born at Raby. After the 4th March 1745/6 she took as her second husband [L3] Hugh Watson. The Watsons lived at Raby, where their four children were born: Michael, [L2] Joshua (1747) Michael or Mitchell (1749), and Joseph (1753).2
Of Staindrop, she died on the 25th May 1785, and was buried there on the 27th.3
Hannah Coates was the second surviving child and daughter of [L13] Michael and [L23] Margaret Coates4.
1 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family (Friends' House library, TS); PRO RG 6/653 and /1150 suggest birth year of about 1707
2 Ms Pedigree in Watson box, Society of Genealogists' library document collection; Green (1906), op. cit., Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends' House Library, typescript)
3 Dictionary of Quaker Biography; RG 6/653, /1150
4 DQB
Michael Coates was born on the 24th December 1675, at Woodland in Lynesack.1
He married [L23] Margaret Welfoot, after the 5th May 1702. Their children were: Hannah (1703/4), Sarah (1704), Sarah (1706), [L12] Hannah (1709), Margaret (1712), Elizabeth (1715), Rachel (1718/9), Anne (1722), and Mary (1725). The first six were born at Case Lee, the last three at Langleyford.2
He inherited from his father the Case Lee farm and homestead.3
He was a God-fearing honest yeoman, respected by his neighbours and in good esteem with the Society of Friends, of which he was a member, and his name appears on the Monthly Meeting books as attending the select meeting at Durham in 1726 and 1731 and in 1727 the Meeting of "Ministering ffrds" at Durham; he is named as a representative at Bishop Auckland in 1732, at Lartington in 1736 where he is appointed to attend a marriage at Raby 1745, etc., etc. Thomas Raylton speaks of his virtuous character with his brethren as a youth.4
On the 15th February 1750 he made his will, at Langleyford; he bequeathed his lands, tithes, etc., at South Bedburn and Barnard Castle and part of a house in York, after the death of his sister-in-law Hannah Ward of York (the widow of his brother Joseph Coates who had remarried with Robert Ward), to his sons-in-law Edward Pease and Hugh Watson, they paying to his married daughters Margaret Stansfield, Hannah Watson, Elizabeth Pease, Rachel Dixon and Ann Raw, each £100; to his grandson William Raine £50, to his grand-daughter Margaret Dixon £50. He left his daughter Mary Trotter a farm at Lynesack, and appointed as his executors his sons-in-law, Joshua Stansfield, Edward Pease and Hugh Watson.5
He died on the 13th January 1752, at Pierce Bridge, Gainford, near Darlington, and was buried at the Friends' burial ground in Raby. His will was proved at York in 1752.6
Michael Coates was the eldest child of [L14] George and [L20] Elizabeth Coates .7
1-5 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family (Friends' House library, TS)
6 Ms Pedigree in Watson box, Society of Genealogists' library document collection; Green (1906)
7 Green (1906)
George Coates was baptised on the 29th September 1643, in Cockfield.1
He married [L20] Elizabeth Shaw on the 6th May 1674, at Cockfield parish church. They lived at Woodland in Lynesack, where he was a yeoman and blacksmith. He joined the Quakers on his marriage.2
In 1675, a resident of Woodland, he voted in the county election, for Sir James Clavering. In 1679 he voted for Milbanke, in the county election. In 1681 he was a resident of Hindon.3
He was mentioned at a Monthly Meeting at Raby on 6.ii.1686 as "Representative to Durham next Sixth day with account of ye sufferings of their Meeting". He was also named as being on a Monthly Meeting appointment at Raby as early as 1699, and he was frequently mentioned on the Monthly Meeting books as representative and on other appointments from 1713 to the end of his life.4
He used to allow his apprentice blacksmith Thomas Raylton to "read much by candle-light, my master and mistress allowing it, and were in the practice of themselves, being honest friends that feared God, with all their children, who were dutiful to their parents, and kept very much out of the evil communication of the world, so that we were a comfort to one another, as we kept to that which was good."5
In some account of the Coates family by John Coates, of Darlington, solicitor, written in 1825, when he was about 20 years old he says that his ancestor George Coates was an upright member of the Society of Friends, was generally respected and beloved by his neighbours, and that once having refused to discharge some ecclesiastical demand and having been taken into custody and about to be imprisoned, a neighbour voluntarily paid the sum demanded saying that "George Coates should never go to jail for such a sum."6
For some years prior to his death he lived with his daughter Sarah Grainger, at Raby. He settled his considerable property on his three sons (the farm of Case Lease in Hamsterley, Lynesack in Cockfield, and Smelt House in Witton-on-Wear). At his death he was said to be of West Pits, i.e. Cockfield. He was described as "a most excellent righteous man, and a consistent Friend."7
His son George Coates the younger left this account of his father:
Seeing it hath pleased the Lord to remove from us my dear father George Coates, there being I thought an incumbent duty upon me to keep these his worthy Counsels unto us upon record; he was to me an affectionate and tender father and great was his care for us his children that we might be kept in the fear of the Lord, often repeating unto us the advice that Christ gave to his Followers, first to seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof and all other things should be added; and indeed what he advised others unto he practised himself, and the Lord blessed (him) both inwardly and outwardly.
He was well esteemed amongst his neighbours being often a Peacemaker. Although he had considerable concerns in the world I have heard him say that he never sued anybody at law in all his life. Great was his care for his Brethren and near Relations, he being very helpful unto them in several cases; when any by their disorderly walking lost truth, he used sorrowfully to say that if they lost truth they lost all.
He was often advising his children to keep themselves loose from the world; he had himself for some years left off all business, and went to live with his daughter at Raby, where he was near Meeting, which he constantly attended both first and week days, and when at Meetings a diligent Labourer for refreshment from the Lord; by his true breathings and fervent labour the Meeting I believe has reaped advantage, and glad he was when the power of God was over all, which was his wonted sensible expression.
A true lover of honest friends, it was just life to him to be in company with true Gospel labourers, it was his delight to hear of truth's prosperity and to be rehearsing unto others some Scripture passage, so that he might invite them to seek the Lord while he could be found; indeed it was his practice whilst he had his children with him at the night as we sat together by the fireside, to rehearse unto us some Scripture, telling us of the excellency of the fear of the Lord. I pray God, we his children may follow his example in our families and not forget his tender and fatherly advice.
My dear father was taken ill of an ague, which continued more than two weeks, and during that time much fatherly and tender advice he gave to his children, charging them to love one another, and to keep out of the inordinate love of the world. In the time of his sickness he was fully resigned to the will of God, being borne up on a very quiet frame of spirit, never complaining of the afflictions that attended his body. He alluded to the great nearness of God unto him during his Pilgrimage in this world, severally blessing his children and grandchildren, desiring them to be careful to live in the fear of the Lord, and then they need not doubt but (that) they would prosper. I sincerely desire that we his children may put in practice the many good advices he gave unto us.
Thus he continued his suitable admonitions unto us and most of young people that came to visit him, many times to the tendering of the standers-by, until growing weaker and weaker in body, he departed this life the 17th (day) of 2nd month, 1723, in the 80th year of his age . . .
He was buried in the Friends' burial ground in Raby.8
George Coates was apparently the third child and third son of [L15] George and [L20] Elizabeth Coates .9
1-9 J.J. Green: History of the Coates Family. 1906 (Friends' House library, TS)
George Coates was baptised in Cockfield on the 29th August 1613.1
He married [L20] Elizabeth ____ around 1638, apparently. Their children were: Christopher (1639), Thomas (1641), [L14] George (1643), and perhaps also: ?Jane, Anne (1650), ?Christopher (1653), ?John (1657), & ?William (1661); Christopher and John were born at High Row; the last three sons possibly relate to different parents.2
He is said to have been of Cockfield, "query of" High Row, High Row Field and Hindon, Parish of Cockfield.3
Described as of Hindon, he was buried in Cockfield on the 23rd July 1681.4
George Coates was the second child and second son of [L16] Henry and [L19] ____ Coates .5
1 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
2 Green (1906); International Genealogical Index, 1988 edn shows the marriage of George Cotes and Elizabeth Baxter at Cockfield on the 8th March 1640.
3-5 Green (1906)
Henry Coates married [L19] ____ ____.Their children were: Christopher (1611), [L15] George (1613), and Thomas (1615).1
Described as of High Row, Cockfield, he was buried on the 3rd December 1658.2
Henry Coates was apparently the third child, and second son, of [L17] Christopher and [L18] Elizabeth Coates .3
1-3 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
Christopher Coates of Woodlands, parish of Cockfield, apparently married [L18] Elizabeth ____. Their children were apparently: Isabel, Christopher, and [L16] Henry.1
He was alive in 1563, but died before 1570.2
1-2 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
Elizabeth ____ apparently married [L17] Christopher Coates. Their children were apparently: Isabel, Christopher, and [L16] Henry.1
She was still living in 1570, when she was Christopher's assignee as leaseholder of Woodlands under the Manor of Raby.2
1-2 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
____ ____ married [L16] Henry Coates .1
Their children were: Christopher (1611), [L15] George (1613), and Thomas (1615).2
1-2 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
Elizabeth ____ apparently married [L15] George Coates around 1638. Their children were: Christopher (1639), Thomas (1641), [L14] George (1643), and perhaps also: ?Jane, Anne (1650), ?Christopher (1653), ?John (1657), & ?William (1661); Christopher and John were born at High Row; the last three sons possibly relate to different parents.1
She was apparently still living in 1685.2
1 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS); International Genealogical Index, 1988 edn has George Coates marrying Elizabeth Baxter on the 8th March 1640, at Cockfield.
2 Green (1906), op. cit.
Elizabeth Shaw married [L14] George Coates on the 6th May 1674, at Cockfield parish church. They lived at Woodland in Lynesack, where their children were born: [L13] Michael (1675), [L31] Henry (1679), George (1682), Sarah (1685), Ralph (1688/9), and Joseph (1691/2).1
A worthy wife of an excellent husband, she died at Lynesack on Boxing Day 1717.2
She was presumably the daughter of [L22] Thomas Shaw .3
1 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS); International Genealogical Index, 1988 edn shows the baptism of an Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Thomas and Anne Shaw, at Bishop Middleham on the 16th November 1649, and the marriage of Thomas Shaw and Anne Knausdell on the 10th February 1638, at Sockburn.
2 Green (1906)
3 Green (1906)
Thomas Shaw lived at Hindon near Woodland.1
1 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS); International Genealogical Index, 1988 edn shows the baptism of Thomas Shaw, son of Thomas Shaw, at Cockfield on the 17th June 1621, as well as the wedding of Thomas Shaw and Kathran Newbe on the 29th April 1599, at Cockfield.
Margaret Welfoot, of St Helens Auckland, married [L13] Michael Coates after the 5th May 1702. Their children were: Hannah (1703/4), Sarah (1704), Sarah (1706), [L12] Hannah (1709), Margaret (1712), Elizabeth (1715), Rachel (1718/9), Anne (1722), and Mary (1725). The first six were born at Case Lee, the last three at Langleyford.1
"We have no information as to her character, but she was unquestionably a good woman and with her husband trained her children in the fear of the Lord." Her grand-daughter Margaret Pease who married Thomas Robson of Darlington was named after her.2
She died on the 4th December 1747, at Langleyford.3
Margaret Welfoot was the daughter of [L24] Robert and [L25] Francis Welfet .4
1-2 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
3 Green (1906); Dictionary of Quaker Biography (Friends' House Library, typescript)
4 Green (1906)
Robert Welfet married [L25] Francis ____, and was alive in 1702. Their children were: [L23] Margaret, Frances, and another daughter.1
1 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS); International Genealogical Index, 1988 edn shows the baptism of Robert, son of George Welfoot, at Heighington on the 7th September 1645.
Francis Bee married [L24] Robert Welfoot in 1679, at Durham Cathedral.1
Their children were: [L23] Margaret, Frances, and another daughter.2
She was still alive in 1702.3
1-3 J.J. Green (1906) History of the Coates Family, (Friends' House library, TS)
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