It was at this point that Easthorpe Park Hall was disposed of and became the property of the Earl of Carlisle, owner of Castle Howard which Easthorpe Park adjoins. The Hall burned down around the 1980s and now only the stables and 3 or 4 houses stand on the site.

The second son was William(1728-1762) who was a curate at Settrington who also died unmarried and without issue.

The third son George (1733-1804) was a farmer and married a Mary Monkman in 1770, having 8 sons (James, Henry, George, Thomas, Nathaniel, Bryan) and 2 daughters (Mary, ).

In 1772 the eldest son James was born and he followed in his uncle’s footsteps to become a soldier. He was a Coronet in the Barton troop of Yeomanry.
(Yeomanry was the cavalry of the militia and during the Napoleonic wars a unit of militia infantry was raised at Malton and a troop of militia cavalry raised at Barton-le-Street.)
James died in 1852, unmarried but with a natural son George Hebden Baxter

Mary, Georges daughter born in 1779, married a Wiliam George Maude of Burley in Wharfedale in 1803. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy at that time but later ws promoted to Captain. Henry married Jane Kinnersley in Audley, Staffordshire in 1829. He also chose the army for his career and became an Ensign in the 1st Regiment of Militia in 1812. He moved through the ranks to become a Brevet Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st West India Regiment in 1850 before he retired in 1853.
He had a son Arthur Henry Ramsgate Hebden and a daughter Mary Georgina by his first wife who died in 1849 in Brighton. He then had a son Layard Clement Hebden and a daughter Florence Marion by his second wife Mary Ann Bennett. He died in Brighton in 1879, his wife surviving him until 1887. His daughter Georgina married Reverend Taylor and his son Arthur became the Rev. Arthur H R Hebden (1833-1883) of Pembury, Kent and Vicar of East Farleigh, Kent. He died in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. In turn he had three daughters, Marion, Maud and Edith together with a son Wilfred Arthur. Wilfred Arthur made the Army his career and eventually died of enteric fever in 1900, unmarried and without issue.

As to the remainder of Georges children, his son George died in Gothenberg Sweden, leaving two daughters. Nothing is known of Georges wife or the name of his first daughter but we do know of Henrietta who was born in 1827 and lived to age 25.

The previously mentioned Hebden tomb in Appleton Church bears an inscription “The burial place of the family of Hebden, late of Easthorpe Park and now Appleton. This is erected to perpetuate the memory of George, son of the late George Hebden of Easthorpe Park and Mary his wife, the former departed this life on the 22nd November 1837 aged 63. Also Mary Potter for 33 years a faithful and deserving housekeeper to James Hebden. She died on the 2nd February 1838 aged 60 years. Also of James, eldest son of George and Mary who died on the 26th April 1852 aged 80 years. Also of William Hebden, their 4th son who died on May 18th 1846 aged 64 years ad of George Hebden of Gothenburg, Sweden aged 64 (54?) yeas and Henrietta his second daughter who died at Southsea Hants 25th April 1852 aged 25 years.” Thomas married in 1816 to a daughter of Thomas Gill of Red Hal, Leeds and resided there.
William was a merchant in Leeds and ended as a draper in York. He was born 1782 and died in 1846 without issue.
Of Nathaniel, I know nothing.

Bryan was born in Appleton le Street in 1791 and died in Scarborough in 1860. He was an Ensign in the York City Regiment and was in business in York with William (in linen drapery) at 24 Stonegate. He was a Freeman of York and in 1846, at Great Yarmouth, he married Susannah Nightingale (d 1857) a cousin of Florence Nightingale.
Bryan eventually became station master at Filey and he and Susannah had three children, all born at Filey
Bryan Nightingale Hebden(b1848), Mary G (b1849) and Thomas Silvester (b1850).
With Brians death in 1860 the children were left orphans at a young age.

Thomas Silvester started as an office boy for the Anchor Line in their Gothenburg office, eventually working his way up to be their senior executive in Sweden, returning to Glasgow to live. There he married Mary Keiller (of the marmalade manufacturing family) but it is not known if there was any issue.

The sister Mary G owned a little leather case containing her photograph which is now in the possession of a Hebden in Vancouver. On the back of the case is marked “Mary G Hebden, 29th June 1858 Gothenburg”.
At first one might wonder what a 9 year old Yorkshire girl was doing in Gothenburg until one remembers Uncle George and can assume that she was there under his patronage along with her brother Thomas. Bryan must have stayed in England and became apprenticed as a carpenter.
Mary G. married Carl Edward van Horn, aged 27, the son of Leopold van Horn, Commendore Captain in the Royal Navy of Sweden on August 1st 1875. There she was listed as Mary Susannah Hebden aged 23 and daughter of Bryan Hebden. Thomas Silvester was a witness.

Bryan Nightingale Hebden seems to have been the odd one out. He became a carpenter but as a sideline he used his talents for music and acting, working with a group of people who were hired to entertain in the homes of the wealthy. A remarkable reversal of position when large families were common and the eldest took all, or at least the lions share, of the inheritance.

It was in one of these homes, where Bryan was entertaining, that he met Elizabeth Ann Goodrum (1850-1892). It is likely that this was at Castle Howard as Bryans future father in law ws a valet there and lived at Coneysthorpe where Elizabeth Ann was born. (Coneysthorpe is a hamlet on the Castle Howard estates and employees live there.)

Bryan Nightingale Hebden and Elizabeth Ann Goodrum were married at St Mary’s church in Low Harrogate in 1871. Their address is given as Coldbath Road, though all that exists on that site now is a modern block of flats.
Elizabeth Ann died just short of her 42nd birthday having borne 10 children. She was buried at Grewelthorpe.

Of their 10 children,
Maria Nightingale Hebden (b1872) was reputed to have married a Scottish farmer.
Thomas Elliot Hebden b 1874 at Scriven and died 1972 I Vancouver, Canada
James Edward Hebden a carpenter, b 1876 at Gainford and died in Vancouver, Canada in 1973
Bryan Goodrum Hebden a bricklayer b 1878 at Gainford and died in Vancouver, Canada in 1973
John Grey Hebden b 1880 and nothing more known.
Elizabeth Ann Hebden born and died in Welburn in 1882
George William a carpenter born in 1883 and died in 1970 in Edmonton Canada
Arthur born and died at Welburn in 1885
Alice May b 1886 in Welburn and reputed to have married a teacher named Mr Elliot.
Henry Wilfred born and died 1889 at Welburn
After Elizabeth Ann died in Harrogate in 1892, Bryan brought up his surviving children poor in material things but wealthy in philosophy and a happy family life. He was very musical as were his children and there is a family story that tells of how he wanted to teach his children the violin. Being a man of poor means but high on resourcefulness, he used his skills as a carpenter and made them a violin. It is said to have partly resembled a mandolin but for all its oddity, had a beautiful tone.

It is here that the Easthorpe branch became a Canadian branch.

At the end of the 19th century there was a drive to encourage immigration to Canada. The eldest son, Thomas Elliot first travelled to South Africa to size up prospects there but returned favouring Edmonton in Canada, believing that it would grow to a big city and open up the north. Thomas Elliot went to Edmonton around 1900,
His brother Bryan Goodrum had married in 1904 in Leeds, to an Edith Heaton. Bryan headed for Canada in 1906 with his wife following a year later.
George William and James Edward followed with their father Bryan Nightingale. Presumably the daughters had, by then, married.

Edith, wife of Bryan Goodrum Hebden, told her daughter Edith Drummond that in their initial period in Canada they spent the first winter living in a tent. This could hardly have been a pleasurable period in their lives. The family initially worked in Edmonton in the building trade but then moved to Vancouver where building work was less seasonal.

Bryan Goodrum and Edith had three children, Florence Winifred, Edith and William Cooper. During WWI Brian served in the Canadian Infantry as a private and saw service in England and France, where he was badly wounded and gassed.

William Cooper Hebden married Ella Mumford and from here there are Hebdens still in British Columbia.

Bryan Goodrums brothers also had issue.
George William married an artist Elizabeth Patterson in 1906 and had one son and three daughters. The son, Howard who was born in 1911, died the same year.
James Edward married Georgina Buckley in Leeds, before he went to Canada and they had three sons and two daughters. Of the sons, the eldest, Thomas Elliot was born in Leeds in 1902. He married twice but neither marriage resulted in any issue.
The youngest son was James Edward and he served in the Royal Canadian Navy in WW2. Injured on active service at sea he was hospitalised in the USA> He became engaged to an American girl but then died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage while shaving.
The seond son was Brian William Holt Hebden and he too was born in Leeds. His wife was Louise Antoinette La Rose and they had three daughters and one son and his descendants live in Edmonton Alberta.

There is a wonderful collection of old photographs which shall be added to the site at a later date.