For those unfamiliar with the area, Nafferton lies in a little cluster of villages with North Frodingham, Wansford and Foston on the Wolds, a few miles south of Bridlington on the east coast of Yorkshire.
This line seems to start around 1708 when JOHN HEBDEN was born in Wansford. John died in 1787 but not until long after he married ANN EASTON 1712-1771) in 1729.
John and Ann had children Mary (b1731),John (b1740), Anne (b1744) and WILLIAM (1733-1810). All the children were born in Nafferton but only details of William are known.
WILLIAM, born in 1733, married a HANNAH STOVILL (1740-1815) in 1760. They had quite a few children - William, George, Rachel, Joseph Stovin, Ann, Jane, John, James and Thomas. Thomas was the youngest, born 1785 in Nafferton and nothing further is known of him, nor that of his siblings Jane (b1777), James (b1781) or John (b1779).
Rachel married a George Dunn and Joseph Sovin married Hannah Bailey. Ann died at the age of about 22.
Of the above children, most is known about the descendants of their two sons William and George.
Firstly, in an attempt to minimise any confusion, the descendants of William will be detailed and then the descendants of George.
WILLIAM HEBDEN a weaver of Wansford married MARY BOULTON in 1794 in Nafferton.
Their 7 children were :
Of the above children, only two would appear to have survived to maturity and produced children.
THOMAS HEBDEN the third youngest child (born 1806 in Nafferton) married MARTHA SMITH in 1822 in Burton Agnes.
They had children :
The above JAMES RITTER HEBDEN is that name that anyone familiar with searching for Hebdens on the LDS site will keep coming across.
JAMES RITTER HEBDEN married two to three times. His first wife was ANN USHER who he married in Drypool, Hull in 1861.
It has been said that they had four daughters but everything would seem to point to the existence of just two sons. It is thought that James Ritter lived at Thorne, near Goole before he decided to make his fortune in pastures new.
Sometime in 1866, James Ritter Hebden emigrated to Idaho and eventually died there in 1908. He sailed for America with his wifeAnn and his two sons. Ann, it is said, was pregnant at the time and while on board ship, fell down a hatch and broke her leg. She gave birth to a premature baby FRANCIS.
Ann developed blood poisoning and died, followed a few days later by the baby Francis. Both were buried at sea. This left James Ritter Hebden a single man with two young sons to care for - MARTIN born 1862 in Bridlington and FREDERICK who was born in 1864 in Hull. On arrival in America, tragedy struck this family yet again and the young children, Martin and Frederick both died of Scarlet Fever, being buried at Mount Olive Cemetery in New York in 1866.
James Ritter Hebden had lost his whole family within a very short space of time but the following year finds him in Idaho, married to a MARY ANN (KATE) WHITE. A follower of the Mormon faith, James also took a polygamous wife Jane Glazier with whom it is said that he had children. James them married Mary Ann (Kate) White. 18.8.1867.
and he also took a polygamus wife JANE GLAZIER but apparently, when it became unpopular to have polygamous marriages, he left Jane, continuing with his marriage and family to Kate.
Mary Ann (Kate) was apparently born in Winchester in Hants. Together she and James Ritter have 12 children credited to them, all born between 1887 and 1890, all in various places in Idaho except for Edward their first, who was born in Utah .
Their children were: Edward Eardley, Enos James Elizabeth Ann, Alice Malinda, Pheobe, Joseph Thomas, Mary Emily, William Francis, Earl Milton, Truman Ritter, Alvin White and Lorenzo Lars.
James had a younger brother ISAAC HEBDEN ( born 1839 in Thwing), and he died 1911 in Goole. His wife was called ELIZABETH CHAPPEL and they married in 1862 in Howden.
By 1881, Isaac had moved out of Goole and was living at Mere Dyke Landing, Garthorpe, Lincolnshire where he was working as a labourer. However, by the time his daughter Charlotte married, his fortunes had taken a turn for the better and he had become a grocer. By 1901 he had extended this to grocer and sand dealer.
Their eleven children were :
George married a MARTHA YOUNG from Scarborough in 1824 and their children were Ann, Maria, George, Eliza and CHARLES
In his turn, Charles, born 1829 in Market Weighton, grew up to be an agricultural labourer. In 1848 he married ELIZABETH YOUNG and this marriage produced nine children.
Their son GEORGE has descendants living in Canada and their son CHARLES had descendants who went to Hull.
The other children were:
MARY (1850-1866),JOHN(1852-?),CHARLES(1854-1855), ROBERT b 1853 married MARY and in 1881 was a railway clerk in York and by 1901 had moved to follow the same occupation in Lancaster.
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ANNIE(1858-1861) and LIZZIE(b1860). Finally there was KATE who was born in 1861 and she is noted in the 1881 census as living with her brother Charles in Prospect St, Hull while working as a general servant. She went on to marry ALBERT MOORHOUSE in 1884.
After Elizabeth Young had died, Charles went on to marry again, this time to a young lady from Harswell called ELIZA MARSHALL in 1865. Eliza was the daughter of Wilson Marshall and Mary Sutton and born in 1842 which would make her considerably younger than her husband Charles. They married in November 1865 and raised 6 children.
Their daughter FANNY b1870 went on to marry and her descendants moved down to Hampshire. Fanny died in 1911, at a relatively young age. IDA was born in 1877 and EDITH a few years earlier in 1866. There were three boys - William, Thomas and Henry John
HENRY JOHN was the eldest of the three boys (1871-1942)followed by WILLIAM born in 1877 and who grew up to be a warehouseman of Hull. He was shown to be living in Kimberley St, Hull in the 1901 census.
THOMAS was born in 1880
Many thanks to Ian Kelly and Sue Molineaux in providing me with so much more information.
