This line of Pickering Hebdens seems to come from the previous line as indicated on the earlier webpage. Instead of remaining in Pickering they began to spread out, first to Whitby and then on to Canada and the USA.



In 1745 a WILLIAM HEBDEN was born, probably around Pickering, which is where he seems to have died in 1829. He certainly married in Pickering in the year 1785, to an ELIZABETH GRAYSON, and they had at least one son, another William who was born in 1787, Pickering.
This WILLIAM eventually died on June 9, 1862, at Boulby Bank, Whitby, Yorkshire.

William went on to marry a JANE TATE in 1821 (in Pickering), the daughter of ROBERT TATE and ANN COLLIN.

WILLIAM HEBDEN and JANE TATE had 9 children, all born in Pickering.
The eldest was JOHN b. 1821/2 who married a lady called ELIZABETH, ( surname unknown).
Then came WILLIAM, b. 1823/4, followed by two Marys, one of whom was born and died in 1823.
GEORGE came next in 1828, then JAMES (1830), MARGARET, BETSY and finally THOMAS, in 1839.

WILLIAM (born 1823/4) married another lady called JANE GREEN who was from Goathland, up on the moors near Whitby. At the time of the 1881 census, they were living at Cottage House, Lythe. William became a mason’s labourer and he and Jane had at least two daughters. One was Margaret who was born in Cooks Row. (I am not too sure where this is but I think it might have been Whitby way). The other daughter was Jane (born East Row 1860 ) who went on to marry a mariner called John Carrithers from Sunderland. In 1881 they were living with Jane’s parents in Lythe, along with their daughter.
William eventually died in 1891 in Whitby.

William and Jane Tate’s son THOMAS (b 1839) married in Whitby in 1862 to a MARY HOGGARTH another Whitby girl, two years his senior. She was the daughter of Matthias Hoggarth, an agricultural labourer. By 1863 they were in Middleton- by- Pickering, which is where their son GEORGE was born and almost twenty years later they were in Limekilns Square, Whitby with seven other children.
George, who had been born in the 1860s had presumably died because they then have another son also called George but only 6 years old. There was also a Matthias, Isaac, Thomas, William, Mary and James. In 181 this William was aged 17, Whitby born and a tailor. All the other younger children, with the exception of James, were born in Glaisdale. James was aged 3 and had been born back in Whitby. I believe it was this lad who married Rebecca Duck of Whitby. William senior was working as a labourer and as they also had four other labourers living with them as lodgers, Margaret clearly had her hands full and presumably money was a little short because by the time Matthias was 18, the Whitby Gazette records that he was imprisoned for 14 days for theft from Ditchburn bakers of Whitby. Imprisoned also at the same time was a 19 year old James Irwin who received a month's sentence and Mary Hebden nee Hogarth received a month for receiving stolen goods. Presumably Mary and Irwin were the brains behind the theft as Matthias's sentence was that much shorter.

William and Jane had two more sons, James and George, and something of their fates are known.

JAMES is shown on the 1881 census as a grocer of Eastgate, Pickering, married to a lady called Mary from Bilboroough. They too had sons, THOMAS, JAMES, JOHN & FREDERICK and a daughter HHANNAH, though I know nothing further of them. Undoubtedly there would be at least one of the sons who would have married and had children.

GEORGE (b1828 in Fylingdales) married ANN LENG around 1848 in Pickering and they had five children, - another WILLIAM, MARY, JANE, GEORGE jnr & JOHN. George and Ann Leng’s son WILLIAM (b 1849 in Larpool Wood, Whitby) married a Whitby girl MARY REBECCA DUCK around 1881. They show up on the 1881 census living in Borough Place, Whitby with William working as a jet ornament manufacturer. In years to come they had at least four children, some of whom emigrated to Canada.
CHARLES (1882-1958) was born in Whitby but died in Fort William, Ontario as did his brother FREDERICK who had been born in 1887. Their other brother WILLIAM THOMAS born 1890 in Whitby, had also emigrated, eventually dying in 1972 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. However, the boy’s sister ELIZABETH (born 1889 in Whitby) remained in England, dying in 1967. What caused the boys to leave England for Canada but their sister remain I do not know. I believe she did not marry so it wasn’t a case of her remaining with her family. The three boys all married in America and raised their families there, bringing further generations of American Hebdens.
MARY HEBDEN was born in 1851, in Fylindales, on the Pickering to Whitby road. GEORGE junior was also born there in 1853, followed by JANE in Whitby and then finally JOHN back in Fylingdales.

This GEORGE junior (born February 20, 1853 in Fylingdales) was married to MARGARET BODDY and had a son ROBERT in 1871 at Tunnel Cottages, Egton. ROBERT went on to marry a FRANCES FOWLER in 1898 and their first son ROBERT LESLIE was born in Middlesborough in 1899, followed by CHARLES ERNEST in 1901 also in Middlesborough. These two brothers eventually died in the late 1970s in the USA. Their descendants live on in various parts of the United States today.

Whether John, the other son of George and Ann Leng had any children is as yet unknown.


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