SAMUEL EYRE, S.T.B. ... p.m. Musgrave 1686. Prebendary of 3rd Stall in Durham Cathedral. Buried in Durham Cathedral, 25th October, 1694. FRANCIS BLAKISTON, A.M. ... p.m. Eyre 1694. Of Newton Hall. Vicar of Aycliffe, 1679; Rector of Whitburn, 1694. Will dated 28th June, 1704; buried at St. Oswald's, Durham, 9th Oct., 1704, aged 50 years. NATHANIEL (or NATHANAEL) ELLISON, S.T.P.; D.D., p.m. Blakiston, 20th Nov., 1704. Of Hebburn. Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford; Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 22nd November, 1694; Prebendary of 5th Stall, Durham, 1st October, 1712; Rector of Whitburn, 20th November, 1704; Archdeacon of Stafford; died 4th May, 1721; buried in St. Nicholas', Newcastle. JOHN WALLIS, A.M. ... ... p.m. Ellison, 27th May, 1721. Chaplain to the Duke of Kent and Bishop of Durham. Died 28th April, 1728, aged 42 years. EDWARD HINTON, A.M. ... ... p.m. Wallis, 3rd Oct., 1728. Son of Edward Hinton; born in Ludgate, 22nd February, 1698; died 28th April, 1769, aged 71 years; buried 30th April, 1769. ... BENJAMIN PYE, LL.D. p.m. Hinton, 17th July, 1769. New Coll., Oxford; Prebendary of Salisbury, 1760; Rector of Whitburn, 1769; Vicar of Hart cum Hartingpost, 1770; Archdeacon of Durham and Rector of Easington, 1791. By special dispensation, Pye was allowed to hold the Vicarage of Hart together with the Rectory of Whitburn, then worth £350 per annum. He was uncle to Henry James Pye, Poet Laureate, and was said to have. been himself "a poet of some note;" a list of his works is given in The British Museum Catalogue. He died 26th March, 1808, aged 82 years. JELLINGER SYMONS, B.D. ... p. res. Pye 1791. Curate of Hackney and Minister of Clapton Chapel, Middlesex; buried at Hackney, 19th February, 1810, aged 62 years. Author of "Index to the Excise Laws,” 1771. THOMAS BAKER, A.M. Oriel Coll., Oxford; p.m. Symons, 19th Mar., 1810. Rector of Little Cressingham; Rector of Rollesby; Rector of Falmer cum Stanmers; WILLIAM MAUNDER HITCHCOCK, M.A. p.m. Baker 1866. Wadham College, Oxford, 1858; Rector of Whitburn, 1866; Hon. Canon, Durham, 1868; Examining Chaplain to Bishop of Durham, 1866 to 1879; Rural Dean of Chester-le-Street, 1872-1880; Rural Dean of Wearmouth, 1880-1881; exchanged with G. F. Price for Vicarage of Romford, Essex, 1881. GEORGE FREDERIC PRICE, D.D. ... p. res. Hitchcock 1881. New Coll. Oxford; Sub-Warden, 1864; Rector of St. John-de-Madder-Market, Norwich, 1863; and of Little Stamford, Essex, 1872; Vicar and Lecturer of Romford, 1878; Chaplain to Duke of Abercorn, 1865; exchanged with W. M. Hitchcock for Rectory of Whitburn, 1881; died 1901. WILLIAM MOORE EDE, M.A. ... p.m. Price 1901. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1st Class Moral Science. Tripos. Ordained by Bishop of Durham, 1872, to Curacy of Alston. Afterwards Curate of St. Hilda's, South Shields; appointed 1873 by University of Cambridge one of the Extension Lecturers in History and Economics; Professor of History at Newcastle College of Science, 1880, and also Lecturer at St. Thomas' Chapel, Newcastleon-Tyne; appointed by Bishop Lightfoot Rector of Gateshead and Master of King James' Hospital, 1881-1901; Rural Dean of Gateshead; Hon. Canon of Durham, 1894; appointed to the Rectory of Whitburn by Bishop Westcott, 1901; Select Preacher at Cambridge, 1886, 1892 and 1900; Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, 1895; author of "The Church and Town Problems" and many pamphlets on social questions. THE FAMILY OF GOODCHILD, OF PALLION HALL: THEIR ANCESTORS, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES. BY H. R. LEIGHTON. Read on December 2nd, 1902. I. THE GOODCHILD FAMILY. It is unfortunate that but little of the early history of the family of Goodchild has been preserved, and of them nothing can be said, beyond to remark upon the obvious derivation of the name, prior to 1379, when in the Poll-Tax Roll, W. R. Yorkshire, the name of Johanna Godechylde occurs. The first appearance of the name locally is in 1465, when Peter or Petrus Godchilde was a Juror at Ryhope. There is then space for a century, when the connected pedigree of the family begins. I. John Goodchild,2 who occupied a farmhold at Ryhope, by his wife Janet, had issue : (1) ...... Goodchild, who died before his father, leaving issue: (a) Robert Goodchild, mentioned in his grandfather's will as "my son's son." Legatee in the will of Janet, his grandmother, 1578, then described as "of Sunderland."3 (Ped. II). * The Arms used by the family were:-Argent, on a chevron sable, between three parrots vert, beaked and legged gules, as many annulets, or; a variation of this coat was granted by patent, 28th September, 1808, to Thomas Goodchild, gent., of London, and of Valetta, in the Island of Malta:-per pale erminois and ermine, on a chevron azure, between three parrots vert, beaked and legged gules, as many bezants. The crest was a parrot coloured as in the arms, and the motto "Vincit omnia veritas," "Truth conquers all.” 1. Surtees' Durham I., p. 252. Mr. Surtees says that the family held lands under the See of Durham in Ryhope and Tunstall. 2. Ib. p. 240, and Wills at Durham. 3. Wills at Durham. (6) William Goodchild, living in 1565 and in 1578. (2) John (II.) (3) Ralph, of Ryhope, administration of his goods granted in 1576,3 to Thomas Goodchild and Robert Goodchild. (4) Richard, of Bishopwearmouth, married and had issue. (5) William, buried 30th November, 1575, at Bishopwearmouth, administration of his effects granted the following year to his brother Thomas, John Goodchild, of Bishopwearmouth, being surety.3 (6) Thomas, administered to his brothers Ralph and William, in 1576,3 and was mentioned in his mother's will in 1578.3 (1) Anne or Agnes, living in 1578. His will dated 10th May, 1565,2 wherein he desires to be buried in the Churchgarth of Bishop Weremouth, is witnessed by William Watson, Richard Jeferson, John Shadfourth, farmers in Riope, and Alexander Thornton.3 His widow's will is dated 18th November, 1578,3 was proved at Durham 21st March following, and is witnessed by Robert Burdon the eldest, Richard Giffreson, William Sheaperdson, Anthony Burdon, and George Sepherdson.3 II. John Goodchild, of Ryhope and Pallion. Acquired by grant, dated 4th August, 149. Elizabeth, 1572, from Robert Bowes, of Aske, Co. York, "the whole tenement and grounds called the Pallyon; and one severall and free fishery in the River of Were, in or adjoining the said Pallyon." The whole estate consisted of a messuage, toft, garden, 20 acres of arable land, 30 of meadow, 200 of pasture, 100 of moor, and 100 of furze in Pallion and Wearmouth, with the free fishery already 2. Surtees' Durham I., p. 240, and Wills at Durham. 3. Wills at Durham. mentioned.4 In 1565, he is mentioned in his father's will, and in 1578, he is left executor and residuary legatee to his mother. By indenture dated 18th April, 1583, he became lessee of a a farmhold in Ryhope, under the Bishop. On the 4th July, 1581,5 he married Mary, widow of Thomas Moore, of Sunderland, and daughter of (Thomas ?) Smith, by whom he had issue : (1) Robert (III.) (1) Margaret, baptised 29th February, 1585,5 her will is dated 19th September, 1610, and was proved 8th December, in same year.6 She desires "to be buried within the Church of my parish of Bushopwermouth," and bequeaths to her brother Robert, £20, and to each of her sisters, Agnes Gibson, Jane Huntlye, and Joan Sheperson, 20 marks. "The rest and residue of goods that I have by right from my father, John Goodchild, deceased, I give and bequeath the whole to my father and mother, George Sheperson and Mary Sheperson, and make them Executors." The witnesses are 4. Surtees' Durham, I., 241. 5. Bishopwearmouth Parish Registers. *THE MOORE FAMILY. 6. Wills at Durham. Richard Moore, of Sunderland, whose will, witnessed by Richard Moore, of Sunderland, Thomas Smith, John Chilton, William Huntley, Ralph Thompson, and Clement Shipperdson, was proved in 1571, mentions William Moore, to whom he leaves an angel, and Richard Moore, who, together with the testator's wife, Allison, were appointed executors, and his son, Thomas Moore, of Sunderland, in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, yeoman, who was to inherit the house after the death of his mother. His first wife was buried April 19, 1575, and he re-married 22nd November, 1575, Mary Smith. He had issue : (1) William, a minor at his father's death, and probably his first wife's child. (2) Anne, baptised 30th July, 1576, married 28th November, 1597, Richard Gibson. (3) Jane, a minor in 1580, married 16th June, 1601, Richard Huntley, of Burdon, and had issue. Mr. Moore's will is dated 21st June, 1580, and was proved in the October of that year, he was buried in Bishop-Wearmouth, 28th June, 1580, his wife re-marrying as above. |