WHALEY or WHALLEY
of Winterburn, Yorkshire
Extract from booklet on St Andrew’s Church, Gargrave, by Agnes A. Taylor, Gargrave. 1978………….
"Winterburn Chapel –
This Chapel, four miles to the north of the Parish Church [Gargrave], was served intermittently by Gargrave incumbents from the 1880s until 1985. Evensong was held at various intervals but gradually congregations dwindled in number to between 3 and 6 persons, who decided reluctantly that services should cease. At the request of the P.C.C. the Bishop therefore withdrew the Licence for public worship.
The Church of England had never owned the Chapel; it was then owned by the Yorkshire Congregational Union, who sold it over 1986/87 with planning permission to revert to residential use. In 1703 one Thomas WHALLEY had purchased "two cottages called Brigghouses and a parcel of land called Brigg Garth" and "is mined and disposed to settle the newly-erected edifice to be a chapel, oratory or meeting-place for religious worship, upon trust to permit the same to be used and emplyed as a meeting-place of a particular church or congregation of Protestants dissenting from the Church of England, the minister or Teacher to be an able Protestant minister of the gospel, who, in his judgment and practice as to church discipline, is Presbyterian…….."
Mrs LAMBERT made an endowment of £100 in 1708 for the Chapel; the indenture conveying it to the Trustees (a Baronet, a Gentleman, a Yeoman and a Clerk – who was Chaplain to the Baronet! – and Thomas WHALLEY himself) however stipulated that "the Minister……pray and preach God’s word, administer the Sacraments of the New Testament and perform all offices and duties belonging to that sacred function……….to be orthodox and sound in the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ and such as hold and profess the Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England…………."
The Thomas WHALEY mentioned above was the son of George WHALEY, and grandson of Thomas WHALEY of Shearbanke near Blackburn in Lancashire – but more importantly, he was nephew and heir of his uncle Roger WHALEY of Winterburn near Gragrave, and inherited that property upon the latter’s death in 1676.
Will Abstracts –
August 1647 – Thomas WHALLEY of Shearbanke, Blackburn, Co. Lancs., yeoman –
Executors, Ellen his wife, and Roger WHALLEY, gent. his son.
Roger WHALLEY, Winterburn, gent.
Dated 20 Feb 1672
- To be buried in Gargrave Church –
- Mentions "Anne my now wife", and how he and Anne had assigned certain "closes and groundes in Winterbourne to Tho: BARKROFT of Foulrigg and James WHALLEY of Chipping, upon trust to permitt mee and Anne my now wife to enjoy the same for fourscore yeares…."……
Refers to a deed made 9 Sep in the "two and twentieth year of his now Majestie’s Raigne" , confirming certain land to Thomas HAMOND of Threshfield and Francis STYREING of Rylston, gent……to "Thomas WHALLEY sonne of my brother George" or "Thomas WHALLEY sonne of my brother Beniamon" or "Roger WHALLEY son of the said Beniamon"…….
Whoever inherits to pay to said Anne my wife £20 yearly –
To pay to my brother James WHALLEY, £20
To my brother Beniamon WHALLEY £50
To the foure children of sd Beniamin my brother, forty pounds apiece at 21
To the poore people of Winterburne and Flasby tenne pounds
To the poore of the town and township of Blaigburne in the County of Lancaster five pounds
And of Thurstain MAUDSLEY and Thurstan FOGG
To my servts James BRIGG tenne shillings, Jerimy STEAD tenne shillings
To James GROOME forty shillings to be put forth by my Executor for his best advantage till he reaches 21
To Jane BRIGG tenne shillings
Residue to Thomas WHALLEY, son of George WHALLEY, sole executor.
Roger WHALLEY, his mark.
Witnesses: Tho: HAMOND, Jo: PRESTON
Proved 13 April 1676
Ann WHALEY of Winterburne, co. of Yorke, widdow Pavers Marriage Licences – 1634 – Roger WHALLEY yeo Gargrave & Ellen CURRER, spins, Tosset – there.
Dated 12 Oct 1688 –
To be buried in ye Church of Gargrave 
To my niece Mary COLBECKE ten pounds
To Mary HARGRAVES of Colne my kinswoman five pounds
To my niece Margaret WEBSTER forty shillings
To James WINSTANLEY forty shillings
To the children of my nephew Robt HARGRAVES eight pounds
….my two kinsmen John BLEKEY of Colne and Ambrose BARKROFT…..
To my cosen Roger WHALEY son of Thomas WHALEY of Winterburne, my silver tankard
To Isabell MIDGLEY my silver tumbler
To my god-daughter Ann ………. ten shillings
To Hugh CURRER of Steeton five pounds
To An BRIG five shillings
To Margret MIDGLEY a gown and a peticoat
To Alison HUDSON a gown and a peticoat
To Elizabeth BLEKEY the coffer I usually laid my clothes in
To Margret BOLCKE forty shillings
Executors, my cosen Thomas WHALEY of Winterburne and Ambrose BARCROFT of ………..
Signed, Ann Whalle Witnesses: Mary SEALLE, George FLESHER, Anne ROWCASTLE
Proved 11 Dec 1689
[Written down side of will: "I give unto Ann RIMINGTON my dripping pan".]
1640 – Roger WHALLEY yeo 30 & Ann HARGRAVES spinster 26, Colne – there.
Thomas Whaley of Winterburn, parish of Gargrave, Co. York, gent.
Dated 15 Nov 1715
George WHALEY of Giggleswick –
Samuel WHALEY of Giggleswick, Co. York, gent. –
Giggleswick Printed Parish Registers –
28 August 1715 – Marriage – Christopher INMAN de
30 November 1720 – Marriage – Georgeus WHALEY &
November 1721 – Baptism – Anna daughter of Mr
21 November 1721 – Burial – Anna daughter of Mr
15 December 1722 – Baptism – Lydia daughter of
30 August 1724 – Baptism – Thomas son of [Mr]
9 June 1726 – Baptism – Mary daughter of Mr George
16 December 1726 – Burial – Mary daughter of Mr George WHALEY of Giggleswick
9 January 1726/7 – Burial – Thomas son of Mr George WHALEY of Giggleswick
27 December 1727 – Baptism – Elizabeth daughter of Mr George WHALEY of Giggleswick
1 April 1729 – Burial – George WHALEY of Giggleswick
2 November 1735 – Marriage – Richard FRANKLAND & Lydia WHALLEY by Licence
21 May 1743 – Marriage – Mr George CARR & Liddia FRANKLAND both of this parish by Licence
21 September 1749 – Marriage – Francis WHALEY, parish Horton & Agnes BENTHAM of this parish, by
10 July 1757 – Burial – Elizabeth daughter of Mrs Hannah WHALEY of Giggleswick
12 December 1757 – Burial - Hannah WHALEY of Giggleswick
23 August 1762 – Marriage – Leonard WILLAN, parish of Dent, & Phebe WHALLEY of this parish, by Licence
18 August 1764 – Marriage – Josias MORLEY, Esq, & Lydia WHALEY, both of this parish, by Licence from
8 May 1768 – Burial – Lidia, wife of Josias MORLEY Esq. of Giggleswick
Extract of WHALEY information from the "INMAN Family Memorandum Book":-
Thomas WHALEY of Winterburn in Craven Yorkshire, Esqr
Married [blank] FERRAND Daughter of - Ferrand of Grange and afterwards of St Ives near Bingley Yorkshire, Esqr
Roger had one Daughter Lydia, twice Married - by her first husband had one daughter died young; by her second husband George CARR, had one son died a minor. Issue extinct.
Ferrand of Rotterdam, married a widdow HUDIG, had a son died young; issue exinct.
Thomas of London died a Batchlor.
Samuel of St Ives, afterwards of Bingley, died a Batchlor.
Benjamin died a batchlor at Newcastle in his 20 year.
George of Giggleswick, Craven, Ykshire, married, had issue two daughters, Lydia and Elizabeth. Elizabeth died young; Lydia married to Josias MORLEY of Giggleswick, Esqr, & died without issue.
Lydia WHALEY died young.
Abigal WHALEY, Daughter of Thomas WHALEY of Winterburn in Craven, Yorkshire Esqr, as above mentioned, was married to Christopher INMAN, son & heir to Robert INMAN of Beuerley Esqr August the 28th 1715, at Giggleswick Church near Settle in Craven, Yorkshire. Died October the 1st 1716 - and left issue one son, Michael, born July the 14th 1716 - now Sole Heir to the WHALEY Family.
The HUDIG/FERRAND Family of Rotterdam -
with acknowledgments to Mr David Ferrand of Clifton, Derbyshire.
The following comments contained within the above-named documents held in the Rotterdam Archives, relate to members of the WHALEY Family formerly of Winterburn, near Gargrave, Yorkshire:
The WHALEYs were rather old landed gentry. Their coat of arms was included in the Heralds College in 1584. The mother, Lydia FERRAND, was a daughter of Benjamin Ferrand, Justice of the Peace, of Harden Grange in Bingley near Halifax in the county of Yorkshire.
There were six sons and two daughters. Two sons were good for nothings. The eldest, a lawyer, squandered £4000 before he retired to the country, and the other squandered £2000 after which he went bankrupt, and after that again £2000. Apparently both then lived at their father's expense. One son was apprenticed in Newcastle and died there. Another son, George, lived at home till his father's death in 1715, and afterwards managed Mills in Giggleswick, the property of his cousin and heir of Robert Ferrand of Harden Grange. The father, at the time of his death, was a ruined man so that he could not give his daughter Abigail anything when she married.
Ferrand WHALEY, born in 1680, as the secon son, was apprenticed in London, for which his father, Thomas Whaley, paid £300. He married Esther LARWOOD in Rotterdam when he was 31 years old (1711). At that time she was the widow of Caspar HUDIG, merchant of Rotterdam. Ferrand Whaley died in 1734.......He corresponded with his cousin John Ferrand who had settled in Hull (1719), but very soon after John arrived in Rotterdam, and married three years later to Maria HUDIG.
Samuel WHALEY, a younger brother of Ferrand Whaley, was a very able man. When he reurned from his apprenticeship in London, he started a trade in flax, with, among others, Holland. Almost certainly from nearby Halifax. Att he same time he was estate manager for the trustees of his cousin Robert Ferrand.......he succeeded in increasing the income of the estate from £1000 to £2000. This enabled his grandson Benjamin Ferrand, to build a big new house, including stable, in 1759, which, when he later lived in London, he let for £3000. This house was called St Ives. Samuel ran his flax business for 30 years, until after the death of Ferrand Whaley, "But gave it up purely on account of Mr Ferrand's affairs which kept him fully employed".
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