TrunkCalls... Hallworths and Tuthills: Hallworth Elders & various Archives

A miscellaneous selection of various information about the Hallworths in Bedfordshire. Mainly bits which I can't fit in elsewhere, or just haven't moved yet.

This site has a list of Monumental Inscriptions (an image of them can be bought @ £4 each). Details can also be found via the Beds FHS.

Phillip Hallworth is listed as having died 26/5/1880, aged 66, and buried at Flitton St. John the Baptist. (Our direct ancestor, see more in this post.)
Elizabeth Hallworth is listed as having died 19/11/1882, aged 69, and buried at Flitton St. John the Baptist.
Philip Hallworth died in April 1835, aged just 3 weeks, and buried at Flitton St. John the Baptist.
David Hallworth was buried in 1849 at St Mary's of Marston Moretaine aged 32.
John Hallworth was buried at St Mary's of Marston Moretaine, aged 9 months, on the 9th November, 1836.
James Hallworth was buried at Millbrook, St Michael & All Angels, age unknown, in 1795.
Margaret Hallworth (age unknown) buried at Lidlington, St. Margarets in 1796.
Another Philip Hallworth is listed as having died in 1848, aged 61. Buried at Pulloxhill St James. {former publican, Dog & Badger.}
Ann Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1833, aged 19.
Charles Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1853, aged 68.
Charles Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1862, aged 56.
Elizabeth Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1822, aged 77.
Elizabeth Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1851, aged 67.
Francis Hawkins Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1846, aged 36.
Hannah Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1862, aged 45.
Hannah Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1872, aged 67.
Sarah Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1861, aged 77.
Susannah Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1840, aged 59.
Thomas Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1812, age unknown.
Thomas Francis Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1849, aged 15 months.
Thomas Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1877, aged 65.
William Hallworth was buried at Pulloxhill St James in 1852, aged 76.
James Hallworth died in 1910, aged 65, at Shillington All Saints.
Philip Hallworth is listed as having died in 1919, aged 72 (so he was born in 1847). At Wilstead All Saints Anglican Church.
Arthur James Hallworth (infant, 1894) was buried at Wilstead All Saints.
Ellen Hallworth was buried at Wilstead All Saints, in 1929 aged 78.
George Hallworth was buried at Wilstead All Saints, in 1932 aged 89.
Jonathan Hallworth was buried at Wilstead All Saints, in 1898 aged 76.
Maria Hallworth was buried at Wilstead All Saints, in 1905 aged 86.
Mary Hallworth was buried at Wilstead All Saints, in 1927 aged 74.

The Bedfordshire Archives
Bedfordshire libraries hold transcriptions of all the parish registers for the period (link here) - but they are not online. (Link here for BEDS archives.)

Great deal of info available on the pages of the Bedfordshire Archives - about Heath & Reach and for Bedford.

Military Records
I have seen these Hallworths named on War Memorials in Bedfordshire:

Private J. Hallworth of the 4th King's Royal Rifles, who died in the Boer War (1899-1902). He was named on the Bedfordshire Boer War Memorial in Bedford, see this site for photos of that memorial and this site for more info on the 4th Battalion, which includes photos showing the regimental standard Moustache. Additionally, there is a record of a Pte John Hallworth (23492 of the 3rd Batt, 109th Company) in the Imperial Yeomanry, who received the QSA medal.

And finally, the Times Archives gives us the following details about a Hallworth soldier:-

On 19/2/1901, Pte Hallworth (2491) of the 2nd Grenadier Guards was reported dangerously ill (with heart disease) - he was at Ladysmith; date of report was Feb 16th {area of birth not given}.

Details here from their Online archives for Flitton area/Bedfordshire, {and also available in full at The National Archives site} but don't forget they aren't necessarily our folks! As I am able to place each entry, I copy it to another page where it will make more sense:

Detailed schedule of auction in 1831 of landowned by Morris & Company (Ampthill) Limited - lists Phillip Hallworth as tenant of two parcels of land in Maulden.
Details on a character reference {BLARS ref GK281/4} to a piece of Ampthill land in occupation of Chas. Hallworth; 1849; Church St., Ampthill.

References to Mr. Hallworth in these papers on Ampthill area, 1846:

Letter of 1846 from the Estate Steward - "This letter refers to the keeping of fowls and pigs by cottagers. It comments that the keeping of fowls is often a source of ill feeling amonst neighbours since poor people have not proper places to keep them in and "they breed vermin and filth". Suggests also that, where the keeping of pigs is permitted the pigsties "shall be placed in their gardens and not close under their noses". Proposes a blank space on tenancy agreements so that a clause can be inserted giving permission as appropriate.
Mentions that there are two fairs in Ampthill each year, May 4th and November 30th for the sale of sheep, cattle etc. The tolls for the market and fairs, stalleage etc is let to Hallworth and, with 2 acres of land, produces £30 per year. An application has been made for an additional fair per year and Mr Bennett proposes to find out further information. The letter discusses in detail the question of payment of toll.
He outlines various payments which have been made."
Further letter of May 5th, 1846 refers to "Hallworth, the tenant of Moor Pond Close {Ampthill?}, the site of the sheep fair".

Text quoted here: "More information regarding the request for an additional fair at Ampthill. Mr Bennett has found out that the toll is 2 pence for each head of cattle or horses and 4 pence a score for sheep. Mr Bennett has learnt from Swaffield that there was a good deal of trouble over the payment of tolls a few years earlier; an expensive trial to all parties arose out of it and Leighton Buzzard. Mr Bennett advises that it would be best to inform the "memorialists" that the Duke has not the power to grant a fair to be held legally in the usual place but, with the consent of Hallworth, the tenant of Moor Pond Close, the site of the sheep fair, his Grace would have no objection to their holding a market for cattle in the close on their paying an acknowledgement to Hallworth for the use of the close for that purpose. He thinks it would satisfy them and not bring into question the tolls at the usual fairs."
{ref there to Memorialists: not these folks, so then what does it mean?}

Details about a John Hallworth in the Wilstead area:

reference to John Hallworth as a tenant of cottage and farmlands on Wilstead estate (in auctioneers catalogue as landowner has died), 1875. {Wilstead is also known as Wilhamstead and in between Ampthill & Bedford.}
A reference in the records of the Quarter Sessions for Bedfordshire, 1893: "Mortgage: £2000 from F.J.Galpin, auctioneer, to Jn. Hallworth of Wilstead, corn dealer. 1893"
There are notes in a local history book, "Wilhamstead, homestead of friends" about two corn merchants, George & Jonathon Hallworth. Also notes about a churchwarden named George Hallworth in 1890's Wilstead.
I have seen George Hallworth in the 1881 Census living with his parents (Johnathon & Maria Hallworth a farmer of 50 acres, aged 60) on Village St., near the church, Wilstead. His trade is given as a Farmer's Son, aged 38.
Letters within the Gambriel family are archived - a 1915 letter (Z1270/2/18) from a wounded soldier to his mother mentioned Old George Hallworth & his harvest.

A will from the period ~1780 mentions a farm named Wroxhill Farm which has as tenant one Jas. Hallworth. {James? ref BC367} Following that, a 1796 document describes a "messuage in Wroxhill, Marston Moretaine, formerly in occupation of Nicholas Price, deceased, late of James Hallworth, deceased, but now of William Bartram"

Some notes about the butcher Charles Hallworth, for example - papers from 1849. Was he perhaps the son of Charles Hallworth (1826-1880)?

Records from the Marston Moretaine area (1858) tells us about "David Hallsworth son of William Hallsworth. Aged 14 years on the 7th April 1858 apprenticed to George Whitbread of Roade, Northamptonshire, shoemaker until the age of 21 years."

An intriguing reference from an Architect's archive in a notebook, "Mr. Charles Hallworth, Pulloxhill", from the period 1877-1880 {ref ST/U 2/1}

Marriage licence for Alfred Hallworth of St.Mary, Islington, Middlesex, and Emma Hallworth of Pulloxhill, dated 8/7/1867.

Marriage licence for Charles Hallworth of Pulloxhill and Louisa Sharp of Pulloxhill, dated 24 Dec 1878. {BLARS ref P13/1/23i}

Marriage entry in the Woburn Sands records for 1910 - shows Elizabeth Hallworth (father Philip Hallworth, farmer) marries a farmer, William Newman from Wilhampstead. She was 29. Don't know of any Philips who would be the right age here.

An oral history project on pre-war Shillington includes one set of memories of Eric Hallworth born in Shillington in 1910. {pp 62-71, ref CR/OH 1/5 from the years 1920 - 1939}

Halworth Farm at Wingfield (tween Toddington & Dunstable) - was occupied by Mr E. Gurney up till 1902 when it was auctioned off. (Notice of the auction in BLARS)

Coming right up to date, there's 2 little notes about a Miller in 1950 - but sorry it's not available online yet. From the Bedfordshire Archives.
"Photograph of E. Hallworth, Miller, Duck Mill, Bedford. 1950 Z 50/141/228"
"Photograph of Duck Mill, Bedford, 1950; with Miller, Mr. E. Hallworth handling corn. Old mill stone in foreground. Z 50/12/70 "

A photo (BP63/1/15) from the 1930's showing a bit of G. Hallworth & Sons' Corn Dealership in Duckmill Lane, Bedford.

A wedding photo from Shillington 1957 - the bride was Eileen Hallworth of Shillington.

A strange reference to a modern photo of Hallworth House. It seems to be a residential home. No clues yet as to how it came by the name.

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Next I have simply pasted in a pretty random mixture of records, mainly from Census returns. I haven't yet done any further work on this - it's just for your information.
Some of these could be directly related to John, Charles & Harry Hallworth, but then again they could be no relation at all. Don't say I didn't warn you!!

In the 1881 Census there are also Hallworths living in Shillington (East of Ampthill), BEDS.
Also Hallworths in Pulloxhill, Beds in the 1881 Census: at the Public House, Pulloxhill -
Charles Hallworth (24, a Coal & Sand Merchant, born Pulloxhill) and wife Louisa (24, born Flitwick) with 2 young children; Frederick Charles (born Lincoln) and Alice Maria (born Pulloxhill); and a young servant girl.

In the Melville's Directory of Ampthill, 1867 (rather like our Yellow Pages), a Hallworth is found listed as a Butcher, in the Market place, Ampthill. Probably Charles Hallworth. More details like this are now transcribed in a separate post.

A lady who alleged she was the niece of General George Washington, Lydia Hallworth is buried at Cranfield, BEDS - she died aged 83 in 1863. The indirect link to our family is known.

In the 1851 census of Ampthill, Elizabeth Hallworth, (35, born Pulloxhill, Beds; Unmarried) was living with her brother Charles Hallworth (44, married, not widowed, born Pulloxhill; a butcher) in Church St., Ampthill. Also in the house are Charles' 6-year-old daughter, Ann; a servant girl; and a Jouneyman Butcher (lodger).

In the 1841 Census, there are two Charles Hallworths (one aged 15 and one aged 55), both born Bedfordshire.

In the 1851 census, at the Dog & Badger Inn, Maulden we see a Jonathan Hallworth (29, born St. Albans, Herts.) who is a Victualler & Market Gardener (having 12 acres, & 3 Labourers). His wife is Marria (32, born Maulden) and they have 2 young sons (George & Phillip) and a servant.
Next door is Widow & retired Victualler, Sarah Hallworth of Barton in the Clay, Beds

Living in Pulloxhill, 1871 census, Charles Hallworth (43 {so born ~1828}, Farmer, born Malden, BEDS) and wife Martha A. (50, born Biggleswade Beds) and son Charles (15, born Pulloxhill).
Living in Pulloxhill, 1901 census, Widow Martha Ann Hallworth (84) lives with her unmarried daughters May & Maria (dressmakers).

Living in Church St., Ampthill, 1871 Census, an unmarried Elizabeth Hallworth (55, born Pulloxhill) lives in the house of Butcher Mr. Brightman & family as a servant, her occupation is as Accountant. {rather unusual for those days!?}

Living in Pulloxhill, 1871 census, Samuel Hallworth (51, Wheelwright & Blacksmith) and Elizabeth (41, born Silsoe, Beds; a Bonnet and Hat sewer) with son Francis (J or T) Hallworth (18, wheelwright) and daughter Elizabeth (6). Also a lodger. {In 1901 they are still there, Samuel (82; Wheelwright, and some suggestion that he is also a Publican {tho' that may be the person next to him on the list!!}) Elizabeth (70), Frank T. (48; Wheelwright) and William (30; Agricultural Labourer)}

A Bedfordshire man (born Marston around 1801) named David Hallworth had moved away to Derbyshire, and lived there in the year 1861, having settled there with a family and working as a farm labourer.

Also a more recent notice in the London Gazette about a will for Martha Hallworth who died in 1938. She was a spinster and had lived at Wood End, Marston, Beds. It surely can't be the Martha Hallworth who was Philip's sister? She would have been over 100? The notice also mentions (executor?) Edgar Hallworth, Miller of New Harrowden, BEDS.