Hallworths in 1911 - at Pepper Arden Hall

The 1911 Census of North Yorkshire has finally become available. We find the Hallworth family of Charles & Kate living in the Northallerton area, although Lilian is in the Bedale area.

Their address is given as Pepper Arden, East Cowton.
We learn that Kate & Charles have been married 17 years, and they confirm they have had 4 children "born alive to the present marriage". {So the couple have not counted Kate, then.}
Charles Hallworth (1865; a coachman Domestic)
Kate Charlotte Hallworth (1867)
with Florence (14, scholar in a Private School); George Charles (13); William Henry (11) - the boys are described as scholars in a public school.
I'm not sure what to make of the comments on the types of school. Seems unlikely the family could afford to send Florence to Polam Hall or the like...especially when we see the older daughter is in service. Any ideas? Was she perhaps being schooled with the Williamson's daughter, who was a similar age? Surely not!
All the children are described as born at Over Dinsdale.

also
Lilian Maude Hallworth (aged 16 - a domestic) in Bedale, Yorkshire. She's living and working as a nurse, at a very large house named Theakston, for the McIntyre family which has several young children. The boss, Mr McIntyre was described as a Yeoman & Stock Breeder.  Turns out to be horse breeding (see link here) and it's still going strong.


As I've mentioned elsewhere, Kate May Hallworth is living alone with her Shackleford grandparents in 1911.  She was described as a Typist, aged 22.

Others of Charles' family are still living in the South:
Charles' brothers Philip & Robert Hallworth (48) are still living in Waltham, Berkshire -  where they were seen in 1901 as a Grocer with their parents. His brother William is also a coachman, living in Wokingham. His sister Mary Hallworth is still living in the Wokingham area, with their widowed mother Elizabeth.

(I have several of these 1911 census images, let me know if you'd like a copy. I picked them up for free while England played in the World Cup!) If you want to find out more (for a fee) then visit this site, 1911 Census.co.uk. If you do pay for information, it would be great if you would share it with other cousins here on this blog?
Alternatively wait a bit, and the data will be less expensive, or even free. The early bird pays for the worm!

Pepper Arden Hall
I presume that Charles Hallworth was working as a Coachman for the owners of Pepper Arden Hall in 1911.  The census also tells us that the owners were the Williamson family he was previously working for at Sockburn Hall; so he moved with them.

Pepper Arden is a village and also the name of the Hall near East Cowton.
Links here to find out more on the place:
http://www.eastcowton.org.uk/history.htm
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/county40/townguideEast%20Cowton/
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Southcowton/Southcowton90.html

A final few tidbits -

• On the 1914 marriage certificate of his daughter Kate, Charles is described as a Stud Master.
• Peter has a photo of a lady on a horse at the Hunt of the Hurworth Hounds, March 1917. We see it was taken at Entercommon, which is just over the river from Sockburn Hall.  The lady was Mrs Williamson, presumably the wife of the Lt Williamson who rented Sockburn Hall throughout Charles' time as coachman there. (Since then, we've found that Mrs Williamson was still Charles' boss - they were all at Pepper Arden from Spring 1911.)
• A few notes about Slingsby family, Williamsons, and hunting in the Pepper Arden area in this history (to 1908) of the Bedale Hunt.

Here's an old photo sent to me by Peter Hallworth, which shows us Mrs Williamson riding side-saddle, ready for anything in a hunt with The Hurworth Hounds (March 1917).  She is at Entercommon, which is just over the river from Sockburn.

• Clive tells me that Charles Hallworth was certainly not landlord of the New Inn in 1913, but he was in the years 1925 and even in 1937 (source: Kelly's directory).
• Peter also tells me that Charles was certainly the landlord of the New Inn in the year 1918.  His son George went away to war in France and on his return he had to hunt for his parents in their new place in Stokesley, a town he did not know. What a Hero's welcome! "So they moved when he was in France - and he did not take the hint!"
• When I looked up Charles George in the military service records, I found a few of his papers for his service with the 5th Battalion, North Riding Territorial Force - but they are very badly singed by the archives' fire. Only 4 documents survive.  When he first joined up he gives his address as Kirkbank, Middleton {Tyas}.  Later on, his ID card gives an address which looks like New Inn, Stokesley.  His service was reckoned as beginning in November 1914 (when he was just 16?!). He received the Victory medal, and the British War medal.
• If you read this post about Charles' ancestors, you will see that in becoming publican of the New Inn, he was just "going back to his roots".

Who lived at Pepper Arden in 1911?
The Bulmer's Directory of 1890 tells us that Pepper Arden Hall was occupied by William Stobart, Esq., J.P., whose 1905 obituary you can read here on the Durham Mining Museum site.
This piece of tapestry in a Sotheby's Auction gives us a clue - in the provenance section we learn that the Webb family were the owners of Pepper Arden Hall , and that ownership passed to a son-in-law, Lt Gen Sir Herbert Chermside (1850-1929, a British Army Officer & Colonial Governor) when his wife died in 1910. When General Chermside died in 1929, Pepper Arden and its contents passed to the Gatty family. The last of an old generation of the Gatty family died recently (short obit from the Telegraph here).
It seems the Chermside family owned the Hall, but rented it out to the Williamson family in and around 1911.

What's it like now?
Here's a link to a Google Map - farm & stables are just North of the Hall.
A view of the tower and farm buildings of Pepper Arden - on geograph.co.uk, also a view of the entrance gates.
In 2008, planning permission was granted to convert the model farm & stables into 18 houses. You can view the plans here on the Developer's website. Article in the local paper here tells us in quite some detail about the buildings.
A site here has a photo of the Hall itself.