I put up a piece in March 2018 about George and his brother, so do please look at that as well, but I have done this piece today to try to put the record straight as there is so much inaccurate information to be found online. Surely there is more than mere genealogy?
George was the second son (third child) of Revd George who at the time was the curate at Gedling, which was where George was christened in 1757. His great-uncle Rev. Thomas Beaumont of Bulwell / Nottingham left him £600 in Calder Navigation stock in 1771.
When he was about 22, in 1779, already described as a merchant at Leeds, George married Jenny or Jane Cope, at Hemsworth near Pontefract. Leeds was where his mother had hailed from, so there were contacts there, no doubt. [15 Jan. 2021 - see note added at bottom]
George and Jenny were at Timble Bridge, Leeds when they had a daughter Mary Ann but she died in 1781, and Jenny also died the following year.
George's business connections were with people called Ridsdale, and he married Ann Ridsdale in 1784. [see note at bottom] At about that time he was handling the proposed letting of Chapelthorpe Hall, which had devolved to his elder brother Rev. Thomas and had become vacant by reason of the departure of tenants, most recently Richard Beatson. I think in fact Chapelthorpe was not relet at this time, but that the house was retained "in hand" and that Rev. Thomas visited from Nottinghamshire periodically.
In 1788 a bad fire affected the business of Messrs Ridsdale and Beaumont at Leeds.
A couple of years later George and his wife were at Chapelthorpe when R.H. Beaumont of Whitley ("RHB") paid a visit (his letter after the visit is in this Archive). This might be the contact that led to RHB providing George with a house at Crosland and financial support for his business. Crosland was part of the Whitley estate and was a place of particular significance in both fact and legend in the history of the Beaumont family (going right back to about 1300 or earlier).
George's mother Betty died in 1793, and he proved her Will, but I don't think there was a lot more money from that quarter.
George was an Officer in the Volunteer Corps at Leeds, being made up to Major in 1795. He was also borrowing money from his elder brother and from William Huthwaite in Nottingham who was related to Thomas' wife.
Walter Beaumont, one of the younger brothers, came into the business, which still had premises in Leeds. The house at Crosland (Crosland Hall) was quite prestigious. RHB gave Walter a lease of Healey House there, and though the brothers obtained a patent for a certain mixture to be used in the preparation of sheep or lambs wool “for various purposes” - and another patent, I think, for some kind of oil - I doubt if their venture was very successful.
In fact I think they were living beyond their means.
George's mother-in-law Mrs Ridsdale died at Crosland Hall in 1805, and George himself died in 1807, when Ann renounced probate in favour of Francis Ridsdale, described as the "principal creditor."
Shortly afterwards Walter Beaumont was made bankrupt. Ann's death, at Horsforth, was reported in 1811.
George and Ann had several daughters:-
- Frances Ann, who died aged about eight.
- Charlotte, who died aged ten or eleven.
- Jane, who died aged about five.
- Susan, or Susanna Maria, who did not marry. She lived at Ockbrook in Derbyshire when she died, in 1842.
- Mary, who also did not marry, who died at Winsley near Ripley (the home of one of the Ridsdales) in 1823.
- Everilde, who also did not marry, who died in 1847. She had gone to live at Gedling, where (coincidentally) her aunt (Fanny Beaumont, Mrs Elliott) lived, at Gedling House. After Fanny died, Everilde continued to live at Gedling, I think. There is said to be a memorial to her in the church there, but it was locked when I went to visit.
- Ann[e] Elizabeth. She and her sisters had substantial legacies (when they were 21) from their great-uncle (by marriage) Rev John Walter, of Bingham. She in 1828 married Henry Huthwaite and they lived at Hoveringham not far from Gedling. He was much older than her and I suspect was closely related to her uncle Rev Thomas Beaumont of East Bridgford's wife. Henry Huthwaite was a senior army officer who had returned from India. They had several children. After Henry Huthwaite died (1854) she went to Somerset and/or Cornwall where in due course (aged 67) she married 35-year old Thomas Read Guerin (about whom I have considerable uncertainty), but Brighton was where she ended her days in 1883. One of her sons was Rev. Thomas Walter Huthwaite 1835-1902.
Sources for all the above are the papers in this Archive, West Yorkshire Archives (from Whitley Hall), newspapers (British Newspaper Archive), London Gazette, Family Search site, and so on.
As always I don't claim to get everything right..... I am open to the idea that the family collective memory might be wrong eg if information has been suppressed. For example about bankruptcy or mental illness. But I'd like to know any evidence!
Somewhere I saw it suggested that George lived until 1832 and died in Middlesex, or indeed in Manchester. and these things are apt to get a life of their own, but without credible evidence I'd say that must be other people. Similarly as to George and Ann having a son called George. The name is found so frequently that records of births, marriages, and deaths on their own are not enough!
EMB St George's Day 23 April 2020
Note added 15/16 January 2021:- I have discovered that both George Beaumont's wives were granddaughters of Joseph Green, merchant of Leeds, who died in early 1771. Joseph had two daughters - one had married Thomas Cope and the other Francis Ridsdale (senior). The main sources for this are Joseph Green's will and the Leeds (St.Peter) Parish Register.
Thomas Cope and Mary Green had two daughters, Jane or Jenny, and Harriet or Harriot. Mary had died before Joseph Green made his will (Nov. 1765). This Jane / Jenny was to become George Beaumont's first wife.
Francis Ridsdale and Ann Green had two children, Ann and Francis. This Francis Ridsdale (junior) was a main influence in George's life. His sister Ann was to become George's second wife.
George's parents George and Betty had married at Leeds back in 1753, that was where she came from, and she was called Green. I would be surprised if she was not somehow related to Joseph but presumably not very closely, otherwise these marriages of her son might have been frowned upon. Anyway this hints at close connections being maintained with her relatives or connections in or near Leeds.
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