Coldbeck Family

COLDBECK FAMILY
Listed alphabetically. Ref, Parish, Census,School records & Memorial Inscriptions [M.I.] The information is being constantly updated so is worth more than one visit.
Thanks to John Coldbeck for additional information.


Karina Grindale has been researching the Grindale/Grundill family for some time. They are related to the Coldbeck family thro’ the marriage of Ralph Coldbeck & Ann Grindale in 1772. In Ralph’s will dated 1808 he mentions an Elizabeth Coldbeck and John Beck who reside in Masham in a house leased by Ralph Coldbeck. Karina needs help with these 2 people, who are they, why are they residing in the same house. Any help would be appreciated.
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This page last updated on August 2008.


ALBERT EDWARD COLDBECK. Born 5.9.1880. Died 16.12.1940. Son of James & Mary Jane Started school 12.4.1886. Left school 1890
ALFRED COLDBECK. Born C. 1866 Grewelthorpe. Son of Ralph the joiner & Margaret.
ALFRED BURTON COLDBECK. Born 1867 Grewelthorpe. Husband of [1] Phyllis H. Warrior. [2] Maria Louisa Clark. of Masham. A groom and gardener living Cross,The Hill, Masham in 1901.
AMELIA ISABELLA COLDBECK. Born C1889 Grewelthorpe. Dau of John Henry the builder & Jane.
ANN MARY COLDBECK. Born C.1856.Dau of Charles & Hannah Beaumont Atkinson. Married Goldfinch. Widow in 1881. Married 2. John Charles MONKHOUSE. Farmer Leighton.
ANN COLDBECK nee GRINDALE. Wife of Ralph Coldbeck. Mother of Mary wife of John Ingleby.
ANNIE COLDBECK. Born 1885. Bap. 2.5.1896. Bramley Grange died 1971 dau of Robert & Ruth Thackray. Robert a painter. Mar.John Ascough. (1883-1974) 7.12.1911
ANNIE E.COLDBECK. Born Aug.1887 Tanfield. Dau of Alfred & Phyllis H. Warrior. Living Masham 1891.
ANTHONY COLDBECK. Bap. 15.4.1889. Son of James & Mary of Hutts Farm. [Poss.William Anthony]

ALWYN LESLIE COLDBECK. Born 28.3.1918. Bap 19.5.1918. Died 22.1.1919. Son of Horace & Annie Jane. Horace was a carpenter.

AGNES ANNIE COLDBECK. Bap. 3.3.1872. Dau of James Joshua & Jane Ann. James a tinner.

ARON COLDBECK. Born 1814 son of John & Susannah Burton. [Another source has this child as Anne Coldbeck]

CHARLES COLDBECK. Born C 1825. Buried 23.5.1894 aged 69 [Memorial in churchyard] =M.I.

CHARLES COLDBECK. Born 1822 Bap.1824 Bramley. Married Hannah Beaumont Atkinson. from Wakefield in 1853.

CHARLES COLDBECK. Born C 1858.Son of Charles & Hannah B. Atkinson.

CHARLES HERBERT COLDBECK. Born 9.12.1869. Died 21.1.1950. Son of James & Mary Jane.B.Grange. Married Mary Jane.

CHARLIE COLDBECK. Bap20.5.1891. son of John Alfred & Freida. John a farmer.

CHARLES ALBERT COLDBECK. Born 24.8.1903. Bap 20.9.1903. Son of Charles Herbert & Mary Jane. Lived Bramley Lane. Started school 3.4.1911. Left school 1917.
CHRISTOPHER PICKERSGILL COLDBECK. Husband of Eleanor Forbes. Father of Isabella born C.1835. Masham.

CLARA COLDBECK. Born 3.7.1888. Bap. 15.7.1888 Died 1973. dau of Robert & Ruth Thackray. Farmer Laverton. Started school 4.7.1892. Left school 1899. Married 1.Harry Ellis. in 1919.
Married 2. John Thomas Ashby. Flour mill screensman. Lived Birstwith.

DORA ANN COLDBECK. Born 13.2.1876. dau of William. Started school at North Stainley. Started Grewelthorpe school 6.12.1881. Left 1888 aged 12 yrs.
DOROTHY COLDBECK. Born C.1876. Galphay Wood. Dau of William & Elizabeth Swires. Lived Cayton Grange, South Stainley 1881.
Ellingstring 1891.

DOROTHY COLDBECK. Born C. 1809. Died 3.12.1896. Wife of William. Lived Boltby near Thirsk. M.I.

DORIS COLDBECK. Born 11.11.1905. Bap 4.3.1906. Died 1996. Dau of Charles Herbert & Mary Jane. Started school 1.4.1913. Left in 1919. Married Edwin Ellis. Lived 4 Lake Terr. Grewelthorpe. See Photo at end.

EDITH MARY COLDBECK. Born 8.7.1911. Bap. 6.8.1911.dau of Charles Herbert & Mary Jane. Started school 8.4.1918. Left in 1925. went into Home service.
EDWIN COLDBECK. Born C. 1853. Son of James & Elizabeth Nelson. Husband of Elizabeth Ann Garrett.

ELIZABETH COLDBECK. Born 1812. dau of John & Susannah Burton.

ELIZABETH COLDBECK. Dau of Ralph. Was a housekeeper. Married to Jonah Jackson.
ELIZABETH COLDBECK. Born C. 1827 Fearby. Widow in 1891 in Grewelthorpe.
ELIZABETH COLDBECK nee NELSON. Born C. 1828. Wife of James Coldbeck Farmer of Laverton.
ELIZABETH ESTHER ISABEL COLDBECK. Born C. 1829. Died 12.9.1888 aged 59yrs. Wife of Henry Coldbeck. M.I.




Document relating to Elizabeth wife of Henry. 1882.



ELIZABETH COLDBECK nee SWIRES. Born C. 1849 Sutton Grange. Wife of William. Lived Cayton Grange, South Stainley 1881 census.
ELIZABETH or ISABEL ANN COLDBECK nee GARRETT. Wife of Edwin Coldbeck.

ELIZABETH COLDBECK. Born C. 1876. Died 5.4.1971 aged 95yrs. Wife of Robert Coldbeck. M.I.
ELIZABETH COLDBECK. Born C. 1884 Masham. Dau of William & Elizabeth Swires.
EMELIA HAMMOND. Born C. 1889. Grewelthorpe. Dau of John Henry & Jane. Living Ripon 1901.
FLORENCE E. COLDBECK. Born 15.11.1885. Tanfield. dau of Alfred & Phyllis H.Warrior. Living Masham 1891.
FRANCES DORA COLDBECK. Born 25.9.1878. dau of James & Mary Jane. Started school 14.1.1883. Left 1890.Married Fred Simpson. in 1907. Lived Oak Stile Farm. Grewelthorpe.
FREDERICK COLDBECK. Born 25.11.1875. Son of James. Started school 25.4.1881. Left 1891.
GERTRUDE COLDBECK. Born C1887. Masham. Dau of William & Elizabeth Swires.
GEORGE HENRY COLDBECK. Bap. 1.6.1890 son of John Henry & Jane. John a builder. Living Ripon 1901.
GEORGE ALFRED COLDBECK. Born July 1892 Masham. Son of Alfred & Phyllis H.Warrior.
HAROLD R.COLDBECK. Born C. 1895 Sleningford Lodge. Son of Alfred & Mary.
HARRY ROBERT COLDBECK. Born C. 1880 West Tanfield. Son of Ralph the joiner & Margaret.
HERBERT COLDBECK. Born 9.12.1869. son of Henry. Started school 13.11.1876. Left 1883.
HORACE COLDBECK. Born 8.5.1887. Bap. 5.6.1887. Died 1955. Son of Robert & Ruth Thackray. Started school 4.7.1882. Left school 1889. Mar. 1. Annie Jane Taylor.[schoolteacher] 5.9.1914 she died 1919. Mar. 2. Julia Jackson. Horace was a foreman joiner.
HOWARD COLDBECK. Bap.14.5.1893. son of John Alfred & Freida
ISABELLA COLDBECK. Born C. 1835 Masham. Daughter of Christopher Pickersgill Coldbeck & Eleanor Forbes. Unmarried servant to John Kendall. in Grewelthorpe 1881 census.
JAMES COLDBEK. Born 1825. Bap. 22.5.1825. son of William & Mary of Laverton. Married Elizabeth Nelson..
JAMES COLDBECK. Born 1844. died 10.11.1908. son of William & Dorothy. Married Mary Jane possibly nee Mann. Lived at Hutts Farm. Was Parish Councillor. M.I.
JAMES OLIVER COLDBECK. Born & Died August 1873. Grandson of Anthony & Frances. M.I.
JAMES WILLIAM COLDBECK. Born C.1879 Galphay Wood. Son of William & Elizabeth Swires. Lived Cayton Grange, South Stainley 1881 census.
JANE COLDBECK. Born 1820 Foulgate Nook, Grewelthorpe. Bap. 1.1.1820. died 1899 unmarried. Dau of John & Susannah Burton.
JANE HANNAH COLDBECK. Born 1841. dau of John & Jane. Married Wm.Henry Dodsworth.
JANE A. COLDBECK. Born C.1846 Durham. Wife of Joshua the plumber.
JANE COLDBECK. Born C.1854. Dallowgill. Wife of John H. Builder & Miller. Lived Ripon 1901.
JANE ANN COLDBECK. Bap 14.12.1873. dau of James Joshua & Jane Ann Welford. James a tinner. Living Batley in 1891.
JOHN COLDBECK. Born 27th Feb. 1781.Swinton. Buried 26.2.1864. Married Susannah Burton. (1785-1863) in 1807. Farmed Bramley Grange. M.I. Possibly the son of Ralph Coldbeck & Ann Grindale. [unconfirmed]
JOHN COLDBECK. Born C.1808 Buried 5.12.1815 Grewelthorpe. Son of William.
JOHN COLDBECK. Born 1807. buried 29.3.1892. son of John & Susannah Burton. Mar. Jane Smith [ or Jane Turner.] in 1840.
Living Grewelthorpe with sisters Jane & Susannah in 1891.
JOHN HENRY COLDBECK. Born C 1816 Bramley. Died 16.4.1881. M.I. Son of John & Susannah Burton. Married Eliz. Esther Isabel.

Signature of John Henry Coldbeck.





JOHN ALFRED COLDBECK. Born C. 1854. son of Charles & Hannah B. Atkinson. J.A. was a Motor mechanic Married Freida a German who had emigrated to Australia.
JOHN COLDBECK. Son of Edwin & Elizabeth/Isabel Ann Garrett. Husband of Isabel Hall. Father of Nora Coldbeck.
JONATHAN HENRY COLDBECK. Born C, 1858.Grewelthorpe. Son of Henry & Elizabeth. Husband of Jane of Dallowgill. A builder and corn miller living in Grewelthorpe 1891, Ripon 1901.
JOSHUA COLDBECK. Born C.1844 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Jane A. of Durham. Plumber living Fenwick, Doncaster 1891.
JOSHUA COLDBECK. Bap 18.2.1875, buried 6.3.1875. son of James Joshua & Jane Ann.
LAWRENCE COLDBECK. Born 22.4.1890. Bap 23.4.1890. Son of Robert & Ruth Thackray. Lived Hutts lane. Started school 23.4.1895.Left 1904. mar. Agnes Barry. in 1926. aeroplane mechanic in WW1. Shop owner. Lived Leeds.
LYDIA ANN COLDBECK. Born 18.1.1877 dau of James & Mary Jane Mann. Started school 19.6.1882. Left 1891.
MARGARET COLDBECK. Born C. 1845 East Witton. Wife of Ralph the joiner.
MARTHA COLDBECK. Born C.1861.Died 16.9.1878.dau of Henry & Elizabeth Esther Isabel. M.I.
MARY COLDBECK. Dau of Ralph Coldbeck & Ann Grindale. Married John Ingleby. Had a son Daniel who married Elizabeth Wintersgill. from Masham in 1829.
MARY JANE COLDBECK nee MANN. Born C. 1846. died 1900. Wife of James. Lived Hutts Farm. Grewelthorpe.
MARY COLDBECK. Born 4.4.1864. Dau of Henry & Elizabeth. Started school 14.11.1876. Left 1877.
MARY [or MARIA] L. COLDBECK. Born C 1874. Masham. Wife of Alfred Burton.
MAY B.P. COLDBECK. Born C.1900 Masham. Dau of Alfred & Mary.
NORA COLDBECK. dau of John Coldbeck & Isabel Hall. Married Frank Robertshaw. at Crook, Co.Durham.
PERCY COLDBECK. Bap 29.4.1900 died as infant. Son of Robert & Ruth Thackray.
PHYLLIS H. COLDBECK nee WARRIOR. Born C.1867 Tanfield. Wife of Alfred Burton Coldbeck of Grewelthorpe.
RALPH COLDBECK. Born C.1815 Masham. Widower in Grewelthorpe 1881 census. He was a castrator.
RALPH COLDBECK. Born C. 1846 Grewelthorpe. Husband of Sarah of Wetherby. Innkeeper at The Yorkshire Hussar Inn, Ripon in 1901.
RALPH COLDBECK. Born C. 1847 Grewelthorpe. Joiner. Husband of Margaret of East Witton. Living West Tanfield 1881.
RALPH COLDBECK. Born C. 1879 Balne Yorkshire. Son of Joshua & Jane A. Living Fenwick, Doncaster 1891.
RALPH COLDBECK. Husband of Ann Grindale. Married 1772. parents of Mary Ingleby nee Coldbeck. Will made 1808. Owned property in Masham.
ROBERT COLDBECK. Born C 1811. buried 10.2.1892. Son of John & Susannah Burton. Married Mary Wells. from Nosterfield. Robert was a butcher. grandparents of Amy Jackson. dau of Maria.
ROBERT COLDBECK. Bap. 15.7.1860, Died 21.1.1939 son of Charles & Hannah Beaumont Atkinson. Married 1. Ruth Thackray. 2. Elizabeth Spence. Robert was a painter. M.I.
ROBERT SWIRES COLDBECK. Born 17.10.1873. Galphay Wood. Son of William & Elizabeth Swires. Lived Cayton Grange. South Stainley 1881. Came to Grewelthorpe 5.11.1882.Left 1883.
RUTH COLDBECK. Nee THACKRAY. Wife of Robert. Died 24.10.1917. M.I.
SARAH COLDBECK. Born C. 1855 Wetherby.Wife of Ralph the Innkeeper. Living Ripon 1901.
SARAH ANN COLDBECK. Born 4.4.1866. Dau of Henry & Elizabeth E.I. Started school 13.11.1876. Left 1879.
SUSAN COLDBECK. Born 14.11.1884.Grewelthorpe. Dau of John Henry & Jane. Started school 6.8.1889. Left in 1893. Living Ripon 1901.
SUSAN COLDBECK. Born 12.1.1868. Died 26.3.1882. Dau of Henry & Elizabeth E.I. School monitor.
SUSANNAH COLDBECK.nee BURTON. Born C.1785. Buried 19.12.1863. Wife of John.Lived Bramley Grange. M.I.
SUSANNAH COLDBECK. Bap.17.11.1830. Dau of John & Susannah Burton. Died Liverpool u/mar 1899.
THOMAS COLDBECK. Born 1821. Bap. 13.1.1821. son of John & Susannah Burton. Married Mary Ann Pickles. 13.4.1861.
WILLIAM COLDBECK. Born 1778 Littlethorpe. Married Mary. Lived Missise Laverton in 1851. Widower in 1861.
WILLIAM COLDBECK. Born C. 1784. Married Sarah Theakstone. born C1776. Witness Ralph Coldbeck.
WILLIAM COLDBECK. Born C.1810.Died 22.3.1885. son of John & Susannah Burton. Married Dorothy Bunnington. of Burton Leonard. In 1837. Farmer of 115 acres. M.I.
WILLIAM COLDBECK. Was a trustee of the Grewelthorpe Methodist Chapel in 1860.
WILLIAM COLDBECK. Born 1838. Son of William & Dorothy.
Married Elizabeth Swires. from Sutton Grange. 2.2.1873. Lived Cayton Grange, South Stainley in 1881.
WILLIAM ROBINSON COLDBECK. Bap 5.12.1869. Son of Henry & Elizabeth Esther Isabel. Possibly died as a baby.
WILLIAM COLDBECK. Born 28.10.1870 Son of Henry & Elizabeth E.I. Started school 13.11.1876. Left 1882.
WILLIAM ANTHONY COLDBECK. Born 3.11.1874. died 1900. son of James & Mary Jane. Started school 5.4.1880. M.I. Living Asmunderby with Bondgate in 1891.
WILLIAM JESSE COLDBECK. Born 9.4.1892. Bap. 14.8.1892. Son of Robert & Ruth Thackray. of Hutts Lane. Started school 28.6.1897. Left district 1906. Lived in Middlesborough. Married Mary Jackson. in 1915. William was a grocer.
WILLIAM JACKSON COLDBECK. Son of William J.Coldbeck who lived in Cotteringham near Hull in 1943. Grandson of Robert Coldbeck of Grewelthorpe. Awarded the DFM in 1941 as a pilot officer. Married Doreen May Scaife. of Ormesby in November 1943.

Grave of Albert Edward Coldbeck in Grewelthorpe churchyard.









Doris Ellis [nee Coldbeck] with husband Eddy. 1992.


Researched by B.Bradley October 2006.