Lofthouse Family
Lofthouse Family.
Surname: Lofthouse
This interesting surname is English, but arguably of pre 7th century Old Norse origins. It is a locational name from any of the various places in the county of Yorkshire named with the word “lotht”, meaning an upper floor, and “hus”, a house. These places include: Loftus in North Yorkshire; Lofthouse near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and Loftsome on the river Derwent in East Yorkshire. Houses built with an upper floor (which was normally used for storage of produce during the winter) were rare amongst the ordinary people of the Middle Ages, and consequently such an unusual feature would have provided an obvious and convenient means of identification. Early examples of the surname include: Ralph de Loftus; John del Lofthouse and Robertus Lofthouse all of Yorkshire, in the years 1219, 1365 and 1379, respectively, whilst Robert Lofthouse of Lyndene, in Scotland, was convicted of concealing certain “paise penneis” or English gold coins in 1502. He was the earliest recorded bearer of the name in that country. A coat of arms granted to the family has the blazon of a black shield charged with a chevron engrailed between three silver trefoils slipped. The creat is a spur between two wings proper. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Peter de Lofthusum. This was was dated 1166, in the Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire, during the reign of King Henry 11nd of England, 1154 – 1189. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to “develop” often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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The following information relates to Lofthouse’s of the Grewelthorpe area, it has been taken from Parish Registers, School and census records, Memorial Inscriptions (M.I.) in Grewelthorpe churchyard, and information sent in by other researchers. because the information has come from so many sources I cannot vouch for the accuracy of everything. It is therefore wise to search the original records if at all possible.
Last update Feb. 2010.
If you find the following information helpful or have anything to add please get in touch by email.
Request for information from Andy Lofthouse. He would like to hear from any one who can give information about Christopher Lofthouse born C1729 died 1808. husband of Dorothy Gill.
Ron Watson sent the following asking for information.
I am a direct descendant of Christopher b. 1729. My mother was –
Clara Watson nee Lofthouse b.1908 daughter of Charles George Lofthouse b 1875,
son of Robert Lofthouse b 1838
son of Charles Lofthouse b.1792
son of Christopher b 1763
son of Christopher b. 1729.
My leg of the family appear to have travelled via Sawley, Hemsley, Darlington, Yarm and finished up in Middlesbrough.
Is there any evidence that Christopher b1729, Ralph b 1688 and George b. 1688 are related ?
Thanks to Kathleen and Derek Lofthouse for information about Henry Lofthouse b.1840. son of Robert & Martha.
Thanks to Tracey Spence for information about Robert & Martha Lofthouse [nee Snowden] & their family.
Thanks to Barbara Lofthouse of Leicester whose history is at the end of this page.
ABRAHAM LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 23.2.1772 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of William of Kirkby Malzeard.
ADA LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1880 Manchester. Dau of Henry of Grewelthorpe. Butcher.
ALBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1848. Son of Andrew & Mary.
ALFRED LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1836 Dallowgill. Son of Michael the schoolmaster & Ann.
ALFRED LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 12.7.1846 Laverton. Son of Willis & Jane.
ALFRED LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1857 Cheshire. Son of Francis & Margaret.
ALEXANDER LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 1.10.1853 Laverton. Son of Willis & Jane.
AMELIA LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 3.10.1845 Dallowgill. Dau of Michael the schoolmaster & Ann.
AMELIA LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1861 Dallowgill. Wife of Peter the grocer. Lived at The Green, Grewelthorpe. Died 1933.
ANDREW LOFTHOUSE. Born 14.11.1802 Dallowgill. Died 26.2.1876 Buried 29.2.1876. Son of Ralph & Margaret Mary Procter. Commercial carrier 1841. Farmer 1851. Cream cheese maker 1871. Husband of Mary Ann Blackburn. of Grewelthorpe. Had 8 children.
ANN LOFTHOUSE [nee MYERS]. Born C1764 Graycote, Kirkby Malzeard. Died Nov 1858. Buried 12.11.1858 Dallowgill. Wife of Ralph. Described as a pauper in 1851.
ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1768. Buried 16.11.1858 Dallowgill. Lived Fellbeck, Pateley Bridge.
ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born 29.10.1797 Dallowgill. Dau of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
ANN LOFTHOUSE nee GRAHAM. Born C. 1810 Dallowgill. Died 20.1.1889 M.I. Dau of Alice Graham of Burton. Wife of Henry.
ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1821 Grewelthorpe. An inmate in Ripon Workhouse in 1871. An imbecile.
ANNIE LOFTHOUSE [Nee?]. Born C.1848. Grewelthorpe. Buried 20.1.1914. M.I. Wife of Charles the joiner. Living Thorneycroft, Grewelthorpe in 1911.
ANN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 20.11.1859 Kirkby Malzeard. Illeg. dau of Martha of Kexmoor.
ANN ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 3.1.1861 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Francis & Margaret of Laverton.
ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born 12.10.1869 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Martha Lofthouse. Grand dau of Robert & Martha Snowden. Ann was illeg. and raised by her grandparents. Robert & Jane. Ann married Joseph Jackson. they emigrated to Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia in C1913.
ANN ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1860 Laverton. Dau of Francis & Margaret.
ANN AMELIA LOFTHOUSE. Born 5.7.1890 Grewelthorpe.Dau of Peter & Amelia. Started Grewelthorpe school 12.8.1895. Left 1904. Living with parents in 1911, unmarried dressmaker.
ANNIE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 8.8.1892 Dallowgill. Dau of Thomas Edwin & Mary. Crosshills, Dallowgill.
ANNIE LOFTHOUSE. Bap 14.1.1903 Dallowgill. Dau of Francis & Ellen Elizabeth of Ladyhill, Dallowgill.
ANTHONY ASHBY. Born 19.10.1800 Knott Farm Dallowgill. Died 17.3.1847 Clitheroe Lancs. Son of Ralph & Sarah Ashby. Married Ann Lofthouse. on 1.2.1827 Kirkby Malzeard.
ARABELLA LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1806 Dallowgill. Dau of Ralph & Ann Myers. [1841 census]
ARTHUR LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1848 Dallowgill. Son of Michael the schoolmaster & Ann.
AUDREY LOFTHOUSE. Born 27.6.1932. Bap. 5.6.1932 Dallowgill. Dau of Fred Snowden Lofthouse [The Gamekeeper] & Annie of Dallowgill.
BETSY LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 4.10.1846 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of John [The Mason]& Mary Ann.
BRIDGET LOFTHOUSE. Born 13.12.1809 Dallowgill. Died 4.8.1852 Winksley. Dau of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
BRIDGET LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1838 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of John [The Mason] & Mary Ann of Wensley. Married *Harry Prest b1836 Kirkby Malzeard. Ref. 1861 census.
CAROLINE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 5.10.1851 Dallowgill. Dau of Michael [The Schoolmaster] & Ann.
CAROLINE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 20.7.1856 Laverton. Dau of Willis & Jane.
CATHERINE LOFTHOUSE. Born C 1828 Dallowgill. Dau of John & Elizabeth.
CATHERINE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 3.10.1852 Dallowgill. Buried 5.7.1853. Dau of Christopher [The Mason] & Mary.
CHARLES LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 1.2.1774. Kirkby Malzeard.Died 5.10.1855. Buried 7.10.1855. M.I. Son of Christopher of Dallowgill. Husband of Sarah. Charles was a stonemason. Made his will 30.8.1851. Will proved 9.6.1856.
CHARLES LOFTHOUSE. Born1791 Dallwgill. Son of Christopher & Elizabeth Earl.* Stonemason. Married Catherine Beck. [1792-1842]. Had 5 children.
CHARLES LOFTHOUSE. Born 1835. Son of Charles [The Stonemason] & Catherine Beck.
CHARLES LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1845 Grewelthorpe. Died 12.8.1924 M.I. Joiner.Son of Henry & Ann Graham. Husband of Ann. Married C.1869. Living Elm Cottage Grewelthorpe 1881. Charles was overseer for lowside in 1898. Living Thorneycroft Grewelthorpe in 1911. They had 6 children, 2 died.
CHARLES GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born 1875 Sawley. Died 2.6.1955 Middlesbro. Son of Robert [The Farm Bailiff] & Henrietta Wright. Joiner. Married Clara Cordingley. [1877-1939] Yarm. Had 6 children.
CHARLES LOFTHOUSE. Born 31.3.1905 Giling East. Son of Charles George [Joiner] & Clara Cordingley.
CHARLOTTE LOFTHOUSE.[Nee ?] Born C. 1856 Kirkby Malzeard. Wife of John of Warren Hill.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Born 1748. Died 1808. Son of George & Sarah Spence. married to Dorothy Gill. on 29.12.1760 Kirkby Malzeard.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1795 Dallowgill. Son of Ralph & Ann Myers. [!841/51 census]
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1801 Dallowgill. Buried 4.2.1863 Dallowgill. Married Mary. Farmed Harper Hill Dallowgill.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1805. Buried 15.1.1876. Lived Harper Hill, Dallowgill.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1824 Dallowgill. Son of John & Elizabeth. Married Frances [Fanny] b.1839 Dallowgill.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Son of John the shoemaker. Christopher was a grocer lived at Greygarth. Widower when he married Ann Gill. on 27.8.1859 at Kirkby Malzeard church. Ann was a widow. Dau of Henry Gill. the Chandler.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Born 1826. Son of Charles [The Stonemason] & Catherine Beck.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 2.3.1851 Dallowgill. Buried 8.11.1901 Dallowgill. Son of Christopher & Mary of Harper Hill Dallowgill.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 5.3.1865 Dallowgill. Son of John [The Cordwainer] & Jane.
CLARA LOFTHOUSE. Born 18.8.1908 Darlington. Died 17.7.2003 Middlesbro. Dau of Charles George [Joiner] & Clara Cordingley. Married John William Watson. [b 5.9.1906 Stockton on Tees.died 25.2.1965 Middlesbro.] Had 3 children.
DOROTHY LOFTHOUSE [Nee Gill]. Born 1733. Died 1817. Married Christopher 29.12.1760 Kirkby Malzeard.
DOROTHY LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1804. Buried 7.3.1857 Dallowgill.
DOROTHY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C1860 Dallowgill. Dau of John [the Cordwainer] & Jane.
DOUGLAS ROBERT. Buried 4.8.1987. Son of George & Jane. Husband of Phyllis Bowen. Married North Stainley 1954.
EDITH LOFTHOUSE. Born 30.4.1879. Dressmaker 1901. Dau of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 20.4.1885. Left 1894. Married George Thirkill. A Joiner of Grewelthorpe in 1904.
EDITH ANNIE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 6.6.1883 Dallowgill. Dau of John & Anne of Beckmeetings. Dallowgill.
EDWARD LOFTHOUSE. Bap 1805 Grewelthorpe. Son of John of Dallowgill. Married Ann Crawford. of Scorton. on 18.3.1826. See history at end of page.
EDWARD LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1861 Hindley, Wigan. Son of Henry & Elizabeth Crow.
ELLENAR[D] LOFTHOUSE. Born 1869 Ripley. Dau of Robert [Farm Bailiff] & Henrietta Wright.
ELEANOR LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 13.4.1894 Dallowgill. Dau of John & Anne of Beckmeetings, Dallowgill.
ELIJAH LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1842. Buried 17.3.1863 Dallowgill. Lied Greygarth, Dallowgill.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1756. Wife of Henry. Lived Masham.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Born 1767 Dallowgill. Died 19.3.1859. Dau of George [1746-1790] & Ellen Johnson.[1743-1786]. Married Robert Allinson. of Dallowgill in 1787. Had 11 children.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 15.1.1771 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Tristram of Galphay.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 18.2.1775.Kikrby Malzeard Dau of George of Dallowgill.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE [nee ?]. Born C.1794 Grewelthorpe. Buried 22.2.1874 Dallowgill. Wife of John of Dallowgill . Widow in 1861.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1842 Dallowgill. Dau of Michael the schoolmaster & Ann.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 7.6.1891 Dallowgill. dau of John & Anne. Beckmeetings, Dallowgill.
ELLEN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 21.11.1767 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of George of Dallowgill.
ELLEN LOFTHOUSE. Born 1.10.1790. Died 19.6.1863. Dau of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
ELLEN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1800. Buried 18.6.1880 Dallowgill. Lived Grantley.
EMILY JANE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 7.3.1847 Dallowgill. Dau of Henry & Margaret. Farmer at Knott Dallowgill.
EMMA LOFTHOUSE. Born C..1844 Dallowgill. Dau of Michael [the schoolmaster] & Ann.
EMMA LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 27.11.1870 Dallowgill. Dau of Christopher & Fanny of Lady Hill.
ERNEST ARTHUR LOFTHOUSE. Born 31.3.1872 Manchester. Died 29.4.1891. Buried 2.5.1891. M.I. Son of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 13.11.1876. Left 1884.
ERNEST LOFTHOUSE. Born 23.4.1928. Bap. 27.5.1928 Dallowgill. Son of Fred Snowden Lofthouse [The Gamekeeper] & Annie of Wakehill, Dallowgill.
EVA ALICE LOFTHOUSE. Born 6.11.1896. Grewelthorpe.Dau of Peter & Amelia. Started Grewelthorpe school 7.5.1900. Living with parents in 1911 in Grewelthorpe.
FRANCES ANNE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 3.6.1849 Dallowgill. Dau of Michael [the schoolmaster] & Ann. Dallowgill.
FRANCIS LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1826 Laverton. Ag. Labourer at Quarry House, Azerley in 1861. Husband of Margaret of Laverton.
FRANCIS LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 12.10.1864 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of
Francis [Husbandman] & Margaret of Laverton Quarry.
FRANK LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1825. Buried 13.9. 1897. Dallowgill. Lived LadyHill, Dallowgill.
FRED LOFTHOUSE. Born 26.10.1866. Son of Robert of Kirkby Malzeard. Came to Grewelthorpe school from Kirkby Malzeard 19.5.1879. Left 1880.
FRED LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1876 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Bridget.& John. Stepson of David Suttill. Carter in 1901 at Gate Bridge Mill, Azerley. Married on 11.4.1903 at Kirkby Malzeard to Elizabeth Ingleby. [b. 1876] dau of Wilfred Ingleby.
FREDERICK SNOWDEN LOFTHOUSE. Bap.25.12.1884 Galphay. Son of John Walmsley & Charlotte.
FRED SNOWDEN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 31.8.1890 Dallowgill. Son of Thomas Edwin [The Watcher] & Mary. Crosshills, Dallowgill.
FREDA LOFTHOUSE. Born 9.6.1930. Bap. 3.8.1930 Dallowgill. Dau of Fred Snowden Lofthouse [The Gamekeeper] & Annie of Wakehill, Dallowgill.
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born 1688 Kirkby Malzeard. Father of George. [1714-1790]
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born 1714. Died 1790. Son of George. Married to Sarah Spence. on 28.9.1741 Kirkby Malzeard.
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born 1746. Died 1790. Married Ellen Johnson [1743-1786].
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born 29.3.1795 Dallowgill. Died 20.3.1863 Rimington. Son of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1824 Warsill. Unmarried shoemaker living Laverton in 1871. This could be the George Lofthouse age 78 who was buried at Dallowgill 9.2.1901.
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1836 Dallowgill. Son of John & Elizabeth.
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 8.7.1849 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of John [The Stonemason] & Mary Ann.
GEORGE HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born 3.2.1893 Grewelthorpe. Son of Peter & Amelia. Started Grewelthorpe school 14.3.1898. A shopkeeper in Grewelthorpe. Kellys Directory 1936.
GORDON LOFTHOUSE. Born 17.2.1922. Bap. 19.3.1922 Dallowgill. Son of Fred Snowden Lofthouse [The Gamekeeper]& Annie. of Wakehill, Dallowgill.
HANNAH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1850 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Jane.
HAROLD JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born 28.3.1882 Grewelthorpe. Son of Charles & Ann. Started Grewelthorpe school 16.1.1888. Left 1895. Joiners apprentice working for Samuel Learoyd of Staveley. 1901
HARRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1903. Buried 3.6.1906.M.I. Drowned, Son of Alfred & Annie of Biggin Hill.
HARRIET LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 14.10.1849. Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Robert & Jane of Kexmoor.
HARRIET LOFTHOUSE. Born 2.1.1867. Bap. 10.2.1867 Dallowgill. Dau of Christopher & Fanny of Lady Hill.
HELEN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1799 Masham. Dau of Henry & Elizabeth. Wife of Thomas Hammond.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1756. Husband of Elizabeth. Lived Masham. Father of Helen.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born 8.12.1799 Dallowgill. Died 2.4.1819. Son of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1800. Buried 6.4.1867 Dallowgill. Lived Grantley.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1815 Grantley. Died 7.7.1901 M.I. Joiner, Master Carpenter, Cream cheese maker & grocer. Husband of Ann Graham. Widower in 1901.
Excerpt from newspaper [no date known].
In Grewelthorpe about 100 years ago Henry Lofthouse made the first cream cheese from cream he collected in Dallowgill,Galphay and Winksley. At 4a.m. in his light spring cart he would rattle through to catch the first train from Ripon for Leeds and London.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1818. Buried 31.10.1896 Dallowgill. Lived Ripley.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born 24.4.1840. Galphay. Son of Robert & Martha Snowden. Henry married Eizabeth Crow.[b.1837] dau of John Crow the weaver. On 26.11.1860 in Hindley, Wigan. She was born in Isle of Man. Henry was a collier.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1855 Grewelthorpe. Son of Francis & Margaret. Living Manchester 1891. a widower and a Butcher. Had a dau. Ada in 1880.
HERBERT LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 12.5.1878 Dallowgill. Son of Thomas Edwin [The Watcher] & Mary, Crosshills Dallowgill.
ISAAC LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1797. Buried 7.2.1882 Dallowgill. Lived Glasshouses, Pateley Bridge.
JACOB LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1864. Illeg. son of Martha Lofthouse. Lived at South Oaks Farm, Fellbeck.
JAMES LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1844. Died 1853. Son of Andrew & Mary.
JAMES LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 22.6.1851 Dallowgill. Buried 1.8.1851. Son of Christopher [the Mason] & Mary.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1808 Dallowgill. Wife of Robert.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1820 Grewelthorpe. Buried 3.1.1869 Dallowgill. Lived Bowes. Wife of Willis.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1842.Buried 18.12.1865. Dau of Andrew & Mary.
JANE ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. BAP. 20.3.1853. Laverton. Dau of Willis & Jane.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 14.8.1853. Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Jane Snowden. of Kexmoor.
JANE ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 5.10.1862 Dallowgill. Dau of Christopher & Frances [Fanny] of Lady Hill. Grand dau of Elizabeth Lofthouse b.1794.
JANE E. LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1878 Kirkby Malzeard. Grand dau of Richard Lambert. A Grocers assistant in 1891 in Kirkby Malzeard.
JAMES LOFTHOUSE. Born 1844. Buried 21.6.1853. M.I. Son of Matthew & Mary.
JESSIE LOFTHOUSE. Born 2.2.1900 Yarm. Died 5.5.1995 Solihull. Dau of Charles George [joiner] & Clara Cordingley.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1751. Lived Laverton. Buried 29.5.1821. Kirkby Malzeard Par. reg.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. A Cordwainer married on 2.6.1796 at Kirkby Malzeard to Frances Carling. Witness Mary Lofthouse.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1792 Dallowgill. Buried 19.1.1856. Dallowgill. Farmer at Lady Hill, Laverton in 1851. Husband of Elizabeth of Grewelthorpe.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born 7.6.1807 Dallowgill. Died 4.8.1852 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1825 Dallowgill. Buried 30.4.1883 Dallowgill. Married Jane. Lived Low Ray Carr, Laverton. Cordwainer.
Modern photo of Low Ray Carr. Laverton.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born 1829. Son of Charles [The stonemason] & Catherine Beck.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1850. Son of Andrew & Mary. Married Mary.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 5.10.1851 Dallowgill. Son of John [The Cordwainer] & Jane.
JOHN WALMSLEY LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 5.12.1852 Dallowgill. Son of Christopher & Mary of Harper Hill.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1853 Kirkby Malzeard. Farmer at Warren Hill, Azerley. Married to Charlotte born 1856 Kirkby Malzeard. Ref. 1881 Census. Azerley.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Bap.27.5.1858 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Francis & Margaret of Laverton.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1868 Leeds. Son of Henry & Elizabeth Crow.
JOHN HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 16.1.1907 Mickley. Son of Francis & Ellen Elizabeth.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born 9.4.1924. Bap.11.5.1924 Dallowgill. Son of Fred Snowden Lofthouse [The Gamekeeper] & Annie of Wakehill, Dallowgill.
JOSEPH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 9.8.1772. Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George of Dallowgill.
JOSEPH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1845 Dallowgill. Grandson of John & Elizabeth.
JOSHUA LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 28.5.1853 Laverton. Son of Christopher & Mary. Farm servant 1871 working for Robert & Ann Thackray. Died Dec 1937 age 84. Funeral at St Peter’s Church Dallowgill. Farmed all his life at Harper Hill Dallowgill.
KATE LOFTHOUSE. Born 1872 Sawley. Dau of Robert [The Farm Bailiff] & Henrietta Wright.
MABEL EDITH LOFTHOUSE. Bap 5.5.1886 Dallowgill. Dau of Thomas Edwin [the Watcher] & Mary.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 11.9.1814 Dallowgill. Dau of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1823. Buried 10.4.1895 Dallowgill.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1829 Laverton. Wife of Francis.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1847. Dau of Andrew & Mary. Probably the wife of Henry Jackson of Lofthouse see 1881 census.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born C1862 Dallowgill. Dau of John [The Cordwainer] & Jane.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1864. Buried 14.1.1889 Dallowgill. Lived Ladyhill Dallowgill.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Bap.2.8.1863 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Francis & Margaret of Laverton.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born 20.11.1930 Died 29.12.1996 Middlesborough. Dau of Clara & John Wm. Watson.
MAGGIE LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 29.4.1888 Dallowgill. Dau of John & Anne of Beckmeetings, Dallowgill.
MARIA LOFTHOUSE. Born C1847. Bap. 14.10.1849 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Robert & Jane
MARIA LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1852 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Andrew & Mary. Sister of Margaret Jackson nee Lofthouse.1881 census.
MARTHA LOFTHOUSE [Nee SNOWDEN] Dau of Esther Snowden. [born 1773 died June 1850].Married to Robert Lofthouse. She committed suicide in Dec 1844 by taking poison in a temporary fit of madness. Her sister Jane lived with Robert after Martha’s death.
MARTHA LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1843. Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Martha Snowden. Martha had 2 illeg. children. Ann b.1859. & Jacob Lofthouse b.C1864. Banns read [Grewelthorpe]for marriage to Thomas Rawson of Healey. November 1865.
MARY LOFTHOUSE.* Bap. 6.1.1778 Kirkby Malzeard.Dau of Christopher of Dallowgill.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE [nee ?]. Born C. 1811 Wensley.Married John [the mason]. Widowed in 1861 living K.Malzeard with dau Bridget.
MARY LOFTHOUSE [nee ?]. Born C.1812 Grewelthorpe. Married Andrew Lofthouse. on 22.2.1838 Kirkby Malzeard.
MARY LOFTHOUSE. Born C1814 Dallowgill. Dau of John & Elizabeth.
MARY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1814. Buried 4.5.1849 Mickley.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1812 Grewelthorpe. Buried 15.10.1878. Wife of Andrew.
MARY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1822. Buried 8.8.1893 Dallowgill. Lived Harper Hill.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1829. Buried 9.4.1882 Dallowgill. Lived Beck Meetings, Dallowgill.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1845 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Andrew & Mary.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 29.4.1849 Dallowgill. Dau of Christopher & Mary of Harper Hill, Dallwgill.
MARY LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 27.5.1849 Dallowgill. Dau of John [the Cordwainer] & Jane.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1850. Grewelthorpe. Dau of Henry & Ann Graham.
MARY LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 5.6.1854 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Ralph [The Tailor] & Rebecca.
MARY JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born 16,6,1874 Grewelthorpe. Died 26.12.1946.. Dau of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 22.7.1878. Servant in Ripon in 1891. See Obit at end.
MATILDA LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 23.6.1844 Kirkby Malzeard. Buried 7.11.1847 Dallowgill. Dau of Henry & Ellen of Dallowgill.
MATILDA LOFTHOUSE. Bap.27.2.1848 Dallowgill. Dau of Willis & Jane.
MATTHEW LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1789 Dallowgill. Buried 4.7.1874 Dallowgill. Brother of Christopher. A Broom maker in 1861. Lived Harper Hill, Dallowgill.
MATTHEW LOFTHOUSE. Born 1832. Son of Charles [Stonemason] & Catherine Beck.
MAURICE LOFTHOUSE. Born 9.2.1903 Gilling East. Son of Charles George [Joiner] & Clara Cordingley.
MICHAEL LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1812 Dallowgill. Schoolmaster at Dallowgill school. Husband of Ann of Dishforth. 8 children in 1851.
NOEL LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 25.1.1913 Mickley. Son of Francis & Helen Elizabeth.
PETER LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1847. Grewelthorpe. Son of Henry & Ann Graham. Grocer living The Green Grewelthorpe 1901. Husband of Amelia of Dallowgill. Married C.1890. Peter was a Grewelthorpe Parish Councillor from 1901 to 1904. He was an overseer for lowside until 1905. In 1911 he was a grocer & meal & corn dealer. living Grewelthorpe with 3 children.
PHYLLIS LOFTHOUSE [Nee Bowen]. 5th Dau of J.C.Bowen of North Stainley. Married Douglas Robert Lofthouse in July 1954 at North Stainley Parish Church.
PRISCILLA LOFTOUSE. Born C1852 Dallowgill. Dau of Willis & Jane.
RALPH LOFTHOUSE. Married Margaret Appleby.
RALPH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 21.12.1760 Dallowgill. Died 20.8.1841. Buried 23.8.1841 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Ralph & Margaret Appleby. Married Ann Myers. of Kirkby Malzeard on 9.12.1790 at Kirkby Malzeard.
RALPH LOFTHOUSE. Born 15.12.1765 Dallowgill. Died 26.12.1845 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George [1746] & Eleanor Johnson. b.1743. Married Sarah Ashby. 7.4.1790 Kirkby Malzeard. [See Ashby Page]. Had 10 children.
RALPH LOFTHOUSE. Born 8.5.1769 Dallowgill. Died 3.2.1855 Dallowgill. Son of Christopher & Dorothy Gill. Married Margaret Mary Procter. on 11.12.1799 Kirkby Malzeard. Father in law of Thomas Ashby. on 1851 census. Laverton. Lived LadyHill.
RALPH LOFTHOUSE. Victualler at “Barrell” Dallowgill. 1822 directory.
REUBEN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 25.12.1849 Laverton. Son of Willis & Jane.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 7.11.1769. Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George of Dallowgill.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born 26.2.1805 Dallowgill. Died 8.11.1834. Son of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1813. Kirkby Malzeard. Farmer at Kexmoor 1851. !st wife Martha Snowden. she committed suicide [took poison] in Dec 1844. Robert then lived with Martha’s sister Jane Snowden. they had 3 children [illeg.] Maria, Harriet & Jane jnr.
Robert lived with his son William in Kirkby Malzeard in 1891.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born 1838 Galphay. Son of Robert & Martha Snowden. He was a Tailor in Leeds when he married Jane Atkinson. on 10.3.1862 at Kirkby Malzeard church. Jane [b.1840] dau of *Robert & Mary Atkinson * [Ref. K.Mal.Par.Reg.]
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born 1838. Died 6.1.1914 Sawley. Son of Charles [The Stonemason] & Catherine Beck. Farm Bailiff. Married Henrietta Wright. [b.1813 Laverton] Had 3 children.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1848. Buried 6.8.1858.
ROBERT HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born 28.11.1899 Ripon. Killed in action Flanders on 2.9.1918. Son of Charles George [the joiner] & Clara Cordingley.
RONALD LOFTHOUSE. Born 28.11.1915 Middlesborough. Son of Charles George [The joiner] & Clara Cordingley.
SARAH LOFTHOUSE [nee Spence]. Born 1718. Died 1761. Wife of George [1714-1790].
SARAH LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1775. Died 29.1.1863. M.I. Wife of Charles.
SARAH LOFTHOUSE. Born 23.12.1792 Dallowgill. Died 12.8.1841 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Ralph & Sarah Ashby.
SARAH MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Bap.28.3.1900 Dallowgill. Dau of Francis & Ellen Elizabeth of Ladyhill Dallowgill.
SELINA ANN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. June 1851 Dallowgill. Dau of Henry & Margaret of Knotts, Dalowgill.
SOPHIA M. LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1839 Dallowgill. Dau of Michael the schoolmaster & Ann.
STANLEY LOFTHOUSE. Born 5.12.1915. Grandson of Peter. Started Grewelthorpe school 9.4.1923.Left 1929. Served in WW2. RAF.
THOMAS LOFTHOUSE. In 1742/3 he was paid for 12 days work clearing out the debris from a closed pit at Speedwell Gin Shaft in Colsterdae.
THOMAS LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1840 Grewelthorpe. Buried 28.12.1869. Son of Andrew & Mary.
THOMAS LOFTOUSE. Born C.1845 Grewelthorpe. Died 3.5.1856. M.I. Carpenter in 1871.Son of Henry & Ann Graham.
THOMAS LOFTHOUSE. Born 19.5.1863 Hindley, Wigan. Son of Henry & Elizabeth Crow.
THOMAS EDWIN LOFTHOUSE. Born 4.11.1877. Grewelthorpe. Bap 23.5.1847 Dallowgill. Died 16.5.1902. Son of Charles & Mary. Started Grewelthorpe school 9.4.1883. Left 1890. Re-admitted 1893. Lived Harper Hill Dallowgill. Was a Watcher.
VIOLET LOFTHOUSE. Born C1905 South Stainley. Grand dau of Albert Atkinson & Fanny Harker. living in South Stainley in 1911. Mother would be Alice Emily or Annie Elizabeth Atkinson.
WALKER LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1835 Dallowgill. Nephew of Christopher Lofthouse of Dallowgill. [1841/51 census]
WALTER HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born 15.8.1869 Manchester. Son of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 13.11.1876. Left 1883.
WILLIAM LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 7.11.1767 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of William of K.Malzeard.
WILLIAM LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1830. Son of John the Mason of Kirkby Malzeard. William was a Mason. married on 6.1.1855 at Kirkby Malzeard church to Maria Frankland. [b.1826] dau of Frank Frankland. of Kirkby Malzeard.
WILLIAM LOFTHOUSE. Born 1835. Galphay. Son of Robert & Martha Snowden.
WILLIAM LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1837 Kirkby Malzeard. Hawker. Son of Robert [b.1813].
WILLIAM ARTHUR LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 4.7.1847 Dallowgill. Son of Michael [the schoolmaster] & Ann.
WILLIAM HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1871 Leeds. Son of Henry & Elizabeth Crow.
WILLIS LOFTHOUSE. Born C1821 Laverton. Buried 1.2.1880.Dallowgill. Grocer & Farmer. In 1841 he was a man servant at Dallowhall, Laverton. Husband of Jane of Grewelthorpe. Widower in 1871. Living Bowes Laverton.
ZILLAH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1838 Dallowgill. Dau of Michael the schoolmaster & Ann.
ZILLAH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 7.10.1860 Dallowgill. Dau of Christopher & Mary of Harper Hill.
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Graves of Mary Jane Lofthouse, and Charles & Sarah Lofthouse in Grewelthorpe Churchyard.
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Obituary for Mary Jane Lofthouse. as reported in Ripon Gazette 2nd Jan 1947.
The death occurred last week in a Ripon Nursing Home of Miss Mary Jane Lofthouse age 72. She was the elder daughter of the late Mr & Mrs C. Lofthouse. of Grewelthorpe. Miss Lofthouse lived for many years at Leicester and she retired to Grewelthorpe 7 years ago. She was an active worker for the Red Cross in the 1st World War, of a gentle disposition Miss Lofthouse contributed to various causes chiefly in connection with The Methodist Church. Being a semi invalid since her retirement she was very fond of reading and an excellent conversationaslist and will be much missed by her many friends. The funeral was held at the Methodist Church last Saturday and her cousin Mr. George Lofthouse. played the organ. Chief mourners included Mr & Mrs George Thirkill. brother in law and sister. and Mr & Mrs Raymond Thirkill. nephew & Niece.
A short history Lofthouses removed from Grewelthorpe!
Barbara Lofthouse of Leicester is searching for her line of Lofthouses. So far she’s found out the following information regarding descendants but would very much like to further trace her proud Yorkshire roots backwards from the first ancestor listed.
Edward Lofthouse. was born circa 1804. In most census material he is recorded as being born in ‘Firby’ but in one (1861) this is ‘Gulethorpe’. As a result of an initial trawl of maps and then with very much help from the editor of the Grewelthorpe website I now know that the latter is almost certainly Grewelthorpe There is a record of his baptism in Grewelthorpe in 1805, his father being one John Lofthouse of Dallowgill. However the family then moved to Firby near Bedale. On 18 March 1826 at St Cuthbert’s Church, Darlington, Edward was married to Ann Crawford. born circa 1805 in Scorton. Ann’s father had become a farmer in nearby Cockerton by then. By 1841 Edward had become a farmer of 100 acres with 4 labourers at Chantry House Farm, Middleton Tyas, moving on again by 1861 to farm 150 acres at Tibbersley House, Billingham. He died in 1868 from “accidental shock to the nervous system” after being run over by a thrashing machine. The accident was reported in the local Darlington newspaper.
Edward & Ann had 9 children: Margaret born circa 1828, John c1830, Edward c1833, William c1836, Jane c1838, Thomas c1841, George c1843, Anne c1845 and Crawford c1846. I do have further information on some of these and they were all born in either Middleton Tyas or Cockerton (near Darlington).
John Lofthouse. was a groom and seemed to travel quite a lot including a brief sojourn in Hertfordshire. However he stopped in one place long enough to marry Anne Taylor. born in Ripon circa 1834, between October and December 1857 in Ripon Cathedral. They had two sons, William Edward born at Neasham circa 1858 and John George born at North Lees near Ripon between July and September 1863.
Eventually the family moved to Leicestershire when John became stud groom at the stables of John Henry Stokes. a widely renowned horse dealer and benefactor. He seems to have worked there until he died in 1883. William Edward and John George both worked in Leicester as omnibus drivers and grooms for Leicester Tramways. They are shown in one of the 2 photographs. The 2nd picture shows William Edward as driver on one of the vehicles. They were both married in Leicester and one of William’s sons, Edward Crawford. was my great grandfather. For a while, he and his first wife, Maud Ellen Cundy. (known as Nellie) of Lincolnshire, worked at Leicester’s Palace Theatre [of varieties] as stage manager and wardrobe mistress respectively.
John Lofthouse on left and William Edward Lofthouse.
William Edward Lofthouse. bus driver.
Edward Lofthouse. born circa 1804 in Grewelthorpe
Married Ann Crawford., born circa 1805 in Scorton, 18 March 1826, Darlington St Cuthbert’s
Died 1868, Cockerton, Darlington
9 children: Margaret born circa 1828, John c1830, Edward c1833, William c1836, Jane c1838, Thomas c1841, George c1843, Anne c1845 and Crawford c1846. Most born in Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire or Cockerton (Darlington)
John Lofthouse. born circa 1830 in Middleton Tyas
Married Anne Taylor. born circa 1834 in Ripon, bet Oct – Dec 1857 in Ripon Cathedral
Died 1883, Leicestershire
2 children: William Edward, born 1858, Neasham, Durham; John George, born Jul – Sep 1863, North Lees, Ripon
William Edward Lofthouse. born c 1858 in Neasham
Married Sarah Ellen Heath. born 1858, Birmingham, Apr – Jun 1886, Leicester
Died 1907 Leicester
4 children: Maud Ellen b 1887; Olive Blanche b 1889; Edward Crawford b 1892; Ethel May b 1895.
If you can help Barbara Lofthouse with her research she can be contacted by email.