Died
9 February 1908
Born
c1835
Sources
Ancestry
Westmorland Gazette
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser
Whitehaven News
Place
Themes
Walks
James Kendall
This is an impressive stone near the church door.
Picture from Dendron Churchyard
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
BETSY
WIFE OF JAMES KENDALL
WHO DIED OCT. 6TH 1896, AGED 51 YEARS
ALSO OF THE ABOVE
JAMES KENDALL
WHO DIED FEBRUARY 9TH 1908
AGED 73 YEARS.
Notice forbidding pursuing Game from Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 9 September 1875
Advertising for a Cowman from Westmorland Gazette 8 Nov 1890
James Kendall married Betsy Tyson, youngest daughter of the late Edmund Tyson, of Inmans, Bootle, on 7 June 1871 at Pennington Church. (Whitehaven News 15 June 1871)
Ancestry tells us:
1851 Census
James Kendall’s father, also James Kendall, was living in Gleaston in the 1851 Census. The household contained James Kendall (59) Head, Farmer of 145 acres, employing 5 labourers, born Aldingham; Ann Kendall (49) born Whicham, Cumberland; William Kendall (20) Farmer’s Son, born Aldingham; Mary Kendall (28) Farmer’s Daughter, born Aldingham; Hannah Kendall (23) Farmer’s Daughter, born Aldingham; James Kendall (16) Farmer’s Son, born Aldingham; William Park (21) Farm Labourer, born Millom, Cumberland; Hannah Vickers? (18) House Servant, born Coniston; James Shaw (17) Farm Servant, born Cartmel. Three of the next four households are headed by Kendalls.
1861 Census
In the 1861 Census James Kendall, his wife Ann, and children James (26) are still in the same household, with a group of different servants. Daughter Ann (23) is also present. In 1851 daughter Ann Kendall had been staying as a visitor at the Coward family farm at Colt Park, not far from Aldingham.
1871 Census
By the 1871 Census James Kendall – the son – has moved to a large farm, Harbarrow, which he has taken over from his late brother, William (see obit). The household is James Kendall (36) Unmarried – as are the whole household – Farmer of 466 acres employing 10 labourers, born Aldingham; James Kendall (16); William Kendall (14); Thomas Kendall (11); John Kendall (9) and George S. Kendall (6) – all listed as Nephew, Scholar, born Harbarrow. What happened to their parents? The servants are Ann Maudsley (33), Housekeeper, born Hornsby, Lancs; Thomas Simpson (28) Farm Servant, born Aldingham; John Middleton (23) Farm Servant, born Cartmel; William Farrow (31) Farm Servant, born Kendal, Westmorland; George Biggs (16) Farm Servant, born Dalton; Hannah E. Jackson (18) General Domestic Servant, born Liverpool; Mary Wilkinson (17) General Domestic Servant, born Pennington.
1881 Census
James is still at Harbarrow in the 1881 Census. The household is made up of James Kendall (46) Farmer of 309 acres employing 4 men and 2 boys; Betsy Kendall (35) Famer’s wife, born Bootle. Cumberland; Mary Kendall (2) born Urswick; James Kendall (1) born Urswick; Thomas Kendall (21) Nephew, Farmer’s Assistant, born Urswick; Mary Whitaker (18) General Domestic Servant, born Kendal, Westmorland; Agnes Dennison (17) Nurse (Domestic Servant), born Dalton-in-Furness; Myles Pickthall (18) Farm Servant, born Aldingham, Lancs.; John Glue? (16) Farm Servant, born Isle of Man.
From the Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser 15 November 1884, on the occasion of consecrating the extension to the burial grounds at Dendron, we learn that James Kendall was the churchwarden.
1891 Census
At Harbarrow Farm in the 1891 Census are James Kendall (56) Farmer, born Aldingham; Betsy Kendall (48) born Bootle, Cumberland; Annie Kendall (18) Farmer’s Daughter, born Urswick; Eleanor Kendall (16) Farmer’s Daughter, born Urswick; Mary Kendall (12) Scholar, born Urswick; James Kendall (11) Scholar, born Urswick; Edmund T. Kendall (9) Scholar, born Urswick; Elizabeth Singleton (19) General Servant (Domestic), born Bootle, Cumberland; John Vicars (45) Farm Servant, born Kirkby, Lancs.; Myles Newton (23) Cow-man, Agricultural Labourer, born Sedgwick, Westmorland; William Kirkham (14) Cow-boy, Agricultural Labourer, born Dalton-in-Furness; William Vial? (14) Scullery-boy, Domestic, born K.N.?, Yorkshire; Charles T. Mackereth (23) Nephew, Visitor, Chemist, born Pennington, Lancs.
The National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1896 has:
KENDALL Betsy of Harbarrow Urswick Lancashire (wife of James Kendall) died 6 October 1896 Probate Lancaster 14 November to Annie Kendall spinster and Edmund Mackereth gentleman Effects £28.
1901 Census
In the 1901 Census living at Gleaston are James Kendall (66) Widower, Retired Farmer, born Aldingham; Annie Kendall (28) Single, Daughter, Dairywork Instructress, born Urswick, Eleanor Kendall (26) Single, Daughter, No occupation recorded, born Urswick; and Mary Kendall (22), Single, Daughter, no occupation recorded, born Urswick.
Soulby’s Ulverston Advertiser and General Intelligencer (What a wonderful name!) 13 February 1908 carried news of James Kendall’s death:
DEATH OF AN OLD FURNESSIAN.
– We regret to announce the death of Mr. James Kendall, which occurred at his residence in Ainsworth-street, Ulverston on Sunday, at the advanced age of 73. The Kendalls of Gleaston and Harbarrow have long stood in the forefront of progress in agriculture in Furness, and for a number of years the deceased farmed Harbarrow, in succession to his late brother, Mr. William Kendall. When grain growing ceased to be profitable, in consequence of foreign importations, he laid down many of the former arable areas of Harbarrow to grass, and with such good judgement that his landlord, the then Earl of Derby, rewarded him with a year’s rent. On his retirement he came to live in Ulverston, where he lived up to the time of his death. The remains of the deceased gentleman were laid to rest in the Dendron Churchyard on Tuesday afternoon, the service being impressively conducted by the Rev. A. Humphries, the vicar of that village. Amongst those present, including a representative gathering of farmers from the surrounding neighbourhood were: - Messrs. Jno. Walton (son-in-law), W C. Kendall, E. Mackereth, G. Case, G. Brocklebank; W. Boulton and Miss Kitchin, Ulverston; Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Harbarrow; Mr. and Miss Walker, Dendron; Mr. T. Bowes, Gleaston Park; Mr. Robt. Mason, Marsh Grange; Mr. T. Ashburner, Dalton; Mr. J. Coward, Colt Park; Mr. J. Jackson, Gleaston; and Mr. W. Case, Stank. The body was interred side by side with the deceased’s wife, who pre-deceased him in 1896. The arrangement were satisfactorily carried out by Nr. I. W. Jarvis.
