Michaelson, Thomas Yeates Parker & Son

Died

Father: 24 July 1855
Son: 31 July 1845

Thomas Yeates Parker Michaelson

and son, Charles Robert Michaelson

IN MEMORY OF
Thomas Yeates Parker
MICHAELSON
Of the Isle of Barrow, Esquire

Died July 24, 1855
Age 41 years

IT IS GOOD FOR ME THAT I HAVE BEEN AFFLICTED

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLES ROBERT MICHAELSON
WHO DIED
31ST OF JULY, 1845
AGED 4 DAYS

The birth and death of the little boy (top left) is noted by the diarist William Fisher:

28 July at the Isle of Barrow the Lady of T.Y.P. Michaelson of a son and air
31 July Died at the Isle of Barrow the infant son of T.Y.P. Michalson esq. [Source]

The next few lines are extracts from an Evening Mail article about the Michaelsons:

Arthur Watts, of Saunders Close, Barrow, has been busy researching the background to the Michaelson family, whose name survives in town street names.

He writes: “Being born on Barrow Island during the Second World War, I was interested to come across the grave stone inside Cartmel Priory of Robert Michaelson, formerly of Old Barrow, who died on July 18 in 1809 in his 80th year. Further investigation at the Barrow Records Office, where they have the Michaelson family well documented, revealed that Robert was the Controller of the Kings Boat at Piel – in charge of the port and the custom dues. He took over Barrow Island in 1746. At the beginning of the 19th century his descendants added two wings to the mansion that was built in 1726. It was pulled down during the First World War.

Robert’s great grandson Thomas Yeats (sic) Parker Michaelson lived from 1814 to 1855 and died almost 46 years to the day after his great grandfather on July 24. He is buried in the Walney churchyard. His wife Jane (nee Gibson) – whose family had owned Barrow Island many years before the Michaelsons – was appointed Guardian and sold the estate to the Duke of Devonshire and the Furness Railway in 1863.

Jane was an accomplished landscape painter, who painted the mansion in 1843 and 1863 which many Barrovians will be familiar with. She also had a school built on Walney Island. [Source]
NWEM, 18 July 2009

The plaque reads:

1856
IN MEMORY OF
T.Y.P. MICHAELSON ESQ.
OF THE ISLE OF BARROW
FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS

Barrow Cemetery

TO THE MEMORY OF C.W. MICHAELSON 3RD SON OF THE LATE ROBERT MICHAELSON OF BARROW ISLAND DIED AT BARROW ...AGED 60 YEARS

Mr T Y P Michaelson

The late Mr T Y P Michaelson, whose portrait we here present to our readers, was born at the old hall [Barrow Island] in April 1814. His education was commenced at Shrewsbury School, under the late Dr Butler, from whence he was afterwards removed to Trinity College, Cambridge. From the time of his coming of age he resided on the island, and soon after he received his commission in the Furness Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. In 1841 he married Jane, eldest daughter of the late Charles Gibson, Esq., of Quernmore Park, near Lancaster, and shortly after was qualified as a Justice of the Peace for the Division of Lonsdale North of the Sands. Thomas Michaelson was an active magistrate in a district which then, for many years, contained no other within twelve miles of Barrow. He was also a deputy-lieutenant of the county, and a zealous supporter of the Conservative interest.

His death, from a lingering decline, at the comparative early age of 41, occurred in the Isle of Barrow, on the 24th July, 1855, leaving a widow with three sons and two daughters to mourn his loss. His remains were interred at the east end of Walney church-yard. Within the neat enclosure that contains his grave a stone has been erected. [Source - details taken from 'Furness Past and Present, volume 2', by George Markham Tweddell & Joseph Richardson, 1870]

Interesting information about one of T.Y.P. Michaelson’s grandsons, Capt Charles Michaelson, can be found here and from which the following is copied:

The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, December 04, 1841

Local Intelligence

The good old town was agreeably excited on Thursday last by the “gay wedding” which took place on that day at our parish church. We, of course, allude to the nuptials of T. Y. P. Michaelson, Esq., of the Isle of Barrow, with Miss Gibson, daughter of the late and much lamented Charles Gibson, Esq., of Quernmore Park. The bridal party were accompanied to the church by an unusually long train of carriages, comprising Lady Dallas’s beautiful equipage of four whites, the chariots and four of R. F. Brockholes, Esq., and the bridegroom; the carriages of J. C. Satterthwaite, Esq., Mrs. S. Harrison, Mrs Gibson, J. P. Machell, Esq., E. G. Hornby Esq., G. Jacson, Esq. After the ceremony, a large party partook of an elegant breakfast at the residence of Mrs. Harrison, in High-street, and in the afternoon the bride and bridegroom, in a carriage and four (the headstall of each horse decorated with the Lancashire rose), drove off for the Isle of Barrow. The appearance of so many handsome carriages in the streets, caused a good deal of bustle in the town, and a considerable number of inhabitants attended at the church.

The term “gay wedding” had a different meaning in 1841

A full account of the Michaelson family of Greenbank at Cartmel can be found here.

The authoritative source Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 2 edited by John Venn, has three Michaelsons who attended Cambridge University up to 1900:

MICHAELSON, EDWARD BROCKHOLES. Adm. Pens. At TRINITY, June 19, 1865. S of Thomas Yeates Parker (1832), of Barrow, Lancs. B. there (Dec. 18) 1845. Schools, (Rugby and) Yorks. (private). Matric. Michs. 1866. Ord. deacon (Aberdeen) 1875; priest, 1876; C. of the Burravoe Mission in the Shetland Isles, 1875-7; C. of St. Thomas, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1877-8. Chaplain at Harpur Hill, 1878-80, and C. of Burbage, Derbys., 1879. C. of Cauldon, Staffs., 1880-82. C. of Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, 1882-4. C. of Lowdham, 1886-92. C. of Kyme, Lincs., 1893-6. Subsequently of Annesley Woodhouse, Notts. Disappears from Crockford, 1902. (Rugby Sch. Reg.)

MICHAELSON (post YEATES), ROBERT HENRY MACHELL. Adm. Pens. at ST. JOHN’S, May 12, 1835. Of Lancs. [B. Nov 16, 1815, at Lancaster.] School, Sedbergh. Matric. Michs. 1835. Took the name of Yeates, 1837, in compliance with the will of Anthony Yeates, of Kirkland. Died Apr. 2, 1901. Brother of the next. (Sedbergh Sch. Reg.)

MICHAELSON, THOMAS YEATES PARKER. Adm. Pens at TRINITY, June 4, 1832. Matric. Michs. 1832. Of Barrow, Lancs. Father of Edward B. (1865); brother of the above. [Source]

Adm. Pens. = Admitted Pensioner, One of the categories of students.
Matric. Michs. = Matriculated Michaelmas. An administrative process which certifies admission paperwork. Usually in the Michaelmas term and near to Michaelmas, the 29th of September. Courtesy of David Cross.