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| HARRY SIMPSON (1862–1926) |
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On the 20th March 1862 HARRY SIMPSON was born at Seamer, son of Eliza Simpson.
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He was abandoned by his mother and was left to be brought up by his grandmother Elizabeth Simpson in Seamer.
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In the 1881 census, Harry, now 19 yrs old, was living with the Taylor family at Eastfield Farm, Station Road, Seamer, where he was working as a farm labourer. Harry married SARAH SUNLEY in 1889. At that time he was working as a farm labourer and they lived at The Ox Inn Lebberston, with Sarah's family. |
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In 1891 (census) they were living at Old Bar, Seamer, where Harry was a farm labourer. |
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At that time they had two children :- |
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(1 yr old), and |
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(7 months) |
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It seems that Sarah’s daughter Emily Jane, remained at The Ox Inn with her grandparents. She was still living with her grandma in 1901(census) at Gristhorpe. |
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was born at Lebberston in 1892 (most probably at the Ox Inn). |
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born 1894 |
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Ida & Lilian |
born 1895 they were twins but didn't survive long. |
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born 1897 |
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In 1901 (census) they were living at Killerby Cottage at Cayton and again Harry was working as a farm labourer at Killerby Grange Farm, where they had two more children:- |
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born 1898 |
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born 1900 |
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By 1903 the family had once again moved to Gristhorpe and lived in a small cottage in the Main Street next to The Bull Inn, where they had one more child:- |
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born 1903 |
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Harry and Sarah brought up their family at the cottage in Gristhorpe . Harry was still working as a farm labourer at this time. |
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Main street Gristhorpe showing the Bull Inn with the Simpsons' Cottage
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The Simpson’s cottage in 2003 now part of the Bull Inn
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(centre of picture to left of motor car)
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Although the family were born into a predominantly agricultural background, and indeed there was little other employment available to them, the coming of the railway between Filey and Seamer in 1846 offered a new opportunity for more gainful employment, of which several members of the family eventually took advantage.
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About 1916 Harry took up employment with the North Eastern Railway as a platelayer, they moved to a railway cottage at the Gatehouse, Lebberston. A few years later the family moved to a cottage in Main Street Lebberston, when Harry became road foreman for the Scarborough Rural District Council.
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Harry died at Lebberston in 1926 at the age of 64. He was buried in St Oswald's Churchyard on the 13th July 1926 |
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Sarah moved to number 4 Council Houses Lebberston and that is where she died in 1932 aged 63. She was buried in
St Oswald's Churchyard Filey, on the 24th October 1932. |
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