Today’s image: The Gates of Gatesgarth, Lindley, Yorkshire.
Gatesgarth, the old family house at Lindley, can be traced back within the direct line for 5 generations before my mother lived there.
The Generation Trail.
- Gatesgarth Owner 01 (name as yet unknown) passed the house and land on to his son-in-law, John Broadbent. John, who I’ll call John 01, was born in 1758 at Helme, Meltham, near Huddersfield.
- John 01 passed it on to his son, John Broadbent, born 1796 (John 02).
- John 02 lived there till his father’s death in 1837. He handed it on to Benjamin, his fourth son.
- Benjamin lived at Gatesgarth all his married life.
- William Keighley Benedict, Benjamin’s only son, lived there after him.
- Basil, William and Ursula, William’s children, grew up there.
- – – and this is where my mystery begins: Who inherited? What happened? Why did it pass out of the family?
Speculation
John 01 was married three times, so Gatesgarth-Owner 01 could have been the father of:
- First wife, Ann, who bore a son and perhaps a daughter. No further mention has yet been found of either child. Did this son die early? Otherwise he would have been the logical heir by primogeniture to both Gatesgarth and the Broadbent properties.
or- Second wife Mary, née Dyson, who bore three sons and two daughters. The oldest son was John 02, and the inheritances seem to have gone to him.
or- Third wife, an Ann again, who did not bear any children. It’s possible, but not probable, that Gatesgarth was her inheritance.
Gatesgarth and the Dyson Family
My vote goes for Gatesgarth-Owner 01 being the father of Mary, wife number 2. A recent comment I read supports this – it spoke of Benjamin ‘being sent to stay with his grandfather Dyson in Lindley.’
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