John Thomas WARD

1858 - 1933  (75 years)

• Name	John Thomas WARD
  Born	1858	Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
  Gender	Male
  _UID	3D40C9F769414C5BBADC7CDB61DC9860B0A6
  Occupation	1881	Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
  	Post Master
  	Address: Post Office
  Occupation	1891	Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
  	Postmaster & Registrar of Births & Deaths
  	"Post, Money Order, Telegraph Office, and Savings Bank; John Tho mas Ward, postmaster. Letters arrive daily via Richmond, per mai l cart, at 9-5 a.m.; and are despatched - weekdays, 3-35 p.m., and on S undays at 2-45 p.m. Letters are despatched to Arkingarthdale and Gunner side, on week-days, at 9-35 am., and to Hurst, on Mondays, Wednesdays, a d Fridays, at the same time. The letters for Fremington should be addr essed via Grinton, Richmond, The Wall Letter Box at Healaugh is c leared at 2-40 p.m. on week-days." Transcript of the entry for the Post Office, professions and trades f or GRINTON in Bulmer's Directory of 1890
  Census	1901	Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
  	Address: Hill House
  	Sub-postmaster & registrar of b, m & d
  Census	1911	Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
  	Registrar of births, marriages, deaths, and mine manager. "e is no.recbrd of activity there in the .19th.century. THE BOULDER.FLI NT COMPANY The. reopening of a copper mine in the early 20th century wa s a result of the mining of chiert, a siliceous stone resembling flint. T his was apparently discovered by one J T Ward in Arkengarthdale about 1 895. He sent samples to the Potteries where it is used as a raw materia l in the 14 manufacture of porcelain. Ward's samples interested the fir m of Taylor &.Co., potters' merchants based on Dieppe in Normandy, who s ent W S Taylor and J S Wagstaff from.Staffordshire to Swaledale.to esta blish the.Boulder Flint. Company in about .1904. Mr Ward, who made the d iscovery, was employed as foreman. Both Taylor and Wagstaff took iip re sidence in Reeth, which is within.four miles of the Arkehgarthdale cher t mine, and not more than ten miles from Billy Bank, where they opened a other chert mine. The partly blocked opening of this mine is.still vis ible by the side of the footpath through Billy Bank Wood, much higher u p the bank than the copper mine and considerably nearer.to the bridge. u p the bank than the copper mine and considerably nearer.to the bridge. T his appears not to'have been .successful; as.it only penetrates a.few y ards into the hillside. "
  Died	1933	Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
  Person ID	I382	Longstaff Family Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jan 1970

  
  

  Father	Thomas WARD,   b. 10 Nov 1822, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. 18 Feb 1879, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth HARKER,   b. 31 Jan 1826, Booze, Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. 18 Aug 1918, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England  (Age 92 years)
  Married	9 May 1846	Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire (North Riding), England
  	On her marriage register she names her father as Thomas Morallee
  Family ID	F111	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Louisa Alice BRADBURY,   b. 4 Jun 1865, Normanby, Guisborough, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. 28 May 1950, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England  (Age 84 years)
  Married	1887
  Children	1. Alice WARD,   b. 12 Jun 1887, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. Between Apr 1970 and Jun 1970, Richmond, Yorkshire (North Riding), England  (Age 82 years)   2. Elizabeth WARD,   b. 27 Jun 1889, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. 1977, Northallerton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England  (Age 87 years)   3. Thomas WARD,   b. From Apr 1891 to Jun 1891, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. 27 Apr 1918  (Age 27 years)   4. Annie WARD,   b. 2 Mar 1893, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. 1985, Richmond, Yorkshire (North Riding), England  (Age 91 years)   5. Isabel Margaret WARD,   b. 14 Feb 1904, Reeth, Yorkshire (North Riding), England ,   d. 1972, Teesside, Durham, England  (Age 67 years)
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2023
  Family ID	F112	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Sign hanging in the Reeth Heritage Museum
  		Sign hanging in the Reeth Heritage Museum