Re: Emmots of Colne & Laneshaw Bridge UK
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Re: Emmots of Colne & Laneshaw Bridge UK
david heywood senior 8/30/04
Amazingly I have only one David Emmott (David Clark Emmott)in all my records and he wasn't in my line but was born at Beamsley, Addingham (Bolton Abbey area) in 1830, children John, Jane, Mary & James (see http://www.wharfegen.co.uk/newged/individual.php?pid=I09047&ged=wharfedale.ged#http://www.wharfegen.co.uk/newged/individual.php?pid=I09047&ged=wharfedale.ged# )You may have to sign up to access the site but there's no charge. I suppose almost everybody was a "poor relation" of the Green-Emmotts but
then they were only Emmotts through the female line, "twice removed" if you see what I mean. Here's part of their history (I have a lot more !!)
"It was Christopher Emmott who was responsible for the modernising of Emmott Hall in the early 18th century.
Christopher Emmott died unmarried in 1745 and the estate was passed on to the son of his sister Mary who had married a Richard Wainhouse of Halfax. The son, also Richard, changed his name and arms to Emmott by Royal Licence on becoming heir to his uncles. Richard died in 1761 leaving a son and two daughters, he is buried in the same church as his uncle.
The son, another Richard, succeeded and in 1778 sold the land on which the Haworth Parsonage stands, now the home of the Bronte museum. Richard lived at Goldings, Hertford and died unmarried in 1819. From this point the estate was split between the land in Lancashire and the land in Yorkshire. The two eldest surviving sons of his niece Harriet Susannah were the inheritors. Harriet Susannah had married in 1811, a George Green and it was their eldest son George Emmott Green who succeeded to the Emmott Hall estate in Lancashire and the Yorkshire estates on Major General Edward Alfred Green.
George Emmott Green of Emmott Hall adopted the additional name of Emmott and arms of Emmott in 1851 and so became George Emmott Green-Emmott. Edward Alfred adopted the additional name of Emmott and Rawden and subsequently became Edward Alfred Green-Emmott-Rawden.
After the death in 1876 of George Emmott, he was succeeded by his son Walter Egerton John. In 1895 on the death of his cousin Edward Montague, who died without issue, the Yorkshire estates were inherited by Walter Egerton John Green-Emmott of Emmott Hall.
Walter Egerton John Green-Emmott was born in 1865, he had been a Captain in the 3rd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment and had married Kathleen eldest daughter of the Hon Henry Predergast Vereker in 1896. She was a generous supporter of the Colne Municipal Festival and cultural activities in general. Walter and Kathleen Green Emmott produced three sons and two daughters. The eldest son George Vereker was educated at Cheltenham and RMC Sandhurst, he served in the First World War and was unmarried when he died in 1965.
The second son Edward Gossett succeeded his brother. Edward was a retired Major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he had also served in World War I. He had married Violet Mary Turner in 1925 and they had had a daughter Jean Elizabeth.
Jean Elizabeth married a Major Peter MacKellan and produced a son Peter Douglas Emmott and daughter Kathryn Mary Emmott born in 1967 and 1964 respectively. "
It is astonishing how many times husbands of female Emmotts changed their names to Emmott, especially when there was not male Emmott heir. This probably has something to do with a family myth that there is money "in chancery" for somebody who can prove their Emmott lineage. Where this money is nobody knows but the myth persists.
The information on the Green-Emmotts was culled from Harry Day's wife's website which she ran whilst they were at Emmott House and running Hullown Farm. Julie had done a great deal of investigation and the website held much more interesting stuff than there is room for here. If anybody wants to know more or can tell me where Harry and Julie Day are now I wish they would contact me.
I have discovered that Harry Day's childhood friend is called Donald Garradice but I have no address for him either.
Regards,
Barry