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Yorkshire
Before continuing with the main stories from Gloucestershire, the South West and London, we have one more outlying group to look at in Kildwick in West Yorkshire. Although no more than a village, Kildwick is a large parish sitting at the cross roads of a long standing east-west route across the Pennines and the north-south Aire river valley. It sits midway between Skipton and Keighley, a few miles north of Bradford, close to the border with Lancashire.
John of Kildwick
In 1585 John BRUSH marries Alice THOMPSON. They baptise six children during the years 1588 to 1600. The 28 year formula means we are looking for a John born c.1557 which puts him in Generation (3).(1)
At 28 January 1592 the burial is registered of "uxor BRUSHe vidua" - 'Mrs BRUSH, widow'. This cannot be Alice, since John and Alice were still having children up to 1599 which suggests that it might have been John's mother and that his father (target birth c 1524) had already died.
The Kildwick registers begin only from 1575 so it is perfectly possible that John of Kildwick could have been born there before the record begins. There were a couple of early references to the BRUSH name in Yorkshire in 1444 and 1445. There is also a record, said to be of Thomas BRUSH, being buried at Pontefract in 1604. He is not identified as a child and is not one of those baptised at Kildwick. Pontefract is 35 miles south east of Kildwick.
If John is a migrant from further south what are the options. I can find no Gloucestershire, Wiltshire or Oxfordshire John whose dates fit. We would have to presume an othewise unknown child. If we try to do this, one feasible possibility is that he could have been a son of John of Tewkesbury T502 born shortly before the start of the Tewkesbury registers. But not if John T502 is the same man as John BRUDGE of Upton on Severn, since he had a son John only in 1570.
If the idea of these migration possibilities has any foundation I believe it is likely to be connected to the developing woollen industry.
" The growth of the woollen industry in Tudor times…… the West Riding of Yorkshire, one of the three major areas of the industry's expansion……the two other big producing areas: East Anglia and the West country…stretching from Gloucestershire, through Wiltshire and parts of Somerset down into Devonshire…..it was from this area, as from Yorkshire that came many of the white and 'undressed' cloth exported to the dyers and finishers of the Low Countries…..".(2)
This possibility was explored a little, and inconclusively, in draft 13 and draft 2017 with a very speculative link to the WAINMAN family.
We cannot therefore give John of Kildwick a designation linking him to any other group. He must be content for the time being to be labelled as John Y2(3).
The children of John of Kildwick
For the moment, the following is simply taken from FWB slips
The children (Generation 4) of John and Alice were:
John 1588/9 Y3(4) baptised 17 Mar 1588/9 Kildwick
married Alice FLATHERS Y3a 30 September 1615
This is transcribed by some as Alice HATHERS
James 1591 Y4 bapt 28 Mar 1591 Kildwick? mother Alice or Eliz. bur 12 Apr 1591
Isabella 1592 Y5 bapt 16 Apr 1592 Kildwick
married Thomas FLATHERS Y5a 2 Nov 1615 Kildwick
Nicholas 1595/6 Y6 baptised 7 Jan 1595/6 Kildwick
Married Jane BRADLEY Y6a 7 Apr 1621 Kildwick
Peter 1597 Y7 bapt 5 Jun 1597 Kildwick Richard 1600 Y8 bapt 5 Mar 1599/1600
buried 26 May 1635 Keighley (where did FWB get this burial from?)
married Janet ACKERLEY Y8a 26 Nov 1620 Keighley
John Y3 is considered in chapter xx as a possible candidate to be John the father of Thomas of Southold and Huntingdon - one of the founding fathers of most American BRUSH families.
Grandchildren of John
The next generation (5) in Yorkshire begins in 1616 and continues until at least 1632:
John Y3 & Alice FLATHERS
William Y9 1616 baptised 13 Oct 1616, nothing further known.
Anna Y10 1618 baptised 18 Oct 1618, nothing further known
A John Brush is buried at Kildwick in 1632. This could be John Y3 (age 50) or John Y1 age around 80. An unnamed widow Brush is buried in 1640 - could be Alice Thompson or Alice Flathers.
Nicholas Y6 & Jane BRADLEY
Thomas 1622 Y11 baptised 10 Feb 1622/3 Kildwick, nothing further known
Richard Y8 & Janet ACKERLEY
Susanne (or Susan) 1622 Y12 bapt 13 Oct 1622 Keighley
buried 30 Nov 1622
This is the second family baptism on 13 Oct !
John 1624 Y13 baptised 25 Aug 1624 Keighley , nothing further known
Susan 1626 Y14 baptised 27 Dec 1626 Keighley
Francis 1632 Y15 baptised 15 Jul 1632 Keighley
Married ??? c.1654
2 others? Y16 & 17
Thomas and Isabella FLATHERS No trace. Several baptisms at Halifax and Elland but they begin in 1612 and 1613.
(another family at Elland - Nicholas) Name Elizab Flather Baptism 11/1613 Halifax, St John the Baptist Yorkshire England Name Mary Flather Baptism 05/1617 Halifax, St John the Baptist Yorkshire England Name Dina Flather Baptism 20 Aug 1620 Elland,York,England Possible remarriage of Thomas 1622 Entry in elland 1625 indicating that Thomas, of somewhere in the parish buried at Hartshead, sheffield
Thomas Y11 is considered in chapter xx as a possible candidate to be of Thomas of Southold and Huntingdon - one of the founding fathers of most American BRUSH families. The connection to ACKERLY is very tempting!
Francis Y15 & ?? Ann 1655 baptised 1 may 1655 Keighley John 1665/6 baptised feb 1665/6 Haworth Edith 1671 baptised apr 1671 Haworth
In 1665 a Ricardus Brush, bricklayer, is admitted as a freeman (presumably of the bricklayers guild) in the city of York. {Find my Past transcript}
[A few isolated references to later Yorkshire appearances are at the end of draft 13]
There is also a substantial Brigge family at Kildwick at the same time
(1) back to text The 28 year formula is discussed in XXX, the generation numbers in XXX