Dear
Richard
Have
you ever heard of Bothamhall,
Yorkshire. When I search with Google for Bothomhall, one of the links I get
is 17th Century Brierley. There is a possibility that my gt, gt,
gt, gt grandfather was James Rangeley who married an Elizabeth
Sykes and
we found the following information on the net in the Savile of Rufford
papers at Nottingham County Record Office:
Copy
of case for Plaintiff and opinion by John Stanhope dated 12 Jan 1761 on
suit of Sykes
against Rangley
and another in The Common Pleas re water course at Bothomhall
(Bothomhall, Yk). Also
Under
the Saviles, Brierley Manor had become the head of their estate in South
Yorkshire, and in 1662, rents for Brierley Manor were collected in the
following townships: Airton with Calton, Skostroppe, Kirkeby and
Hanieth, Airton and Otterburn, Barksland, Bothomhall, Brierley,
Ackworth, and many others.
So,
presumably Bothomhall was a village near Brierley?
All
the best and thank you in advance for any information you may have of
interest or in any direction you can point me? This grandparent's
son was an extraordinary man who aged 51 in 1823, he left his life as a
cloth merchant and manufacturer in Leeds and went with his family
(except one son) to the 'wilderness' of Maine, USA where he had bought
acres of land with two others when he was 26 and he created a settlement
which is now known as The Rangeley Lake Region.
Jane
Rangeley
Reply from Richard
Dear
Jane
I
have located Botham Hall it is in a district of Huddersfield called
Golcar about 4 miles west of the town centre. A. H. Smiths 'West Riding
Place Names' lists Bothomhall in
Huddersfield
as being Bothomhaull in 1464 which became Bottom Hall by 1867. The
Savile family of Thornhill near Dewsbury,
West Yorkshire
, owned about 10 properties there in 1662. At that time following the
Civil War they used their Manor at Brierley near Barnsley as
the administration centre for their large
Yorkshire
estate.
Airton,
Calton, and Skosthorpe, are in the upper Aire valley between Gargrave
and Malham, they represent an isolated estate of the Savile family from
Thornhill.
Regards
Richard
I have just been looking at a
Huddersfield street
map,
Botham Hall Road
is just east of Golcar and north of Milnsbridge. The old hall was about
one third of the way up this road.
Savile Street
and
Thornhill Road
are nearby to the east.
Hope
this is useful to you
Regards
Richard
Dear
Richard
Thank
you for this and your previous email. You are most kind.
With
grateful thanks
Jane
Rangeley