Mitchinson Family Tree
The Mitchinson Family connection to the Greens is via James Green b 1808 who married Eleanor Mitchinson on 25th August 1845. The first of the Mitchinsons that I have found is Thomas (1) who married Margaret Ropson on 1st May 1755. Their son Jonathan (2) (b.1754 d.1835) married Mary Dove b.1762 d.1833 but it is their son, also Jonathan(3) (1797 d.1857) who is the major part of this story. I have also found his elder brother, Francis b.1790 who married Jane ?
Jonathan Mitchinson (3)
Jonathan Mitchinson(3) (b. 1797 d. 1857) was latterly a land owner and farmer from Camerton, Ryhill and Thumgumbald all in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was described as a common carrier at Hedon in 1814, carrier and inn-keeper in 1816, farmer and publican in 1826 and a farmer in 1841. On his death on in 1857 and on the appointment of his Executors the Will was ‘under’ £7000 and this sum in 2017 values was significant at around £750k.
Jonathan(3) married Catherine Atkinson (nee Robinson b. 9th December 1787) in April 1814 and at 25 this was her 3rd marriage, previously to a ‘Snaith’ on 5th October 1807 and William Atkinson 13th November 1812. In some Mitchinson trees a John Mitchinson has been omitted but he was baptised on the 5th July as the son of Jonathan and Catherine Mitchinson. The dilemma is that John’s baptism is under 3 months after their marriage so is Jonathan an Atkinson or conceived out of wedlock? We have a death of a William Atkinson which might suggest the former.
Jonathan had an elder brother, Francis b. 1790 ,who married Jane but I have no further detail on this connection.
Camerton Hall
Camerton Hall was the main farm dwelling for Jonathan (3) and later his son John (4). It was built in the late C18 for Edward Ombler and I believe later owned by the Ringrose family who rented it to the Mitchinsons with the Hall becoming derelict and finally demolished in 1976. In the late C20 the farm buildings were converted into substantial dwellings.
Camerton Hall has not survived and can be found on the Englands Lost Heritage website:-Englands Lost Houses. Derelict Camerton Hall just before demolition in 1976
The farm buildings associated with Camerton Hall are Grade II listed and have been converted into private dwellings. The link to Camerton Hall Barns Grade II Listing 1987 ref 1083442 shows the detail.
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Whilst at Camerton Hall Jonathan Mitchinson was awarded a cup by Chris L. Ringrose for “the tenant occupier of the best cultivated farm in Holderness, and judged by the Committee of the Holderness Agricultural Society”, which was presented to him by the President of the Society at the Quarterly Meeting on 10th September 1849. The cup is now in my possession and my assumption is that it was passed down the Green line via Eleanor the daughter of Jonathan Mitchinson.(3)
Mitchinson Connections
I have a variety of photographs, some not identified so if there are any readers of this website who have any family connections I would be delighted to hear from you.
Mitchinson Children
old photograph.
This early photograph we believe was taken around the date of the 1851 census at Camerton Hall and whilst the eldest two are Jonathan and Catherine Mitchinson it appears that all 5 daughters might be present (L – R Ann, Eleanor, Catherine, Jane & Elizabeth) along with assorted children.
Alan Green had this photograph marked as Jonathan Mitchinson d 1857 aged 64 (John’s father) but I find this unlikely as the first widely available photographs were the ‘daguerreotype’ which were only in use from 1840/1860. This is a photograph of a much younger man. John (4) Mitchinson married Elizabeth Wallace, daughter of William Wallace, farmer from Keyingham reported on 8th May 1840. In the 1851 census John and Elizabeth were farming 280 acres at Marsh Cottage, Keyingham with Eliza, Catherine, Betsy, Emma and Helen. By 1861 there were additional children Jonathan, Ada Ann, and John William with a Thomas Robinson all now at Camerton Hall as Jonathan Mitchinson had died in 1857. I believe that Thomas Robinson was an Uncle being related to John’s mother Catherine Mitchinson (nee Robinson).
Viewing census from 1851 to 1911 I have determined that John and Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ farmed 638 acreas at Camerton Hall in 1871 in 1881 it was 509 acres as a ‘retired farmer’ with his son Jonathan farming 80 acres also at Camerton Hall. Elizabeth died in Beverly in 1887 and we find retired farmer John at Roos as a widower in 1891 and finally with his daughter, Louisa and son in law Henry Bolton with their 6 children in Sculcoates in 1901. He died in 1902 aged 87. All I can find out about John’s 2 sons, Jonathon and Thomas William is that Jonathan is in Widnes in 1901, single, aged 41 as a chemical labourer and Thomas William is aged 50 in Teignmouth, Devon married to Fanny Loiuse, aged 50 and drawing his army pension. Eldest daughter, Betsy married dentist Thomas C Turton but she died in 1890 aged 40 and by 1891 her sister, Ada Ann was living with widower Thomas and children Thomas 18, Arther W 17, Edward 15, Margrete 13, Charles 11, Ernest 9, Helena 8, Annie 5 and Lewis 2. By 1911 Ada was a domestic servant to a Elena Hannah Smith who was a miliner in Knaresbrough.
John Ingelby married John and Elizabeth Mitchinson’s daughter, Catherine in 1868. In the 1871 census he was farming in the area with 3 children but by 1881 only Catherine was there but with 5 children but noted as a bankrupt farmer. In the 1900 U.S. census John appears with his family.
My Gt Gt Grandfather (WJG) was Catherine Ingleby’s nee Mitchinson, first cousin and used to correspond with her husband, Below is a letter from John and Catherine Ingleby (abt 1890) which discusses their farming experiences in Beloit (NE of Chicago) but most of the letter talks about WJG emigrating to the US due to poor farming fortunes in the UK. The letter advises WJG that Wisconsin is a big as England and Manitoba, in Canada, would not be enjoyed because it’s so cold. He (WJG) never emigrated and by the time of the letter he was married with a few of his own children.
Thomas Mitchinson b. 1818 – I have no detail
Eleanor Mitchinson b.1820 married James Green b.1808 and a major part of this website follows that line.
Catherine Mitchinson b. 1822 married William McIntosh in 1841 but was widowed in 1883. Here I repeat what Charles Press said in his orginal book referred to in the introduction about Catherine:-
In 1884 she wrote to Ada Marr nee Green (her niece, see tree above) asking for carte of (ie one of the new syle photographs then available) of herself and her new husband, to take to New Zealand where she was to stay with her son Duncan. On 28th August she was leaving from Royal Princess Dock, London in SS Victory, to travel via Suez Canal (opened in 1869) on a voyage that must have taken at least 6 weeks even under steam. Such a voyage now , in 1991, is commonplace, by air in less than 24 hours, but then a lady of 62 was an old woman, modern medicines were lacking, clothing was not light and easily washed. To me this was an extraordinary journey. By 1887 she was home again, writing to Ada, telling her that another son, Douglas, was on his way home from Simla, India, very sick. Aunt McIntosh tells her how Donald, another son, will meet him at Portsmouth and will take him straight to a specialist doctor. When I made contact with the last known members of this line, Hilda and Katherine McIntosh, they referred to their family tree, which revealed that Douglas had died at sea, off Lisbon, so all her hopes were dashed.
Catherine McIntosh was a welcome visitor to Flotmanby; an excellent seamstress, she always wanted to given any mending or alterations to get on with. She died in 1906.
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Eliza Mitchinson b. 1824 married Wm Blythe of Seamer in 1848.
Emma Jane Mitchinson b. 1826 married John Biglin Straker. I know little of them other than through their son, Charles.
Charles Mitchinson Biglin Straker (b. 1857 d.1920) – was the youngest son of John Biglin Straker and Jane nee Mitchinson. He emigrated to Australia where he lived for 37 years as a bachelor in Western Australia described in his obituary as ‘following pastoral pursuits’ and in various census reports as squatter and grazier. He died aged 63 so perhaps left England when he was 26. Further press reports show that he was in charge of ‘The Northern Stock Route’ and was producing reports to the Under Secretary of Works on the number and success or otherwise of a number of bore holes. This whole area is now under Rio Tinto ownership and is being extensively mined. It was reported by Rio Tinto that surplus water from their mining operations was being used to irrigate and increase stocking densities – something Charles was trying to do but with bore holes!
His funeral was very well reported with a few knighted local dignitaries attending. After his death a court application was made to have the debt held against his Hammersley and Coolawhina Stations restructured enabling Dalgety & Co Ltd (the mortgage holder) to enhance and manage the sale to clear their debt – presumably to the beneficiary’s benefit.
My Gt-Grandfather William James Green (WJG) was Charles’s first cousin and being of similar age they corresponded. There is evidence that he travelled back to the UK from passenger records and his photograph above was taken in Yorksire.
mygreenfamilyhistory.org/index.php/william-green-b-1849/(opens in a new tab)
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Jonathan (3) Mitchinsons Will
Jonathan’s(3) Will appointed his son John(4) and son in laws James Green (m.Eleanor Mitchinson) and John Biglin Straker (m. Jane Mitchinson) as joint executors. The terms of the Will do appear to favour John (4) over his two other sisters (Catherine and Eliza) in that the capital in the trust created had interest paid to them in their lifetime which specifically excluded their husbands. Furthermore if there were no surviving issue the capital reverted back to John (4), the elder brother. The same capital share went direct to Eleanor Green and Jane Biglin Straker soon after probate. Speculation on my part, but it appears that Catherine and Eliza’s husbands were not as well thought of as James Green and John Biglin Straker. However, perhaps settlement was made on the marriages of Catherine and Eliza in Jonathan’s lifetime?
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