The Forester's Arms

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D. Miles would like to know more about Thomas Noble

THE QUEST TO IDENTIFY THOMAS NOBLE of Aycliffe  Village  who fostered  NORMAN CAMERON 1922-1934
 
I am sharing this research in the hope that somebody will add to it, and to show how a history can be built up from very little evidence. I hope that blood relations will add to it before the memories die. I began with only information from my father, that, though he had contact with his parents in Barnard Castle and Greta Bridge, he had been raised by  ‘A’ “Mr, Noble at Aycliffe, a good friend of his grandfather,   that he had a long way to walk to school, and  that Mr, Noble knew about engineering and encouraged him in his ambition to fly.  There appeared to be only one possible family in Aycliffe but they were numerous and the relationships  complicated.   I needed to know about them all in the hope of finding which Noble it was, and if there were any living relations.

A generation of Nobles scattered from Fersfield  on the Norfolk/Suffolk boarder. It can only be speculated that there was no work in Agriculture.   Two Noble brothers, Henry and Mark and a nephew,  (Samuel, born Bressingham) moved  in  the 1850s to Stanhope, Yorks. To work as  limestone quarrymen. 

HENRY NOBLE  born 1836 ( buried 1917 Aycliffe)  was  married and widowed four times and seems to have had  11 children. He must have been a very tough man as he worked the Limestone  Quarries until he was quite elderly, and he produced a son at the ate of  53 when his wife Elizabeth was 43.
 
STANHOPE   1st Wife Anne Wilkinson  1836 –1860 died giving birth to her only child
Robert 1860-1950 was brought up by his Uncle Mark  Noble (b 1823 -1886) and his wife Hannah  Watson (1827-1883 born and died Stanhope)  who appear to have had no children of their own. They  raised their nephew Mark, “as their own”.  In the 1861 census Robert is shown aged 9 months living with them and their nephew. By 1871 they are listed as his parents.
                       Robert  married  Eleanour Angus.  They had a  son  Alfred Angus Noble 1890 
                       who died of ‘flu in 1926   (SEE PHOTO) 
                        Alfred Angus had a son Ralph whose son and wife supplied the photos)
                       and a daughter, Charlotte Isabella  who married  William Thomas Elstob .  
                              (A photo of Charlotte Photo  can be seen on Ancestry.co.uk)  
Henry’s children after Robert were as follows: 
                           
                   TWINS   Elisa Ann (Elizabeth)   and  Alfred born   1865  Stanhope
                   Charlotte Isabella   Stanhope  1863 (Charlotte married  William  Elstob)
Somebody suggested that  Elizabeth married somebody Holmes and lived in Brafferton.  This may be correct, owever, Holmes was her step mother’s name and there might be confusion._ 

 

                                       ……………………….             
                  Mary Ellen    born   Stanhope 1873
                   Emma J   born  Stanhope  1875 – 1933,
                                      (later Book-keepr   - buried with parents at  Aycliffe)
                  Mark –   born  Stanhope  1876  a  Horse Labourer at the quarry
                 John Henry   born Stanhope   1881