The 1911 ‘Rudyard’ Kiplings

In the 1911 census, 11 households contained members of this group, descended from

the John Kipling who married an Ann Sanderson at Loftus in 1764. Rudyard himself

was not included, as on census night (2 April) he was in the middle of a motoring

holiday in France. However, son John was recorded at boarding school in Sussex.

John Kipling married Ann Sanderson in Loftus in the North Riding of Yorkshire in

1764.

Loftus parish register 1764

They had children Elizabeth (1765), Mary (1767), Ann (1770), John (1773), Robert

(1776) and George (1779).

Lofus parish register 1773

They then moved to the nearby parish of Lythe, where the parish register reports John

and Ann having a daughter Jane (1787; d1790 aged 2). However, as Ann would

appear to have been aged 60 or 61 at the time (see below), this seems infeasible (even

52 for George is extreme). Could Jane have been an illegitimate grand-daughter?

John senior, a labourer, died at Lythe in 1792 at the reported age of 62. Anne then

married, Richard Bell, another labourer, in 1795. She died at Lythe, a widow twice

over, in 1808 at the age of 82, Bell having died in 1804.

It is uncertain where Ann Sanderson came from, although she may be the Johanna

Sanderson born in Loftus in 1726, the daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Sanderson

(nee Willis) who had married the previous year.

Of John’s other children, Robert has not been traced, Mary married Robert Carter at

Skelton in 1788, Ann married William Roe at Egton in 1789, Elizabeth married

Robert Jackson in Lythe in 1793 and George married Mary Knaggs at Loftus in 1818.

Skelton parish register 1788

Who was John Kipling? According to his reported age at death he would have been

born in 1729 or 1730. No likely Johns were born in those years, but it is consistent

with DNA evidence that he was the John Kipling born in Barningham in 1724, a

probable married sister of whom also lived in Loftus.

The Second Generation

The Family of John Kipling (1773)

John Kipling married Ann Hansell in 1801 in Lythe.

Lythe – bishop’s transcripts 1801

Their eldest son Joseph was born in 1805.

Lythe – bishop’s transcript March 29 1805

Their second son, John, was born in 1807. They also had daughters Ann (1811), Jane

(1814), Alice (1815) and Bessy (1819), all christened in Lythe, and a third son Robert

(1809) who died aged 2 days.

John is initially described as a labourer, then as a farmer from the baptism of Robert

in 1809 onwards. At the baptism of Bessy in 1819, he is described as being of

Ugthorpe rather than Lythe.

In 1831, John Kipling sold some property in Lythe he owned jointly with his brother

George and around the same time moved to Great Edstone near Kirkbymoorside with

his family and his wife’s mother Alice Hansell.

John and his two sons were active Methodists and the Methodist chapel next to the

Kipling’s farm in Great Edstone, built in 1823, may have been a contributory factor

in his deciding to move. Around the time of the move, Joseph left the family to train

for the Methodist ministry.

John senior died in 1835 with son John taking over the farm. Ann Kipling died of

heart disease in 1855 and their headstone stands today in Great Edstone churchyard.

Alice Hansell died in 1836 (recorded aged 92 but actually only 91) but was buried

back at Lythe.

Anne married farmer William JACKSON in 1836. They subsequently moved to

Fylingdales, where son John Kipling Jackson was born in 1846, and then to Danby

Wiske. Anne died in 1848 of “debility from abortion” and her death is recorded on the

above headstone although Ann herself is buried at Danby Wiske. Alice married

farmer William THOMPSON, remaining in the village until her death in 1884. Bessie

married farmer John JACKSON. They subsequently moved near to Middlesbrough,

where Bessie died in 1905 in the County Borough Asylum.

Jane married Leonard RAWLING and moved to Barton-le-Street, dying there in

1891. Jane and Leonard had a son, John Kipling Rawling. He later married his cousin

Hannah Kipling, a daughter of the Rev Joseph Kipling, after Hannah was not allowed

to go to India to act as housekeeper for brother John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard’s

father.

The family of George Kipling (1779)

Lythe bishop’s transcripts 1818

George and Mary had a son George in 1821 and daughters Anne (1819), Hannah

(1823), Ruth (1825) and Mary (1827).

Lythe bishop’s transcripts 1821

Later they moved to Staintondale, initially as labourers.

Staintondale 1841

Curiously, although George was described as a labourer both in 1827 at Mary’s

baptism and in the 1841 census, in a property sale at Lythe in 1831 involving his

brother John, he is described as a mariner.

Ruth died in 1843.

George and his son were alum workers in the 1850s at the Peak alum works near

Ravenscar. This closed in 1860 and its ruins are today owned by the National Trust.

Staintondale 1851

George senior died in 1853, Mary having died in 1847.

Fylingdales bishops transcripts 1847

Fylingdales parish register 1853

The Third Generation

The family of John Kipling (1807)

John married Mary Wood of Fadmoor at Kirby Moorside in 1836.

They had children Ann E (1838), Joseph (1840), Jane (1842), Mary (1844), John

(1847) and Margaret (1850).

1841 Great Edstone

John was Churchwarden from Lady Day 1841 to Lady Day 1842, Overseer of the

Poor in 1852 and held a number of other civic roles. He was also an active Methodist

lay preacher. For example, he is mentioned in the 1847-8 plan for the Pickering circuit

as preaching at Edstone and at a number of nearby towns and villages on various

Sundays.

1851 Great Edstone

John was actually the enumerator for Great Edstone.

In 1851, as in other years, John was assessed for rates, having the largest farm in the

parish. The record shows that he rented from a Mrs Campion.

John’s wife, Mary, died in May 1853, of ovarian dropsy (cyst), and his younger son

John, aged 6, died later the same year of gastroenteritis .

John married again in 1857, to Mary Garnett, the daughter of small freehold farmer

John Garnett. They had a son, William Garnett, in Edstone in later the same year.

John’s eldest daughter, Ann , who had married John HODGSON, a journeyman

blacksmith, in 1858, died the following year of phthisis (tuberculosis).

John himself appears in parish rate assessments up to and including 1858/9 (18s 6d at

1½d in the pound on £148 rental). The following year, the corresponding assessment

was made on a Francis WEETMAN. The family therefore left Edstone in 1859 or

early 1860.

In the 1861 census, the Kipling family are to be found at Staxton, about 20 miles east

of Edstone, not far from Scarborough. John is farming 205 acres, and employing 2

men and two boys. With John at Staxton are daughters Jane, Mary and Margaret.

The motive for the Kiplings’ move is unclear, although following Mrs (Jane)

Campion’s death in 1859, the farm and land was sold to a Mrs SHEPHERD around

1860 (the property is still today known as ‘Shepherds Farm’) and it is conceivable that

the new owner might have sought to impose changes to the terms of John Kipling’s

tenancy.

Joseph Kipling is not with the family at Staxton in 1861, nor does he appear to be

elsewhere in the UK. He is next definitely recorded arriving in Brisbane in Jan 1864

on the “Light of the World”, a ship of the Black Line carrying emigrants from the UK

to Australia. His death is recorded in Cairns in 1918, where the names of his parents

identify him, as does the age of 78 on an inscription in Martyn Street cemetery,

Cairns. There is no evidence of a marriage. He’s pictured below, probably shortly

after his arrival in Australia.

With him went his sister Mary (pictured in old age), who married a George

WILKINSON in Queensland in March 1864, just six weeks after arriving, and died

just 3 months after her brother in 1918. See ‘Other Australian Kiplings’.

Of John Kipling’s other children, Jane married Watson GLAVES, of Staxton, back in

Edstone in 1864. She died in Staxton in 1881. Margaret married David MCLAREN in

Scarborough in 1878 and died in 1922 in Staxton.

John and Mary had a further son, Edwin, whilst living at Staxton, but by the time of

the birth of their youngest child, Elizabeth Frances, they had moved back to Ugthorpe,

to the 85 acre Traveller’s Rest Farm on the moor above the village, close to where the

A171 runs today.

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 17 April 1869

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 19 March 1870

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 24 September 1870

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 18 October 1873

They later retired to Sleights, where The Pater states that Rudyard Kipling’s sister,

Alice, visited them, although no date is given.

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 20 July 1878

1891 Sleights.

John died in 1898 (aged 90) and Mary in 1904.

Whitby Gazette - Friday 11 March 1898

Edwin died at the early age of 28, leaving only a daughter.

The family of Joseph Kipling (1805)

Joseph Kipling joined the Wesleyan ministry in 1831, His first posting was to

Wisbeach in Cambridgeshire, followed by Spalding in 1832, Spilsby in 1833-4 and

Bangor in 1835. In 1836 he was posted to Pickering, much closer to Great Edstone.

That year he married Francis Lockwood of Skelton, close to the old family home of

Lythe.

A son John, later to call himself John Lockwood, was born at Pickering the next year.

In 1838, Joseph was again on the move, this time to Horncastle, where the family was

still living at the time of the 1841 census, although Joseph himself was not at home,

being at a farm at nearby Tetford at the time

Horncastle 1841

Tetford, Lincs. 1841

Children Jane Frances, Joseph and Ann Elizabeth had also been added to the family.

Successive moves took the family to Howden, Bridlington, Snaith and Gateshead,

where the 1851 census found them

Gateshead 1851

There had been further daughters Hannah and Ruth but sons Joseph and John were

both away at school.

Woodhouse Grove School, Leeds 1851 (John’s place of birth is misaligned)

Whilst at Bridlington, Joseph wrote a letter now in possession of the National Trust

It is unclear to whom the letter is addressed, but it refers to the death by drowning of

Thomas, the brother of ‘Susan’. I suspect that Susan is actually the Kipling’s servant,

Susanna Wilkinson, who moved with them from Horncastle. A Thomas Wilkinson

did die in Horncastle that year.

Subsequent postings of Joseph included Pocklington, Pateley Bridge, Ulverston and

finally Skipton where the family was in 1861.

New Street, Skipton 1861

Joseph died in 1862, having made his will a few years earlier.

Headstone at Skipton

His daughters later ran a school at Skipton.

Currer St, Skipton. 1871

Craven Herald - Saturday 15 January 1876

Craven Herald - Saturday 13 May 1876

Daughter Jane Frances never married. Her life had been spent living with various

relatives and as a lady’s companion.

In 1891 she was living in Wigton, Cumberland with her cousin John Kipling Jackson,

the son of William and Ann (nee Kipling) Jackson. Ann was one of the Rev. Joseph’s

sisters.

In 1911, she was living at Nidd Cottage, Thornton-le-Clay, accompanied by her

widowed sister Ruth (#271). It is related that Rudyard Kipling bought the house for

them and paid them a pension of 10s a week.1

Nearby was sister Hannah and her cousin/husband, Joseph Kipling Rawling.

Jane died in 1927.

1 The Kipling Journal Sept 2009.

Son John Lockwood Kipling obtained employment in the potteries at Stoke-on-Trent,

whilst also studying fine art. He was later employed at the Victoria & Albert Museum

but after the death of his father returned to Stoke, where he met his future wife Alice

Macdonald, the daughter of another Methodist clergyman. Famously, he proposed to

her during a picnic at Rudyard Lake in 1865. They married in London in 1865, shortly

before he travelled to India to take up a teaching post.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on 30 December 1865.

The rest, as they say, is history!

101 Earl’s Court Road, Kensington. 1891

Tisbury churchyard, Wiltshire

George Kipling (1821)

George junior married Mary Hugill at Whitby in 1843. they had children John

Stephen (1845), Mary Elizabeth (1847) , Daniel Hugill (1850), Anne Margaret

(1852), William (1854), Jane (1860) and George Henry (1863)

Fylingdales bishops transcripts 1847

Sometime before 1859, the family moved to Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre near Whitby

where daughter Hannah died age 11 months in 1859. She was buried at Fylingdales.

Fylingdales bishops transcripts 1847

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 07 September 1861

2 Larpool Wood, Hawsker cum Stainsacre, 1861

John Stephen died in 1865, aged 20, and was also buried at Fylingdales. In 1871,

George was working away from home. Meanwhile he and Mary had two further

children, George Henry (1863) and Isabella (1868).

1871 Kirkleatham

1871 H-cum-S

1881 H-cum-S

1891 H-cum-S

George died in York in 1893.

1901 Ivy Yard, Whitby

Mary died in 1907. Jane never married and in 1911 was living with her sister Anne

and her husband in Lancashire (#165).

1911 Bacup, Lancashire

In 1881, son William was a ship’s cook on board the SS Roumania of West

Hartlepool lying off Dartmouth

He married at Sunderland in 1885.

Unfortunately, the following year he was admitted to a lunatic asylum.

Repository Lancashire Archives

Level Item

Reference

number HRW 12/1/05695

Title Reception Order

Date 13 Aug 1888

Description Patient's details:

first name(s): William

surname: Kipling

occupation: seaman

age: 34

of/transferred from/chargeable to: transferred from Durham County Asylum, chargeable

to Sunderland Union

previous address: 22 Numbers Garth, Sunderland

notes: copy of Reception Order from Durham County Asylum dated 17 Sep 1886

In 1901 he was back at a hospital in Sunderland, Ryhope Asylum.

He died there in 1906.

Cemetery: Ryhope Cemetery

Denomination: any

13 Mar 1906 William Kipling, age: 51, seaman, died at the Sunderland Borough

Asylum [Cherry Knowle Hospital]

The Fourth Generation

Joseph Kipling (1840)

In 1861, Joseph was working as a draper’s assistant in Beverley

Beverley, 1861

Joseph then set up his own drapery business in Malton. He married Anne Boyes there

in 1867 and son Joseph Boyes was born in 1870.

Castlegate, Malton 1871

Malton Messenger 28 October 1871

Joseph and Ann remained in Castlegate for the rest of their lives (1911 #270).

Joseph and Ann both died in 1915.

William Garnett Kipling (1858)

Eldest son of John Kipling (1808) by his second wife, William Garnett, married a

Jane WOOD in 1881 at Ugglebarnby near Sleights and by 1891, living at Aislaby,

they had three daughters.

1891 Aislaby

A son, John Henry, was born in 1893 and Jane died in 1896. At some point, William

had taken on the license at the New Inn at Aislaby, but gave it up towards the end of

1898.

Whitby Gazette - Friday 21 January 1898

Whitby Gazette - Friday 25 November 1898

1901 found William living at Ugglebarnby with daughters Mary and Laura. John

Henry, meanwhile, was being looked after by Elizabeth Kipling, his aunt, who was

also looking after her own widowed mother.

William married Elizabeth GREY in 1902. A son, Stanley, was born in 1905.

Danby

The 1911 census found the family living at Glaisdale (#363A).

William’s son by his first wife, John Henry, was a confectioner’s errand boy in

Ruswarp, nr Whitby in 1911 (#293) still living with his Aunt Elizabeth who had

married William Ripley in 1908.

William Garnett Kipling later moved to Danby. A headstone in St Hilda’s churchyard

is inscribed “In loving memory of Elizabeth KIPLING who d. 5 Nov 1924. Also her

husband William Garnett KIPLING d. 30 Apr 1932”

Stanley married Sarah Ann Peirson in 1928 at Guisborough register office when he

was a farmer of Rosedale Intake, Danby. A daughter, Annie, was born in 1928 and

another, Irene, in 1931. There is a memorial in St Hilda’s churchyard.“In loving

memory of dear wife & mother Sarah Ann KIPLING d. 21 Dec 1968. At rest. Also

Stanley KIPLING beloved husband of above dear dad & grandad d. 25 Aug 1977”.

William Henry, who was a postman, died at Danby in 1938 of heart failure following

bronchitis. The death was reported by his brother Stanley.

William Henry had served (at home) in the army during WW1, being discharged in

1917 from the Yorkshire Regiment due to his bronchitis.

Daniel Hugill Kipling (1850)

Daniel married Sarah Ann Bell in 1874. He was then a sailor.

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 14 February 1874

By 1881, they had three children John Stephen (1875), Mary Elizabeth (1877) and

William (1879). Daniel had become a shipyard worker.

Whitby Gazette - Saturday 17 March 1883

In 1891, Daniel was working away from home at Stockton-on -Tees and Sarah and

the by then seven children were living at Larpool Wood.

Whitby 1891

14 Paradise Street , Stockton 1891

Whitby Gazette - Friday 23 September 1892

In 1901, Daniel had returned to Whitby, where the family was living next door to son

John Stephen, his wife Ruth and their sons John and Albert.

Daniel, Sarah and Ruth were still at the same address in 1911(#290).

Daniel died in 1927.

George Henry Kipling (1862)

Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Wednesday 29 May 1878

Northern Echo - Wednesday 04 June 1879

Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough - Monday 21 January 1884

George married Mary Ann Booth in 1887. He was a shipwright or riveter for most of

his career but later took on a shop job (#378).

1891 Mackridges Yard, Whitby

Whitby Gazette - Friday 24 February 1899

Son John Stephen died in 1917 as a result of nephritis contracted on war service in

France (he was in the RAMC). He is named on the war memorial in Whitby

churchyard and buried at Larpool cemetery. He had enlisted on the day of his

wedding to Florence Fowler in March 1915.

Whitby Gazette - Friday 15 June 1917

George Henry died in 1935.

Son George served in the Royal Engineers in WW1.

Whitby Gazette - Friday 01 November 1918

He married Emma Jane Hill in 1924 and they had daughters Esther (1924) and Emma

(1929). George died at Whitby in 1958.

Son William is described below and Harold is still to be researched.

William Kipling (1906)

William suffered an unfortunate accident in 1930, for which he received

compensation.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 22 March 1930

Yorkshire Evening Post - Monday 24 March 1930

William married Jane Musgrave in 1931. A son William was born in 1932 but Jane

died in 1934 aged only 25.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 25 August 1934

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 30 August 1934 William (or Bill) senior lived in Whitby until his death in 1973.

Yorkshire Evening Post - Wednesday 26 March 1952

However, son William later moved to West Hartlepool where he married Margaret

Gaffan in 1957.

A son was born in West Hartlepool in 1960.

The Fifth Generation

Joseph Boyes Kipling (1870)

In 1891, Joseph was lodging in an inn at Egton, it would appear as a companion to a

fellow chemist’s assistant whose sister was working there.

The Station Hotel, Egton

In 1901, he was assisting his widowed Aunt, Annie E. Crump (nee Kipling) who was

continuing to run her late husband’s business in Skipton.

In 1911, Joseph was boarding in Leeds (#328) where it appears he had established his

own business.

The following year he married Georgina Jocelyn.

Children Joseph S J (1913-2008), Gordon John (1914), Stewart Wellesley (1917-

1998) and Betty S (1919).

1939. Roundhay Crescent, Leeds.

Joseph Boyes Kipling died in 1953.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 10 October 1953

Stewart Kipling married German émigré Rita Preller in 1951.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 14 March 1951

Joseph S J Kipling lived in Leeds where he was an active racing cyclist.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 12 August 1946

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 17 November 1952

Joseph died in 2008.

Joseph Kipling : Obituary

KIPLING JOSEPH Veteran Cyclist, passed away peacefully, on Saturday, November 22nd, 2008, aged 95 years. Service to be held at Streetly Crematorium, Sutton Coldfield, on Monday, December 8th, at 1.45 p.m. Family flowers only, donations to be made to R. S. P. B Published in the Yorkshire Post Newspaper Ltd on 2nd December 2008 (Distributed in Leeds)

Gordon John Kipling married Edna May Duffill in Leeds in 1937 and had a son there

in 1942. Gordon died in 1992 and Edna in 1997, both in Leeds.

John Stephen Kipling (1875)

John’s family, wife Ruth (nee Frankland; m1896) and four children were living in

Whitby in 1911 (#291), although John was absent (see below).

1915 merchant marine records form the National Archives show John Stephen was at

sea in 1915 (so possibly also in 1911).

J S Kipling; rank/rating, 3rd Engineer; age, 41; place of birth, Whitby; Ship: Valentia; Official number:

106107. Previous ship, same.

Ruth and John died at Middlesbrough in 1938 and 1940 respectively.

William Kipling (1878)

William married Elizabeth Ann Hunter in 1902 and they had three children by 1911

(#290).

William died at Whitby in 1944.

George Hugill Kipling (1890)

In 1911, George was working in West Hartlepool as a grocer’s assistant (#80).

He married Janet Calvert in Whitby in January 1915 when he was serving in the

RAMC. He was sent to Egypt in May of that year according to his medal card.

George died in 1978 at Darlington.