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John Urpeth Rastrick - Family

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Possible ancestors:-

Henry, son of John de Rastric, recorded in the manorial rolls of Rastrick in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1272.
Thomas de Rastryck, constable of Rastrick, 1397.

Known ancestors:-

William Rastrick (no dates - c. 17th Century)

Lived in Rastrick, Yorkshire,
In the words of John (1738-1826) "a defender of the Protestant church who spent his great estate in support of the war and of King William III" (reigned 1689-1702)

John Rastrick (1651-1729)

Went to Morpeth, Northumberland from Yorkshire, 1688
"... in the troublous times of the Revolution of 1688 became impoverished and migrated to Morpeth in Northumberland." (TNS)

William Rastrick (1695 - 1772)

Millwright, Morpeth, Northumberland

John Rastrick (1738-8.6.1826)

Millwright, Morpeth.
m (1) Catherine Reed
- Margaret Elizabeth bap 11.10.1767
- Sarah bap 29.10.1769
- Jane bap 24.1.1772
m (2) 9.2.1774 Mary Urpeth of Rothbury
- Mary bap 21.9.1774
- Hannah bap 2.6.1776
- Catherine bap 26.5.1778
- John Urpeth Rastrick b 26.1.1780 bap 28.3.1780; d 1.11.1856
  - married 24.12.1810 Sarah Jervis at Stourbridge
    - John (c1811-1853)
    - Sarah (c1813-1848)
    - Mary (c1818-1889)
    - Henry (c1818-1893)
    - Frederick James (c1819-1897)
    - George (c1821-1906)
    - Jane Rowlands (adopted daughter) b.c. 1820 Newton, Montgomeryshire
- William bap 16.6.1782
- Robert Randall bap 3.8.1784
? m (3) 1798, Anna Tewling

Sources of Information

Census returns

Births, marriages and deaths

Directories

tomb in Brighton

Dickinson, H.W. and Lee, Arthur, The Rastricks - Civil Engineers, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, iv, 1923-4

Lee, Mr. A., Rastricks of Rastrick, The "Echo", Brighouse, Friday Feb 7th, 1919

Skempton, A. W., A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland. Vol.1, 1500-1830, London, Thomas Telford, 2002. ISBN 072772939X. The entry for John Rastrick (1738-1826) says that in 1798 he married Anne Tewling, the 'widow of a jeweller at Charing Cross'.

Descendants

Arthur Lee, co-author of the Newcomen Society paper "The Rastricks-Civil Engineers" was the great-great grandson of John Rastrick (1738-1826).

Note:- Sayes Court House seems to have been turned into a cul-de-sac of about a dozen houses in the first half of the 20th century.

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