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Rev. Inman (family history)
- Rector:
- Rev. Canon David Bliss, Tel: 01909 770283
- Curate:
- Rev. Dr. Adrian Whitehall, 36 Union Street, Harthill, Sheffield S26 7YH. Tel: 01909 515147
- Reader:
- Miss A. Rodgers, Tel: 01909 770841
- Churchwardens:
- Mr R Hesketh, 13 Osborne Drive, Todwick, Tel: 01909 770937
- Mr Harry Bower, 45 The Meadows, Tel: 01909 770501
- PCC Secretary:
- Mrs P. Fearnhead, Highfield Avenue, Kiveton Park, Tel: 01909 772287
- Director of Music:
- Mrs O. Egan, Tel: 01909 550384
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The Doomsday Survey of 1086 records: 'In Tatewic . . . a Church is
there and three acres of meadow'. This early 11th century building of
rubble red sandstone forms the nave of the present Church. The chancel, of
limestone, and the porch were added in the l4th century, while the
Perpendicular tower with its eight crocketed pinnacles was built in the
late l5th century.
In the nave the roof timbers date from 1702 and the oak Jacobean high
box pews and pulpit from the reign of James I. The war memorial window is
14th century Decorated, mutilated at some time by the removal of the
mullion; both the windows on the south side were altered in the 18th
century.
Plaster was removed from the medieval chancel arch to expose the stone
in 1969.
There are no north windows in the chancel because a chantry chapel
dedicated to the Blessed Virgin originally stood on this side. The piscina
behind the choir stalls may be from this chapel. The east window of
well-proportioned l4th century intersecting tracery lights had
undistinguished mid-19th century glass. The modern stained glass in the
south-east window is by Sep Waugh of York, and three pieces of medieval
glass hang in front of the next one. In the case behind the 17th century
altar rails is the Todwick Byble 1639.
Historical survey notes from the Country Ancient Monuments and Sites record
C=century plus number e.g. C11 is the eleventh century.
The Building
C11 nave with later porch and windows, chancel of C14 origin, C15
tower, C18 and C19 alterations. Rubble sandstone nave, other ashlar
and coursed, squared limestone; lead and graduated slate roofs. West
tower, 3 bay nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel. Tower: 3 stages,
Perpendicular style, chamfered plinth and moulded band. Diagonal
buttresses flank 3-light west window with cusped, pointed lights in
cavetto-moulded surround with pointed arch and hoodmould. String
courses between stages, slit windows to south-west internal stair. 2
light louvered belfry openings with pointed arches and hoodmoulds.
North and south waterspouts beneath embattled parapet with 8 crocketed
pinnacles.
Nave: large quoins.
Gabled porch to bay has chamfered, round arched doorway, ashlar
gable cabled copings with cuboidal apex sundial and cross; similar
inner doorway under hoodmould; C14 roof with moulded, cambered tie
beams to king-post trussess, that above outer door with carved scallop
shell, rafters renewed 1976.
Two C18 nave windows with pointed, square-faced surrounds. Blocked
C11 north door on right of square-headed double-chamfered window, its
tracery removed. Plain parapets. Chancel: narrower and with lower
eaves. Chamfered plinth, quoins. Square-headed priest's door with deep
lintel and dripstone flanked by C19 decorated style 2-light windows,
that on left pointed and on right square-headed. Unrestored C14
3-light east window with intersecting glazing bars and hoodmould.
Gable copings with cross.
Interior
Double-chamfered tower arch, its inner order on corbels. Nave has
ogee-headed tomb recess on north wall; rood dated 1702 with molded tie
beams and short king posts.
Chancel: round arch of two orders, reworked. Re-set
trefoil-headed piscina in north wall. Fittings: font, brought from
Worksop Abbey in 1876 has octagonal shaft and moulded bowl. Box pews,
fielded dado panelling and inlaid semi-octagonal pulpit; Royal arms of
George III on north wall. Jacobean balustraded altar rail. Monuments:
on blocked north wall of nave an early C18 catouche to the Ashley
family of Todwick Grange; C19 wall tablet to Fox family also of
Todwick Grange. Brass in hooded recess at south-east corner of nave to
Thomas Garland (died 1609) has figure pointing to motto "POST
TENBRAS SPERO LUCEM". Chancel: to north of east window a black
marble tablet to John Garland (died 1691) with winged cherubs and
cartouche; on south side a pedimeted tablet to "Eliz.Ixem"
(died 1664) and her 2 sons; brass on right to Elizabeth Wrightson
(died 1664) with Latin inscription and English verse. Stained glass
nave north window depicts St. George and is in memory of 1st World War dead.
Memorials
Interesting old memorials include the brass to Elizabeth Wrightson
1664, in the sanctuary, and one to Thomas Garland, 1609 in the nave to
the right of the chancel arch; also in the nave is the early 18th
century Ashley' cartouche' on the blocked-up north doorway. The
coat-of-arms is of George III, and at the east end of this wall is a
tomb recess or Easter Sepulchre. The old font was acquired from
Worksop Abbey in 1876 at a cost of £3 Os. Od.
In the vestry a bequest board lists various benefactors to the poor
of Todwick, and the two commandment boards are Victorian illumination
on zinc. The tower houses three bells; one is dated 1824 and the
others are inscribed respectively 'Feare ye the Lord, G.O.1658' and 'Floreat
Ecclesia MDCCXIIII'.
The porch was restored in 1976, when a dormer window was inserted
and external doors added. The original carving is still visible on the
14th century timbers above these doors. The old seats would once have
been used for meetings, and the ancient iron fittings on the fairly
modern door into the Church may have been on the original one.
Todwick News
Produced monthly not just for the Church but for the whole village.
Contributions to be sent to the Editor: Dr G. Downs, 30 Kiveton Lane, Todwick. Tel: 01909 515444. Email:
geoff@gdowns.f2s.com
Advertising Manager: Rev. Canon David Bliss, The Vicarage, 15 Rectory Gardens, Todwick. Tel: 01909 770283
Distribution Manager: Mr B Boulton, 8 Mill Hills, Todwick. Tel: 01909 771723
Todwick Church Garden Fete
Held in the Church grounds on the first Saturday of July each year.
Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children
The parish sent 259 Christmas presents in December 2004 to the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children in
Gaza:
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We received a letter back from the School Principal:
Dear Rev. Bliss,
Dear Friends at the St. Peter and St. Paul Church,
Today is a happy day in Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children. Happiness is rare in the Gaza Strip. Through you we have been able to feel this happiness. Today we distributed the presents which you kindly sent to our deaf children. Everyone in the distribution party was overjoyed to see how your humanitarian contribution to the deaf children clearly put smiles on the children's faces. We are all very grateful to you and we look forward to seeing you soon.
Kindly see the attachments which include some photos of the children receiving and opening their presents and four thank you messages from the kids and the teachers.
God Bless you and Merry Christmas,
Naim Kabaja
School Principal
Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children
... and some photos of the children receiving and opening their presents:
Lindleys Croft, Todwick, Sheffield S26 1HN
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Church Hall Building - 17th / 21st April 2005
Church Hall Building - Floor Laying - 1st April 2005
Church Hall Building - Plans
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Church Hall Building - February 2005
Church Hall Building - December 2004
The Church Hall Building is in progress and here are some photographs:
Institution Rector/Vicar/ Vacation by
1 November 1232 Sir John de Houton
1 December 1304 Sir William de Anstan
1 May 1333 Sir Edmund de Lyvett, Cl (or Lewet) Death
17 March 1350 Sir John de Scardeburgh Cession
25 February 1375 Sir Robt.de Driffield, Pr. Death
24 March 1378 Sir William Stanley, Pr. Cession
11 January 1403 Sir Robert Peynton
3 July 1416 Sir Robert Carneby, Pr Death
12 April 1434 Sir Hugh Roley, Pr. Death
20 October 1435 Sir Edm Williamson, Pr. Death
Sir Edm. Arnclyffe Death
27 June 1470 Sir Christopher Martyn Death in 1472
Sir Robert Danby Death
17 December 1475 Thomas Betson Resigned
30 July 1477 Sir Richard Fulwood, Chap.
8 November 1506 Sir William Marshall, Pbr. Death
10 August 1535 Sir Roger Newbold, Cl. Death
18 July 1548 Sir Richard Ashley, Cl.
Sir Henry Evans Death
7 July 1579 Thomas Hunte, Cl. Resigned
23 September 1579 William Wasteneys, Cl. Death in 1591
18 January 1592 Richard Hubbald, Cl. Resigned
1 July 1623 Thomas Hancock, Cl. M.A. Death in 1647
Phillip Fletcher Death in 1660
1662 John Ixem Death in 1676
1676 Edward Rishton Death in 1685
1688 Samuel Jerrand Death
6 August 1733 John Bearcliffe, B.A. Death
9 June 1736 Hammond Turner, M.A. Death in 1774
30 January 1775 John Hewett M.A. Death in 1811
1812 Michael Brunskill Death in l816
June 1816 Richard Inman Death
1866 Henry Sandwith, M.A. Resigned
1876 Henry Rudd Hunter, M.A. Resigned
1883 Henry Robert Dunlop Resigned
July 1891 George William Dalton, D.D. Resigned
18 November 1893 Walter Cooper, M.A. Death
January 1895 Samuel Chorlton Armitage Resigned
January 1900 John Crawford Resigned
28 January l902 Alfred Thomas Resigned 1933
27 February 1933 Augustus Dixwell Alderson Resigned 1939
13 May 1939 Albert Henry Thornton Resigned 1945
21 September 1945 Kenneth William Thornton Cession 1953
21 August 1953 John Cyril Sladden Cession 1959
30 July 1959 Victor Lyons Treanor Death in 1960
7 December 1961 Rt. Revd. Michael Hollis Resigned 1964
7 September 1964 Paul Edward Lawrie, LL.D, M.A. Resigned 1978
3 April 1979 Jeffrey Froggatt, M.A. Cession 1985
28 February 1986 John Richard Newton Resigned 1992
28 April 1993 David Charles Bliss, M.Sc., B.Sc. - left June 2008 on promotion to Vicar of Rotherham Minster
"The first Inman on my father's side is supposed to have
come to Garsdale about 1710 & bought Low House. He is described as
John or James Inman of the Lodge in Parish of Horton."
Thus wrote Barbara Inman on the 5th of February 1883, when
living at No. 3 Oxford Parade, Cheltenham, England. Having carefully
made a copy of her great grandfather's manuscript (that is, the
manuscript of her great- grandfather on her maternal side), Barbara
Inman, daughter of the late Reverend Richard Inman of Todwick
Rectory in Yorkshire, then devoted the above few words to her father's
family.
On their mother's side, Barbara and her siblings also had Inman
ancestry. Their mother, Deborah Inman, was descended from a
well-documented Nidderdale family; well-documented perhaps for the
simple reason that Deborah's grandmother, Deborah BAYLES, the
wife of Michael INMAN, could trace her ancestry
back to King Edward lll and beyond. Having copied the details of this
illustrious maternal descent, Barbara Inman must have had some
misgivings that so little was known concerning the origins of her
father.
Parish Register entries certainly confirm that members of the Inman
family dwelt in the Yorkshire dale known as Garsdale from the early
18th century. In their book "The Yorkshire Dales",
first published in 1956, authors Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby noted
"At Garsdale Foot was born James Inman, who devoted a
distinguished life to navigation and naval matters. TheInmans were
also connected with Low House, a charm-ing old building, which still
contains an oak court cup-board carved with their initials."
The earliest monumental inscriptions in the Churchyard at Garsdale
specifically mention the Inman family's association with Low House.
William Inman of Low House lies buried there aged 58 years, the year
of his death no longer legible; however the details of his widow
Elizabeth show that she died 14th April 1795 aged 79 years. Beside her
lies the body of their son William who died in 1828 aged 83 years.
Parish register entries show that William, son of William (and
Elizabeth) had been baptised at Garsdale 21st April 1745. His
siblings, all baptised at Garsdale, were James in 1736, Thomas 1737,
John 1739, Dorothy 1742, Richard 1747, and Margaret 1749. Some of the
descendants of this family remained living in the dale well into the
20th century.
However one grandchild of William and Elizabeth Inman found fame
miles away from his birthplace. James Inman, mentioned by
Hartley and Ingilby in their book on the Yorkshire Dales, was a
younger son of Richard Inman of Garsdale Foot, and was born there in
1776. Educated at Sedbergh School, he attended Cambridge University,
from where he graduated, B.A. 1800, and M.A. 1805. He gained a B. D. in
1815, and D. D. in 1820. Ordained in 1811 he held no parochial
preferment but acted as Chaplain to the prison ships in Portsmouth
harbour. It had been his intention to take up mission work in Syria,
but on account of war he was detained in Malta, and there studied
Arabic. After several adventurous years at sea, James Inman returned
to England to become the First Principal of the Royal Naval College at
Portsmouth. At his suggestion, the School of Naval Architecture was
established, and to him was largely due the improvement in
ship-building during the first half of the 19th century. He was the
author of several works related to naval matters, navigation,
mathematics and ship-building. He died on 7th February 1859.
But it is on John Inman, baptised 9th February 1739 at
Garsdale, that we must focus, for on 14th June 1778, this John Inman
presented his own son for baptism at Garsdale, naming him Richard.
Details concerning Richard's mother, and any further information on
both parents is lacking. Perhaps they left the dale soon after baby
Richard's birth, for there is no evidence of any further children
being born to them at Garsdale.
Unlike his first cousin James Inman - whose attendance at Sedbergh
School and Cambridge University was followed by a distinguished career
- Richard, son of John, appears to have had no university education.
The next notice we have of him is during the early years of the new
century when he was employed as a curate in the country parish of
Hauxwell in Swaledale. By the year 1808 he was master of the school at
Bedale.; and in this year he also married, his bride Deborah Inman being
the daughter of Whaley Charles Inman, yeoman of Bedale, and his
wife Mary nee OLIVER. It has always been stated that
there was no blood relationship between bride and groom, and this fact
would seem to be correct.
In 1808 Rev. Richard Inman was admitted to the Church of Holy
Trinity in King's Court, at York. His home, however, continued to be
in the market town of Bedale. It was there that the first six of his
fourteen children were baptised. By 1816 the family had moved to York
where daughter Barbara - the later scribe of the family - was baptised
in the church of St Saviour on the 12th November 1816. Preferment to
the Rectory at Todwick near Sheffield came at the close of that
year, and in this parish the Reverend Richard Inman was to remain,
completing, by the year of his death, fifty years there as Rector.
Details of the births of all their children were kept by Richard
and Deborah in the old family bible:
William Charles Inman born Sept. 19th 1809 5 o'clock a.m.
Mary Inman born Decr. 15- 1810 at halfpast one p.m.
Martha Inman born May 10th 1812 at 10 minutes before seven
a.m.
Elizabeth Inman born July 1st 1813 ten minutes before 5p.m.
A little boy, intended to be called Mathew, but which died
before the delivery, born 19 Sepr. 1814
Frances Inman born 26 Sepr. 1815 half past nine a.m. Frances
died about six months old.The above were all born and registered
at Bedale in the North Riding of the County of York.
Barbara Inman born 27th Octr. 1816 half past 9 p.m. in St
Saviour Gate, York.
Richard Inman born 24th of Novr. 1817, half past one p.m. at
Todwick rectory in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Thomas Inman born 11th of Novr. 1818 at 3 o'clock p.m.
Charlotte Catherine Inman born 7th December 1819, 1 o'clock
a.m.
Sarah Inman born 31st of October 1820, eight o'clock a.m.
James Inman born 21st Sepr 1822, 20 minutes after eight
o'clock a.m.
Anne Inman born 6th October 1823 - 20 minutes past 4 p.m.
John Inman born 8th April 1826.
It is perhaps not really surprising to learn that just nine days
after the birth of John, her 14th child, Deborah Inman herself died at
the age of forty-one. Baby John's baptismal entry in Todwick Church
registers on 18th April 1826, was followed just three days later by
the burial entry for his mother.
The Rectory at Todwick must surely have been a commodious dwelling.
As well as housing the Rector and his large family, it was also home
to Deborah's widowed father Whaley Charles Inman, and occasional home
to her bachelor brothers Thomas, Charles, Robert and Richard, and her
unmarried sister Frances. Just two months after Deborah's death in
1826, her father Whaley Charles also died at the Todwick Rectory; a
memorial tablet high on the chancel wall in the church records his
death, and also those of his sons Charles (1833), Robert (1820) and
Richard (1831). A second tablet to Deborah's eldest brother Thomas was
erected in 1865 "in grateful and affectionate remembrance"
by his sister Frances "and his nieces Mary, Martha, Barbara,
Charlotte Catherine and Annie".
The third and main memorial tablet in the chancel is to the
Reverend Inman himself, and some of the members of his immediate
family:
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF
THE REVD. RICHARD INMAN
FOR 50 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED APRIL 16TH 1866 AGED 88 YEARS.
AND OF HIS WIFE DEBORAH, DAUGHTER OF
WHALEY CHARLES INMAN ESQRE
WHO DIED APRIL 12TH 1826, AGED 41 YEARS.
ALSO OF THEIR CHILDREN
ELIZABETH, WHO DIED JUNE 20TH 1838, AGED 24 YEARS
SARAH, WHO DIED NOVEMBER 12TH, 1835, AGED 15 YEARS
JAMES, WHO DIED NOVEMBER 20TH 1852, AGED 29 YEARS.
AND JOHN, WHO WAS LOST AT SEA
OFF THE COAST OF MINORCA, DECEMBER 17TH 1856
AGED 30 YEARS.
And what of the remaining members of the Todwick family?
William Charles, the eldest son, had the benefit of a
University education. He graduated B.A. from Cambridge in 1835, went
on to take Holy Orders, and served several curacies before being
presented to the Rectory of Great Gonerby in Lincolnshire, in 1846. He
died there twenty years later, and just two months after his father.
He never married.
The second surviving son was Richard Inman. He married Mary
Ann HARRISON and is known to have had two children, Herbert and
Marion. At some unknown date this family moved to Manitoba in Canada.
Herbert married and left descendants who have only recently learned
some details concerning their Yorkshire origins.
Thomas Inman, the third son to survive, also graduated B.A.
from Cambridge.
He was ordained deacon in 1849 and priest in 1850 . After he had
served in several different parishes as a curate, he became Vicar of
Appleton Wiske in Yorkshire, 1870-73. Reverend Thomas Inman married in
1850 Lavinia Louisa BURTON. He died 12 January 1894.
Mary Inman, the eldest daughter, was said to be a real
beauty. She became the wife of a clergyman, the Reverend Henry
Austin ORAM; she died the 1st March 1892, leaving many
descendants.
Her sister Martha Inman married yet another clergyman, a
curate at Todwick the Reverend Thomas GAWTHROP. Martha Gawthrop
was alive in 1899, and mentioned in the will of her sister Barbara
Inman, dated 10th July that year.
And Anne Inman, the youngest daughter of the family, married
7 September 1854, the Reverend Anthony Ambrose EDWARDS,
Vicar of All Saints Church, Leeds. Anne died 29th December 1905.
At the time of the old rector's death in 1866, two of his daughters
remained unmarried. By 1881 Charlotte Catherine had left
Todwick and was living in Cheltenham at the home of her widowed cousin
Emma SETON.
Of Charlotte's sister Barbara Inman, rather more is known.
By the time of the 1881 Census, Barbara had made her home with her
widowed sister Annie EDWARDS at 6 Spencer Avenue, Potter Newton in the
Leeds district. But by January 1883, Barbara too had gone south to
live in Cheltenham, and here she remained right through to the turn of
the century and beyond. She died at 3 Oxford Parade, Cheltenham on
23rd July 1912, at the advanced age of ninety-five.
Her will dated 10th July 1899, together with four later codicils,
was proved in London, her effects amounting to £3388 5s 9d. To her
nearest relatives, sisters, nieces, nephews, and cousins, Barbara
Inman had bequeathed many family mementos - 'an oil portrait of my
Uncle Christopher' was left to niece Kate Inman Smythe; 'the portrait
of my grandfather, Whaley Charles Inman', and 'my gold seal with the
Inman crest' were to go to Herbert Inman in far-away Manitoba; sister
Annie was to have 'the old family clock', and Martha the 'two pictures
of Todwick Rectory and Church.' Piano, music stool, engravings,
alabaster figures, gold chains, watches, ornaments - all were itemised
in Barbara's will. But by the time of her death many of the intended
recipients had also died.
The last surviving child of Richard and Deborah Inman, Barbara had
taken a keen interest in her family's history. In 1883 she had made
copies of the information in the manuscript books of her maternal
great-grandfather, Michael Inman, and distributed these copies amongst
the younger generations of the family.
I was fortunate to be shown one of Barbara Inman's family history
copies in 1995 when I visited Mr Reginald Darcy Hunter at his home in
Leeds. He also proudly showed me the old family bible in which were
carefully recorded the names and birthdates of all the Reverend
Richard Inman's children , as detailed previously.
Yet another of Barbara's family history copies has since surfaced
in an antique shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada. And from the
brief family notes that have been added to it, there can be no doubt
that this particular record had once belonged to Richard Inman, the
son who left Todwick last century to make his home in Canada.
Descendants of Richard Inman Junior have retained several photographs
of their English ancestors - among them is one of the Reverend Richard
Inman, Rector of Todwick, born in Garsdale in 1778, and died at
Todwick, near Sheffield in 1866.
And so it is thanks to his daughter Barbara Inman, that these
records have survived today. And but for those few extra words that
Barbara wrote in reference to her father's family, we might never have
known of the Todwick Inman family's link with Garsdale.
This information was sent by Nancy R. C. McLaughlin
email: PETER.NANCY.MCLAUGHLIN@xtra.co.nz
91 Major Hornbrook Road, Mt Pleasant, Christchurch, New Zealand
2001
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