Families of Note
The object was to find more about Job Conworth (1827 - 1881), landowner of Ulley; also to determine any connection to the Presley and Radley families - also landowners in Ulley.
Job Conworth landowner
Family Background
A Job Conworth (1) and his wife Elizabeth, nee Beart, of Peterborough had a son John who was baptised at St John the Baptist in Peterborough on 24 April, 1754. They also had a daughter Mary. ( Mary, according to IGI - Christening: 03 NOV 1756 St John Baptist, Peterborough, Northampton). Another daughter Susannah was baptised 31 Jan 1759, and married Thomas Todd on 6 Jan 1780.
John married an Ann Fletcher, in Wymington in 1780.
Ann was the daughter of Thomas Fletcher and Sarah Gates, who lived at Rushden Hall.
John and Ann lived at Wymington, Bedfordshire, where he was a farmer. They they had a son Job (2).
Job Conworth (1782-1855)
Job Conworth(2), (1782-1855) , grandson of Job (1) and Thomas Fletcher, was born in 1782, and baptised Thomas Job Conworth at Rushden, Northamptonshire on 23 March 1782 - named after both grandparents.
On 21st February, 1814 he was appointed a Lieutenant in the 3rd Nottinghamshire Militia. ( Three mounted troops of yeomanry were raised in Nottinghamshire in 1794 at Newark, Retford and Worksop as part time volunteer sub-units, in response to a call from William Pitt to Lords-Lieutenant to raise Volunteer Troops of Cavalry to meet the threat of invasion from Napoleon.) Background »
Job (2) married Catherine Presley. (IGI Records that Job Conworth married CATHARINE PRESLEY 11 APR 1825 Cuckney, Nottingham, England )
Job was a steward, and later a banker's clerk. Presumably the Job Conworth, living in Bewerley in the Parish of Ripon, mentioned in the History, Directory & Gazetteer of Yorkshire, 1822 , who was steward to the late Sir Thomas Woolaston White. of Tuxford and Wallingwells. (Sir Thomas Woolaston White was from 1838 to 1852 a Lt.Col in the Nottinghamshire Militia) . It most likely that he worked for Sir Thomas, as estate manager, and was then sent to Bewerley to look after the estate there. He was in Carlton-in-Lindrick in 1818, at Eagle Hall, Bewerley in 1820 assisting with the letting of lead mines and in Worksop at least by 1830, and was there at least as late as 1832. It is not known when he moved to East Retford. The fact of Sir Thomas's being a banker probably explains Job's later profession as banker's clerk.
History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1832 lists a Job Conworth as Chief Constable for N. Clay Division, Bridge Street, Worksop.
Job died in 1855 aged 73 years.
Job Conworth (1827 - 1881) of East Retford and Ulley
Job Conworth, son of the above, was born in 1827 at Blythe, Nottinghamshire.(Source IGI) He married Elizabeth Farmer.
They lived in London for many years where he
was a partner with the Law Practice of *Hanslip, Manning and Conworth and lived, at 12 Hatton Gardens. Source: London P O Directory, 1852
He had a Solicitors practice in Carolgate, East Retford, possibly living there as well as Ulley.
Ulley is top left, marked in red
Landowner
Job was first referred to in this area in the Sheffield Directory of 1862, as being a landholder in Ulley . The directory further states he was living or owned Ulley Grange and Carolgate, East Retford.
The Census of 1871 lists Elizabeth Conworth as living at Ulley. It lists Elizabeth Conworth, a wife, married, age 50 . Also living with her was a servant, Harriet Batty, age 19, born in Nottinghamshire. Elizabeth according to the census was born at St. John's, Clerkenwell, London.
White's Directory dated 1879 states Job Conworth and Jarvis Radley Esquires are the chief owners of the soil. He was living at or owned Ulley Hall and Carolgate, East Retford
Extract from White's Directory, 1881
A stained memorial window has been placed in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Ulley by Job Conworth, Esq. to the memory of William Pressley Esq. Job was living at/owned Ulley Hall and Carolgate, East Retford
Extract from Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1904:
The Church of St Swithun, East Retford when restored in 1855.
The gift of Job Conworth Esq., in 1877 was two silver challices with patens and a silver-gilt and jewelled chaise with paten
St Catherines Mission Church, East Retford was erected in 1884 to replace a temporary building, at a total cost of £800, the site being given by the late Job Conworth Esq. There is a stained window presented by Mrs. Conworth.
Job Conworth died in 1881
Elizabeth returned to East Retford after Job's death, and she died, aged 76 in September, 1897 at East Retford.
In 1891 a John Bower from Woodhouse was living at Ulley Hall. Kelly's Directory of Derbys, Leics, and Nottingham, 1891, lists Mrs. Conworth as a Private Resident living at Carolgate. She is also listed in the Court Directory of the same year.
NB * Messrs Hanslip, Ward and Co Solicitors practised in Manningtree, Suffolk.
You may also be interested to read an extract from The Virtual Corkscrew Museum Signature Collection :
' My ancestor Francis Job Chambers (1855-1937) was given his middle name
after his godfather, Job Conworth, attorney and landowner of 10 Carolgate,
East Retford, Notts., and 'Ulley Hall', near Rotherham. The Chambers, a
wealthy family of architects, lived on Crouch Hill, in north London. It is
this Job Conworth's father who is commemortated in the corkscrew. The
Conworths are recorded in C19th family diaries coming down to visit my
ancestors in London and even sending boxes of peaches from Retford as gifts.'
David C.R. Manners
Many thanks to Alwynne Mackie
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