Question from
Jane Rangeley of London April 2006
Dear
Richard
Have
you ever heard of Bothamhall,
Yorkshire. When I search with Google for Bothomhall, one of the links I get
is 17th Century Brierley. There is a possibility that my gt, gt,
gt, gt grandfather was James Rangeley who married an Elizabeth
Sykes and
we found the following information on the net in the Savile of Rufford
papers at Nottingham County Record Office:
Copy
of case for Plaintiff and opinion by John Stanhope dated 12 Jan 1761 on
suit of Sykes
against Rangley
and another in The Common Pleas re water course at Bothomhall
(Bothomhall, Yk). Also
Under
the Saviles, Brierley Manor had become the head of their estate in South
Yorkshire, and in 1662, rents for Brierley Manor were collected in the
following townships: Airton with Calton, Skostroppe, Kirkeby and
Hanieth, Airton and Otterburn, Barksland, Bothomhall, Brierley,
Ackworth, and many others.
So,
presumably Bothomhall was a village near Brierley?
All
the best and thank you in advance for any information you may have of
interest or in any direction you can point me? This grandparent's
son was an extraordinary man who aged 51 in 1823, he left his life as a
cloth merchant and manufacturer in Leeds and went with his family
(except one son) to the 'wilderness' of Maine, USA where he had bought
acres of land with two others when he was 26 and he created a settlement
which is now known as The Rangeley Lake Region.
Jane
Rangeley
Reply from Richard
