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The Procters
of Bordley
Anyone looking through the parish registers for Kirkby Malham, Rylstone,
Burnsall, Linton and Long Preston will soon come across the family name
of Procter/Proctor/Prockter and JW Morkill's "Parish of Kirkby
Malhamdale" devotes ten whole pages to their history, which can
be read here. This
was written in 1933 and contains an interesting family tree, but there
doesn't appear to be any clear evidence which has emerged so far, that
will link this group with the Procter family research shown below, though it seems most likely.
The spelling of the name varies, this is in some instances due to a
change in the parish clerk. Thus, at St Peter Rylstone, the parish curate
John Toppan served for 59 years from 1602 to 1661 and spelt the name
as Proctor. His successor, Jeremiah Waid changed the spelling to Procter
in 1662. In 1729, the spelling changes again to Prockter but reverts
to Procter in 1762/63.
The various families (henceforward referred to as Procter) occupied
a number of farmhouses particularly in the Bordley and Malham Moor areas
and are variously referred to in the registers as gentlemen (until 1664/65),
yeomen (from 1728/29), husbandmen (from 1732/33), and sometimes farmer
(from 1774/75). The term yeoman is used right through to the early nineteenth
century and occurs in the Burnsall registers as well from 1726.
The houses occupied by the Procter families in Kirkby Malhamdale
parish include:
Old Name
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Alternative names
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Current name.
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Hawthorne leighe yeat |
Hathorne Lydeyeat, lyed yeat, hath--- lydyeat,
Leeyate and Leegate |
Lee Gate House |
Caponha |
Capponha, Cap(p)onhaw(e), Cappenhaw, Cappenhow,
Chappenhaw, Capenhall or Cap(p)inhaw |
Capon Hall. |
Trannhouse |
Trainhouse or Upper Tranhouse |
High Trenhouse |
Crackemore |
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Crake Moor |
Rough Close |
Ruff Close |
Rough Close |
Newhouses |
(Adjacent to Lee Gate House) |
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Holgate Head |
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Holgate Head |
Malham Water Houses |
(The hamlet at Malham Tarn) |
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Procters also lived in the township of Hanlith |
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Alice Procter (1826 -1895)
Born at Lainger House, Bordley - 3rd Oct 1826
Baptised at Rylstone Chapel - 29th Oct 1826
Married James Duckett of Clapham -13th May 1852
Died at Liverpool - 5th April 1895
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In the parish of Burnsall at Bordley,
they occupied the following houses/areas:
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Blayk bank |
Blayke bank, Bleakbanke, Bleakbank, Blaikebanke , Blaik banke
and Blakebank
Now a ruin but marked on the OS Maps as Bleak Bank
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Bordley Hall |
Boardley Hall |
Bordley moor(e) |
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Bordley town |
The township of Bordley also referred to as just
Bordlay, Bordley or Baudley or Bord |
Lingtop |
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Colepitt Gill |
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Cowgill Coat |
Cow Gill Cote |
Lainger House |
Langer House |
Bowcross |
Bacros, Boocross, Buckerhouse |
Rilston |
Rylstone, township part of the parish of Burnsall. |
Knowbank |
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Elsewhere in the parish of Burnsall, they are found in
Hetton and Cracoe, and in the parish of Linton at Threshfield and Skyrethorns,
In the parish of Long Preston, their main residence was Mearbeck (or
Merebeck). There are numerous other less specific references in the
above parish registers and those of adjoining areas.
Wills
have been transcribed for the Procters, many containing inventories.
These are listed below and it's hoped that transcripts or abstracts
can be added to the website in the near future. View an interesting
sample will and inventory for Richard
Procter (1742/3) of Knowebanke.
Year
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Name
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of Where
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Notes
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1524 |
Geoffrey Procter |
Bordley |
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1541 |
John Procter |
Burnsall |
(administration only) |
1555 |
Geffraye Procter |
Knowlbanke |
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1560 |
Richard Procter |
Bordelay |
(administration only) |
1561 |
Richard Procter |
Rilstone |
(administration only) |
1580 |
Christopher Procter |
Blaikbanke |
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1584 |
Anthony Procter |
Blackbanke |
(administration only) |
1594 |
Richard Procter |
Bordley |
(administration only) |
1597 |
John Procter |
Bordley |
(administration only) |
1601 |
Richard Procter |
Blaikebanke |
(administration only) |
1607 |
Thomas Procter |
Capon Hawe |
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1611 |
William Procter |
Hathorn leadyeat |
(administration only) |
1612 |
Thomas Procter |
Hathornledyate |
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1613 |
Thomas Procter |
Blackbanke |
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1614 |
Barbara Procter |
Blakebanke |
(administration only) |
1616 |
Elizabeth Procter |
Black banke |
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1617 |
John Procter |
Blake Banke |
(administration only) |
1617 |
Robert Procter |
Blakebanke |
administration only) |
1618, |
Richard Procter |
Threshfield |
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1624 |
Thomas Procter |
Bordley |
(administration only) |
1630 |
James Procter |
Burnsall |
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1654 |
John Procter |
Wynterburne |
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1658 |
Robert Procter |
Blackbanke |
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1662 |
Frances Procter |
Hathorn leayeat |
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1686 |
Christopher Procter |
Cowgillcoat |
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1693 |
Thomas Procter |
Blaikbanke |
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1693 |
William Procter |
Bordlay |
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1715 |
Miles Procter |
Thorgill Beck |
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1717 |
Anthony Procter |
Cougill Coat |
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1719 |
Edward Procter |
Burnsall |
(administration only) |
1728 |
Thomas Procter |
Hetton |
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1737 |
Christopher Procter |
Lainger House |
(administration only) |
1738 |
Alice Procter |
Hetton |
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1742 |
Richard. Procter |
Knowlbanke |
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1745 |
Thomas Procter |
Bordley |
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1746 |
Richard Procter |
Langer House |
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1759 |
Thomas Procter |
Hetton |
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1775 |
Richard Procter |
Bordley |
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1776 |
Margaret Procter |
Langer House |
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1787 |
Richard Procter |
Bordley |
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1778 |
Thomas Gregson |
Cracoe |
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1789 |
Thomas Procter |
Threshfield |
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1809 |
Richard Procter |
Lainger House |
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1839 |
William Procter |
Alnwick |
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1840 |
James Procter |
Armley Heights, Leeds |
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1852 |
Richard Procter |
Lainger House |
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1922 |
Isabella Frances Smith Procter |
Newfoundland, Canada |
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Family Trees
These wills and other information (including land transactions
involving the Procters from 1726 to 1824) have enabled a family tree
to be made that is held on the GenCircles website (link below).
Extracts from this family tree have been made and illustrate the main
lines that, for the most part, show the family to be descendants of
Christopher Procter of Bleakbank (Bordley). These trees are named after
the areas/houses in which the Procters lived.
Evidence for the relationships shown derive from parish records, wills
and administrations and land transactions. The existence of a will,
administration or inventory is indicated on each tree. The wills are
mostly held at the Borthwick Institute and the land transactions at
the Land Registry at Wakefield. Transcriptions of some of them will
be added to this website. Also shown are the areas/houses which particular
individuals lived in the latter part of their lives.
Click on any link to view
the lineage of that family branch:-
Procter
of Bordley, Cracoe and Leeds
Procter
of Lainger House, Bordley*
Procter
of Leegate, Malham Moor
Procter
of Mearbeck (Long Preston)
Procter
of Hetton
Procter
of Hanlith
* Note that Richard Procter and his wife Margaret Procter were first
cousins, being both grandchildren of Richard Procter and Margaret
Heeles.
See also the Proctors
of Bordley and Winterburn edited from JW Morkill's book
- The Parish of Kirkby Malhamdale.
Research by
Further details on Procter
and Duckett from Craven District can be found on the GenCircles
website

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