Descendants of Henry Rickatson Burton

Generation No. 1

1.  HENRY RICKATSON4 BURTON  (JOSEPH3, JOSEPH2, JOHN1) was born May 07, 1831 in Potto/Swainby, Yorkshire, and died January 04, 1903 in Edmonton, London.  He married JANE DOVE Bet. October - December 1858 in Hackney, London, daughter of CHRISTOPHER DOVE and MARY DUNN.  She was born 1832 in Leeds, Yorkshire, and died January 01, 1917 in Rochford, Essex.

Notes for HENRY RICKATSON BURTON:
1871 Census - A Wesleyan Minister living at 109 High Street, Lincoln with his wife, 6 children & 2 servants.
1881 Census - A Wesleyan Minister living at Arangaria Villas, Spring Road, Ipswich St Helen, Suffolk with his wife, 5 children & 1 servant.
1901 Census - A Wesleyan Minister living at 17 Woodside Road, Wood Green, London with his wife & 1 servant.
His address on the birth certificate of his first son Herbert was Cross Hill, Ilkley, Yorkshire.
An inscription in a book  he gave to his son, Christopher Dove Burton, at Christmas 1885 gives the family's address as St Johns' Terrace, Jarrow-on-Tyne.
A Methodist Minister in the following places: 1855 Institution, 1856 Sevenoaks, 1858 Reeth, 1859 Addingham, 1861 Ashburton, 1863 Wath-on-Dearne, 1866 Warrington, 1869 Lincoln, 1872 Birstal, 1873 London (Sea Miss), 1875 Portsmouth, 1878 Louth, 1880 Ipswich, 1883 S Shields, 1886 Gosport, 1889 Dunstable, 1892 Bridlington, 1895 Epworth.

Wrote: The breakfast half hour, or, Addresses to working men (1872). The following is an extract from an address headed 'Mystery':
"When a lad, I had frequent opportunities of seeing on my father's farm, cows and horses, sheep and pigs, gese and other live stock, feeding. It was then a mystery to me, and has ever since remained such, how the same food produced hair on some, wool on others, feathers on others, horns on others, and different kinds of flesh on all. Nor is it less a mystery that the same sun, showers, atmosphere, and soil, should combine to produce the different kinds of trees, vegatables, flowers, grass, corn, and other fruits of the earth. We cannot understand how these various effects are produced. //And man is a mystery both in himself and to himself. We are 'fearfully and wonderfully made.' The body, with its various parts, each part being perfectly adapted to the purpose for which it was especially designed; the mind, with its powers of perception, reflection, memory, etc.; the soul, withits capacities of knowing, worshipping, loving, trusting, ....."  

The following extracts from 'In Memorium'. A Sketch of the Life and Labours of the Rev Henry Rickatson Burton, Wesleyan Methodist Minister by the Rev T Wynne-Jones were recorded in a letter dated March 21 1973 from Mollie Marris Burton to Elizabeth Wells:
"My father [Henry Rickatson Burton] was born in 1831 and died in 1903. The book reveals something of his early life : " ... [his] father and grandfather were churchwardens, Methodist class leaders and local preachers, and Bradbury was, for many years, the Methodist sanctuary in that region.... In life' s eventide he loved to recall the "old Bradbury days" Days of stirring and stricking incidents of delicate touches which revealed hearts true and noble, of scenes and circumstances of glowing reality.  His reminiscences of that holy and happy home were exquisite delineations of rural simplicity and saintliness, sweet idylls of the domestic virtues, morals and manners which softened the harshness of that rough age... While yet a child he was sent to Leeds to a school conducted by his cousin, Miss Burton, a lady of considerable culture and refinement, who subsequently became the wife of  a well-known missionary, the Rev Thomas Cryer. From Leeds he went to Bowman's Academy at Gainford near Darlington. .... Schooldays ended he returned to Bradbury. Shrewd Joseph Burton soon saw that Henry would not sustain as a farmer the high repute of the Bradbury yeomen, and he was apprenticed to a relative, Robert Rickatson, the head of a prosperous currier's business at Stokesley.... At Stokesley the word of the Lord came to him, so he went forth to villages and hamlets preaching the Kingdom of Heaven.... Business demanded him from 6 am to 8 pm yet each morning found him ready for 2 hours study and prayer before the day's work began. This practice settled into a habit throughout a long and arduous life.... HRB was a voluminous letter writer .. His sister, widow of the late Rev WOS, fortunately has preserved a few letters which furnish glimpses of Mr Burton's life at Stokesley and then in Richmond College....
[excerpt from letter dated September 1850, from Stokesley]
'I am fully expecting both father and mother on Friday to the Cattle Show. Tell mother that cousin Robert Rickatson from London is here but as he will not be able to come to Bradbury he hopes that mother will come on Friday as he much wishes to see her. I hope that mother will bring a good order for Mr Baker the draper who has been very kind to me. Tell father there is a first-rate remnant of cloth very cheap if he or William wants a coat. I shall also have a waistcoat and a cheap hat to sell them too. In fact I have begun book-selling as well'
A lot of the book now focuses on his training for the ministry."
The following is an extract copied from page 19 of the book and entitled 'Letters from Richmond College to his sister'. 
Richmond September 26th 1853. //My very dear Polly. //Many thanks for your kind letter. I was really in earnest when I wished you to write me part of a letter every day, and I trust you will adhere to your promise. It might be a change if you were every other week to write out an essay, or suppose you begin with the sermons you heard on the previous Sabbath. If you only wrote something and took pains with your composition, spelling and grammar, such an exercise would do you very great good. There are some mistakes in the letter you sent me. One word is wrongly spelled, one word is missed out; two or three other words ought to have had capital letters, as they were at the beginning of sentences . . . . I do not think your writing is so good as it used to be. I shall keep this letter to see how much you improve from this time . . . . One of your bad sentences is - "You had better give us an account of one of your Richmond day's work first." Now, try to mend this sentence and let me have it better expressed in your next letter. //You tell me about Bingant, that he is staying at Darlington, and then you go on without a capital letter "in order that he may be made a blessing we must pray for him," etc. Oh, Polly, for shame! . . . If, however, you send me such a letter again I shall send it back for you to correct . . . . //I preached here last Thursday night. I had a good time. I could not help thinking you were praying for me. On Friday we had our meeting for the election of speakers, etc., for our approaching anniversary meeting. Tell Bingham that Hutton is Chairman, Simpson, Dyson, Webb, Smith, Preston and Day Speakers. Pimm, Secretary. Evans, Deane, Scott, Greathead have some offices, and I am to be platform collector. Mine is an enviable position in some respects, and I suppose it is an unusual honour for a first year's man. It is a great privilege to be on the platform on account of the supper and the company which is enjoyed afterwards, which Bingham will tell you all about. You must invite him to tea sometimes and be very kind to him for my sake. I hope you will all pray much for him and help him all you can. // . . . I hope William, Thomas, Robert and Edward have given the Lord their hearts, and that Ann and Mary Ann and all the lads and men are in earnest about their souls . . . . Give my kind love to my cousins at Sands. Tell Isabella and Jane I am full of hope that they are trying to live very near to the Lord, and I trust they will both live to be eminent and useful Christians. //Now, Polly, I trust you and Ann are living very near to God; our happiness here and hereafter depends on our devotedness to Christ. Pray much. Read your Bible often. //Simpson joins me in kindest love to you all. //Your affectionate brother, Henry.
Copy of a newspaper funeral notice provided by Margaret Mould: FUNERAL OF THE REV H R BURTON. The interment of this venerable and honoured minister took place last Thursday, in the Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate. The service, which was held in Trinity Church, Wood Green, was numerously attended. Among the ministers present were the Revs Charles Dawe, Walter G Hall, Edward Workman, Joseph Reynolds, Joshua Holmes, Winston Haines (Babtist), J G Watson (Congregationalist), E W Platt, Vicar of St Cuthbert's Church, and others. The Rev T Wynne-Jones, who conducted the service, recited the opening sentences of the Burial Service; Psalms and Lesson were read by the Revs Walter G Hall and Joseph Reynolds, after which a member of the choir, Master Percy Crawley, sang with equisite taste, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." The address which was delivered by the Rev Charles Dawe - a former colleague of Mr Burton - was a strikingly beautiful and felicitous appreciation of his noble life, earnest ministry, and unimpeachable Christian character. Prayer was offered by another old friend of the family, the Rev Edward Workman. Mr Henry Turnpenny, who presided at the organ, played the "Dead March." The committal prayers in the cemetery were said by the Rev T Wynne-Jones, who also, on Sunday morning, conducted a memorial service in Trinity Church. The large attendance at both services was a striking manifestation of the admiration and affection which the gentle and gracious saint had won during his brief residence at Wood Green. The sermon was based on the words in Malachi:- "My covenant was with him of life and peace. The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity."
Extract from the records of Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London: No 92518; Henry Rickatson Burton; 17 Upper Woodside Road, Wood Green; buried January 8 1903; ceremony by T Wynne Jones; Parish - Wood Green; No of Grant 3250; class 2 grave, plot H 1544; depth of burial - 9 ft; No of Receipt 4075.
Text on grave No 1544: In loving memory of Rev Henry R Burton Wesleyan Minister who entered into rest January 4th 1903 aged 71 years "Well done, good and faithful servant". In loving memory of Jane Burton beloved wife of the above who entered into rest January 1st 1917 aged 84 years.

More About HENRY RICKATSON BURTON:
Baptism: June 12, 1831, Sedgefield, Durham
Burial: January 08, 1903, Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London, Middlesex

More About JANE DOVE:
Baptism: September 02, 1832, Oxford Place formerly Albion St Wesleyan, Leeds, Yorks
Burial: Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London, Middlesex
	
Children of HENRY BURTON and JANE DOVE are:
	i.	HERBERT5 BURTON, b. July 18, 1859, Holdforth Street, Wortley, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire; d. January 07, 1906, Thirlwood, Halden, Woodside Park, Finchley, London; m. (1) LUCY MARKHAM, March 24, 1877, Register Office, Hackney, Middlesex; b. 1853, Terrington, Norfolk; m. (2) SARAH JANE (JANIE) PRYNNE, 1886, Bodmin, Cornwall; b. 1862, Islington, London; d. March 19, 1929, Golders Green, London, Middlesex.

Notes for HERBERT BURTON:
1881 Census - A Commercial Traveller living at 19 Fassett Square, Hackney, London, Middlesex with his wife and one daughter.
1901 Census - Button & Trimming Importer and an Employer living at 60, Oakfield Road, Hornsey, London, Middlesex with his second wife, 5 children and 2 servants.
His marriage certificate describes him as a Mercantile Clerk living at 16 Fassett Square, Dalston.
Extract from records of Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London:  No 96147; Herbert Burton; Thirlwood, Halden, Woodside Park; buried 10th January 1906; 46 years; ceremony by H? B Dalby; Parish - Finchley; No of Grant 3779; class 2 grave, plot H 1542; depth of burial 7 ft; No of Receipt 9018.
Text on grave No 1542: Sacred to the memory of Herbert Burton who died 7th January 1906 aged 46 years. Sarah Jane wife of the above died 19th March 1929.
Details from the Wills Index held in Family History Centre, Islington: Burton, Herbert of "Thirlwood", Holden Road, Woodside Park, Finchley, Middlesex died 7 January 1906. Probate London 1 March to Sarah Jane Burton widow and Charles Henry Cooper Trimming Manufacturer. Effects £12598-8-9 Resworn £18993-16-9.
Summary of Copy Will obtained from Probate Office: Appoint my dear wife Sarah Jane Burton and my friend Charles Henry Cooper to be Executors...I devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate unto my trustees and In trust to pay the income thereof to my said wife...she thereout maintaining all my children including my daughter by my first marriage Lucy Marguerite Burton until they are able to maintain themselves...After the decease of my wife my trustees shall stand possessed of my residuary trust funds in trust for all my children...and then several paragraphs descibing how and when the funds should be paid out to the children. Dated 18 January 1899.
Codicil dated 12 October 1903 gave a legacy of £50 to Charles Henry Cooper and said that notwithstanding the life interest of his wife £1000 should be paid to each son and daughter if they attain the age of twenty five during my wife's lifetime (to be paid to the daughters between the ages of twent one and twenty five if they marry during that time with my wife's consent).

More About HERBERT BURTON:
Burial: January 10, 1906, Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London, Middlesex

Notes for SARAH JANE (JANIE) PRYNNE:
Details from Wills Index held in Hertford Records Office: Burton, Sarah Jane of 96 Hampstead Way, Golders Green, Middlesex, widow, died 19 March 1929. Administration London 6 June to Henry Philip Burton, Buyer. Effects £234-10-3.

More About SARAH JANE (JANIE) PRYNNE:
Burial: Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London, Middlesex

	ii.	MARY CECILY BURTON, b. January 11, 1861, Kildwick, Nr Skipton, Yorks; d. June 03, 1897, Edmonton, London, Middlesex; m. JOSEPH FARBON WASS, 1880, Hackney, London; b. 1862, Waltham, Lincolnshire; d. March 04, 1911, The London Hospital, London, Middlesex.

Notes for MARY CECILY BURTON:
Extract from records of Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London: No 85334; Mary Cecily Wass; "Bonchurch", Williams Grove, Wood Green; buried June 5 1897; 36 years, ceremony by E T Smith; Parish - Tottenham, No of Grant 2276; class 2 grave, plot H 1543; depth of burial - 11 ft; No of Receipt 5744.
Text on grave No 1543. In loving memory of Mary Cecily wife of Joseph F Wass who entered into eternal rest 3rd June 1897 aged 36 years. To dwell with Christ is better life. Also of Laurence Baizley (Laurie) the beloved son of above who entered into rest 27th June 1908 aged 23 years. (Also on the stone on either side of the grave.) In loving memory of J Harold Wass died in India 1917. In loving memory of Fanny Coulson who died July 18th 1908 in her 75th year. So he giveth his beloved sleep.

More About MARY CECILY BURTON:
Burial: June 05, 1897, Great Northern Cemetery, New Southgate, London, Middlesex

Notes for JOSEPH FARBON WASS:
1901 Census - A Stationer and Printer, listed as an employer, and living at  'Bonchurch', Wood Green, London,Middlesex with his second wife, Ellen, and 7 children + his mother, Fanny Coulson, and 1 servant. 
Details from Wills Index in Family History Centre, Islington: Wass, Joseph Farbon of Lynton, 7 Kildowan Road, Goodmayes, Essex died 4 March 1911 at the London Hospital, Middlesex. Probate London 6 April to Ellen Dove Wass widow, William Nicholson Incorporated Accountant and Samuel George Charles Wadham Railway Estate Agent. Effects £3997-7-3.

	iii.	ARTHUR HENRY BURTON, b. October 18, 1863, Wath on Dearne, Yorks; d. June 14, 1949, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; m. LAURA BROWNE; b. February 26, 1873, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; d. December 12, 1957, 4557 Sherbrooke Street, Apt 47, Westmount, Quebec, Canada.

Notes for ARTHUR HENRY BURTON:
1881 Census - Commercial Clerk at 4&6 Cannon Street, St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London Middlesex living with 22 Warehousemen, 2 other Commercial Clerks & 4 servants.
Was a competitive swimmer. Dorothy (Witten) Bradnam holds two medals enscribed as follows: 1. Portsmouth Swimming Club (circle), A H Burton, Aug 6th 1887 and 2. No name, P C B C, 1886. Both medals are star style with many points.
Molly Uren's photo album has a small print entitled "uncle Arthurs house" in Montreal.

More About ARTHUR HENRY BURTON:
Burial: June 22, 1949, Cremated, Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Canada
Occupation: Insurance Clerk

More About LAURA BROWNE:
Burial: Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Section F 1671)

	iv.	ELLEN DOVE BURTON, b. September 04, 1865, Wath on Dearne, Yorks; m. JOSEPH FARBON WASS, 1898, London City; b. 1862, Waltham, Lincolnshire; d. March 04, 1911, The London Hospital, London, Middlesex.

Notes for ELLEN DOVE BURTON:
Family history says she married in France but there is a marriage entry in the 3Q 1898 under London City, Ref 1c 83. 

Notes for JOSEPH FARBON WASS:
1901 Census - A Stationer and Printer, listed as an employer, and living at  'Bonchurch', Wood Green, London,Middlesex with his second wife, Ellen, and 7 children + his mother, Fanny Coulson, and 1 servant. 
Details from Wills Index in Family History Centre, Islington: Wass, Joseph Farbon of Lynton, 7 Kildowan Road, Goodmayes, Essex died 4 March 1911 at the London Hospital, Middlesex. Probate London 6 April to Ellen Dove Wass widow, William Nicholson Incorporated Accountant and Samuel George Charles Wadham Railway Estate Agent. Effects £3997-7-3.

	v.	CHRISTOPHER DOVE BURTON, b. August 22, 1867, Warrington, Lancashire; d. March 28, 1931, 276 Well Hall Road, Eltham, London; m. (1) MAUD SUSANNAH BRIANT, 1899, Lambeth, London; b. 1878, New Hampton, Kingston, Surrey; d. 1918, Lewisham, Kent; m. (2) BEATRICE BRIANT, 1920, Lewisham, Kent; b. June 07, 1882, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; d. July 21, 1968, 276 Well Hall Road, Eltham, London.

Notes for CHRISTOPHER DOVE BURTON:
1901 Census - Marine Engineer living at 10, West Banks, Scarborough, Yorks with his wife Maud.
A certificate given under the National Registration Act 1915 described him as an Engine Fitter living at 196 Well Hall Road, Eltham, London.
On the death of his first wife, Christopher married her sister Beatrice.

More About CHRISTOPHER DOVE BURTON:
Burial: Eltham Churchyard, London

More About BEATRICE BRIANT:
Burial: Richmond Cemetery, Surrey

	vi.	FRANK ERNEST BURTON, b. 1869, Warrington, Lancashire.

Notes for FRANK ERNEST BURTON:
An invalid and when his mother died he went into a home.

	vii.	ROBERT RICKATSON BURTON, b. September 14, 1870, Lincoln, Lincolnshire; d. August 15, 1944, Perth, Australia; m. MARY QUINN, 1897, Perth, Australia; d. February 02, 1944, Perth, Australia.

Notes for ROBERT RICKATSON BURTON:
Went to the gold rush in Australia, afterwards married and settled in Perth.
Cemetery record says: Burton, Robert Rickatson, Age 73, Died 1944, Perth. Date of Death 15/08/1944, Application No KB00075331, Karrakatta, Roman Catholic Area, Section SC Gravesite 0001, Grant No K0039199. His gravestone reads:
Robert Burton our beloved father died Feast of the Assumption 1944
also Mary Burton our darling mother died Feast of the Presentation 1944  RIP

More About ROBERT RICKATSON BURTON:
Burial: Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Australia

More About MARY QUINN:
Burial: Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Australia

	viii.	AMY JANE BURTON, b. 1872, Lincoln, Lincolnshire; d. August 30, 1872, Ilkley, Yorkshire.

More About AMY JANE BURTON:
Burial: Batley, Yorkshire

	ix.	WILLIAM EDWARD BURTON, b. May 09, 1875, Stepney, Middlesex; d. 1952, Bridge, Kent; m. MARY JESSIE MARRIS, 1910, Romford, Essex; b. 1879, Caistor, Lincolnshire; d. 1941, Bridge, Kent.

Notes for WILLIAM EDWARD BURTON:
Ist Mate in the Merchant Service and was offshore at Gallipoli at the same time Ormond Burton was onshore.
                Extract from a letter: "My father's diary is dated 1891 when he was apprenticed on the sailing ship 'Trafalgar'. He mentions Jeannie Brunjee in the diary and there are one or two recipes of hers in the book. He was engaged to Jeannie before he met my mother and she saw him coming out of a public house and broke off the engagement. That was when they lived at Epworth."