MARSKE
Mersc, Mersche (xi cent.).
This parish, including Saltburn, has an area of
about 4,272 acres, of which 429 acres are foreshore,
and of the remainder more than a third is arable
land, more than half is pasture and there are 25 acres
of woods. (fn. 1) The soil is strong loam on a subsoil of
lias, and wheat, barley and beans are grown. Mining
is carried on in the south of the parish, and the working of the iron-stone (fn. 2) has brought a largely increased
population since 1851.
The ground, which attains a height of 350 ft. to
400 ft. on the south, slopes down towards the west
and north-west, where it is flat and low. The
village of Marske is situated along the road running
from Skelton to the sea, and lies almost due north
and south. The old church of St. Germain is on
the cliff somewhat removed from the main road, from
which it is approached by a lane leading east past the
vicarage. On the west side of the village, about
half a mile from the sea and facing south, is the
manor-house.
Marske Hall is a picturesque stone house of two
stories built in 1625 by Sir William Pennyman.
The symmetrical front, which is about 115 ft. in
length, is well broken up by three boldly projecting
turrets, that in the middle forming the porch, and by
large bay windows between. Externally the building
is very little altered except that the original leaded
lights of the mullioned windows have been replaced
by sashes, and the turrets, which are three stories
in height with stone dome-shaped roofs, have been
deprived of their finials. The roof is now covered
with modern red tiles, and two stone dormer windows
in the roof behind the bays, which are shown in a
drawing of the hall dated 1718, (fn. 3) have disappeared.
This drawing also shows what appears to be a later
wing, then probably only recently erected, at the
west end with square-headed sash-windows, and the
stone roof of the westernmost turret is missing. The
elevation is divided horizontally by moulded stringcourses at the level of the window heads, the upper
portion of the wall consisting of a high parapet of
plain stone, the finials of which have disappeared.
All the windows have mullions and transoms and in
the recesses formed by the bay are large stone spoutheads or gargoyles supported by cherubs' heads,
almost the only indication of Renaissance feeling on
the exterior of the building. Over one of the bay
windows is a square panel containing a shield of the
arms of Pennyman with helm, crest, and mantling,
and a second shield on the middle turret has the
arms of Pennyman impaling Atherton. Over the
entrance doorway is a sundial. The westernmost
turret is wider than the others and contains an old
oak staircase, and a good deal of the original oak
panelling remains in the house, though some of the
rooms were remodelled in the early part of the 18th
century. The entrance hall is divided by a stone
arcade of two flat elliptical arches supported by a
central circular pier with carved capital and moulded
base, forming a kind of screen. A moulded stone
cornice runs at ceiling-level along the top, breaking
round the keystones of the arches. The arch stones
are carved on the face with a flowing vine pattern,
and are moulded on the edge, the soffits being plain.
The spandrels and keystones are also carved, the
former containing the Pennyman arms. The house
has been a good deal altered at the back and many
internal alterations have been made. The drawing
of 1718 shows a plain fence wall along the south side,
but this has been replaced by a modern balustraded
wall to the highway, which, together with the lawn
in front of the house, forms an effective foreground.
In 1304 the Fauconbergs had at Marske a messuage with a dovecot. (fn. 4) It was called in 1349 a capital
messuage, (fn. 5) and this in 1366 was assigned in dower
with its dovecot, orchards and gardens to Isabel, the
widow of Walter de Fauconberg, no doubt for her
residence. (fn. 6)
In the middle of the village where the road widens
there stood at one time part of an old stone cross,
said to have been set up in Marske when the market
was removed to this place from Guisborough in the
17th century after an outbreak of plague, (fn. 7) but this
has long since disappeared. (fn. 8) From this point a lane
branches eastwards to Windy Hill; at the beginning
of Back Lane which runs north and south is the new
church of St. Mark, built in 1867, and opposite to it
one of the two church schools, the other lying further
south on the east of High Street, near the post office.
The village ends on the north at Cliff House, the
residence of Mr. Claud E. Pease, J.P., and on the
south at the station of the Stockton and Darlington
branch of the North Eastern railway, which after
1859–60 was extended from Redcar to Marske. (fn. 9)
Before 1849 the Wesleyans had a chapel here (fn. 10) and
before 1857 the Primitive Methodists had one also.
About a mile south-west of Old Marske is the
hamlet of New Marske occupied by the men employed by Messrs. Pease in the Upleatham mine.
The greater part of the village and the Miners'
Institute are on the south of the road leading to the
mine, but the church of St. Thomas, opened in 1875,
and the school are on the north side. The Wesleyans
and Primitive Methodists both have chapels here.
Saltburn by the Sea has since 1873 been an ecclesiastical parish, (fn. 11) and under the Local Government
Act of 1894 was created a civil parish. (fn. 12) It is
situated in the south-east of the parish of Marske
between Skelton Beck on the east and Pit Hill Stell
which reaches the sea at Hazel Grove Foot on the
west.
The town seems to owe its existence to the extension of the Stockton and Darlington railway here in
1860–1 from Marske, (fn. 13) and since that time its rise
has been rapid; in fact before July 1863 it had
practically taken its present form along the sea and
the west side of the 'Glen' through which runs
Skelton Beck. (fn. 14) From the top of the high cliffs an
inclined tramway constructed in 1884 leads to the
sands close to the pier towards the north-east of the
town. 'The Pleasure Grounds' extend along the
west of the 'Glen,' a bridge over which connects
the modern town with the hamlet of Old Saltburn.
Further to the west near Rifts Wood the railway
from Whitby crosses the same ravine by a lofty
bridge, (fn. 15) and curves round the west of the town to
Saltburn terminus. South-west of the station in
Upleatham Street is Emmanuel Church, opened in
1869, but since enlarged more than once, and at
the south end of the road is the school. The
Primitive Methodists and the Wesleyans both had
chapels here in 1872, and the Congregationalists
built one in 1889, when both the Society of Friends
and the Plymouth Brethren had meeting-rooms. The
convalescent home, completed in 1872, is situated on
the extreme west, not far from the sea. The brine
and swimming baths close to the station were opened
in 1890–1, and in 1900 the town laid out a cemetery
of 2 acres.
The hermitage of Saltburn on the banks of
'Holebec' which Roger de Argentein granted to
Whitby Abbey in the early part of the 13th century
seems to have been in the modern parish of Saltburn. (fn. 16) The ferry of the 'Melhoddes,' which belonged to the manor of Marske (fn. 17) in 1366 and 1560,
was in all probability also somewhere along Skelton
Beck.
Among place-names in the 13th century or earlier
are 'Bites,' (fn. 18) evidently 'The Bits' north of the
church of St. Germain, 'Chatteflat,' (fn. 19) the present Cat
Flats south-west of Mickle Dales, 'Heselgrive,' (fn. 20) now
Hazel Grove, north of the town of Saltburn, 'Rebec,'
'Stainchalehil,' 'Stainbec,' (fn. 21) probably near Scanbeck
Howe on the coast north of Marske, 'Felebreg,' the
Fell Briggs west of New Marske, 'Marflat,' probably
Mordales east of New Marske, 'Fulsik,' (fn. 22) 'Nettelthwayte,' assarts called 'Pyleflat,' 'Wudeflat' and
'Cornegreve,' (fn. 23) which obviously survives in Corngrave Farm, now in the parish of Upleatham. In
1366 the manor of Marske had demesne land in
'Rounclifflat,' 'Langflat,' (fn. 24) south-west of Old Marske,
'Gildhousflatt,' 'Grenwalflat,' apparently Grundales
in the north-west of Marske township, and meadows
in an inclosure called 'Bradenge,' 'Le Legh,' which
must have been near the Leigh Dams in the east of
the parish of Redcar, and 'Langbek,' (fn. 25) west of Old
Marske. In 1608 there is mention of 'Wycar
Close.' (fn. 26)
Under the Inclosure Act of 1756 the vicar received
a rent of £35 in lieu of all land and tithes in the
parish. (fn. 27) The common fields then inclosed were
Kirk Field, the Moor Field, the Hall Field, Redcar
East and Redcar Gar-end Fields, and the meadows
Hall Ings, Horse and Wendall Ings, the Deep Ings
and the Sweaths. Robert Agar, yeoman, owned at
that time the tithe of corn and hay of 50 acres in
Redcar Gar-end Field which he had evidently
inherited from Isabel Agar, widow, and John Agar,
who a century earlier had bought certain tithes with
land and common pasture in Marske and the neighbourhood. (fn. 28) Probably Agar's Gap in the south of
the parish is called after this family.
Redcar, since 1828 a chapelry of Marske, (fn. 29) and
created in 1867 an ecclesiastical parish out of Marske
and Upleatham, (fn. 30) covers 881 acres, of which 176
acres are foreshore.
Redcar occurs by name in a charter of William de
Argentein granting land there to Albert de Craster
(Craucestria) as the marriage portion of his sister Cristiana. (fn. 31) Albert's sons William and Ivo were grown up
before 1192, (fn. 32) so that William's grant cannot be much
later than 1170. Little is known of the place in early
times. At the beginning of the 13th century three
religious houses at least had land there, Fountains, (fn. 33)
Rievaulx (fn. 34) and Guisborough, (fn. 35) the last being given
43 acres more in 1231 by Ivo de Redcar. (fn. 36) Rievaulx
Abbey received permission from the third Peter de
Brus to buy fish at Redcar (fn. 37) apparently free of the
toll which was one of the profits of both Brus and
Fauconberg. (fn. 38) The dues from the boats of Redcar,
known in the 15th century as 'Colybferne' (fn. 39) or
'Colysferme,' (fn. 40) were another source of income to the
lords of Marske in the Middle Ages, (fn. 41) and the market
which in 1366 existed at Redcar (fn. 42) had arisen, no
doubt, mainly through the fishing. In the 16th
century the fishermen are described as venturing out
to sea through the openings in the dangerous reef of
rocks in 'cobbles' and selling a boatload of fish for 4s.
or 5s. It was their custom then to change their
fellows every year for luck, and to give a feast on
St. Peter's Day, (fn. 43) and in Ord's time the fishermen
still held a fair or festival every year, but on the two
days following Trinity Sunday. (fn. 44)
The place was beginning to be known in 1810 as
a health resort (fn. 45) —it had then, indeed, twelve bathingmachines (fn. 46) —but it was still mainly a fishing village
of about 160 houses built down both sides of one
street which was always covered with heaps of drift
sand. (fn. 47) Owing to the extension here in 1846 of the
Stockton and Darlington branch of the North Eastern
railway (fn. 48) it developed rapidly as a fashionable watering-place of a quiet kind. (fn. 49)
Nathaniel Hawthorne lived at Redcar from July to
October 1859 after his return to England from Italy,
and here re-wrote and elaborated The Marble Faun. (fn. 50)
The main streets of the town, like those of East
Coatham, of which they form the eastern half, run
east and west: the esplanade along the sea-front is
thus the continuation of Newcomen Terrace in Coatham and High Street of Queen Street West, while
Coatham Road has the same name in both places.
From this last Redcar Lane leads south to the road
running from Marske to Kirkleatham. St. Peter's
Church, the vicarage and the British schools, which
were built in 1857 principally at the expense of the
Earl of Zetland, (fn. 51) are all situated at the northern end
of Redcar Lane, the cemetery made in 1872 being
further to the south.
The Roman Catholic chapel of the Sacred Heart,
erected in 1877, lies a little north-west of the cemetery. Still further to the west and close to the parish
boundary is the race-course. The pier, constructed
in 1871–3, is at the east end of the town near the
Redcar Rocks, which here extend from the sands
eastward into the sea. The Presbyterians have a
chapel in High Street which formerly belonged to
the Wesleyans and dates from 1872, while the Congregationalists in 1855 and the Primitive Methodists
in 1860 built chapels in Lord Street.
There was land in the demesne of Marske Manor
in 1366 at 'Southbuttes,' 'Northbuttes,' 'Swart
moldflatt,' 'Wyndestreflatt' and 'Turfhowe' in
Redcar, and it must have been somewhere near the
western boundary of the present parish of Redcar
near Coatham that the manorial 'saltcotes' (fn. 52) or
salt-pits were situated.
Manors
The vill of MARSKE, its church
and 10½ carucates of land, according to
Simeon of Durham, (fn. 53) were given to the
church of Durham by Copsi Earl of Northumberland. (fn. 54) If, however, Durham ever actually had these
possessions, they were lost to that church before
1086. (fn. 55)
The persons recorded in Domesday Book as owning
land in Marske were Earl Hugh, who held 2 carucates
in the soke of his 'manor' of Loftus, (fn. 56) William de
Percy, who had 8 carucates before held by Norman, (fn. 57)
and the Count of Mortain, who had 10 carucates,
the soke of which pertained to Brotton. (fn. 58)
Nothing more is heard of Earl Hugh or the
Count of Mortain in connexion with Marske, but the
latter's holding before 1119–24 appears to have become
part of the Brus fee, for the manor then certainly
belonged to Robert de Brus. (fn. 59) On the division of
the Brus inheritance among the sisters and co-heirs
of the third Peter de Brus (fn. 60) in 1272, Marske fell to
Agnes and her husband Walter de Fauconberg. (fn. 61) It
remained in the Fauconberg family (fn. 62) until the 15th
century, passing then by the marriage of the Fauconberg heir Joan to Sir William Nevill, (fn. 63) afterwards
Earl of Kent, and subsequently through their daughter
Alice to William Conyers of Hornby (q.v.). The
manor in 1560 belonged to the three daughters of
John Lord Conyers, Anne, Katharine and Elizabeth. (fn. 64)
Anne's share was sold in January 1572–3, after her
death, by her husband Anthony Kempe to John
Jackson and Harsculph Cleasby, (fn. 65) who disposed of it
in 1575 to William Walker. (fn. 66) From him it passed in
1578 to Robert Trotter and Isabel his wife, (fn. 67) and from
them in January 1580–1 to Katharine Conyers. (fn. 68)
Elizabeth Conyers before 1566 married Thomas
Darcy, (fn. 69) and their son Conyers in 1605 inherited
the third part of Marske Manor from his father. (fn. 70)
This part was bought in 1613 from Sir Conyers
Darcy, kt., by John Hedworth and John Ditchant, (fn. 71)
and sold by them in August 1616 to William
Pennyman, one of the six clerks in Chancery, (fn. 72) at
whose death in 1628 it passed to his son and heir
Sir William Pennyman, bart. (fn. 73)
Pennyman of Ormesby, baronet. Gules a cheveron ermine between three broken spears or with heads argent.
Katharine Conyers, the
owner of two-thirds of the
manor, married John Atherton, (fn. 74) and died in March
1625–6, leaving as heir Anne
Atherton, (fn. 75) apparently her
granddaughter, (fn. 76) who became
the wife of Sir William Pennyman, bart., so that the various
parts of the manor were again
united.
Sir William Pennyman, in
the Civil War, maintained his
own company in the king's
service. (fn. 77) His uncle James
Pennyman (fn. 78) of Ormesby who
succeeded him (fn. 79) at Marske, apparently through a
settlement in 1632, (fn. 80) was also a Royalist, and in 1643
took part in opposing the landing at Marske of
sailors from the Parliament's ships, and, although he
afterwards submitted to the Parliament, in 1646 he
was fined £1,200. (fn. 81) Possibly financial difficulties,
due to his adherence to the Royalist cause, may be the
reason for the sale in 1650 of the manor of Marske
to Eleanora Lowther, widow, and others. (fn. 82) These
persons seem to have been acting for Robert
Lowther, for in January 1666–7 the manor belonged
to Robert's son Anthony, (fn. 83) from whom it was inherited in January 1691–2 by his son William, (fn. 84) in
1697 created a baronet. (fn. 85) From Sir William the
manor descended in 1705 to his only son Thomas, (fn. 86)
and in 1745 to Thomas's only son William, (fn. 87) the
third baronet, who died unmarried. (fn. 88) In accordance
with his will proved 22 April 1756 (fn. 89) the manor of
Marske went to Edward Wilson of Dalham Tower
and George, Thomas and Daniel Wilson his brothers
in equal shares. Edward, Thomas and Daniel sold
their shares in 1762 to Lawrence Dundas, (fn. 90) probably
already the owner of the other quarter. From this
date Marske has descended in the Dundas family, (fn. 91)
the Marquess of Zetland being at present lord of the
manor.
Some land in Marske of the BRUS FEE formed
part of the ten and a quarter knights' fees inherited
by Lucy de Thweng from her grandmother Lucy de
Brus, and granted by her and her husband Bartholomew de Fanacourt in 1346 to John Darcy, his wife
Elizabeth and their heirs. (fn. 92) In 1412 it was styled a
manor, (fn. 93) but on that occasion only. By the marriage
of the heir Margery Darcy it came into the possession
of Sir John Conyers of Hornby, whose son became in
right of his wife Alice the owner of the manor of
Marske.
The PERCY FEE in Marske was held in 1086 (fn. 94)
by William de Percy, and though smaller than the
Count of Mortain's was apparently more important.
It was called a 'manor,' and there were sixteen
villeins there with five ploughs; it had besides risen
in value since the reign of Edward the Confessor
from 10s. to 20s. There is reference to the Percy
overlordship in Marske in 1272, (fn. 95) 1363, (fn. 96) 1368 (fn. 97)
and 1442, (fn. 98) but apparently not later. The extent of
the fee was given as 8 carucates in 1303 (fn. 99) as in 1086,
but in 1428 it was said to be 5 carucates and 6 oxgangs. (fn. 100) The land of this fee seems to have belonged
in 1368 to Walter de Fauconberg, who doubtless inherited what the Brus lords had held, and the Prior
of Guisborough. (fn. 101) As what the Fauconbergs held
here of the Percys in 1363 amounted to 2 carucates,
the prior may have had 6. (fn. 102) After the Dissolution
the conventual holding here, then Crown property,
was spoken of as a manor, (fn. 103) and in 1611 mention is
made of the court of the manor of Marske and
Upleatham, the profits of which were valued at 2s. 6d.
a year. (fn. 104) The capital messuage evidently occupied
the site of a grange (fn. 105) in Marske that the canons had
possessed in the 13th century. (fn. 106) After being leased
by Queen Elizabeth and James I several times, (fn. 107) the
manor was sold in April 1611 to John Eldred and
George Whitmore, (fn. 108) who disposed of it in May 1613
for £664 17s. to John Hedworth and Roger Tocketts, (fn. 109)
and from them it was purchased in December 1614
by William Pennyman. (fn. 110) After 1628, when it passed
to Pennyman's son, it was merged in the larger manor.
In 1280 Walter de Fauconberg received a grant of
free warren in his demesne land of Marske, (fn. 111) and in
1293 claimed this right. (fn. 112) Toll and fishery at Marske
and Redcar are reckoned in 1366 among the profits
of the manor. (fn. 113) The windmill of the Fauconbergs
in Marske is first mentioned in 1349, (fn. 114) and in 1560
still formed part of the manor of their descendants. (fn. 115)
There was, however, a mill within the parish in
the 13th century, tithes of which were given to
Guisborough Priory by the owner, William de
Tocketts. (fn. 116) The convent at the Dissolution had in
the West Field of Marske township a windmill which
in 1609 had just been re-erected. (fn. 117)
REDCAR (Redker, xiii cent.; Readkar, Rydcare,
xv cent.; Redcarre, xvi cent.) was called by Graves (fn. 118)
'a small dependent manor,' but there is no reference
to it as a manor until 1407, (fn. 119) and it is doubtful
whether it ever had a manorial existence separate
from that of Marske, (fn. 120) with which it has descended
since 1272.
Churches
The old church of ST. GERMAIN
was rebuilt in 1820–1. Graves, writing
about 1808, states that the former
church was then ruinous. (fn. 121) It consisted of chancel,
nave with north and south aisles, and embattled west
tower surmounted by a short stone spire. The nave
arcades consisted of circular piers supporting round
arches and were apparently of 12th-century date,
while the chancel is said to have been an addition of
the 13th century. The chancel arch was pointed,
but the windows had been altered probably in the
18th century. The new church, erected in 1821, is
of no architectural interest, but owing to its isolated
position is a very noticeable landmark. It consists of
chancel, aisleless nave and west tower and spire, but
is now only used for mortuary purposes. It is built
of stone, with slated roofs, and is in the pseudo-Gothic
style of the day with windows of two pointed lights.
The entrance is at the west end under the tower,
and there is a west gallery. Internally the old highback pews and 'three-decker' pulpit have been preserved, with the royal arms of George IV on the wall
above the latter. The walls are plastered, and there
is a pointed chancel arch. In the churchyard, which
extends to the very edge of the cliff, is buried the
father of Captain Cook.
The new church of ST. MARK was erected in the
town in 1867, mainly at the expense of the second
Earl of Zetland, and is a handsome stone Gothic
building consisting of chancel, clearstoried nave of
five bays with north and south aisles, south porch
and south-east tower. The tower originally terminated in a saddle-backed roof, but the upper part was
destroyed by fire on Easter Day, 1902, and has since
been rebuilt with an embattled parapet. It contains
six bells presented by Joseph Pease and a clock with
four dials given by the Marquess of Zetland in 1902.
The interior of the building is lined with brick, and
there is an iron chancel screen. The font is a relic
of the ancient church, re-dedicated in 1901, and
restored to use after many years of desecration, having
been turned out of the church in 1820 and used as a
trough in a neighbouring farm, and later as a flowerpot in the vicarage garden. It is of 12th-century
date, cut from a single block of stone, 2 ft. 6 in.
square by 19 in. in height, and has a shaft with
cushion capital and moulded base at each corner.
Each of the four sides is ornamented with carving, in
two cases of plain herring-bone type, the others
having more elaborate scroll and star-shaped ornament.
Redcar Church from the North
There is also preserved in the church the base,
upper part of the shaft and head of a cross which
formerly stood near the shore close to the coastguard
station. The base had stood there till about 1900,
when it was displaced and hurled on to the shore
below. The head was found near the same place in
1901. The pieces, which date from about 1230,
are now put together, and made out with a new
shaft. (fn. 122)
The plate consists of two cups of late 16th or early
17th-century date, each, however, with a single mark
—the initials G.H. with three molets above and one
below in a plain shield pointed at the bottom; two
cups of 1868, Sheffield make, inscribed, 'Gift of
Thomas Earl of Zetland to S. Mark's Church, Marske
1868'; a paten without marks, but apparently of the
same date as the older cups and perhaps belonging to
one of them; two patens of 1698, made by Thomas
Parr of London, each inscribed, 'The Gift of Margaret Lowther Relicq of Anthony Lowther Esq. of
Mask 1709'; and a plated flagon given by the Earl
of Zetland in 1868, with inscription as above. (fn. 123)
The registers were kept in Latin down to 1685,
and have been printed to 1812. (fn. 124) The burials
begin in 1569 and the baptisms and marriages in
1570.
The church of ST. PETER at Redcar was built in
1829, at the east end of the town, in the Gothic
style of the day, (fn. 125) in plan a plain rectangle with
west tower, with recess at the east end for the altar.
A chancel was added in 1848. The living is a perpetual curacy in the gift of the lord of the manor. (fn. 126)
EMMANUEL CHURCH, Saltburn by the Sea,
was begun in 1869. It is of
stone in 14th-century style, and
consists of chancel, nave, aisles,
north porch and a tower which
was added in 1901. The living
is a vicarage in the gift of the
Marquess of Zetland.
Advowson
The church
is said by
Simeon of
Durham to have been consecrated by Bishop Æthelric (fn. 127)
(Bishop of Durham 1042–56) (fn. 128)
and to have been given by
Copsi, while holding Yorkshire
under Earl Tosti, to the monastery of Durham. The connexion with Durham must have
been of short duration, and in
the 12th century the church
belonged to Robert de Brus,
who gave it in about 1119–24 to
Guisborough Priory, which he
had just founded. (fn. 129) It was appropriated by the canons, and
in or about 1270 there is mention of the vicar of Marske. (fn. 130)
The church remained the
property of the canons (fn. 131) until
the dissolution of the priory, when it fell to the
Crown. (fn. 132) The advowson of the vicarage was granted
by James I on 8 April 1610 to Francis Philips and
Richard More, the fishing grantees, (fn. 133) who sold it the
next day to Thomas Salvin, (fn. 134) and in 1619 it was
alienated by John Salvin to William Pennyman. (fn. 135)
From the time of Sir William Pennyman, to whom
it passed in 1628, (fn. 136) it has belonged to the lord of
the manor. The tithes, which were leased by
Queen Elizabeth, as they had been in 1540–1, for
£26 13s. 4d., (fn. 137) were granted with the advowson in
1610, and have since gone with the patronage.
Albert de Craster (Craucestria) and his wife
Cristiana in the 12th century gave land in Redcar
to Guisborough Priory for the site of a chapel, (fn. 138) but
there is no record that their intentions were carried
out by the canons. (fn. 139)
Charities
By a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 10 November 1899 the
following charities were consolidated
under the title of the United Charities, namely:
The Hon. Katharine Atherton, by deed 1624, being
a rent-charge of £2 13s. 4d. issuing out of a farm
in Upleatham now belonging to the Marquess of
Zetland; Marshall's Gift, trust fund, consisting of
£59 6s. 8d. India 3 per cent. stock; and the charity
of Susanna Dudley, will proved at York 1846,
£52 12s. 9d. consols.
The sums of stock are held by the official trustees,
and by the scheme the yearly income of the charities
is made applicable in the supply of articles in kind
and in medical or other aid in sickness. The income
of Marshall's gift is also applicable in the township of
Saltburn.
In 1852 Miss Mary Mewburn, by will proved at
York, bequeathed £198 0s. 4d. consols, the dividends
to be applied at Christmas every year amongst poor
and necessitous widows of the Church of England.
The distribution is made in gifts of 5s.
In 1864 Miss Hannah Harrison, by will, left
£107 0s. 6d. consols, the income, subject to the
repair of a tomb, to be applied by the vicar for behoof
of the poor. Gifts of 5s. are made to sick and aged
poor.
In 1864 Thomas Earl of Zetland gave £1,600
consols for the parish school and £500 for the infants'
school.
There is in this parish a hospital for miners supported by Messrs. Pease & Partners and by the
Marquess of Zetland.
Township of Redcar.—The poor of Redcar are
entitled to participate in Atherton's charity (see
above).
In 1864 Thomas Earl of Zetland gave £1,833 6s. 8d.
consols for the benefit of the parish school and
£333 6s. 8d. consols for the infants' school.
In 1879 John Farmer, by will, left £80 12s. 7d.
India 3 per cent. stock, the dividends to be applied
for the benefit of widows and orphans of fishermen.
In 1891 Hannah Pickard, by will, left £1,030 18s. 7d.
consols (with the official trustees), the dividends,
amounting to £25 15s. 4d., to be given in the relief
of poor members of the Congregational church. The
distribution is made in money to poor persons varying from twelve to eighteen in number.
In 1899 Martha Carter, by will, left £507 12s. 3d.
consols (with the official trustees) for pensions for
poor old persons residing at Redcar. By a scheme of
the Charity Commissioners of 2 September 1902 the
dividends, amounting to £12 13s. 9d., are directed
to be applied in the payment of a pension to be
awarded to a deserving and necessitous aged person
being bona fide resident in the urban district of
Redcar.