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Coatham
Historical guide to Coatham with a focus on the aspects relative to the Farndale family history
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Introduction
Dates are in red.
Hyperlinks to other pages are in dark blue.
Headlines of the history of the Coatham
are in brown.
References and citations are in turquoise.
Contextual history is in purple.
This webpage about the Coatham has the following
section headings:
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The
Farndales of Coatham
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Coatham,
an overview
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Timeline
of Coatham
The Farndales of Coatham
The
Coatham Line are the descendants of Matthew Farndale (1828
to 1905) (FAR00297) who married Ann Readman and was
an agricultural labourer and then Foreman at East Coatham - Matthew
lived with John (FAR00217) as a servant at age 12.
Many of his descendants are associated with Coatham including as
dressmaker, laundress, labourer, pipe layer, and estate land drainer.
(John) Richard Farndale (1897 to 1917) FAR00681) of Coatham, joined the Army as a
private in the Yorkshire Regiment and Green Howards, and died of pneumonia on
Western Front, WW1.
George William Farndale (born 1890) (FAR00643) emigrated from Coatham to USA and
established the
American 2 Line.
Other Farndales
associated with Coatham are John Farndale (FAR00230);
Matthew Farndale (FAR00297);
Jane Farndale (FAR00340);
and Peter Farndale (FAR00373).
Coatham
Coatham is a district of Redcar the
county of North Yorkshire.
Coatham began as a market village in the
fourteenth century to the smaller adjacent fishing port of Redcar.
Though Coatham is now only a mile-wide district in the town of Redcar, the need
for definition was strong enough to warrant the western boundary being marked
by a fence which
ran the length of West Dyke Road and West Terrace.
Coatham, 1857
Coatham Timeline
1066
In Domesday Book COATHAM (Cotum,
in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries) is possibly represented by a holding
of 3 carucates in Kirkleatham, formerly the 'manor' of Leising and then in the
king's hands (Victoria County History – Yorkshire,
A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Kirkleatham).
1070
William I brought troops to Coatham
marshes in pursuit of rebels who had hidden there.
Twelfth century ownership and
thereafter
The de Brus family of Skelton held most
of Cleveland in the 12th century, including Coatham. By 1257, East Coatham was
in the hands of the Thweng family. From the late 14th century to the late 16th
century the Lumleys were lords of East Coatham. Throughout the later Middle
Ages and up to 1558 the Bulmer family held West Coatham.
The Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A
History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Kirkleatham,
1923: In the Middle Ages many salt-pits were dug there. In the latter
part of the 12th century Roger son of William de Tocketts gave a salt-pan in
'Cotum' to Guisborough Priory and Hugh son of Ralph Deblel two salt-pans. Alan
de Wilton early in the 13th century granted to the canons of Ellerton 5 skeps
of salt from his salt-pits of West Coatham; the Brus lords of Skelton had the
right of taking a skep of salt from every salt-pan in Coatham Marsh, and
salt-pits in Coatham belonged to their descendants in the 14th century and
later. It is probably the excavations necessary for these that caused the
hillocks to the south of the North Eastern railway between East and West
Coatham.
1204
The trade of the port of Coatham was
assessed as more than the port of Whitby. The Great Roll of the Pipe for the sixth
year of the reign of King John (1204), contains tax records for ports on the
east coast and the south coast of England. The tax was levied at the rate of
one fifteenth of the value of the goods traded over and eighteen month period.
The assessment was transcribed in “Domesday Book to
Magna Carta” R.L.Poole (1951). It includes: Newcastle, £158 5s 11d;
Yarm, £42 17s 10d; Coatham 11s 11d; Whitby 4s 0d …
1257
Coatham had a weekly market and an
annual fair.
1301
The Lay
Subsidy of 1301 divided Coatham into two parts. The tax returns for West
Coatham were lumped together with Wilton, while the East Coatham returns were
lumped together with Kirkleatham and Yearby. The Coatham taxpayers can’t be
distinguished from the rest. Thomas Mercator, may have been Thomas the Merchant
from the small port of Coatham.
1422
An inquisition held in this year
mentioned four saltworks at Coatham.
1673
In the
Hearth Returns, West Coatham was described as having 4 houses with 2
hearths. East Coatham was not identified in the tax returns.
1770
“A Description of England
and Wales” vol.10, F.Newbery and T.Carnan (1770): “A collection of little mean ale-houses, which
encouraged idleness and drunkenness among the villages and were the receptacles
of the smugglers that frequented the west, he (Charles Turner of
Kirkleatham Hall) caused to be demolished, and erected two very handsome
inns, one in the new village above mentioned (Kirkleatham), and the
other in a little fishing town (Coatham), a part of his estate on the
coast; and as the inn at the fishing town is near one of the finest beaches
in England, he raised a house with handsome apartments, and built bathing
machines, that his own company, and the gentlemen and ladies of the
neighbourhood, might have the convenience of bathing, without the trouble and
expence of going to Scarborough.”
1772
The New Inn was built at East Coatham “for
the accommodation of sea bathers”.
1840
White’s Directory of 1840 noted that Coatham had been “a noted
bathing place” at an earlier date, “but the neighbouring fishing town of
Redcar robbed it of its celebrity status as a bathing place many years ago”.
The Directory listed the Lobster Inn, a beerhouse, 3 shopkeepers, 3 tailors, a
shoemaker, a joiner, a corn miller, 3 farmers, a solicitor, an academy and a
free school.
1846
The Stockton and Darlington Railway was
extended from Middlesbrough. The line went through Coatham to a terminus on
what is now Queen Street, not far from Redcar town clock.
1854
Christ Church was consecrated.
1858
The Redcar and Coatham Cricket Club was
founded with their ground in Coatham.
1860
The majority of modern Coatham is Victorian housing, most notably at its
northern tip by the Coatham Hotel built
in 1860.
Coatham Hotel
1861
As the railway was extended to Saltburn,
the line took a new route and the line through Coatham became redundant.
1867
The Kirkleatham Estate commissioned a
development plan to create a high-class suburb of grand villas around the
cricket ground.
1869
Sir William Turner’s Grammar school
opened on 1 August 1869; having been moved from Kirkleatham.
Coatham Wesleyan Methodist chapel was
dedicated.
1873
Coatham Ironworks was established.
1875
Between 1875 and 1898, Coatham had a
leisure pier. It was intended to extend 610 metres into the sea, but
damage in the building stage from shipping and storms curtailed the distance to
550 metres. In October 1898, the pier was struck by the 757 tonnes Finnish freighter Birger.
The ship had developed trouble during a storm in the North Sea and
despite passing Grimsby, Scarborough and Whitby,
she carried for South Shields. During a ferocious storm she
crashed onto the rocks at Coatham and wrecked a 60 feet (18 m) section of
the pier in the middle. Only two members of her crew of 15 were rescued; the
pier collapsed a year later.
1899
Coatham and
Redcar were merged to form Redcar Urban District. Coatham was created a civil
parish, from Kirkleatham, by Local Government Board Order, No. 38,693, dated 1
April 1899.
1900
Coatham cricket
ground was laid out.
1901
The census recorded a population of
4,490.
1917
201065 Private Richard Farndale (FAR00681)
aged 20 of the 1/4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment died at 21st CCS in
France of broncho-pneumonia on 25th February 1917. He enlisted at Redcar,
resident at Coatham. He died in France on 25 Feb 1917 with the 1/4th (TA)
Battalion of the Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regiment, also known as the
Green Howards. The battalion served with the York and Durham Brigade of the
Northumbrian Division, renamed in 1915, the 150th Infantry brigade of the 50th
Division. At the time of his death the battalion was not in the line but in
reserve at Proyart. On 31 Dec 1916 it was at Bazentin le Petit and in reserve
at Flers on 7 Jan 1917. On 11 Jan the battalion moved to the front line at
‘Hexham Road.’ It was again in the front line from 30 Jan to 11 Feb at
Genercourt. The battalion moved to Proyart on 19 Feb 1917. He was awarded the
British War Medal and the Victory Medal posthumously on 21 Jan 1921. He was
presumably badly wounded at Hexham Road or Genercourt or Proyart and evacuated
to No 21 Casualty Clearing Station at La Neuville, where he later died of
pneumonia.
In April 1916, No 21 Casualty Clearing
Station came to La Neuville and remained there throughout the 1916 Battles of
the Somme, until March 1917. La Neuville British Cemetery was opened early in
July 1916, but burials were also made in the communal cemetery. Most of them
date from this period, but a few graves were added during the fighting on the
Somme in 1918. The communal cemetery contains 186 Commonwealth burials of the
First World War. The graves form one long row on the eastern side of the
cemetery.
He was buried at La Neuville Communal
Cemetery, Corbie, Somme and commemorated at Coatham Christ Church War Memorial
1914 -1919; Army - Private Richard Farndale.
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LIEUT LAWRENCE V WRIGHT ARMY CAPT. W HUMPHREY R RAYSON |
2/LT. STEWART G RIDLEY |
SPR. WILLIAM A CRADDOCK |
PTE ARTHUR GIBBON (*) |
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1923
In 1923, Coatham was described in the Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Kirkleatham:
Coatham was
originally nothing but a small fishing hamlet, but there are now many
well-built houses which command extensive views of Yearby Bank, Eston Nab and
the Cleveland Hills, and the sands permit of good and safe bathing.
The town is
lighted with gas by the Redcar, Coatham, Marske and Saltburn Gas Company.
Christ
Church, founded and endowed by Mrs. Teresa Newcomen, of Kirkleatham Hall, and
consecrated in August, 1854, is a building of sandstone, with Bath stone
dressings, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles,
north porch and a western tower with spire containing one bell: all the windows
are stained: the pulpit, font and reredos are of Caen stone: … The Catholics at
present hold services in the school room in Lobster road. Here is a Wesleyan
Methodist chapel, built in 1869, and a Friends’ meeting house.
The Central
Hall, built by the North Eastern Railway Co. in 1846 for a station, but now
used for entertainments and public meetings, will hold 1,000 persons. Station
Road Hall is now used as a chapel by the Primitive Methodists.
The Board of
Trade have a Rocket Life saving Apparatus here, and there is also a Coast Guard
station.
The
Convalescent Home, established in 1861, is for the reception of 50 respectable
persons recovering from sickness and requiring change of air and sea-bathing:
the original site was acquired, and the first portion of the Home erected and
furnished, at a cost of upwards of £4,500, by the late Rev. John Postlethwaite;
an additional wing was added in 1869, and the Home now holds 164 patients, who
are received from all parts of England, upon an order from a subscriber, which
entitles the holder to medical attendance and board for one month, or longer,
should the medical officer deem it necessary: the nursing of the patients is
attended to by the Sisters of the Home of the Good Samaritan: …
There is a
good cricket ground on Coatham road, and golf links of 18 holes.
The trustees
of the Kirkleatham Settled Estate are lords of the manor and principal
landowners.
The
population of Coatham in 1881 was 3,898, in 1901, 4,490, and in 1911 was 4,744
in the civil and 4,683 in the ecclesiastical parish; area, 1,483 acres of land,
29 of inland water and 1,218 of foreshore; rateable value, £34,196.
1929
In 1929 Coatham
Pier's glasshouse was replaced by the New Pavilion theatre. After the war,
comedian and entertainer Larry Grayson coined his catchphrase "Shut
that Door!" while performing there, since the stage door was open to
the cold North Sea breeze
1937
Kelly’s
Directory of 1937 listed 2
grocers, 4 butchers, 2 fruiterers, a baker, a confectioner, 2 chemists, a draper,
a bootmaker, a milliner, 2 stationers, a wine and spirits dealer and 2
watchmakers.
1941
15 people were
killed when the Zetland Club was hit by bomb during an air raid.
Links, texts and books
Cleveland and Teeside Local History
Society page
about Coatham.
A Trip to
Coatham: A Watering Place in the North Extremity of Yorkshire,
W.Hutton (1810)
The Victoria
History of the Counties of England: Yorkshire North Riding vol.2 W.Page (1923)
Redcar and
Coatham: A History to the End of the 19th Century, J.Cockroft (1974)
The Port of
Coatham 1789 to 1808
D.W.Pattenden, Bulletin of the C.T.L.H.S. no.11 (1970)