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Title
Cross-written letter from Timothy Hackworth (Jn) to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)
Reference
HACK/4/4/1/15
Production date
07-03-1852 - 07-03-1852

Creator

Young, Jane Biography Biography
Jane Young (nee Hackworth) was born at 4 pm on 19 June 1831 at Soho House, Shildon. She was the daughter of Timothy Hackworth and Jane Hackworth (nee Golightly). She went to school at her sister Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth)’s Seminary for Young Ladies in Penrith and then was sent to finish her education in Vilvorde, Brussels. She married George Edward Young, a Wesleyan Preacher on 28 December 1853. The couple moved around regularly due to George Edward’s job; correspondence shows that they lived in Leeds, London and that Jane lived in Hull. They had five sons and one daughter, sons including the following that feature in the archive: Timothy Hackworth Young, Robert Young, George Edward Young and Samuel Holmes Young. Both Jane and George Edward Young were active in campaigning for recognition of Timothy Hackworth. George Edward Young’s research papers and correspondence demonstrate his involvement and Jane Young (nee Hackworth) appears to have been involved in research about her father for most of her life. She died in 1914.

Scope and Content
Had just had a walk on ‘the spoil bank’ ‘it is becoming quite a place of attraction. The men are now getting their gardens put into order and besides the company have commenced making a reservoir on the top of the just opposite the works and hope they do not mean to drown us out of the place’ business doing well ‘you would be astonished at the number of people that come to see the engine that is nearly finished for Mr Stobart, it is a tidy little thing’ George Thompson make an engine for Stobart which was too light so Stobart ordered one for Soho. ‘there is quiet a mania for our patent engines’ ‘Mr Fletcher is wild about his. He tells nearly everybody he meets with it is the best engine in the world’. News about the family, mentions Ann Ambler who is ‘as much as usual’.
Extent
1 item
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
National Railway Museum, York
External document
Transcript

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