This section is being put together as fast as possible - please bear with me.
Jack and Alexander are related to the Hoggarths via their maternal grandfather Malcolm Hudson, whose maternal grandfather was Danvers Hoggarth of Whitby.
Thanks to Bryan Hoggarth - who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the North Yorkshire Hoggarths - we have the family history back to late Tudor times, when the Danvers family of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, obtained an estate in Danby North Yorkshire. (Sir John Danvers married Elizabeth NEVILL, who had had the Danby estate left to her).
The Danvers family did not move north, but left the running of the estate to members of their household, such as Samuel Rabanks. It is likely that Jack and Alex's ancestor, Davers Allin, was a member of the Danvers household, but he also could have been a relative. (The nearest Danvers-Allin link Bryan Hoggarth can find is in the 1539 will of Dame Anne (nee STRADLING), where she leaves a small bequest to her godson Joseph ALLIN. Dame Anne's grandson Sylvester also left him something in 1549).
Of the Danvers family of Dauntsey, one was executed in 1600 for aiding the Earl of Essex against Elizabeth I, and another was a signatory of Charles I's death warrant - however, we cannot prove such a notorious relationship. See here for more on the Danvers family.
Back to the Allin family, and the name Danvers comes down as a first names for nearly every generation from 1600 to 1900. When Elizabeth Allin married Lawrence Hoggarth in the mid 1800s, the name Allin was also used as a first name - and yes, there are current Allins!
For a complete family tree for the Hoggarths, you are probably best to contact Bryan (link on left).
Turning to more recent times, one of the key parts of this section is Tamar Hoggarth nee Fletcher's 1938 recording for the BBC Radio Leeds programme Slices of Life, broadcast in 1938, when she was 78. The link to download the recording is on the right hand side throughout the Hoggarth Fletcher section.
There are also a variety of pictures from the early part of the 1900s, some of them providing a wonderful backdrop to Tamar's recording.
At some stage, we would love to take part in a Danvers and Tamar family reunion. Watch this space!
