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EDMONDSON Family Tree
Webtrees representation.
This EDMONDSON Family Tree currently numbers 1607 people and goes back to around 1510. The data shown is based on a gedcom file dated 26 November 2024. This tree can also be seen on Ancestry, but you will need an Ancestry account to view this.
The Edmondsons of Dent
My father's mother's maiden name. Our branch of the Edmondson family originated in Dent, Yorkshire, before moving to Garsdale around 1850. With the development of the railways, my great-grandfather George Edmondson , born 17 May 1861 in Garsdale, moved to Derby in the mid 1880s.
When he married Maria Dudden in Gloucestershire in 1887, his residence was already stated as being in Derby. George and Maria had 4 children, William, Bessie, George and Emily, all born in Derby.
Click here for a summary of the EDMONDSON Family of Derby
Click here for the story of my grandmother Bessie Edmondson's paintings
Click here for a summary of the DUDDEN Family of Timsbury
Early Research
Research into our branch of the Edmondson Family started in the early 1980s, when my father WJ Lomas stated his research. At that time we knew that my 2nd great-grandfather William Edmondson (1823-1886) had been a schoolmaster in Garsdale, near Sedbergh, Yorkshire, and that he had been born in the next valley at Stonehouse-in-Dent. Subsequent research that I helped carry out in 1982 established that William's father George Edmondson had been born in 1797 in Dent, his father, also called George Edmondson, had also been born in 1768 in Dent, while his parents Thomas Edmondson and Agnes Robinson had been born in 1732 and 1731, also in Dent.
That is why we called this branch of the family "Edmondson of Dent".
One of the problems checking births, marriages and deaths 200 years ago in the Dent area is the fact that many of the original place names seem to have disappeared. Where are places like Gibshall, Stonehouse, Butterpots and Nun House? And where is "Kirthwaite", apparently a hamlet of Dent, which is mentioned quite often?
Click here for a discussion on the Location of Kirthwaite
Origins of the Dent Edmondsons
Coming back to the "Edmondson of Dent" family, back in the 1980s we were not at all sure where Thomas Edmondson's parents originated from. We knew that they were called John Edmondson and Agnes Mason. We also knew that Agnes had died in 1754 in Dent, and that John had died in 1736 at Dent. Eventually, we established that John had been born in 1702 at Horton in Ribblesdale, some 25 miles SE of Dent, where his mother Alice Burton was from, while his father, also called John Edmondson, had been born in Dent in 1677. John's parents were John Edmondson born 1626 in Dent and Agnes Thompson born about 1640 at Dent.
The first in my line of Edmondsons was Richard Edmondson, born about 1595 and his wife Elizabeth Tennant, my 9th great-grandparents. We don't know where they originated from, but all their children were born in Dent, starting in 1619, as were all subsequent male ancestor Edmondsons on my line, up to and including my 2nd great-grandfather William Edmondson born 1823, with the exception of the previously-mentioned John Edmondson born in Horton in Ribblesdale in 1702.
The Lancaster Connection
There was also a Lancaster connection, through the brother of my direct ancestor George Edmondson born 1768. He was another John Edmondson, born in 1761, son of Thomas Edmondson born 1732 and Agnes Robinson born 1731.
John moved to Lancaster in the 1780s and in 1787 there married Jane Skelton, originally from Wigton, Cumberland. On the marriage certificate it says that John's parents were living at Clunter Bank, quite close to Gibshall, Dent. John and Jane had 9 children, all born in Lancaster, including the famous Thomas Edmondson (1792-1851), the inventor of the Railway Ticket in the 1840s. Thomas (the ticket man) is my 1st cousin 5x removed!
Upon the death of his wife Agnes Robinson in 1810, Thomas the ticket-man's grandfather Thomas Edmondson (born in 1732) also moved to Lancaster and died there in 1813.
John Lomas
26 November 2024