The Garlands of Todwick

 

N.B. The information in larger print relates to direct ancestors.

FIRST GENERATION

The first generation of the Garlands to live at Todwick was Thomas Garland (1536-1609) who settled there in the second half of the sixteenth century when entries of baptisms and burials in the registers of the church of SS Peter and Paul in Todwick  begin.  He had been married at Sheffield (3rd June 1561) to Maria Beighton (1536-1540) of Handsworth who died (17th January 1614) and was buried at Handsworth.  A portrait brass in Todwick church records Thomas’ death in 1609 and shows him in clerical dress with the motto “Post tenebras spero lucem”.  His will is in the York registery (1603-1611 volume xxvi).

This brass was erected by his youngest son John Garland (f.1582) who went to Pembroke College Cambridge in the Easter term of 1582 as a matriculation sizar and gained a BA from St Catherine’s College in 1584/5 and an MA in 1588.  He was ordained deacon and priest at Oxford (1st December 1585) and became rector of the parish of Willingham-by-Stow in Lincolnshire in 1591. 

He had three sons, William Garland, John Garland and the eldest, Robert Garland (f.1614) went to St John’s College Cambridge in the Michaelmas term of 1614 as a pensioner.  He received a BA in 1618/9, an MA in 1622 and a BD in 1629.  He was ordained at Peterborough (2nd May 1621) and became a fellow at Cambridge in 1623.  He went on to become rector at Kirkby-de la-Thorpe in Lincolnshire in 1626 and had four children, Anne Garland and Thomas Garland being the eldest.

SECOND GENERATION

Thomas and Maria Garland of Todwick’s eldest son, William Garland (    -1616), was married to Dorothea Halt (    -1604) on 20th July 1593 and was described as of Todwick in his will (York registry volume xxxiv) and he died there.  He was buried  at Todwick on 9th February 1616, his second wife Isabella (surname unknown) having predeceased him by less than a month and having been buried at Todwick on St Valentine’s day, 1616.  In his will, he had bequeathed 20/- to the poor of Todwick and 10/- each to the poor of South Aston,Thorpe Slavin and Wayles.  He left £200 to his eldest son Thomas Garland (f.1616), £300 to his second son Roger Garland (f.1616) £250 each to his third son John Garland (f.1616) and his daughter Alice Garland.

The eldest son Thomas Garland (f.1616) went to St John’s College Cambridge in the Michaelmas term of 1626 as a sizar and received his BA in 1629/30 becoming High Constable of the Wapentake of Strattforth and Tickhill in 1641.  Although the survey of the Manor of Sheffield made in 1635 by John Harrison for the Earl of Arundel mentions his house as distinct from the one occupied by his brother John Garland (f.1616), bequests in Thomas’ will (York registry bundle) suggest that he was living with John, as he left gifts to the latter’s servants without any mention of his own.  In addition to these gifts, and on to one Ralph Wastenen, he left his brother all his lands in Todwick and Misson.  No mention is made of his brother Roger Garland (f.1616) who had presumably predeceased him as Roger’s three children: William Garland, Susanna Garland and Mary Garland received 20/- and 10/- each respectively.

THIRD GENERATION

William Garland (    -1616)’s third son John Garland (f.1616) who inherited his elder brother’s estates, entered Trinity College Cambridge in the Easter term of 1635 as a sizar and had two marriages the first of which was to Mary Revil and then to Catherine Hatfield of Laughton (bp. Ecclesfield 22nd April 1604). 

The eldest child Elizabeth Garland (1637-1664) was baptised at Todwick (6th July 1637) and was married on 3rd January 1655 to Robert Wrightson of Cusworth Hall .  When she died a brass in her memory was placed on the floor of the sanctuary at SS Peter and Paul’s church Todwick.  

The second son was John Garland (1640-1691) was baptised at Todwick on 14th February 1640 and went to St John’s College Cambridge as a pensioner at the age of sixteen and became a lawyer at Gray’s Inn in 1658 and ultimately one of the Masters in Chancery Extraordinary.  He married Mary Bradshaw (11th August 1673) of Brampton (11th August 1673) who died (br. 20th October 1681) leaving a daughter Elizabeth Garland (1678-1683) (bp. Todwick 16th March 1678) who died on 20th November 1683).   

John had a second marriage to Elizabeth Clayton of Whitwell (Derbys.), daughter of William Clayton, who after his death (9th January 1691) gave certain gifts to Todwick church on condition that her father’s grave “being on ye North side of ye Quire within ye Communion Rayles” was not broken up.  In 1712 she rented a seat in the church formerly belonging to a house in Todwick called “ye Chantry House”.  She died on 1st September 1735 leaving an only and unmarried daughter Elizabeth Garland (f.1691) who was for many years companion to Miss Hannah Lowther living in Old Scotland Yard in Whitehall.  The Garland’s private household book gives some idea of her parents’ preparation for her entry into London society:

  “1698    spent when at London for Betty’s coach hire forward and backwards: £61/10/-“

“1704    for Betty Garland and her maid going to London: £5

            pd. Lady Frenchville for sererall things disbursed for Betty: £100/12/3

            pd. For setting ye diamond buckle: £2/5/-”

“1705     pd. Mr Ederington for Betty’s gold watch: £23.

 Miss Lowther was daughter of Robert Lowther, a merchant of Leeds and an alderman of the       City of London, relation of Sir Robert Lowther of Swillington.  She was also the particular friend of ANNe Charlotte, widow of John, Lord Frenchville and a lady-in –waiting to Queen Anne, wife of George III.  Elizabeth Garland (f.1691) was a maid-of-honour at court.  When Lady Frenchville died in 1717 she left the residue of the tenure of the Lordship of the Manor of Eckington and all the residue of her estate to Hannah Lowther.  Miss Lowther lived to be 103 and in her will (18th December 1756) proved by Elizabeth Garland (13th January 1757), bequeathed to the latter almost all her estate “as a recompense for very long faithful services”  In addition to these legacies, Elizabeth inherited much form her parents and her cousin Vauham Clayton left her the estate of Clowne, near Whitwell in 1715.  This spinster therefore seems to have been a very ealthy womean, and though she probably did not live at Todwick latterly, being described as “of Scotland Yard in her will of 1767, she left all her lands near Loxley, Wadsley and in the parish of Ecclesfield to her Cousin John Garland (1695-1748) (see below), the grandson of her uncle Thomas Garland (1646-    ).

FOURTH GENERATION

John Garland (f.1616)’s eldest son Thomas Garland (1639-    ) was baptised at Todwick on13th December 1639, but presumably died in infancy as another son also called Thomas Garland (1646-    ) was baptised on 17th June 1646.  He married Elizabeth Rishworth at Thrybergh in 1668 and also and lived in Throapham where he had four children by a second wife Mary (surname unknown) including a John Garland and William Garland (1648-    ).

Their son Thomas Garland (1673-1711) was baptised at Throapham on 11th October 1673.  He was churchwarden at Tickhill.

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