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:
“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.
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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