William RUTTER

1821 - 1888  (~ 66 years)

• Name	William RUTTER
  Birth	Ripon, North Yorkshire   [1]
  Christening	20 Oct 1821	Ripon Minster, Yorkshire
  Gender	Male
  Education	Abt 1828-1837	Jepson's Hospital, Low Skelgate, Ripon, North Yorkshire
  	Said to have attended Ripon's Blue Coat School (known then as Jepson's Hospital), which was on the road where the RUTTERs lived. Jepson's Hospital was established and endowed by Zacharias Jepson, in 1672, for boarding and educating twenty sons of freemen, or orphans, and was rebuilt in 1880's.
  	Further research: North Yorkshire County Record Office, Reference Code: DC/RIC: Ripon charities: charity commissioners reports & returns Jepson's Hospital 1672/3-1958. The hospital was founded and endowed in the year 1672, by ZACHARIAS JEPSON, an apothecary of York, and a native of Ripon, for the maintenance, clothing, and education of twenty orphan boys, or poor freemen's sons, of this borough, who were to be dressed in blue coats laced with yellow, to be admitted at the age of seven years or upwards, and continue until they reached the age of fifteen and a half. In his will, dated the 9th of March, 1672, the founder states very explicitly his wishes relative to both the foundation and subsequent management of the hospital. Conformably therewith his house in Skellgate was converted into the hospital, and over the front or street door thereof a stone tablet was inserted bearing the inscription: STIPS PAUPERUM THESAURUS DIVITUM. Over the front door of the master's house there was also a similar tablet inscribed: MEHITA MEA MISERATIO DOMINI ZACHARIAS JEPSON. 1672.
  Census	1841	Low Skelgate, Ripon, Yorkshire
  	Whitesmith Apprentice
  	Age: 15+
  Occupation	1844
  	Railway Engine Fitter
  Occupation	1844	White Smith
  	Whitesmiths use a forge to shape raw materials, but do the majority of their work on cold metal.
  Census	1851	Mareham Road, Horncastle, Lincs.   [2]
  	Steam Engine Fitter
  	Age: 29
  	The railway didn't arrive in Horncastle until 1855, so at this stage it seems unlikely that William was working on railway engines. However, the Great North Railway company built a wharf at Dogdyke in 1851, where coal was transferred to canal boats for the 12 mile journey into Horncastle.
  Residence	07 Oct 1852	Ousegate, Selby, Yorkshire   [3]
  	Railway Engine Fitter
  	Selby Railway Engine Works was built in 1841 on Ousegate, close to Selby Abbey. The Hull and Selby Railway was leased to George Hudson's York and North Midland Railway from 1 July 1845.
  Census	1861	38 Carden Street, Blockhouse, Worcester, Worcs.   [4]
  	Steam Engine Fitter
  	Age: 39
  	In 1860 the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway [OW&WR] amalgamated with the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway and the Worcester and Hereford Railway to become the West Midland Railway, which in turn was amalgamated into the GWR in 1863. The OW&WR had its workshops in Worcester but after amalgamation with the West Midland Railway and then the GWR, and a disastrous fire [1864], they were removed to Swindon.
  Census	1871	57 New England, Peterborough, Northants.   [5]
  	Engine Fitter
  	Age: 49
  	"It was the 1850 opening of the Great Northern Railway's main line from London to York, that transformed Peterborough from a market town to an industrial centre. Relatively little urban development took place to the west of the railway, but the marshalling yards and other installations were labour intensive and housing for railway workers and their families spread from the vicinity of the North station almost to Walton. The Great Northern built an entire community here, which provided much of the labour for the enormous marshalling yard and associated engine sheds close by." [Brandon, David and Knight, John Peterborough Past: The City and The Soke (p.43) Phillimore & Co., Chichester, 2001]
  Census	1881	24 Headlam Street, Stockton-on-Tees
  	Engine Fitter
  	Age: 59
  Death	Mar 1888	Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham   [6]
  Notes	William taught trainee seamen for their "tickets", and "Could recite Tennyson by the yard". Died suddenly. [Ella FARRAGE] According to Ella Farrage: "Worked for Hull & Barnsley Railway Works. Educated at Blue Coat School. Estate in Leicester in Chancery. Majority of family in Hull".
  Person ID	I537	Gadd
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2011

  
  

  Father	William RUTTER,   b. 1789   d. Bef 10 May 1828 (Age < 39 years)
  Mother	Mary MILLS,   b. 1788, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England
  Marriage	20 Jul 1811	Ripon Minster, Yorkshire   [7]
  Family ID	F1849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann LAKING,   c. 30 Jul 1815, Hornby, Bedale, Yorkshire d. Q2 1905, Stockton Reg'n District (Age ~ 89 years)
  Marriage	30 Apr 1844	Ripon Minster, Yorkshire   [3, 8]
  Children	+ 1. John (Jack) RUTTER,   b. 1846, Leeds, Yorkshire   2. Isabella RUTTER,   b. Abt 1847, York, Yorkshire   3. Mary Ann RUTTER,   b. 1851, Horncastle, Lincs. + 4. David William RUTTER,   b. 03 Sep 1852, Ousegate, Selby, Yorkshire d. Q2 1912, South Shields, Co. Durham (Age 59 years)   5. Henry RUTTER,   b. Abt 1854, Selby, Yorkshire
  Family ID	F189	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S52] Census, (1881). [S46] 1851 Census, (30 March 1851). [S388] RUTTER, David William - Birth Certificate, (7 October 1852). [S361] 1861 Census, (7 April 1861). [S354] 1871 Census, (2 April 1871). [S357] FreeBMD, (FreeBMD.rootsweb.com). [S316] Witnesses: William Bellerby & Thomas Rutter. [S287] botp, full age, bachelor, spinster.