Hoyle

Introduction

The Hoyles of this account are descended from the Fretwell family that settled in the Maltby area, when Roger Fretwell, Gentleman, of Oldcotes in Heath, Derbyshire, relocated to Carr and purchased the Hooton Levett Estate in 1531. Roger was a member of the ancient family of Frecheville, or Fretwell as it became to be spelt, of Brimingham near Chesterfield, a branch of the Baronial House of Frecheville of Staveley in Derbyshire. In the 19th Century it was inherited by William Fretwell Hoyle who was Steward of the Manors of Rotherham and Kimberworth and local solicitor to the Earl of Effingham.

Before looking at William Hoyle and his descendents, mention should be made of one of his grand-nephews, William Dickon Hoyle, who in 1889 published a document entitled Historical Memorials of the Family of Fretwell, of Hooton Levett, from 1536 to 1750 descended from the Barons Frescheville of Staveley near Chesterfield.

I have obtained a photocopy of this manuscript and have attempted to transcribe it, which has been made difficult due to the poor quality of the copy and the author's idiosyncratic and often inconsistent spelling. I hope to be able to fill in the gaps when I have a chance to sight the original. To access the transcription in its current state click on the link - Historical Memorials

The Frescheville family is covered in a separate section of this website.

See also the Maltby Fretwells.

As with any family history, this Hoyle account is very much a “work in progress” and will be updated as and when new information comes to light. And again, as with any family history, the commentary is "uneven" depending on how much is known about the various family members and how interesting or otherwise I found them. The account is therefore not disciplined in any editorial sense.

I am very grateful to a number of Hoyle researchers and descendents who have contributed their comments, corrections and additional information to this revised edition. However I take responsibility for any liberties in the interpretation. I do hope I have not offended anyone. Any corrections will be very welcome.

To ‘set the scene’ I have found the following extract from the Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Bernard Burke, 4^th Edition, 1862, Part 1 ( pp730-31) which charts the lineage of the Hoyle family.

The Hoyle family, which has held considerable estates in the co. of York for upwards of four centuries, were anciently seated at Hoyle House, in the parish of Halifax, co. York. Watson, the Halifax historian, observes that it is reckoned a very ancient place, but has nothing remarkable about it now. The earliest ancestor from whence there is a clear and direct descent is
JOHN HOYLE (of Lightcliffe), living 21st EDWARD IV. His grandson EDWARD HOYLE, of Hoyle House, mentioned in the endowment deed, of Lightcliffe Chapel, dated 1 March, 20 HENRY VIII, m. and had issue,
Margaret, m. 1st __ Mallinson; 2nd, Edward Hanson(?), of Netherwood House, d. 23 Feb. 1614, aet 87.

John Hoyle, of Hoyle House, m. Mary, dau. of John Drake, from whom is lineally descended,

WILLIAM HOYLE, Esq., of Netherthorpe and Aughton Hall, co. York, bapt. 22 Aug. 1742; m. 1st, 8 Jan. 1767, Barbara, dau. and heir of John Redfearn, Esq. of Sheffield, by Barbara his wife, dau. and heir of John Fretwell, Esq. of Hooton Levet Hall, and had issue,

I William, b. 11, July 1773

II John, of Netherthorpe, b. 4 June 1776, m. Sarah Tibbett, and had issue, 1. John; 2. William; 1 Barbara; and 2. Sarah.

I Elizabeth, b. 30 July, 1769; d, 9 May 1770.

II Barbara, b. 8 Sep 1771; m. Samuel Fisher, and had issue, 1. William; 2. John; 3. Henry; 1 Sarah; 2. Barbara, m. 22 Aug 1839, Jonathon-W. Piggott, of St. Andrew’s, London; 3. Ann; 4. Elizabeth; 5. Hannah.

III Hannah, m. 5 Oct. 1793, John Bullock, Esq. of Ashburn, Derbyshire.

He m. 2ndly, 4 Feb. 1802, Sarah, relict of John Cutforthay, Esq. of Aughton Hall, co. York, by whom he had no issue. He d. 8 Sept. 1807, in the 66th year of his age, and was s. by his eldest son …

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Seats Ferham House, and Hooton Levett Hall, Yorkshire

In his paper “Old Sheffield as I knew it” in which he describes, street by Street, the Sheffield he knew at about 1800, Joseph Woolhouse, makes reference to the Hoyle family as follows.

The House now occupied by Mr. Hoyle was my GrandFather’s nearest neighbour, as Green Lane was all Tanyards belonging to Mr Aldam of Upperthorpe {no house between this house (now Mr. Hoyle’s) and Green Lane}. This Elegant Country house as it was then, belonged to a very eminent Lawyer, called Redfern (oftener known by the name of Devil Redfern). These Hoyles is descended from him. This House in my Time was situated in the midst of Fields, Gardens, and pleasure grounds. There was a row of Aspen trees from Allen Lane to Burnwell as high as most houses, used to shade the road as you approached to the house, also very elegant privet hedges, and a very large Rookery, a large Dove Cote, etc. etc., Stables, outbuildings, etc. etc. etc.

In a footnote to the text, the editor, Mr R. E. Leader, who had ‘some difficulty in restraining a pen trained in journalist traditions, from interference with many sentences which might have been more clearly expressed but…[who deemed it] better to retain quaint language reflecting the manner in which those of the author’s class would talk’ commented that

Mr. William Hoyle, attorney and Clerk to the Cutlers’ Company from 1777 to 1792, married a daughter of John Redfearn whose wife was a Fretwell of Hooton Levett (whence the later Fretwell Hoyles). Hoyle succeeded to Redfearn’s practice and house, which latter is sometimes described as at Portmahon, at others as Netherthorpe. Portmahon has fallen into disuse, surviving in little more than the name of a Baptist Chapel. The position of Netherthorpe, the antithesis of Upperthorpe, is indicated by Netherthorpe Place. The house stood at the present corner of Hoyle Street and Meadow Street, the entrance to its grounds being in Burnt Tree Lane, which curved round them.

Hooton Levi(e)tt carries the manorial affix of the de Livet family, an ancient Norman family that gained control of the manor in the 12th century after marriage with the granddaughter of Richard FitzTurgis (later 'de Wickersley'), lord of the manors of Hooton and Wickersley and co-founder of nearby Roche Abbey. It is likely that the Levetts of Yorkshire, who gave their surname to the village of Hooton, originated in Sussex, where the family had initially held land and where their holdings were in the area of Sussex controlled by the Earls Warenne, among the most powerful of the Norman nobility, who held an immense baronial holding in Yorkshire stretching to Lancashire and Cheshire. William de Livet was a witness for a deed of about 1200 in which William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, confirmed a grant to Kirklees Nunnery by Reyner le Fleming, lord of the manor of Clifton. Samuel Lewis describes Hooton Levett in his 1848 A Topographical Dictionary of England as ‘a township, in the parish of Maltby, union of Rotherham, S. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 5¼ miles (W.S.W.) from Tickhill; containing 76 inhabitants. It derives the affix to its name from the family of Levett, who held lands here, up to about the time of Henry V. The township comprises by computation 470 acres; the soil is favourable, and the scenery pleasing.’

I have included two maps of Hooton Levitt. The first shows the village as it was about 1855. The second map is a modern one to assist people like me who are 'geographically challenged' and to indicate the proximity of the places mentioned in this account.


Source : www.rotherham.co.uk

The format I have adopted is to present the information in sections, based on generations. As a minimum, each section shows the family tree of the head of the section, followed by a link to the corresponding pdf document.

Through marriage the Hoyles connected with a number of other people who are mentioned in this account and whose names are listed in the following table, in alphabetical order by the generation in which they feature. Some of these were principal players, some had a cameo role, and some were merely extras.

Generation 1

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Johnson	Mary	m. William Hoyle

Generation 2

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Dickon	Ann	m. Robert Cutforthay Hoyle
Hall	John	m. Judith Hoyle
Jones	Edward Lamphier	m. Mary Hoyle
Parker	Francis	m. Catherine Bonville Hoyle (1^stwife)
Roe	Alice	m. Francis Parker (2^ndwife)
Walker	Hannah Clarke	m. William Fretwell Hoyle (1^stwife)
Walker	Jane Grave	m. William Fretwell Hoyle (2^ndwife)

Generation 3

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Bentley	Henry	m. Jane Walker Hoyle Hoyle
Davy	Rosa	m. Fretwell William Hoyle
Drayton	Eliza	m. Ernest Johnson Hoyle
Garstang	Clara Ann	m. Thomas William Parker
Harding	Mary Agnes	m. Henry Cutforthay Hoyle
Hudson	Robert John	m. Jane Hall
Irving	Elizabeth Blaney	m. Frank Edward Hoyle
Jones	Mary Jane	m. Ferham Arthur Hoyle
Lord	Edmund	m. Emmeline Margaret Hoyle (2^nd husband)
Milward	Bosvil(l)e	m. Emmeline Margaret Hoyle (1^st husband)
Musters	Henry Chaworth	m. Ellen Auton Hall
O’Grady	Anna Helena	m. Samuel Auton Hall
Pilkington	Henry Foster	m. Hannah Clarke Hoyle
Rochfort	Marie Catherine	m. George William Hoyle
Salmond	William	m. Emma Mary Hoyle Hoyle
Shipton	John	m. Catherine (Kate) Hoyle Hoyle
Smith	Emmeline Mary	m. John Walker Hoyle
Taylor	John	m. Catherine Ann Parker
West	Maria	m. William Dickon Hoyle
White	Florence Elizabeth Jane	m. Charles Frederick Hoyle
Whitlock	William Ri(d)sdale	m. Catherine Ann Hoyle

Generation 4

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
?	Katherine Beatrice	m. George William Hoyle
Armstrong	Edith Winifred	m. Leonard Shipton
Ashwin	Charles Joseph Rowland	m. Marie Hoyle Hoyle
Bateman	Winfred Emily Elinor	m. John Chaworth Musters
Blackburn	Kate Charlotte	m. Henry Patrick Hoyle
Bond	Reginald	m. Mary Edythe Hatch Hoyle
Bushnell	James Henry	m. Christina Frances Hoyle
Carr	Margaret Mary	m. William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond
Daft	Harry Butler	m. Florence Whitlock
Don-Wauchope	Andrew Ramsay	m. Emma Margaret Salmond
Earle	Alice Lilian	m. Cecil Shipton (1^st husband)
Flemmich	Max Davy	m. Susan Gertrude Hoyle (1^st wife)
Garrad	Robert	m. Florence Beatrice Hoyle
Grenfell	Monica Margaret	m. John Maitland Salmond (2^nd wife)
Haly	William Heli	m. Alice Lilian Shipton (2^nd husband)
Hebden	Sacheverell Arthur	m. Gladys Muriel Salmond
Holden	Rosalind Letitia	m. Frank Irving Hoyle
Hoyland	Percy Edgar	m. Marian Constance Hoyle
Hutton	Henry Lawrence	m. Annie Ethel Hoyle
Irvin	Arthur John Edward	m. Constance Jeannie Bentley
Keogh	Alexander	m. Margaret Jeannie Hoyle
Liebert	Emily Ada	m. Henry Cumberland Bentley
Lister	Kate	m. Kenneth William Hoyle
Lovett	William Edward Turville	m. Ada Lilian Hoyle
Luard	Peter John	m. Eleanor Jane Price (2^nd husband)
Lumsdon	Helen A Joy	m. John Maitland Salmond (1^st wife)
MacDougall	Evelyn Elizabeth Westwood	m. Charles William Hoyle
Mallalieu	Mary Taitt	m. Herbert Brooke Taylor
Marsden	Phillip Saltmarshe	m. Edyth Mildred Hoyle
Martin	William Keble	m. Violet Chaworth Musters
May	Constance Mary Nevill	m. Harry Seymour Hoyle Pilkington
McCully	Andrew Lowry	m. Ethel Mary Hoyle (1^st wife)
Mills	John Layton	m. Maude Helen Pilkington
Pinnock	Doris Isabel	m. Max Davy Flemmich (2^nd wife)
Price	William	m. Eleanor Jane Hoyle (1^st husband)
Richards (nee Martin)	Lorna	m. Charles Frederick Hoyle (2^nd husband)
Sabonadiere	Alfred	m. May Lilian Hoyle
Slack	Gertrude Mary	m. Robert William Hoyle
Smith	Matthew Arnold Bracy	m. Mary Gwendoline Salmond
Stott	Marjory	m. Andrew Lowry McCully (2^nend wife)
Stow	Edward Mathew Kenyon	m. Norah Bentley
Swanston	James	m. Jane Edith Taylor
Toomey	James Alexander	m. Ada Kate Shipton
White (nee Mumford)	Eleanor Catherine	m. Henry Herbert Hoyle (2^nd husband)
Wilson (née Plunket)	Agnes Kathleen Alice	m. Stewart Shipton (2^nd husband)
Wood	Percy	m. Hilda Kate Pilkington

Generation 5

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Bancroft	Elsie	m. Kenneth William Hoyle
Berryman	Patrick Edwin	m. Edith Kathleen Shipton
Boultbee	William Dinham Moore	m. Marjorie Isabel Lilian Shipton
Channer	Diana Kendall	m. Eric Earle Shipton
Cooper	Stuart Ransom	m. Lila Florence Flemmich
Dickinson	Olive Cecilia M	m. Geoffrey Patrick Hebden
Driver	Doris (Daisy)	m. Ernest Edmund Hoyle
Durand (Sabonadiere)	Richard W	m. Isabel Mary Lavinia Barnes (2^nd wife)
Glazebrook	Arthur Rimington	m. Joan Annie Marsden
Goodyear	Nora	m. William Dickon Hoyle
Grant	Harry Alexander Gwatkin	m. Marjorie Gladys Hoyle Hoyle (1^st husband)
Hankey	John Cyril Giffard Alers	m. Millicent Ada McClintock (2^nd husband)
Harvey	Edwin S	m. Marie Catherine Ashwin
Howorth	Olive	m. Peter Max Flemmich
McClintock	George	m. Millicent Ada Toomey (1^st husband)
Ogden	Beatrice Carmichael	m. Geoffrey Leonard Shipton
Oldfield	Phyllis Sarah	m.John Kenneth Shipton
Sabonadiere (Durand)	Richard W	m. Dorothy Joan Warner (1^st wife)
Surie	John William	m. Gladys Amy Yolande Hutton
Sutton	Alfred George	m. Marjorie Gladys Hoyle Hoyle (2^nd husband)

Generation 6

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Baddeley	Sydney Ernest Lodington	m. Dawn Elizabeth McClintock (2^nd husband)
Bell	Matthew Alexander Henry	m. Dawn Elizabeth McClintock (1^st husband)
Coghlan	Kenneth Lake	m. Amy Ellen Bridget Grant
Simpson	Barry Neville	m. Rowena Eleanor Boultbee

Generation 1

William Hoyle

It is with the eldest son, William Hoyle (1773-1847), of William and Barbara Hoyle (née Redfearn) and grandson of John Fretwell of Hooton Levitt, that we begin this account.

Generation 1 - William Hoyle

Generation 2

Catherine Bonville Hoyle

Generation 2 - Catherine Bonville Hoyle

Generation 3à

Descendents of Catherine Bonville Hoyle

Eliza Parker
Catherine Ann Parker + John Taylor

Jane Edith Taylor + James Swanston

Francis James Taylor
Alfred Hunt Taylor
Herbert Brooke Taylor + Mary Taitt Mallalieu

Arthur George Taylor
Katherine Anne Taylor
Mary Gertrude Taylor
Wilson Major Taylor
Alice J Taylor
John Archibald Taylor
Christopher William Taylor
Mary Hoyle Parker

Mary Hoyle Parker
Judith Hoyle Parker
Thomas William Parker + Clara Ann Garstang

Lucy Parker

Generation 3+ - Descendents of Catherine Bonville Hoyle

Generation 2

William Fretwell Hoyle

Generation 2 - William Fretwell Hoyle

Generation 3à

Descendents of William Fretwell Hoyle

Fretwell William Hoyle

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - Fretwell William Hoyle

Jane Walker Hoyle Hoyle

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - Jane Walker Hoyle Hoyle

Of the four sons of William and Jane Hoyle who left England to pursue careers abroad, two of them, George William Hoyle and Henry Cutforthay Hoyle went to India where they married and raised their families.

I recommend to anyone researching forebears who spent time in India, and particularly those with wives and children, that they read Vyvyen Brendon’s book Children of the Raj. Drawing on written and oral records, the work is a poignant account of the lives of children, and the dilemmas faced by their parents in making choices about the rearing of their offspring. The most critical decision revolved around a child’s education, and thereby, future prospects. One option, and on the face of it eminently sensible, and favoured by European residents, would have been to educate their children in India, either at one of the small academies, or by hiring tutors and governesses. But, as constant underlying theme of Brendon’s book clearly demonstrates, the English, took a very different stance on what was best for their children, and those who could (and often who could not), sent their young children (boys and girls) back to ‘home’ for their education.

“…various factors determined parents’ choices about their children’s education : economic necessity, family tradition, religious faith, social snobbery, racial prejudice, physical dangers or simply their own convenience. Of course, they also had their children’s interest at heart. But they rarely consulted their sons and daughters or even took account of their experiences at schools selected for them.”

Most often the smaller schools, where the fees were not so high, were selected ‘on spec’ by parents on modest incomes, based perhaps on advertisements in the press, or by word of mouth. Those families whose breadwinners held positions which attracted a more substantial income, or who had monied connections back home, could afford to send their children to the more prestigious public schools. But the status and size of a school was no measure of its academic standard, or of its capacity or willingness to attend to psychological needs of what were, in effect, orphaned children. But clearly, this latter concern was not ‘in tune’ with the times.

“Why, since English schools were so often unsatisfactory, did Anglo-India parents not make greater efforts to educate their children in India…But such arrangements may might not have produced the successful English (or Scottish or Irish) gentlemen and ladies the nabobs wished their sons and daughters to become. In pursuit of gentility small children were dispatched on dangerous journeys halfway round the world, to be received by relations and guardian they had never met, not knowing when (or whether) they would ever see their parents again. Coping with these physical and emotional hardships, their parents believed, would help to give them the character needed for success…”

John Walker Hoyle, who spent all his adult life away from England, and mainly in Australia, did not have any children, and so was spared from having to make such decisions, but, as we will see, Frank Edward Hoyle was another parent who was forced to choose between his children’s company and their future prospects.

Two of the daughters of William and Jane Hoyle, Hannah Clarke Hoyle and Catherine (Kate) Hoyle also spent time abroad after their marriages, respectively as Mrs. Henry Pilkington and Mrs John Shipton. They too, were called upon to endure the experience of parting from children at a young age.

George William Hoyle

The account of George William Hoyle includes a post-script on the Rochfort family and makes reference to the following.

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Rochfort	Alice Ethel	m. Arthur Aldersley
Rochfort	Marcus Burgh	m. Mary E Greenfield
Rochfort	Marcus Gustavus	m. Mary Ann(e) Ho(e)dges
Rochfort	Nellie Kathleen	m. Robert Humphrey Sears
Rochfort	Norah Greenfield	m. John Hermann Dickson
Rochfort	Richard Adair	m. Florence Lily Kemp

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - George William Hoyle

Henry Cutforthay Hoyle

The account of Henry Cutforthay Hoyle includes a post-script on the Ommanney family makes reference to the following.

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Ommanney	Edmund Pipon	m. Annie Hutton (2^nd wife)
Ommanney	Edmund Pipon	m. Fanny Maria Finch (1^st wife)
Ommanney	Edmund Pipon	m. Marian Laura Gannon (3^rd wife)

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - Henry Cutforthay Hoyle

Hannah Clark Hoyle Hoyle

The account of Hannah Clarke Hoyle Hoyle includes post-scripts on the Guignard/Dunsford and the Varley/May families and makes reference to the following.

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage	Family
Abbott	Arthur	m. Lucy Blanche Pilkington	Guignard/Dunsford
Bird	Frederick Spencer	m. Florence Ida Pilkington	Guignard/Dunsford
Dunsford (nee Guignard)	Maria	m. Henry Foster Pilkington (1^st wife)	Guignard/Dunsford
Guignard (nee Guignard)	Alexandre	m. Ida (Ranee) C Pilkington	Guignard/Dunsford
Jackson	Frances Alice	m. Leonard Foster Pilkington	Guignard/Dunsford
McMillen	Agnes Catherine	m. Lionel Bradley Pilkington	Guignard/Dunsford
Gisborne	Mary Welch	m. Charles May (1^st husband)	Varley/May
May (nee Gisborne)	Mary Welch	m. John Cater Canning (2^nd husband)	Varley/May
Varley	Albert Fleetwood	m. Caroline Mary Roper (2^nd wife)	Varley/May
Varley	Albert Fleetwood	m. Elizabeth Brace Leckie (1^st wife)	Varley/May
Varley	Caroline Mary	m. Frederick Nevill May	Varley/May

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - Hannah Clarke Hoyle Hoyle

Catherine (Kate) Hoyle Hoyle

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - Catherine (Kate) Hoyle Hoyle

John Walker Hoyle

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - John Walker Hoyle

Frank Edward Hoyle

Generation 3+ - Descendents of WFH - Frank Edward Hoyle

Emma Mary Hoyle Hoyle

The account of Emma Mary Hoyle Hoyle includes a post-script Hebden family and makes reference to the following.

Surname	First Name(s)	Linkage
Brotchie	Ethel Mary	m. Alan Hebden (2^nd wife)
Carr	Maud Elizabeth	m. Wiliam Henry Hebden (1^st wife)
Forster	Constance	m. Ernest Salmond Hebden (3^rd wife)