Paddockwray
Grid Reference NY18300120 Paddockwray, Paddeckwray, Paddack Wray, Paddock Wray, Paddockwrey, Paddockwrea
In 1578, the Percy Survey gives the following information (with acknowledgement to "Past Presented")
Edward Nicholson [of Paddock Wray 1587]- tenement house, barn etc., garth + arable & meadow close adj. (2.5a), Wood How + Moss (parcel of wood ground, 3a), with common: rent 3/-, also an old improvement "lying above the said tenement" (3a): 6d, moulture & walker 2d. Total 3/8 yearly
and in the Eskdale 24 book of 1587:-
HOWES, GILBANKE, PADOCKWREY
"And for the Drifts of Edward Tyson, John Nicholson, Richard Tyson and Edward Nicholson and every one of these to drive their Sheep in their own Order to Cookrigge, and in his own Order every one of them till they come on the Westside of the Greathow, and to drive them forth to the Broadtongue as farr as the h[blank] upon their own Ground and then let them go."
PADOCKWRAY, HOLLINGS & HOWES
"Richard Tyson's Cow Drift of Hollings, John Nicholson's of Howes, & Edward Nicholson's of Padockwray with their Cowpasture" ... "every one of them shall drive forth at the Stongs, and so to any Place to the stoney Gate."
Nicholas Nicholson was tenant at the time of the General Fine of 1633. Following his death it passed in 1651 to his daughter Katherine, who sold the property to John Tison in 1652.
John Hartley of padeckwray is mentioned in John Dickinson's will of 1706. He died in 1761 but his son Edward was already tenant of Paddockwray in 1759.
Edward Hartley made his will in 1769 at Paddack Wray, leaving the property to his son Henry. It appears that Henry may also have inherited Whincop and sold Paddockwray to Henry Hartley of Birkerthwaite, in 1779, who sold it on to the Reverend Aaron Marshall.
Elizabeth Tyson (née Marshall?) wife of George Tyson inherited the property in 1815 and George sold it to Jonathan Benson in (1883? 1833?) It passed from Jonathan to his son (also Jonathan) in 1852; he sold it to Joseph Porter Tyson in 1875 who gave it to Towers Tyson in 1876. Towers Tyson was still in possession in 1894.
The connection with a property Wood Nook is at present unclear to me, but it appears that George Tyson may have retained a cottage on the land which was in the possession of a descendant, George Marshall Tyson, in 1894.
From Eskdale and District Local History Society notes:-
1st Dec 1759
to Edward Hartley of Paddockwray
Customary tenement ... Paddockwray consisting of several closes ... 16 acres
quit rent 3/8
11th May 1770
Henry Hartley heir to his father Edward Hartley
29th April 1779
Henry Hartley of Birkerthwaite purchaser of Paddockwray from Henry Hartley of
Whincop
Revd Aaron Marshall and Mary his wife purchasers of an Estate called Paddockwray
from Hy Hartley of Birkerthwaite
19th April 1815
Elizabeth wife of George Tyson heir at law to tenements in Eskdale called
Paddockwrea and Hollings
30th April 1883
Jonathan Benson for one tenement at Paddocwray and one tenement at Hollinghouse
by purchase from George Tyson
1st May 1852
Jonathan Benson tenant of tenement called Paddockwray by will of his father
Jonathan Benson
6th May 1875
Joseph Porter Tyson by purchase of Jonathan Benson of a tenement at Paddock Ray
25th may 1876
Towers Tyson by deed of gift from Joseph Porter Tyson of a tenement at
Paddockwray and a tenement at Chriscliffe
16th April 1842
George Tyson heir at law to a cottage commonly called and known by the name of
Wood Nook
28th April 1849
George Tyson heir at law to a cottage ... Wood Nook
Owners 1894
Towers Tyson
George Marshall Tyson