Wha House
Grid Reference NY20040085
High Wha House, Whaes, Whoes, High Whoes, Whase, Whose, Whois
Robert and Henry Viccars Percy Survey 1578, Eskdale 24 Book 1587, Hartley 1716, 1717, 1720, 1723, 1728, 1737, 1744, 1745
Percy Survey 1578
Robert Viccars
tenement, barn & other buildings, Field Head ("close or parcel of ground", 3a), Great Allen; also known as Island (close of meadow & wood ground, 2a), 3 "little parcels of ground lying on the south side of Esk" (3r): rent 18d, also an old improvement "joining to the field head" (1.5r): 4d, moiety of a new improvement (6a): 4d, moiety of a water corn mill (with his brother Henry Vicars) & little garth adj. (0.25r): 4/- [marginal note "4/- of this is also on the mill in the possession of the said Mr Stanley"], moulture & walker: 4d. Total 6/6 yearly
Henry Viccars - Possibly at Low Wha House
tenement, barn & other buildings, croft or great field adj. (6a), with common: rent 18d, also 2 old improvements "one on the west side and the other on the east side of his house" (1.5a): rent 8d, moiety of 1 new improvement (6a): 4d, moiety of a mill with little garth adj. (together with his brother Robert Vicars, 0.25r): 4/- [marginal note "4/- of this is imposed on the Mill now in the possession of Mr Stanley"], moulture & walker: 4d. Total 6/10 yearly
Eskdale 24 book -
1587 - Whaes
"Robert Vicars and Henry Vicars"... "forth at Bleabeckhead and at the southside of Bullhow, and on so to the Foot of Catscove, and the Rantree on the Westside of Bullhow, to be the Ground Mark between the Tenants of Dawsons place and the Tenants of Whaes."
1613 John Vickars left the tenentright to his son Thomas Vickars (after the death of his brother in law Robert Vickars).
Nicholas Hartley of Whoes married Mary Wilson on the 29th of July 1715. He died in 1744 and the farm would have been inherited by his son Henry. In the baptisms of his six children the farm was variously called Wha House, Whoes, and High Whoes.
Nicholas's daughter Sarah married William Dickinson, and she had a daughter Dinah at Whois. After Sarah's death, William married again, this time to Elizabeth Hartley (nee Porter)