Gilling East, North Yorkshire is in North Yorkshire.
On 20th August 651 King Oswine of Deira was killed at Gilling East, North Yorkshire. He was buried at Tynemouth Priory [Map].
On 14th August 1869 Reverend James Alexander Barnes [aged 71] died at Gilling East, North Yorkshire.
See Abbeys in England.
Gilling Abbey [Map] is thought to have been located at Gilling West, North Yorkshire although some believe its location to have been Gilling East, North Yorkshire.
Gilling Abbey [Map] was founded by King Oswiu of Northumbria [aged 39] at the request of his wife Eanflæd Queen Consort Bernicia [aged 24] at the site where Oswiu had killed a rival and kinsman, King Oswine of Deira, Eanflæd's second cousin, the cost being compensation for his death.
The abbey's first abbot was a relative of King Oswine: Bishop Trumhere.
The abbey's second abbot was Abbot Cynefrith.
The abbey's third abbot was Trumbert.
In 1793 Ann Fairfax [aged 66] died at Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map] unmarried. She was buried at Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling East [Map]. She had been engaged twice but broke off both. The second break-off being, more or less, on the day, or days before, the wedding, when her husband to be declined to give a solemn promise he would practise his Roman Catholic religion with full devotion. Charles Gregory Pigot aka Fairfax [aged 25], the grandson of her aunt Alathea Fairfax inherited Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map]. He changed his surname from Pigott to Fairfax.
In 1804 Nathaniel Pigot died at Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map].
On 29th December 1845 Charles Gregory Pigot aka Fairfax [aged 77] died. Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map] appears to have been inherited by his two daughters Lavinia Fairfax [aged 43] and Harriet Fairfax [aged 41] and their husbands Reverend James Alexander Barnes [aged 47], Rector of Gilling, and Francis Cholmeley [aged 35] respectively.
On 17th August 1860 Harriet Fairfax [aged 55] died at Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map].
1875. Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling East [Map]. Memorial to member of the Fairfax family buried in the in or near the church, including:
Nicholas Fairfax of Gilling Castle
William Fairfax [Note. States 1595?]
Abigail Yate, wife of Charles Fairfax 5th Viscount Fairfax, daughter of John Yate 2nd Baronet.
Charles Fairfax 5th Viscount Fairfax
Charles Fairfax 6th Viscount Fairfax
William Fairfax 8th Viscount Fairfax
Mary Fairfax Viscountess Fairfax, wife of Charles Gregory Fairfax 9th Viscount Fairfax, sister of Charles Fairfax 6th Viscount Fairfax.
Their last descendant Lavinia Fairfax [aged 73] of Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map], onbly surviving child of Charles Gregory Fairfax place this memorial AD 1875, by which she also desires affectionately to commemorate others of her family buried here who have no memorial in this church, viz, her brother Henry Fairfax, died 1797, her sister Mary Anne Fairfax, died 1809 her grandfather Nathaniel Pigot, died 1804, and her aunt Elizabeth Goodricke died 1839.
In 1885 Lavinia Fairfax [aged 83] died without issue. Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map] was inherited by the descendants of her sister Harriet Fairfax who had married Francis Cholmeley.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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In 1904 William Slingsby Hunter [aged 55] bought Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire [Map]. He made considerable modifications to the castle, making it a more comfortable place in which to live. In 1929 his son Mr Kenneth S. Hunter sold the estate to a syndicate.
On 4th April 1885 Captain Francis Percy Campbell Pemberton was born to Thomas Percy Hudson aka Pemberton [aged 52] and Patience Frances Sophia Campbell [aged 41] at Gilling East Rectory. He married 30th April 1912 Winifred Mary Worsley, daughter of William Henry Arthington Worsley 3rd Baronet.