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Chartist Ancestors 
What did your family to in the revolution?
Millions signed the three great Chartist petitions of 1839 to 1848. Thousands were active in those years in the campaign to win the vote, secret ballots, and other democratic rights that we now take for granted.
Chartist Ancestors lists many of those who risked their freedom, and sometimes their lives, because of their participation in the Chartist cause. The names included on the site are drawn from newspapers, court records and books of the time, from later histories and other sources.
I would like to thank the many historians, researchers and the descendents of those associated with Chartism who have helped with this site since it was launched in 2003.
Mark Crail, Editor
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The following list is taken from "Chartism and the 'prehistory' of Middlesbrough politics", Bulletin of the Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society 29 (1988), and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, Dr Malcolm Chase, reader in Labour History at the University of Leeds.
The use of * next to a name indicates that they were members of the Chartist land company. Ages did not appear in the original article but have been added subsequently by the author.
Name |
Age in 1851 |
Address |
Born |
Occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nicholas Alcock |
Richmond Street |
East Cowton |
Schoolmaster |
|
John Anderson |
Newcastle Row |
Scotland |
Iron foundary labourer |
|
William Anderson* |
Dacre Street |
Sawyer |
||
| Francis Andrew* | Garbutt Street | Labourer | ||
| George Barnett* | 40 | New Brick Yard | Wilton | |
| Thomas Bell* | Newcastle Row | Ironworks labourer | ||
| William Bell* | 36 | West Street | Ellerbeck | Coal trimmer |
| Joseph Bermond | Grocer | |||
| James Boardman | 35 | Bolckow Street | Bricklayer | |
| Elijah Bowell* | 25 | Stockton Street | Whitby | Earthenwear painter |
| T. Bradley | ||||
| Thomas Brown* | Stockton Street | Wheelwright | ||
| George Bufford* | Coal trimmer | |||
| William Burdon * | 45 | Silver Street | Kildale | Stonemason |
| James Calley* | Mill Row/Cross Street | Labourer | ||
| Joseph Calley * | Mill Row/Cross Street | Labourer | ||
| William Calley * | Prince Albert Place | Labourer | ||
| Robert Carr* | 30 | Stockton Street | Clayton West | Brickmaker |
| Benjamin Chappell* | Middle Row/Pease Street | Engineer | ||
| Riley Cockcroft* | Middle Row/Pease Street | Stonemason | ||
| George Cooper* | Potter | |||
| Joseph Cooper * | Potter | |||
| Thomas Cooper* | Potter | |||
| George Copley * | 40 | Durham Street | Hunslet | Potter labourer |
| Henry Cowsers* | Labourer | |||
| William Crabtree* | Middle Row/Pease Street | Cotton spinner | ||
| John Davison* | 35 | Dacre Street | Bricklayer | |
| James Farnaby* | 44 | Labourer | ||
| Edmund Fletcher * | Fulling miller | |||
| S. Fox | ||||
| William Gendle | 45 | Plymouth | House carpenter | |
| Grissell | ||||
| Robert Henderson | Newcastle | Ironworker | ||
| Richard Heslop* | 37 | Bridge Street | Thorpe Thewles | Sailmaker |
| James Holinshead | 45 | Suffield Street | Potter | |
| John Ibbotson* | Smith | |||
| William Ingledew * | Labourer | |||
| David Jackson* | Tailor | |||
| John Jackson* | Skelton | Labourer | ||
| George Jobbing* | 32 | Thomas Street | Swainby | Brickmaker |
| John Jordison* | 35 | North Street | Stainton | Printer/stationer |
| William Kemp* | Mechanic | |||
| Mary Knott * | 34 | Gosford Street | Durham | Labourer |
| William Lear* | Furnaceman | |||
| Elias McKenzie | 44 | Suffield Street | Scotland | Schoolmaster |
| John Man | Smiths Yard | Sunderland | Engine driver | |
| John Marley | ||||
| James Maw* | 44 | Stockton Street | Skelton | Bricklayer's labourer (later coal depot clerk) |
| James Medd | Dacre Street | Durham | Hairdresser/newsagent | |
| George Moore* | Gosforth Street | Shopkeeper | ||
| Thomas Mudd * | 25 | Dacre Street | Coal trimmer | |
| Matthew Myers* | 48 | Queens Terrace | Washfold | Labourer |
| O'Brien | Suffield Street | Labourer | ||
| W.M.Parvin* | 27 | Dacre Street | Stokesley | Engine fitter/maker |
| Pattison | Durham Place | Blacksmith | ||
| Robert Pearson* | 42 | Paradise Row | Long Newton | Labourer on railway |
| Peto | ||||
| Robert Pontin* | James Street | Shoemaker | ||
| Robert Porter* | Sawyer | |||
| William Powton* | 41 | Feversham Street | Yorkshire | Coal trimmer |
| William Preston* | 24 | Stockton Street | Stockton | Labourer |
| William Robinson * | Flour dealer | |||
| William Sexton * | Brickmaker | |||
| John Shasties * | Labourer | |||
| Benjamin Shaw * | Tailor | |||
| John Shields* | Shoemaker | |||
| Thomas Small* | Brickmaker | |||
| Martin Speck * | Commercial Street | Shoemaker | ||
| Robert Speck * | >25 | Minor (presumably miner, Editor) | ||
| Thomas Spence* | 53 | Stockton Street | Hutton Rudby | Weaver |
| Samuel Steel * | 29 | Mill Row | Wath-upon-Dearne | Potter |
| William Stevenson * | Silver Street | Labourer | ||
| John Sutherland | 26 | Suffield Street | Swinton | Potter |
| James Tate * | Ironmoulder | |||
| William Tate* | 28 | Newcastle Row | Dundee | Ironmoulder |
| William Temple* | No trade | |||
| Henry Tennant * | Shoemaker | |||
| Enoch Thomas* | No trade | |||
| Richard Thornton* | 48 | Silver Street | Goathland | Well sinker/coal miner |
| Stephen Wake* | 48 | Grahams Yard/ Suffield Street | Cowton | Labourer/tailor |
| Moses Walker* | 45 | Durham Street | Cheshire | Tailor |
| John Ward * | Potter | |||
| Thomas Warden* | Hope Street | Shoemaker | ||
| William Weldon* | No trade | |||
| William Wilkie* | 34 | Graham Street | Sunderland | Fitter/patternmaker/shipwright |
| Richard Winterburn * | 26 | Garbutt Street | Wixoe | Pottery labourer |
| John Wisdon* | 40 | Feversham Street | London | Coal trimmer |
Notes added by Malcolm Chase at a later date
1851 census gives wrong age (42)
A son, Feargus O'Connor Tate, born 1848
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