HISTORY OF CHAPEL COTTAGE, STUTTON, YORKSHIRE 1868 - 1890

Start of the Wilkinson Era / Wilkinson Terrace

Chapel Cottage, Stutton

Michael Coulson, Farmer of Hazlewood and owner of the cottage died on the 24th January 1868 and was buried in Tadcaster Parish Churchyard (as the Methodists did not have a separate burying ground). His gravestone survives to this day:

IN MEMORY OF
ANNE JANE,
THE DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF
MICHAEL COULSON,
OF HAZLEWOOD,
WHO DIED 23RD OF DECEMBER 1863
IN THE 51ST YEAR OF HER AGE.,
ALSO IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL COULSON
OF HAZLEWOOD
HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED JANUARY 24TH
1868 AGED 58 YEARS
Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom

Coulson Grave, Tadcaster Churchyard


Following his death the property passed to father and son John and Samuel Wilkinson Junior. John was a Auctioner born at Seacroft but living in Osset and his son Samuel was a Cloth Manufacturer and Commercial Traveller from Leeds. John was the son of Michael Coulson's sister Mary who married Samuel Wilkinson Senior. Michael Coulson had no children of his own. John Wilkinson died in 1885 and Samuel Junior took full control of the property.

The cottage was rented out and in 1871 it is beleived the occupiers were William Birdsall, a farm labourer, who had brought up a large family in the village and his wife Hannah.

1871 Census Return, Stutton

1871 Census Return, Cottage highlighted Red

On the 24th October 1873 William Birdsall died of 'old age' at Stutton (likely in the cottage) and Hannah lived in the cottage alone.



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