Grewelthorpe
a North Yorkshire Village
Close family
Details of the Close family that lived in the Grewelthorpe area.
Latest update Sept. 2023.
Thanks to Susan Artal for details of her family. [April 2022].
ANN CLOSE. Born Fellbeck, Pateley Bridge. Daughter of John Close and Margaret Dunn. Baptised 25.1.1765. Married William Airton [1763-1847] a woolcomber from Gargrave, near Skipton on 31.1.1786 K.M. Died at Gargrave and buried 9.11.1837.
ALFRED GELDART CLOSE. Born C 1865 Galphay. Died 1925. Son of James [Carpenter] & Elizabeth Geldart. He was a barman at Alexandra Vaults in Harrogate. Married to Martha.
ANNIE CLOSE. Born C 1857 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of William. Married on 30 April 1887 to John Neesam Joiner of Kirkby Malzeard.
ANTHONY CLOSE. born 1765.Bap 22.3.1765. Fellbeck. Pateley Bridge. Buried 12.6.1848 Winksley. Son of John & Margaret Dunn Married [1] Mary Proctor[1770-1829] at Ripon on 7.10.1789. She died 1829 Winksley. Father of Anthony the grocer, born 1806. Married [2] Elizabeth Lofthouse [1775-1837] on 13.12.1830 at Kirkby Mal. Elizabeth died 18.9.1837.
ANTHONY CLOSE. Born C 1806. Son of Anthony. Married to Hannah. Grocer.
ANTHONY CLOSE. Born C 1831. Kirkby Malzeard. Son of Anthony the grocer & Hannah.
ANTHONY CLOSE. Born C 1866 Winklsey. Died 24 Nov. 1936. Son of James [Carpenter] & Elizabeth.
ARTHUR CLOSE Born C1914 Markington. Nephew of John Close .
CHARLES HERBERT CLOSE. Born C 1898 Bielby. Son of George & Sarah Ann. Horseman on Carr House Farm, Doncaster. Served in WW1. KOYLI.
CLARISSA CLOSE Bap 1828 Masham. Diedd 1829. Dau of George & Esther.
CORNELIA ANNETTA CLOSE Born C1900 Ripon. Dau of Thomas James & Annie Beatrice. In 1921 she was a cloth weaver at Crompton Mills Yeadon. The Mill was built in 1869 and burnt down in 1950’s.
EDITH ANNIE.CLOSE. Born C 1883. Azerley. Dau of William & Mary the grocer. Married Thomas Samuel Wood.
EDITH ANNIE CLOSE Born C 1915 Laverton. Dau. of James & Mary Ann. Living Laverton 1921.
EDITH CLOSE Born C1918 North Stainley. Dau of Thomas & Jane Hartley Living Masham 1921.
ELIZA CLOSE. Born 1823 Masham. Dau of George & Esther. School mistress in 1851. in Staffs.
ELIZABETH MARY CLOSE. Born C1832 Masham. Died 1895. Dau of George & Esther. In 1891 she was a schoolmistress living Flaxby near Knaresborough. Sister to Eliza [school mistress]
ELIZABETH MARY CLOSE. Born C 1884 Great Boughton. Dau of George & Sarah Ann.
ELIZABETH CLOSE Born C1892 Ripon. Dau of Alfred G. & Martha. Married to Albert Aungiers.
EMMA CLOSE Born C 1865. Ripon. Unmarried in 1921 living Studley Roger.
EMILY CLOSE Born C1879 West Tanfield. Unmarried in 1921 in Well. Bedale. Sister of Herbert.
EMILY MAY CLOSE Born C1913 Northallerton. Dau of Thomas & Jane Hartley. Living Masham 1921.
FLORENCE ANNIE CLOSE. Born C 1878 Knayton. Dau of George & Sarah Ann.
FRANCES CLOSE. Born 1830 Masham. Dau of George & Esther.
FRAS CLOSE Bap 1830 Masham. Son of George & Esther.
FREDA ALICE CLOSE Born C1906 Studley Roger. Dau of Frederick & Kate Ann.
FREDA CLOSE Born 1919 Starbeck. Dau of John Charles [house painter] & Emma.
FREDERICK CLOSE Born C 1870 Studley Roger. In 1921 Estate worker at Studley Royal. Married to Kate Ann.
FRED CLOSE. Born 24 July 1872 Winksley. Son of James & Elizabeth Geldart. Married to Caroline Carter. in 1909 in Knaresborough. In 1921 he was a chauffeur for the Harrogate Carriage Co.
GEORGE CLOSE Lived Masham. Married Esther. Had dau. Clarissa.
GEORGE CLOSE. Born C 1821. Schoolmaster in Kirkby Malzeard in 1841.
GEORGE CLOSE Born C1844 Hawnby. Roadman in Wath. Father of Johannah.
GEORGE CLOSE. Born 5 April C1855 Kirkby Malzeard. Married in C1878 to Sarah Ann of Thornton le Moor. Living Pocklington 1891. Living Blaxton 1911. In 1919 at High Ellers Farm. Doncaster. In 1939 retired to Rose Cottage High Ellers Farm, Doncaster.
GEORGE CLOSE. Born 1884 Killinghall. Son of James & Mary.
GEORGE THOMAS CLOSE. Born C. 1881 Holme on Spalding. Son of George & Sarah Ann.
GERTRUDE EMILY CLOSE. Born C. 1886 Aughton. Dau of George & Sarah Ann.
GORDON ARTHUR CLOSE Born C1919 Masham. Son of Thomas & Jane Hartley Living Masham 1921.
HARRY CLOSE Born C1892 Ripon. In 1921 he was a grocers assist. at Tadcaster Co-op. Unmarried.
HENRIETTA JANE CLOSE. Born C 1897. Dau of George & Sarah Ann. A school mistress.
HERBERT CLOSE Born C1877 West Tanfield. Sister to Emily. Living at Well in 1921.
HERBERT CLOSE. Born C 1881 Winksley. Son of James & Elizabeth.
HERBERT CLOSE. Born C 1880 Winksley. Son of James & Jane.
HERBERT CLOSE Born C 1889 Ripon. Poultry Farmer married to Florence.
IVY CLOSE Born C1909 Bedale. Dau of Thomas & Jane Hartley Living Masham 1921.
JAMES CLOSE. Born C 1836 Azerley. Died 1922. A carpenter living in Winksley in 1871. Married to Elizabeth Geldart. of Grewelthorpe. Living Grovedale Farm Grewelthorpe in 1891. A Farmer.
JAMES CLOSE. Born C1831 Grewelthorpe. Married to Mary of Bishop Thornton. Widowed Living South Stainley in 1891.
JAMES CLOSE. Born C 1836 Galphay. Married to Jane of Grewelthorpe. Living Brearton in 1901. Lingerfield in 1921.
JAMES CLOSE. Born C 1860 Winksley. Son of Thomas & Elizabeth. Married Mary Ann. Farmer in Laverton 1921
JAMES CLOSE Born C1863 Galphay. 1891 farm servant at Braithwaite Hall. Azerley
JAMES CLOSE. Born C 1876 Burnt Yates. Son of James & Mary.
JANE CLOSE. Born C 1846 Laverton. Servant in Masham in 1871.
JANE CLOSE. Born C 1858 Winksley. Dau of Thomas & Elizabeth.
JOHANNAH CLOSE Born C1875 Wath. Dau of George [roadman]. Married to Ralph Wm. Heslop.
JOHN CLOSE. Born C.1733. Married Margaret Dunn 24.9.1759 at Pateley Bridge. Lived Fellbeck, then moved to Galphay C.1778. Buried 6.8.1817 K.M.
JOHN CLOSE. Born C 1826 Masham. Married to Caroline Fosbrooke. of Nottingham. Schoolmaster in Staffordshire.
JOHN THOMAS CLOSE. Born C 1863 winksley. Son of Thomas & Elizabeth.
JOHN CLOSE Born C1869 Birstwith. Married to Louisa from Clint. Farmer at Shutt House Farm Bishop Monkton.
Living with 2 nephews [parents dead] Arthur [b1914] & Stephen Close [b1916].
JOHN WILLIAM CLOSE. Born C1871 Felliscliffe. Son of James & Mary. A Groom in 1891.
JOHN MYERS CLOSE. Born C 1878 Kirkby Malzeard. Only Son of Moses & Mary Ann Myers
JOHN CHARLES CLOSE Born C1879. House painter. Married to Emma Elizabeth.
KATHLEEN CLOSE Born C 1920 Masham. Dau of Thomas & Jane Hartley Living Masham 1921.
MARGARET CLOSE [nee DUNN]. Born Whitehouses, Low Bishopside, Pateley Bridge. Daughter of John Dunn [died1786] and Mary [died 1782]. Baptised 10.5.1734. Married John Close 24.9.1759. Lived Fellbeck and Galphay. Buried 12.10.1814. K.M.
MARGARET HANNAH CLOSE. Born C 1869 Winksley. Died 1943. Huddersfield. Dau of James [Carpenter] & Elizabeth. Married William Michael Walker. of Grewelthorpe. They had son William Henry Walker.
MARGARET ELIZABETH CLOSE Born C1871 Ripon. In 1891 she was a cook at Burton House.
MARY CLOSE. Born Fellbeck, Pateley Bridge. Daughter of John Close and Margaret Dunn. Baptised 14.2.1762. Died at Galphay aged 18. Buried 21.5.1780. K.M.
MARY JANE CLOSE. Born C 1865 Leeds. Dau of James & Mary.
MATILDA CLOSE. Born 1822 Masham. Dau of George & Esther.
MOSES CLOSE. Born C 1840 Kirkby Malzeard. Died 1914. Son of Anthony & Hannah. Married to Mary Ann Myers of Pateley Bridge in 1877.
REBECCA ELEANOR CLOSE. Born C. 1889 Aughton.
RHODA CLOSE Born C1905. Grand dau of James & Jane. at Lingerfield.
ROBERT ARTHUR CLOSE. Born C 1879 Burnt Yates. Son of James & Mary
ROBERT W.M.CLOSE. Son of Rev. A.W.M.Close of Hutton Magna. 1917 Lieut. Close married Katherine Maud Strother. of Killinghall.
Wedding of Robert & Katherine 1917.
RONALD CLOSE Born C1908 Bedale. Son of Thomas & Jane Hartley. Living Masham 1921.
SAMUEL CLOSE. Born C 1836 Kirkby Malzeard. Died 1962. Son of William & Mary the grocer. born 1855. Living Galphay in 1911.
In 1895 Mary Close, grocer of Galphay was fined 6d + costs of 7/6d for allowing her horse to stray unattended in Galphay village. Ref. Pateley Bridge Newspaper 1895.
SAMUEL CLOSE Born C1875 Azerley. Farmer & Grocer. Son of William & Mary. Unmarried in 1921. Brother of Edith Annie Wood.
SARAH ISABELLA CLOSE. Born 1861 Leeds. Dau of James & Mary.
SARAH ANN CLOSE. Born C1868 Felliscliffe. Dau of James & Mary.
SARAH CLOSE. Born Fellbeck, Pateley Bridge. Daughter of John Close and Margaret Dunn. Baptised 8.12.1776. Married William Baul [1776-1857] farmer of Galphay on 7.11.1799 at Ripon. Died 30.4.1856. Buried K.M.
STEPHEN CLOSE Born C1916 Markington. Nephew of John Close.
THOMAS CLOSE. Born C 1813 Azerley. Married to Elizabeth of Smelthouse. Living Winksley in 1871.
THOMAS JAMES CLOSE. Born C 1871. Winksley. Died 1942. Son of James & Elizabeth. Married Annetta Beatrice Boynton Lee. of Bradford. In 1921 he was an oil extractor in Yeadon.
THOMAS SAMUEL CLOSE Born 1875 West Tanfield. Died 1939. Son of John. Married Jane Hartley of Leeming in 1902.
THOMAS CLOSE Born C 1892 Galphay. Son of James & Mary Ann. Living Laverton 1921.
THOMAS SAMUEL CLOSE Born 4 May 1923 Masham. Died 2006. Son of Thomas Samuel & Jane Hartley. In 1939 he was a grocery apprentice in Masham. Married Irene Walker in 1951.
WILLIAM CLOSE Born C1845 Galphay. Married to Mary. Farmer & Grocer.
WILLIAM CLOSE Born C 1863 Galphay. Died 1941. Son of James [Carpenter] & Elizabeth. Butcher married to Harriet Ann.
WILLIAM ARTHUR CLOSE. Born C 1861 Tanfield. A widower Living Bramley Grange Grewelthorpe in 1911.
WILLIAM ERNEST CLOSE. Born 1892 Hagg Bridge Pocklington. Son of George & Sarah Ann. Married Janet. In 1939 he was a tractor driver on High Ellers Farm Doncaster. Living Red Cottage.
WILLIAM CLOSE Born C1903 Carthorpe. Son of Thomas & Jane Hartley. Liiving Masham 1921.
WILLIAM STANLEY CLOSE Born C 1912 Ripon. Son of Herbert [Poultry farmer] & Florence.
WILSON EDWIN CLOSE Born C1870 Pickhill. Enlisted in Yorks Regt. 1888. Discharged 1901. Married Florence Nightingale Astrop in 1902. Died in 1905.
Last update 2023.