William Caley (abt. 1690)

Born about 1690 in Withernwick, Yorkshire, England [uncertain]

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William was born about 1690.

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• https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/46957268-1759-4019-9cf6-bc37ac43e104

Release for £500 in all pp.50-53

Reference: QDB/4/13

Description: Mary Caley of Grimoldby Grainge co. Lincs., widow of William Caley of Withernwick gent. (only son and heir of George C. of Withernwick gent. dec'd.), Francis Caley late of Rippon now of Doncaster apothecary, younger son of W.C., and William Caley of Grimoldby Grainge gent. eldest son of W.C., to Thomas Hudson of Bridlington merchant: - - messuage, 2 closes called the Croft and Tomlin's Close (8ac.) and 5 oxgangs all in Atwick - -: Witn. Sam. Mastin, John Ellis, Marm. Prickett.

Date: 13 Oct 1744

Held by: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service, not available at The National Archives

• Joseph Gillow: A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics from the Breach with Rome in 1534, to the Present Time. Vol. IV. London & New York 1895

p.332-333

Loraine, Philip, O.S.F., was a member of an ancient Catholic family seated at Beauford Woodhead, in Northumberland. He studied and was professed at the convent of the English Recollects at Douay, and is said to have been at Rome in 1715. His sister Mary, born in 1689, became the wife of William Caley, of Withernwick, in the East Riding of York, gent., who subsequently settled at Grimbleby Grange, co. Lincoln, where she died May 31, 1792, at the extraordinary age of 103. Fr. Loraine, who used the alias of Hall, served the mission at Grimbleby Grange for some time, and held the office of procurator till shortly before his death, which occurred in or about 1765.

Fr. Loraine had an uncle or great uncle and namesake, in religion Fr. Laurentius a S. Edmundo, one of the earliest and most efficient members of the English Franciscan province, who died in England at an advanced age in 1672. Dr. Oliver says it was agreed at the intermediate congregation, held at London, Oct. 12, 1672, “quod imprimatur Liber Spiritualis compositus a V.P. Laurentio a S. Edmundo,” but what it was he wrote is not recorded.

Fr. Laurence Hall, O.S.F., who served Upp Hall, Little Carlton, co. Lincoln, in 1772, the seat of the Caleys, and on the mission at Louth, March 12, 1783, was a relative of the Loraine family, if indeed, that was not his real name. A namesake, the Rev. Henry Hall, was educated at Sedgeley Park, whence he went to Oscott in Aug. 1822, and was there ordained priest June 5 1830. He was then stationed at Louth, and thence at stated times served Upp Hall for many years. He died July 9, 1878.

Fund Book of the Eng. Francis. Prov. M.S.; Oliver, Collns. 556-7.

Footnote: 2. “An Acount of the Genealogy .... of Loraine of Kirkharle Tower, Northumberland,” Newcastle, 1847, 8vo; see also “Loraine of Kirk Harle,” Archaeologia Aeliana i, ii, 246, pub. by the Soc. of Antiq. of Newcastle The Loraines of Beauford Woodhead were a branch of this family.

• Inscription on the grave monument of William Caley and other family members in St. Edith’s Church Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. Copied by Martin C. Styan in 1995.

Here lies the Body of William Caley of Grimoldby who died April the 21st 1787 Aged 67 years and Susan Caley his Wife who died Decr the 29th 1790 Aged 74 Years and 4 of their Children who died Young. Also Samuel Mastin of Grimoldby her Father who died Novr the 16th 1773 Aged 88 Years. Also of Susan Mastin her Mother who died Novr the 3rd 1736 Aged 51 Years Also of Mary Caley the Mother of William Caley who died May the 31st 1792 Aged 99 Years May they Rest in Peace.

• Post Reformation Catholicism in East Yorkshire 1558-1790 by Dom Hugh Aveling of Ampleforth Abbey (1960).

One page (p.56-57) is mainly about the Caleys of Withernwick and Grimoldby. It includes the sentences: "In 1710 William Caley of Withernwick married into a family of Northumbrian small gentry, who were also brewers. His son, another William, married a well-to-do Lincolnshire squire's heiress and the family moved into North Lincolnshire, where they had as chaplain a priest relation of his wife's, a violent Jacobite living under an assumed name." The "violent Jacobite" is clearly Philip Loraine.

The whole book can be found at: http://www.eylhs.org.uk/dl/123/post-reformation-catholicism-in-east-yorkshire