Does Anyone Know Hooton Levitt?

[Phoenix]

It is possible that my great aunt did. There exists a postacrd that may be from her to a Mrs Gorrill of Hooton Levitt, written in the 1920s.

This is not my neck of the woods. Googling, using freebmd etc (I don't have Ancestry) I've found a Thomas, son of Samuel Gorrill (who ran the 3Tuns in Stainton and had another son who died in WW1). Thomas married Alice Minton in 1906, but I've just got the Rotherham registration district to go on.

Hooton Levitt sounds vanishingly small. Does anyone know any online sites that might show Thomas in the 1920s, in directories etc?

[Rachel Scand]

It's in my Atlas near Maltby which is near Rotherham .... which is near Sheffield

Is that what you wanted to know ?

[Uncle John]

It was one one of my regular Saturday bike rides around that area in the late 1950s. I should think Curious Fox will have a map.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

There's these deaths on Ancestry:

Dorothea Gorrill 9 Apr 1925 - Jul 1996 aged 71 Rotherham Derbyshire, Yorkshire
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Fred Gorrill 1 Feb 1923 - Mar 1988 aged 65 Rotherham Derbyshire, Yorkshire
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Harold Gorrill 15 Feb 1901 - Jan 1987 aged 85 Rotherham Derbyshire, Yorkshire
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Violet Gorrill 11 Apr 1907 - Jun 1998 aged 91 Rotherham Derbyshire, Yorkshire


At a guess, Harold married Violet and she gave birth to Fred who then married Dorothea.......

Obviously no one was allowed to move house!! :)

Edit: Maybe Violet was a bit young for the above!

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

It was one one of my regular Saturday bike rides around that area in the late 1950s. I should think Curious Fox will have a map.

That's a long way to cycle from Bedfordshire, Uncle John?!!

[Uncle John]

That's a long way to cycle from Bedfordshire, Uncle John?!!

Silly Billy :p

[Vicky the Viking]

I had the dubious pleasure of driving through Hooton Levitt, in July when the main roads near here were closed due to the flooding, I was trying to get to Maltby & my trusty (?) satnav thought sending me through all the tiny villages with single track roads was a viable alternative (other than heading about 50 miles out of my way via Leeds - don't ask :rolleyes:

It does look like a lovely place, and so remote, despite being spitting distance from the great conurbation. The countryside thereabouts is lovely to walk or cycle around.

Phoenix, were they farmers? dont suppose there was much else going on then :)

[Phoenix]

Hi All
I am completely baffled by this, as I never knew that my Norfolk folk had any connection with Yorkshire.... apart from a frustrating family rumour of relations with a haberdashers in Hull... but there's this postcard:

Norfolk History - Letheringsett Gallery (http://www.kingslynn-forums.co.uk/norfolkhistory.co.uk/gallery/letheringsett-gallery.html)

and the handwriting does look like my Aunt Beat's - though that may be the influence of a village school.

Aunt Beat was in service in Surrey, married a Londoner and died young. Her only son died childless a few years ago, so there is really nobody left to ask.


It might be a friend or employer, but the complete absence of names really doesn't help. Perhaps Mrs Gorrill had been in service with Beat - following Merry's finds on Ancestry? If she's Alice Minton, she must have been an employer - but who would be in service in Hooton Levitt?

[Uncle John]

I had the dubious pleasure of driving through Hooton Levitt, in July when the main roads near here were closed due to the flooding, I was trying to get to Maltby & my trusty (?) satnav thought sending me through all the tiny villages with single track roads was a viable alternative (other than heading about 50 miles out of my way via Leeds - don't ask :rolleyes:

It does look like a lovely place, and so remote, despite being spitting distance from the great conurbation. The countryside thereabouts is lovely to walk or cycle around.

ISTR it's on a hill (hence the Levitt), with a steep road down to the main A631. History lesson - the A631 is the Tinsley-Bawtry Turnpike.

Carr windmill was another favourite place for a bike ride. I saw my first triangulation pillar there.

[Rachel Scand]

It looks lovely .... but are you sure the 'G' is not an initial ?

(sorry if I'm not taking things in properly just now) ...

[Phoenix]

Oooh heck, more places I don't know! Step outside Surrey (I think my first trig point was Box Hill) and I'm lost. I don't even have any os maps for the area. It sounds lovely, though.

[Phoenix]

That's a possibility, Rachel, but there is a Gorrill family in the registration district and I'm assuming her capital Os would be bigger.

[Uncle John]

Oooh heck, more places I don't know! Step outside Surrey (I think my first trig point was Box Hill) and I'm lost. I don't even have any os maps for the area. It sounds lovely, though.

The thing is, that area of South Yorkshire was stuffed full of active coalmines, of which the last remaining one is at Maltby. In between the pit villages was wonderful countryside and villages that go back to the Doomsday Book.