Julia

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Personal and Family Information

Julia was born about 1530, the daughter of unknown parents. The place is not known.

She died after 1608. The place is not known.

Her husband was Thomas Hesketh. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. They had no known children.

Events

EventDateDetailsSourceMultimediaNotes
BirthABT 1530
DeathAFT 1608

Notes

Note 1

!Source: Victoria County History, HESLINGTON https://ffhyork.weebly.com/uploads/8/2/0/5/8205739/heslington_-_victoria_county_history.pdf

CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.

Sir Thomas Hesketh proposed to found a hospital at

Heslington and it was built in 1608 by his widow dame Julia beside the

York road, north of the hall. The hospital was endowed by

indenture of 1630 with £50 a year from Castle Mills, York. A master was

to receive £6 13s. 4d. a year and eight other inmates, one a woman,

were to get £5 each. A further endowment of £5 a year from land at

Hutton Rudby was probably given by another of the

Heskeths. The hospital was rebuilt on the Fulford road by Henry

Yarburgh in 1795. The twostoreyed brick building had a chapel in

the pedimented centre, with terraces of four two-roomed apartments on

either side for the men and a room behind for the woman. The hospital

was repaired and modernized by Richard, Lord Deramore, in 1968. In 1974 the endowment income was still £55, the former rent-charge

on Castle Mills being paid by York corporation, and contributions were

made by the inmates.