Oldale Historical Milestones

As provided by Bernard Oldale, Poole in March 1995.

This information came from a friend of Bernard's sister-in-law who had researched the Oldale family name for her thesis.

The name OLDALE may originate from:-

* WOOLDALE, Holmfirth, Yorkshire
* ULUEDEL, 1086 Domesday Book;
* WOLVEDALE, 1202, pronounced "OODLE" locally
* OLDALE, halfway between Driffield and Malton, Yorkshire
* HOLLOW VALLEY, HOLDALESIDE, 1348 Kirkham cartulary.

1313 Adam de Wolvedale, Holmfirth Wakefield Court Rolls
1352 John de Wolfvedale, Holmfirth Wakefield Court Rolls
1379 John Woldale and wife Matilda W.R.P. Tax, Snydale, near Pontefract
1469 Adam Woldale, Clayton West, Denby Dale, Deeds

When records commence in the Sheffield area there are only two Oldale families - one in Dronfield moving into Sheffield, the other in Handsworth extending into Eckington.

1583 John OULDALE, married Ellen Outrem at Dronfield
1585/6 Robert son of John OULDALE bapt. at Dronfield
1590 Elizabeth OLDALE bapt. at Sheffield
1591/2 William son of John OLDALE bapt. at Sheffield
1596 Rose OLDALE bapt at Sheffield
1624 John OLDALE married at Sheffield
1638 John OLDALE married Eliz. Hall at Alrewas, Staffordshire
1659 Indenture of Bargain and Sale between John Woodgrove of Woodthorpe parish Handsworth and Jerimia Woodgrove of Graystones, Sheffield mentioning Narr Carr in the occupation of Nathaniell OULDALE in Woodthorpe.
1660 James OLDALE MARRIED Mary Littlewood at Sheffield
1663 Probate of Will of Robert OULDALE, Gleadless. Yorkshire Wills
1664 James OLDALE buried at Sheffield
1665 Thomas Skagell married Elizabeth OLDALE at Sheffield
1664 Thomas OULDALE married Mary Hinchcliffe at Bradford
1666 Robert son of Leonard OULDALE bapt at Handsworth
1666 Thomas son of Samuel OULDALE bapt at Handsworth
1667 Child of John OULDALE buried at Handsworth
1668 Thomas son os Thomas OULDALE buried at Handsworth
1672 Thomas OULDALE ,1, Hearth Tax Return, Handsworth
1673 Elizabeth daughter of Thomas OULDALE bapt at Handsworth
1681 Nathaniell OLDALL married Rose Thompson at Handsworth
1696 Nathaniel OLDALE married Anne Stones at Hathersage, Derbyshire
1697 Alice daughter of Nathaniell OULDALE bapt at Handsworth
1703 Joseph son of Benjamin OULDALE bapt., buried 1714
1704 Joshua OLDALL married Mary Thorp at Eckington
1707 Elizabeth daughter of Sarah OLDALE bapt Sheffield "spurious"
1710 Anne OLDALL buried at Handsworth
1712/3 Sarah OLDALL buried at Sheffield
1714/5 Martha wife of Benjamin OLDALL buried at Handsworth
1716 Josa OLDALE at the Great Court Baron of Lady Frecheville at Eckington warned that he would be fined 3 shillings and 4 pence if a "sufficient bridge and rail between Stock and Plumbley Wood Close" was not constructed by Pentecost.
1716 Joseph Roberts married Mary OLDALL of Handsworth at Sheffield
1718 Joseph Nutt of Ecclesfield married Eliz OLDALL, spinster, at Sheffield
1719 Benjamin OLDALL buried meason poor at Handsworth
1724 Hannah OLDALE married Joseph Wright at Beighton
1745 John ODELL of Beauchief (eldest son of Joshua OLDALL of Ford who owned two farms at Beauchief) married Sara Alcroft at Stavely
1747 Mary daughter of John OLDALL bapt at Beauchief
1749 John OLDALL bapt at Dronfield
1749 Robert OLDALE apprenticed to Chas Jones 7-11 1749. This is the first of 7 apprentices OLDALE/OULDALE including one from Eckington,one from Harthill, one from Handsworth/Woodhouse and the rest from Sheffield.
1751 Joseph son of John OLDALL bapt at Dronfield
1752 James son of John OLDALL bapt at Dronfield
1760 Jonathan OLDALE married Hannah Wigfall at Sheffield
1771 Joseph OLDALE married Hannah Housley at Sheffield
1775 John OLDALL of Coal Aston married Elizabeth Graeves of Hathersage at Dronfield (Mrs S.O. Addy's grandparents)
1776 James OLDALL of Sheffield married Ann Parker at Norton
1777 John OULDALE married Sarah Cutt at Harthill
1781 Thomas son of Matthew and Martha OLDALL of Carrfield bapt at Norton. They had 18 children according to Norton Parish Records but only 4 survived to adulthood. 1784 Godfrey OLDALL, 1787 William OLDALL. The family moved to Woodhouse and William was apprenticed to Joseph Snidale, Sheffield Park in 1801.
Godfrey and Thomas were well known eccentrics in Woodhouse. Godfrey's first wife Elizabeth Linley of Sothall, white washed the house through once a week. She black leaded Godfrey's shoes. Her bonnet, the clockcase and Godfrey's gun were coaltarred. After she died Godfrey walked to Plley to find his first love Mary Kay and married her in Tankersly in 1836. Godfrey died in Sheffield Workhouse in 1864; Thomas had died a few months earlier.
1789 Francis son of John OLDALL bapt at Dronfield
1793 Sidney son of John OLDALL bapt at Dronfield
1798 John OLDALE married Ann Twigge at Sheffield
1798 Jonathan OLDALE married Mary Thackway at St. Saviour, York
1800 Thomas OULDALE married Sarah Oates at Sheffield
1809 John OLDALE married Elizabeth White at Rotherham
1810 George OLDALE married Sarah Hill at Clowne
1814/5 Sheffield Directory listed OLDALE & Ellin, table knife cutlers, Arundel Street. Thomas Ellin senior, Master Cutler (Sheffield) 1833; Thomas Ellin junior, Master Cutler 1841.
1820 John son of James OLDALL bapt at Eckington
1824 Henry son of George and Sarah OLDALE bapt at Dinnington
1828 Sidney OLDALL married Mary Jenkin at Norton. Mr S.O. Addy's grandparents. (Source?)
1828 Francis OLDALL married Elizabeth Wilde daughter of Henry Wilde, master of the Free Writing School, Sheffield.
1830 James son of Francis and Elizabeth OLDALL bapt at Dronfield
1844 Joseph son of William and Mary OLDALE bapt at Eckington
1849 Sheffield Directory lists 10 entries for OLDALE.
Jas. OLDALE cutler, Jessop Street (off South Street, Sheffield Moor); Charles OLDALE, shopkeeper, Anson Street (south St Park);
4 farmers - John OLDALE in South Anston, George OLDALE in Dinnington, Joseph OLDALE in Gildingwell, and Francis OLDALE in Coal Aston;
2 butchers, Henry OLDALE in Dinnington, and John OLDALE in Harthill; George OLDALE was a joiner in Dinnington and William OLDALE was a tanner and currier in Eckington.
1856 Sheffield Directory now has only 4 entries for OLDALE:-
Joseph & Thomas OLDALE, designers/chasers in Fitzwilliam Street, with a house further up the road;
Francis OLDALE, farmer. In Coal Aston and his wife listed as school mistress;
William OLDALE, tanner, in Eckington.
1866 Albert Edward son of James and Francis OLDALE bapt at Beighton
1875 Headlines in the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent read "Claim to an Estate in Millhouses". The claim was to land purchased in 1782/1793 by a Mr Peter Wigfall who died in 1828, subsequently inherited through a Hannah OLDALE by Mr Joseph OLDALE, who recovered possession in 1857 in the Court of Exchequer of Pleas at Westminster. Costs of £118. 12s. 6d., not paid by Mr OLDALE. He was then arrested and spent 2 years in York Castle and made bankrupt. In 1873 Mr OLDALE paid creditors 20s. in the £ and bankruptcy annulled. In 1875 William OLDALE, a journeyman silver plater, son of the original claimant, went to Millhouses early in the morning accompanied by his agent and about 15 men and boys, to take forcible possession of several fields on the Grange Ville Estate, land near the Robin Hood, and also a house about to be converted into a Methodist Chapel. They changed locks and padlocks, but later in the day the police were called and the locks changed again. This could not have benefited Mr OLDALE but the Magna Carta Association were to take up the case. There was a gathering of all the Sheffield "OLDALE" family in 1945 when it was decided that expenses would be too great to reopen the case, apparently it is still held in Chancery. (Bernard Oldale, source, attended this meeting)
1926 Sheffield Directory lists 13 entries for OLDALE including OLDALE and Unwin, polishers in Eyre Lane; a fruiterer, a joiner, a wagon examiner, bakery manager, two clerks and the rest as householders.
1968 Sheffield Directory has 13 private addresses in the suburbs for OLDALE.

In the present day (don't know date of compilation), telephone directories list a total of 129 OLDALE entries of which 63% are in the Sheffield area: -
60 are in Sheffield, 21 in Chesterfield, 17 in London and the Home Counties
7 in East Anglia, 5 in Lancashire, 5 in the South West