# Knaresborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

city · gb · 54.0094, -1.4633

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaresborough
Wikidata: `Q535902` (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q535902)

## People
- [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md)
- [Tabitha Metcalf](/p/tabitha-metcalf-70737.md)
- [Ellen Metcalf](/p/ellen-metcalf-70738.md)
- [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70739.md)

## Events
- 15 AUG 1717 — **Born**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md)
- ABT 1723 — **Description (Blindness)**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md) — Totally blind from about the age of six after smallpox (put to school at four, two years there, then "seized with the small-pox, which rendered him totally blind"). Because his parents had other children to provide for, he was taught music at thirteen.
- 1739 — **Residence**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md) — After marrying, "took a small house at Knaresborough"; soon after bought an old house and rebuilt it himself, raising the stone from the river. Knaresborough remained the family home until Dorothy's illness in the 1770s.
- ABT 1742 — **Born**: [Tabitha Metcalf](/p/tabitha-metcalf-70737.md)
- 23 APR 1742 — **Baptised**: [Tabitha Metcalf](/p/tabitha-metcalf-70737.md) — Baptised at Knaresborough. Second child — the memoir: "On the birth of a daughter (the second child) Mrs. Benson herself was godmother, and presented Metcalf with fifty guineas."
- ABT 1744 — **Born**: [Ellen Metcalf](/p/ellen-metcalf-70738.md)
- 18 JUL 1744 — **Baptised**: [Ellen Metcalf](/p/ellen-metcalf-70738.md) — Baptised at Knaresborough. Ellen and her husband Thomas Ingleson kept her father's house at Spofforth from his retirement in 1792 until his death in 1810.
- 1745 — **Military service**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md) — Jacobite rising of 1745: assistant to the recruiting sergeant raising Captain Thornton's Knaresborough volunteers, then accompanied the army to Scotland (Falkirk, Culloden), employed moving guns over boggy ground; home to his family in spring 1746. The gravestone alludes to it: "when rebellion reared her giant size, 'twas his to burn with patriot enterprise".
- ABT 1746 — **Born**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70739.md)
- 20 MAR 1746 — **Baptised**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70739.md) — Baptised at Knaresborough; youngest of the four.