STORM AND COMPANY

OLD 'BAY' NAMES
Extract from THE OXFORD GUIDE TO FAMILY HISTORY by DAVID HEY; Oxford University Press 1993

"In his study of the remote community of Robin Hood's Bay, Alan Storm has shown that 13 surnames which were present in the village in 1540 were held by no fewer than 130 people there in 1841. Two of these distintive surnames (STORM & GRANGER) were shared by no less than 90 people. Within the wider unit of the parish of Fylingdales, 27 surnames which were once connected with Robin Hood's Bay, or were still found there, can be traced from 1540 to 1841, when they were borne by 193 persons. Altogether some 41.6% of the enumerated population of this Yorkshire village in 1841 bore surnames that had entered the parish by 1650."

Some early mentions of old Bay names are:: 1563 Hewitson, Moorsom, Richardson. 1600 Allotson, Granger, Harland, Huntrods, 1607 Bedlington. 1628 Rickinson 1653 Harrison, Helm,Mills, Peacock, Robson, Skerry, Trewhitt 1671 Pinkney,Todd. 1675 Esdale (Estill) 1681 Trueman
				Elizabeth Storm

Some events are given below. They might trigger off new connections.
Hilda ARCHER (1716-1737) m, 1734 Isaac Storm (1716-1749)

Ann BEDLINGTON( -1681?)m.1639 Robert Storm( -1658)
James Storm BEDLINGTON MM(1859-1888)m.1885 Rachel Robinson Storm (1862-1914).
Elizabeth COCKERELL m Edward HUNTRODS 29.11.1607
Jane COOPER (1788- ) m. 1813 James Storm (1792-1861)
Thomas GRANGER,fisherman m.1717 Grace Storm( -1696).
Benjamin GRANGER co-founder of Bay shipping insurance association.
Robert GRANGER m Isabella Huntrods 29.7.1600
Matthew HARRISON MM(1676-1757),self-made merchant/boat and ship owner.
John HARLAND m Alice HAYWOOD 16.11.1600
Andrew HARRISON MM (1763-) captain of 'Nautilus' taken by a French Privateer and imprisoned 1814 to 1818
James HELM drowned off Filey Brigg 1690.
Elizabeth HELM(1712-1768)m 1733 James Storm(1708-c1762).
Thomas HEWITSON m 1763 Rebecca Storm (1735-1767).
Edward HUNTRODS m 1681 Jane Robson
Jonathon MILLS m 1808 Ann Storm (1782- ).
J.W.MILLS MM.OBE. Shipping Superintendant./His son, Isaac, Chief Officer of SS Stonegate sunk by the Deutschland in 1939.
Robert MOORSOM,fisherman, in 1672 owns 2 closes.
Admiral Sir Robert MOORSOM KCB commanded The Revenge at Trafalgar.
Rebecca MOORSOM (1838-1908) m1856Thomas Smith Storm(1833-1928), and their 4 sons were coxswains of the Bay Lifeboat.
Robert RICHARDSON MM prisoner of war in Verdun 1811.
William RICHARDSON pressed 1794 in "Saturn";subsequently drowned off Port Royal.
Ruth RICHARDSON m 1704 Jacob(or James)Storm(1680-1780).
Matthew RICKINSON d1807 had become 'one of the pioneers of the shipping trade in West Hartlepool'.
Henry RICKINSON m Elizabeth Forde 18.4.1630
William ROBINSON (c1728-1793) Parish Clerk of Fylingdales
Esther SKERRY m1828 Coultas Storm MM (1814-1871).
Anna WATSON m George Dods 27.6.1602
Note: 'MM' is used as the standard abbreviated title for 'Master Mariner'.

GRANGER and GRAINGER - Of the fact that many GRANGERS and GRAINGERS are laid to rest in the Old Churchyard, Captain James Granger of Robin Hood's Bay writes: ......."it is a little known genealogical fact that it was the subject of 'gravestones' that caused our patronymics to diverge. When the 'Gringoires' came to England at the time of the Norman Conquest, they anglicised the name to Grainger. This remained the accepted spelling whilst wooden crosses were the norm for marking burial grounds, but the introduction of headstones marked a turning point. My side of the family, being of a parsimonious nature and stonemasons' remunerations being on the high side, we decided to shorten the name to Granger as a simple expedient. Since that time we have had no further dealings with our profligate cousins and consider ourselves to be a race apart."

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