DUGGLEBY                     

Duggleby was in the East Riding parish of Kirby Grindalythe, about 7 miles SE. of Malton. It was two miles north east of Wharram Percy railway station and two miles south west of Kirby Grindalythe.  It was a small village of 279 inhabitants.

The farmers in the area were John Clarke, William Duggleby and Luke Walters.  Craftsmen in the village included 2 wheelwrights, a blacksmith, a joiner, 2 tailors, a shoemaker, and a dressmaker. John Bogg doubled up as a tailor and a grocer whilst William Bogg was the postmaster. A carrier, George Mason, travelled to Malton on a Saturday.

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It appears that all the children attended the National School for Boys and Girls a little out of the village on Cupid’s Lane. Martin Young and later Richard Johnson were the schoolmasters.  The Primitive Methodist chapel may have figured in the lives of the Midgleys: it was well attended by agricultural labourers and their families.  From 1872 the United Friendly Society offered sickness and injury benefit to farm labourers in the village in return for subscriptions of a few pence each week.