Wilkinson and Metcalfe

In the 1861 census, living at Orgate are John Wilkinson and wife Eleanor (Metcalfe along with their children Mary, 24, Thomas, 22, and Ann, 16.). Eleanor’s father Thomas Metcalfe is also in the household, listed as ‘widower, retired farmer’, age 87. He dies a year later in February 1862. His Marske burial record notes his abode as ‘Coxwold’. Since his daughter Eleanor dies a year before him in March 1861, maybe he went to live with another relative who lived in Coxwold.