Tranby House and the Barkworth Family

Algernon, Catherine, Evie, Edmund, and the two children Henry Edmund and Dorothy on the front steps of Tranby House.

On this page you will find basic details about the Barkworth family. More detailed biographies will be found on the specific pages about family members.

The Barkworth family came to live at Tranby House in Hessle in 1806 and remained there until 1945 when Algernon Barkworth, the last member of the family to live there died.

John and Elizabeth Barkworth and their family were the first residents of Tranby House. John was a timber merchant in Hull but he expanded his business interests to include shipbuilding

and shipping, becoming very wealthy. They had a large family of ten children.

After John died in 1815 Elizabeth stayed at the house until her death in 1838 when her son John and his wife Emma moved back to Tranby House. John and Emma had an even larger family than John and Elizabeth with fifteen children.

Over the years many members of the family married and moved away from East Yorkshire to live in different parts of the country such as London, Essex, Surrey and Devon. Branches of the family businesses were established in other parts of England such as London and Gloucester.

The next occupants of the house were Henry Barkworth and his wife, Catherine and they had five children.

Henry died in 1898 and Catherine in 1915. Algernon Barkworth and his sister, Evelyn, then lived in the house with Evelyn dying in 1933 and Algernon in 1945.