Richard Doughty & his ancestry

The last article defined the my early Doughty relatives, back to 1584, but now I want to move forward some 200 years to 1781, when Richard Doughty was born to William Duty & his wife  nee Summercotes. Richard was born in Ulceby near Grimsby sometime in 1781, and christened in Ucleby Parish Church on 2nd December 1781. Ulceby Parish Church dedicated to St Nicholas-this is the church's website:-
http://www.stnicholasulceby.com/

William, Richard's father, must have been in South Ferriby at one time, because that is he & Elizabeth were married on 15th January 1777.  This is the record: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=620238&iid=321039

The records in those days aren't very helpful to the family history researcher, giving the basic details, marital status but no occupation of the groom, sufficient to say only that he was a bachelor and she a spinster, and both were from South Ferriby. Not that this means anything, because both could have been resident there to get married but not necessarily there for a long time. I see that Family Search has some baptisms for other Summercotes children so maybe Elizabeth lived in South Ferriby as her family home. Anyway they married there, but soon moved to Ulceby, because that was where there children were born, all three sons:-

 John  13 October 1777, again briefest of detail, just son of William & Elizabeth Duty. (See below)
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=783247&iid=203592

 William 13 December 1779,

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=783247&iid=203595

 then Richard, 2nd December 1781. (again brief details-2 decem Richard, son of Wm. & Elizabeth Duty)

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=783247&iid=203598

The next event in young Richard's life was the death of his mother, Elizabeth Duty, who is recorded as being buried in Ulceby churchyard on 26th March, 1789,
Again, briefest of details, Burials 1789:  26 March Elizabeth Duty
  see record below:
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=783247&iid=203609

I have been looking for the death & burial of his father, William and the only one I can find is a William DUTY who was buried in Bottesford on 17th March 1789. Now  if that was Richard's dad, then all three brother left as orphans in 1789, I wonder who looked after them, I suppose they would have been on parish relief. I know their uncle John Doughty was alive then, so perhaps they went to live with him. Certainly he seems to have followed Richard to Broughton by Brigg, because there is a John Doughty buried there on 5th December 1824. So it seems most likely that the young brothers al moved in with their uncle John, who went to live in Broughton by Brigg, which would explain how it was that all three of them marry in that area as opposed to Ulceby. I can't prove this, as there are no adoption records, but it seems the most likely scenario.

However, Richard's next piece of history is his marriage to Elizabeth Holt at St Bartholemew's  Appleby, Lincolnshire on 17th May 1802. Appleby is about 3 miles north of Broughton.

Record states: Richard Doughty of this Parish, Bachelor & Elizabeth Holt, spinster, of this parish were married in this church by Banns on 17 May 1802 by Wm Harrison (Curate). Both parties signed with mark. Witnessed by Simon Flushiman? & John Harrison
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=724784&iid=551720

Elizabeth was the daughter of William Holt and Mary Leaning. The surname Holt is also spelt as Hoult. Elizabeth was born in Broughton by Brigg, on 25th April, 1786 & baptised at the Parish Church 5 days later.
http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=597913&iid=100255
This is more proof that Richard was brought up in Broughton as opposed to Ulceby, that he was there after 1789 when his parents died. Richard & Elizabeth were both living in Broughton, the families would have known each other. Elizabeth had a brother called Uriah, no doubt why they named one of their children that name too! No, I think I am getting a bit carried away, the Holt/Hoult family moved away from Broughton after the birth of Elizabeth there; all the later children were born in Flixborough, about 11 miles away. However they must have lived there prior to William & Mary's marriage on 5 January 1785-see http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=739308&iid=100364 

Strangely enough as things go in family history research, Elizabeth's brother was Thomas Holt, who's son Thomas Godfrey Holt, in 1881, farmed in Broughton. More of the Holt saga later.

I have a note somewhere that John Duty, Richard's first son was born in Appleby on 3rd November 1802 but christened in St Nicholas, Broughton by Brigg on 2nd December 1802-see http://www.lincstothepast.com/Baptisms-and-burials/598083.record?pt=T

Broughton by Brigg, in 1831 had an area of 7,880 acres, the land of which was a mixture of clay & sandy soils. The land near the River Ancholme was often flooded, and the sandy soils supported woodland & rabbit warrens. Most of the land had been enclosed in the 17^th century, (which means it was divided up into lease-hold farms, with very few owner-occupiers, the majority of the land owned by Lord Pelham, but there was some meadow and dry commons still available for people to use them-the final enclosure took place in 1849. To say that Richard Doughty was a farmer would be a misnomer-he worked on the land, but did not own it, and never was going to either. As a farm labourer or a woodman as he was classified in 1851, his wages were low, but he was not a pauper, that is someone in receipt of parish relief. Richard would work and be paid for 312 days in the year, having Sundays off but as he wasn’t working he wasn’t paid. He would not receive any holidays, apart from Christmas Day, but still would not be paid.

see also for further information:-http://www.localpopulationstudies.org.uk/PDF/LPS70/LPS70_2003_11-28.pdf

Many of the birth records were recorded in a family bible, which was later given to Rosetta Doughty, Mark Doughty's great aunt, hence we now have those records here. 

Richard & Elizabeth had 15 children between them, John Duty,bp. 2 December, 1802, (see above),