Leonard Mosey

  General Notes:

John Owen was able to confirm the baptisim of Leonared Mosey as the one in the IGI at Thirkleby by Thirsk thanks to family records.

Leonard Mosey of Farnhall, Lieutenant in the Royal navy

First name(s)Leonard
Last nameMosey
Age28
Birth year1753
Residence parishHM Forces (RN)
Residence countyHM Forces
Licence year1781
Licence date02 May 1781
Intended marriage placeKildwick PC
Spouse's first name(s)Mary
Spouse's last nameDehane
Spouse's age22
Spouse's parishKildwick
Spouse's countyYorkshire
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Record sequence number2
Page number157
Record setYorkshire, Archbishop of York Marriage licences index, 1613-1839
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryMarriages & divorces
Collections fromUnited Kingdom
Yorkshire, Archbishop of York Marriage licences index, 1613-1839 Transcription. http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2for%2fyork%2fm%2f00080871%2f1 (Accessed 11th December 2016)

Lieutenant Leonard Mosey, late of His Majesty's galley Cornwallis, in consideration of his sufferings, who on the 16th of November 1777, in the attack of Mud Island received a canon ball from the battery, and was thereby much wounded, and entirely lost the use of his right arm, so far as the shoulder.
13 Oct 1799 (date of Orders) 100 pounds.
Pensions
Google Books, 1828. Parliamentary Papers: 1780-1849, Volume 17, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,
H.M. Stationery Office. Digitised 15 Sep 2014. Accessed 11th Dec 2016
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RbpDAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA14&lpg=RA2-PA14&dq=Captain+Leonard+Mosey&source=bl&ots=8BZP9vfwR7&sig=ZuPryMw-9gyzFw2HMl0oljDiyzI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq__Wz2unQAhXJI5QKHS5nCfcQ6AEIGTAA#v=onepage&q=Mosey&f=false



1790 Universal Directory of Great Britain Index

1790 Universal Directory of Great Britain Lieutenants L - Z
Mosey, Lieutenant. 1778
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1790 Universal Directory of Great Britain Pensioned Officers
Mosey, Leonard. Pensioned Lieutenant 5s per day.
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Univ_Dir_of_GB/Pensioned.html
http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Univ_Dir_of_GB/Index.html (accessed 11th December 2016)

"In the issue of " The Times " of the 10th September, 1841, there appeared an advertisement inviting the children of Leonard Mosey to communicate with Mr. William Hirst, a solicitor of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, in order to " hear of something to their advantage " . Leonard Mosey in the advertisement is described as a " Custom House Officer or tidewaiter" , formerly of Leeds, afterwards of No. 10, Bath Street, Tabernacle Street, Shoreditch, and since of Plymouth Dock. (Note Tidewaiter: A Custom Officer who awaited the arrival of Ships (formerly coming in with the tide) and boarded them to prevent the evasion of Custom House Regulations ( " Shorter Oxford English Dictionary " ) )

Edward, who was evidently a very alert character, spotted this advertisement in the " Times " and wrote on the same day to the Solicitor saying that his wife was the only surviving child of Leonard Mosey. Edward at that time was apparently living at 27, Haydon Street, Minories. The advertisement related to a legacy of £50 which a Mr. Holdstock, a cousin of Leonard Mosey, had left to the latter's children. There followed correspondence with the Solicitor which was interspersed with exchange of letters with a Mrs. Mary Inman, daughter of Mr. Holdstock, who had died in 1832. Mrs. Inman was evidently very poor, but seems to have been completely honest because since her father's death she had been trying to trace the Mosey descendants. In her letter to Edward she asked him not to claim the whole of the £50 because of her circumstances which she described in a rather confused letter. Edward, however, replied in a letter, of which a mutilated copy is available, expressing his "vexation" and with commendable logic, tearing Mary's story to pieces and claiming interest for 8 years. In a letter to the Solicitor a few days later he said that " the amount I claim as interest is £16 calculated at the rate of 4 % per annum for 8 years - a limitation instance came under the observation of Mr. Thompson a day or two since wherein the Master of the Rolls directed that the above interest should be paid upon all legacies from the time they become due until the time of payment - However as Mrs. Inman appears to have endeavoured to find the legatees and been unsuccessful, and also taking into consideration her having paid the £50 at once without further trouble, I am willing to take half the amount claimed as interest, and therefore if she will cause to be paid to me £58 I will give her a receipt for the whole amount claimed, namely £66."

Cundall, Boroughbridge
Yorkshire
September 21 1841

Mr Edwd Griggs

Sir
I hope you will forgive me the liberty I have taken, the person who is addressing you is the youngest daughter of the late Leonard Holdstock and the same that has the £50 legacy to pay to you. I beg to lay before you the particulars of my situation then you will be able to judge for yourself. My father was an own cousin to Leonard and John Mosey and a sister whose name at present is Bean. I believe the two boys lived part of their time in their early life with my Grandfather and Grandmother Holdstock, the parents of the three children died and left them at an early age. The younger boy John went to the sea and returned home after he became a man and died at Thirsk with my Grandfather and Grandmother Holdstock. He left by a deed of gift £300 funded property to my father as a recompense for his kindness to him and his brother. My father's reason for leaving back a hundred pounds into Mosey family is unknown to anyone but himself for he had very little to leave his own children. In the early part of my father's life he was a Land Surveyor and had a very good business but unfortunately through ill health he was under the necessity of giving it up he then took a farm and was a Land Agent for a Gentleman but having all to trust to servants and farming produce falling in value he became reduced in his circumstances and was obliged to give up his farm and take a cottage and 29 acres of land which he left me in possession of at his death. My father had but two daughters he made a will and left my sister a hundred pounds and another hundred to Mosey and Bean's children. To keep my home together I borrowed the £150 to pay the legacies. With my sister married my father's servant so that she was not able to assist me, I can very honestly say that had the legacies all been to pay at my father's death I should have been left an orphan without a shilling to defend myself with. I have been married six years and have had five children but it has pleased God to take them all but one a boy three years and a half old. As we have so little to pay the money with and I hope you are in good circumstances you will be so good as not take the whole of the £50 for I can assure you it is not my father's money that must pay it. If you will insist of all the £50 I have another favour to beg that is you will allow us to pay it by installments for it will put us to great trouble to have to pay it all at once.
I remain your most humble and obedient servant
Mary Inman late Holdstock

Mary Holdstock was the daughter of Leonard Holdstock who was the son of Jane Mosey who married Henry Holdstock on February 10, 1767 in Thirkleby by Thirsk. Jane was the daughter of Leonard Mosey and Ann Lickas. Christening: August 28, 1747, Thirkleby by Thirsk. Her brother Leonard (= Lt Leonard Mosey) was also christened there July 8, 1751. So we have three generations of Leonard Mosey, Leonard Mosey senior, son Lt Leonard Mosey and grandson Leonard Wraight Mosey the tide-waiter.
(John Owen)

Leonard Mosey Declaration ?Brot in? 31^st Dec 1793
Declaration, instead of an Inventory of all and Singular the Goods Chattles and Credits situate within the Province of Canterbury of Leonard Mosey late of Farnhill in the Count of York and a Lieutenant on half pay in his Majestys Navy a Widower deceased which at any time since his death have come to the hands possession or knowledge of the Thomas Garforth Esq William Wainman Esq and Robert Rose the Curators or Guardians lawfully assigned to John Mosey, Mary Mosey Spinster and Leonard Wright Mosey Minor and Ann Dehane Mosey an infant the natural and lawful and only children of the said deceased and intended Administrators of the Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased for the use and benefit of the said minors and Infant until one of them shall attain the age of twenty one years made and given in by virtue of the Corporal Oath of the said Thomas Garforth William Wainman and Robert Rose as follows to wit.
First these declarants declare that they have been informed and believe that there was the sum of nineteen pounds or thereabouts due to the said deceased as the time of his death for half pay as a Lieutenant in his Majestys Navy but they protest against being charged therewith until they shall receive the same.
Also these Declarants declare that they have been informed and believe that the sum of thirty seven pounds of thereabouts was due to the said deceased at the time of his death for Pension Money but they protest against being charged therewith until they shall receive the same.
Also these Declarants declare that they have been informed believe that the Capital sum of five hundred Pounds New South Tea Annuities now stand in the name of Mary Mosey the late Wife of the said deceased and who died in his life time but they protest against being charged therewith until the same shall be transferred into their Names.
Also these Declarants declare that they believe there is a Dividend or Dividends due on the said Capital Sum but they know not the amount thereof and protest against being charged therewith until they shall receive the same.
Also these Declarants declare that they have been informed that the said Mary Mosey deceased was entitled during her life to the Interest on Dividends arising from the Capital Sum of six hundred pounds New South Tea Annuities standing in the names of Francis Knowler Exq and Jacob Dehane and they also believe that a Dividend or Dividends was dur thereon at the time of the death of the said Mary Mosey but the amount thereof they cannot set forth and they protest against charging themselves therewith until they shall receive the same.
Lastly these Declarants declare that the Good Chattles or Credits for belonging to the Personal Estate of the said Leonard Mosey deceased situate within the province of Canterbury have at any time since his death come to the hands possession or knowledge of these Declarants or either of them save and except what are above mentioned and set forth.
On the 1^st day of Dec^br 1793. The said Thomas Garforth, William Wainman, Robert Rose were duly sworn to the truth of this Declaration by virtue of the Requisition hereto a announced before me.
Thomas Marsden
Surrogate
Also signed by Tho^s Garforth, W^m Wainman, Robert Rose
PROB 31/843/844 National Archives UK http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Leonard married Mary Dehane, daughter of Francis Dehane and Mary Wraight, on 3 May 1781 in Kildwick, Yorkshire, England.³⁵⁰ (Mary Dehane was born on 30 Jun 1757 ³⁵² and died in 1793.)

  Marriage Notes:

Yorkshire Marriages Transcription
First name(s)Leonard
Last nameMosey
Birth year-
Marriage year1781
Marriage date03 May 1781
Marriage placeKildwick
ResidenceFarnhill, Kildwick
Spouse's first name(s)Mary
Spouse's last nameDehane
Spouse's residenceKildwick
CountyYorkshire (West Riding)
CountryEngland
ArchiveNorth Yorkshire County Record Office
Archive referenceN-PR-KLD1-19
Page89
Record setYorkshire Marriages
CategoryBirth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers)
SubcategoryMarriages & divorces
Collections fromUnited Kingdom
http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fyorkshire%2fmar%2f301587978%2f1 (accessed 11th Dec 2016)

Yorkshire Marriage Image
The Year 1781
No. 369. Leonard Mosey of Farnhill of the Parish of Kildwick in the County of York, a Lieutenant (Bachelor) in his Magestys (sic) Navy and Mary Dehane of Kildwicken in the County of York aforesaid, Spinster. Married in this Church by Licence granted by the Rev. Mr, Dehane Soragae this thired day of May in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty One. By me John Dehane ?AM?: Vicar.
this Marriage was Solemnized between Us Leonard Mosey and Mary Dehane (both signed their own names)
In the Presence of William Mosey and John Dehane
http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fyorkshire%2fmar%2f301587978%2f1 (accessed 11th Dec 2016)