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Occupation: Dishturner, Farmer
Buried in SELBY ABBEY, Selby, Yorkshire, Eng.
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His gravestone lies outside the largest stained glass window. As you approach Selby Abbey from the main street in Selby, the gravestone is onthe left hand side of the abbey. It lies approximately 75 feet to theleft of the main left wall of the abbey.
The full text of the inscription on his gravestone is:

Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth
Banks wife of James Banks Dishturner
who departed this life the 8 day
Dec 1810 aged 42 years.
Also Sarah daughter of the above died
6 of September 1799 aged 1 year.

Reader take care for thou must shortly be
Mouldering in the dust like me.

Also Mary Banks Wife of the Aforesaid
James Banks who departed this life
the 3 day of Dec 1852 aged 85 years.
Also the above named James Banks
of Selby who died August 10 1858
Aged 93 years.

His age, when he died, was either 92 or 93 as the two inscriptions (stained glass and gravestone) differ.

(I think that this means that Mary ?, James BANK's second wife, is buried with him, not his daughter Mary Banks.)

The public can visit the stained glass window in Selby Abbey dedicated to James Banks. The stained glass window was erected to honour him by his sons on Easterday 1863 in Selby Abbey. This window is known as the Abraham window or the masons' window. This window is on the front portion of the left hand side of the church when facing the alter.
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A picture of James Banks on a wall of Marion [née Goatcher] Cole's homecarries (on its back) the note:
James Banks (1766-1868 s.i.c.)
Great Grandfather James Banks
Born 1766; died 1858
Grandma Goulton's father (H.M.Drake said)

Mother's Great Grandfather (A.E. Goatcher said)
That is Great, Great Grandfather to Annie E. Goatcher (A.E. Goatcher said)
Great, Great, Great Grandfather to Margaret Anglin Goatcher (A.E. Goatcher said)

A.E. Goatcher told Marion that this is a photo of an oil painting.

In the archives of David Cole is a book named "Selby" (ISBN 0-7524-0198-X) published in Selby that lists James Banks as being a churchwarden of Selby Abbey during the time of the cholera plague in 1831. Also in that book is a picture of James Bank's face (pasted upon another person's body). During the Cholera outbreak, a poster was created listing theRules and Regulations about Cholera. The poster, titled Cholera Morbus, was dated 9 November, 1831. It began

CHOLERA MORBUS
To be observed by the Inhabitants of Selby and Neighbourhood to preventand relieve the dreadful Disease called Cholera Morbus (as ordered by the Secretary of State, Magistrates, and Board of Health) and to which they are particularly desired to attend.....
(as submitted by Jr. J. Fothergill, and approved by the Committee)

Keep your houses and premises clean.

etc.

Clothe the surface of your bodies as well as you are able, more especially by flannel wore next to the skin.
Smoke tobacco.
The Chloride of Lime, where it can be purchased might be used with advantage in sprinkling about the houses, or washing any article of furniture with.

etc.

signed S.W. WAUD, chairman.
.....J. Muncaster, Minister

Churchwardens.
Daniel Macgregor
William Hawdon
John Bradley
James Banks
Overseers
David Hick
John Green
Johnathan Briggs
John [illegible]
Surgeons
J.Fothergill, M.R.C.S.
J.Fothergill, Jun. M.R.C.S.
R. Addinell
J. Burkitt, M.R.C.S. &c.
A. Graham

[Another, probably worse, Cholera epidemic occurred during 1848-1849.]

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Text of a note from Tony G Fowler
Jan 27, 2002
Yes, I have seen the headstone [on the grave of James Banks] in the Abbey grounds, the spooky thing is I've been cutting the grounds for the past seventeen years and not realized there were any relatives buried there.
The information I have gathered comes from the I.G.I LDS both from the internet and the 1881 microfiche cards, my great aunt and the two familydocuments which I've mentioned, census records of Selby 1841, 1851, and parish records of surrounding parishes of the City of York at the Borthwick Institute on Peasholme Green in York.
I have a photo copy of a page from the census of 1841 for Selby which has:
James Banks aged 75 of Bondgate
Mary Banks aged 70
William Banks aged 35 Timber M
Mary Colley aged 20

In the 1841 census it state's that any adult between the ages of 75-79 be written as 75 and 70-74 written as 70, 65-69 as 65 and so on.
Now William and Mary Colley married on the 1 Nov 1842 at St Mary's in Selby. In the parish records from Borthwick Ins it has William living inBarlby at the time which is just over the river and his father as James, and according to the I.G.Index they went on to have eight children all in Barlby. Have to confirm this with the parish records for Barlby.
In the 1851 census it states James Banks being 85 and born in Clifford and Mary being 86.
I will own up that I haven't made notes of record file number on parishrecords due to the fact I didn't think I'd find anyone connected with myself, but shall from now on.
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Also I have to tell you of another James Banks living in Selby from the1841 census. It states his age as 30 and a Woodturner and his wife is called Sarah and 25. In the 1851 census they are living at 56 Gowthorpehe's now 42 and was born in Bramham, Sarah is now 38 and she was born in Healaugh, no children stated.
This is causing concern with local information in the local library because any vague reference to James Banks or Woodturner and I'm not sure which one it is. I say this because in the Baines Directory of trades + professions the title comes under Turners in Wood, Ivory + Bone.
And in that directory for 1822 it has James Banks of Bondgate, Selby asthe above, and in the 1837 it has James Banks Junior, Bondgate (dish, bowl, chair + shovel)
and also James Banks farmer Bondgate, Selby.
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text of an email received from Tony Fowler:
Thanks for the picture of James Banks, and you are right they do look similar. I'll get the book number later on in the week . It's in the local library.

I've seen the headstone of James Banks in the Abbey grounds. I've been working on the two wife surnames, with the information I've got, His first wife may well be called ELIZABETH JENKINSON. She married a James Banks in the parish of Bramham on the 20th of September 1790 .The year before James Banks first child Mary was born.

The second wife still has some finding out to be done, but she could well be called :
MARY COLLEY, On the census returns for 1851 it has James' wife Mary being born at Flawith which is in the parish of Alne.
On the I.G.Index a James Banks married a Mary Colley on the 1st of February 1813 in the parish of Alne. and that's three years after his firstwife Elizabeth died. and also I've mentioned William his son living with James on the 1841 census returns, his girlfriend and later wife, (who I believe lived at Cherry Orchard farm when they were married) was also called COLLEY and was also born at Flawith.
(there's a 66 year age gap between them) If you were wondering!) [I believe that Tony Fowler should have subtracted Mary's birth date from William's (not James) birth date. That would give an age difference of 17 years which is not unusual....D.Cole]

And I've also found another Sarah Banks who died at the age of 1
My records have Sarah being born 16/10/1797 with the info from the headstone stating she died on the 6/09/1799 it made her 1 year old.
While running through the parish records on burials in the Abbey I cameacross a Sarah Banks buried 1/12/1798 aged 1, died of small pox. With my records she would still be 1 years old.
I'll search for info to see which Sarah Banks the latter comes from, orwhether there's a mix up with dates.
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I've got the ISBN number of the book. It is 0 9512481 0 3. The correct title for the book is: "SELBY - The first three hundred million years" by Henry Farrar. [This book refers to James Banks, dishturner.]
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Note: A stained glass window was erected to honour him by his sons on Easterday 1863 in Selby Abbey. It is known as the Abraham window, or themason's window.
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www genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Selby/index.html
In 1822, the Parish of SELBY contained:
"SELBY, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, a part in the liberty of St. Peter; 8 miles from Snaith, 10 from Howden, 11 from Ferrybridge, 121/2 from Tadcaster, 14 from Pontefract, 15 from York, 18 from Market Weighton, 20 from Leeds, 183 from London. Market, Monday. Fairs, Easter Tuesday; the Monday after Boroughbridge Barnabas Fair, and old Michaelmas day, for horses, horned cattle, sheep, &c., thehorse show commences September 20, and ends on the 26th; Line Fairs are on every Thursday six weeks, from Michaelmas to Saint Peter's day, old style. Bankers, Messrs. Scholfield, Clarkson, and Co. draw on Messrs.Spooner, and Co. 27, Gracechurch Street Principal Inns, George, and Kings Head. Pop. 4,097. The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated toSt. Mary and St. Germain, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, p.r. !ú101. Patron, the Archbishop of York."


www genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Selby/Selby37Dry.html
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades"
for SELBY in White's Directory of 1837.

Turners,
Banks Jas. Jun (dish bowl, chair & shovel manfr) Bondgate
Cusworth Wm. Fst
Waud John, Gowthorp

Farmers,
Agar Wm. Gowthorp
Appleyard Thomas, Cln
Appleyard Wm. Millgate
Audus Wm. common
Banks James, Bondgate
Burton George, Cow ln
Burton Geo. Church ln
Clayton William Bbk
Copley John, Millgate
Eccles Geo. Stanner hall
Lamb T Empsall lodge
Romans Thos. Rocars
Simpson Rt. Common
Sykes Wm. Bondgate
Tiplady John, Bbk
Varley S. Spark hagg
Wildrick Thomas, Ogt
Wilson Robert, Bondgate
Wright James, Ousegate
Fire, Life &c Offices,

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