Thomas Maude of the Woodlands ²

  General Notes:

Thomas Maude was a partner in the Tyne Banking Co., styled as Sir Charles Lorraine, Bart., Baker, Maude, Lorraine & Co. He inherited this position from his grandfather, Warren Maude.

He came of age in 1791 and entered into possession of his property leading the life of a well-to-do young man of fashion and family, going about to fashionable watering places, such as Harrogate, etc. and visiting at the house of relations & friends, particularly at Selaby park, the seat of his Uncle Jacob Maude - Ryton, where his cousins the Lambs lived, Wellington, the seat of Sir Walter Calverly Trevelyan Bart, etc..
In the excursions he was always accompanied by a gross and at least two horses.
In these pre-railway days you could only get about the country in three ways, viz. walking, riding, or driving, either in a private carriage, or stage coach. Young unmarried men of fortune generally preferred riding as being the pleasantest and sort independent means ol locomotion. If more luggage than could carried in saddlebags was required, it had to be sent on to its destination by a carriers or van, of which there were numbers those days plying to all parts of the country.
In 1817, after liberating himself at a very considerable pecuniary sacrifice from his partnership in the Tyne Bank, removed his residence from Newcastle, to Stockton upon lees, having leased a house there.
In 1823 my grandfather removed to Stockton-upon-Tees, and, with his family, took up his residence at Woodlands, a pleasant villa near Harrogate, which he had taken on a 21 year lease.

Thomas married Jane ROXBY, daughter of Henry ROXBY of Clapham Rise and Margaret Sanderson, on 4 Apr 1796 in Clapham, SRY, England, UK.¹ (Jane ROXBY was born on 17 Jan 1774, christened on 25 Mar 1774 in London, ENG, died on 11 Dec 1833 and was buried on 18 Dec 1833 in Harrogate, YKS, England, UK.)

  Marriage Notes:

The family was an exceedingly happy and united one, devotedly attached to their parents and to each other.
Thomas lived as though possessed of ample means - keepIng horses & carriages, & ponies for his two elder sons as soon as they were able to ride them & participating fully in the social life of the place.
There was great intimacy between them and his Uncle Jacob Maude of Selaby. The relations between Thomas & Jacob were more like those subsisting between brothers than between
Uncle & Nephew and there was only a difference of 13 year s between their ages.