Orton Bean

Orton was born in 1886 at Screveton and was the son of Robert and Mary Eleanor (née Fisher) Bean.His father Robert was born in 1853 in Besthrope Nottinghamshire and worked in the agricultural trade all his working life as an agricultural labourer through to farmer. He died aged 75 years on 23rd August 1926 and was buried in St Wilfrid’s Churchyard at Screveton. His mother Mary Eleanor was born in 1855 in Screveton where she lived all her life until her death on 16th November aged 64 only months after the death of her son Orston. She is buried along side her husband. Robert and Mary had 11 children one of whom died prior to 1911. The survivors were Robert William (B1873), Charles (b1874) ,Frederick (b1876) ,Tom (b1877) ,Henry (b1878), John (b1881), Arthur (b1883), Orton (b1886), Oliver (b 1888) and Alice (b1894). Mary had her first child in 1871 (prior to her marriage to Robert) whom she named Daniel Edward Fisher. On the 1891 census after her marriage to Robert Daniel is referred to as ‘wife’s son’. Between 1891 and 1911 the family remained in Screveton working on the land. However, Orton was by then working as a footman at Kirklevington Hall Stokesley North Yorkshire as one of six servants employed by William Hugh Richards and his family. Whilst he was in service as a footman he met his future wife Jane A Kendrew whom he married in the first quarter of 1915 in the Stokesly registration area of North Yorkshire. His probate (with will ) was proven on 16th February 1920 at Durham. His effects of £149 went to his widow Jane Ann Bean who was living at 9 Percy Street, Stockton on Tees.