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17 Aug., 1507) giving his soul utsupra, and his body to be buried 

 in ye Parish Kirk of Ingleby, near the buriall of his fader." 

 The Askews appear to have been persons of some importance in 

 the Parish in the 16th Century. In 1542, William Askew 

 bequeathed £60 to the poor of the Parish, the interest of which 

 is still annually paid to them. 



November, 1887. — Mr. Hawell lectured to the Young Men's 

 Society at Ingleby Greenhow on " The Christian Names, 

 Surnames, and Place-Names of the Parish of Ingleby. He stated 

 that Ingleby and Battersby were derived from two Danes, Ingialldr 

 and Buthar. Greenhow from the natural "houe," or small 

 round hill, near the centre of the township : Greenhow Bottom 

 from O.N. ■' botn, a bottom, or depth," applied to the innermost 

 recesses of a sea, or a dale : Farnsides from "Femes (A.S.) a 

 wilderness " : Blue Mells from Gael, " maol, a hill." He regretted 

 the unfortunate blunders in the names of places on the 

 Ordnance Survey maps, such as •' Tidy Brown Hill," for " Tarry 

 Brown Hill," " Blue Bell Trough," for " Blue Mells." As these 

 maps are put forth by authority, it is practically impossible to 

 correct the mistakes, and interesting old names run great danger 

 of being lost. He defined Barker as meaning a " tanner," and 

 derived Hepburn from Hebburn-on-Tyne, Havelock from Dan. 

 " haf, sea and leik, sport, an appropriate name for one of a race 

 to whom the ocean " was a delight" : Hoggart either from the 

 Dutch, meaning " high-natured," or from the English, meaning 

 Keeper of Hogs: Garbutt from '■'gar, spear" and "iorf," envoy: 

 Medd and Metcalfe from " med, reverence " : Alonzo from " Mid 

 battle," (the name of the holy abbess of Whitby, signifying 

 " battle-maid ") and " funs, vehemence," its genealogy being 

 Hildefuns, Ildefonso, Illefonso, Alfonso, Alonzo. 



On November 4th, same year, Mr. Hawell lectured to the 

 Young Men's Society above-named, on " The Earthworm, the 

 Friend of the Farmer." He showed how worms excavate the 

 ground : drain the soil and make it fertile : manufacture 

 manure : carry it, and spread it : cover up stones, etc. : 

 that if it be rightly estimated (but, for us it is certainly an over 

 estimate) that 10 tons of earth are cast up by worms on each acre, 

 then the farmers of the parish of Ingleby had to thank the poor 

 despised worm for 70,000 tons of good manure every year. Some 

 interesting facts were told about their nature and habits, and 

 Mr. Hawell endeavoured to show that worms have played a most 

 important part in the world. 



