This Scurff Hall is located on the ruins of Roman Villa recently excuvated 80 ft by 27ft nearly everything found was left with he twigg family.
Among there family records is a charter granting some land a chapel of st. Wildrid,which stood near the roman villa to the drax priory in norman times.
Ellenor's family lived on the property from 1760.
by charter king edward granted the land & howden (across the river)to Quer (his foster mother)the farm then became Quer Scarth (being a pass or way in)and currupted to Scurff hall.
Eleanor was married in Drax had at least one child baptised in england came to amarica with her husband Isaac Rhoades 30 Sep 1820 on the ship Athens, of New york.
she brought a trunk full of beautiful gowns a mystery for a while until we learned her father was a cloth merchant. in hull,yorkshire, England
Eleanor and her husband bought land in plattsburgh area there goal were to farm the land but the soil was unfit for anything. from letters in possesion of robert lord, it would appear her uncle Joseph Twigg was helping her ,apparently her husband drank a lot and neglected the farm and family. her in laws the Rhodes tried to get her to return to england, even offering passage, but she stayed which must have been difficult she was brought up in a well established english family, well educated, living in a very hostile enviroment in the forest of northern new york.
1850 census listed head of household clinton co. Saranac
in joseph Twigg letter 13 jun 1846 refers to sorry condition she Eleanor is now living in alone none of her daughters make room for her at there firesides for the winter.in England however poor aged parents are they are attended too.
The Back Rhodes of Our Genealogy
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