Genealogy
Hoyle of Hooton Levitt
The Hoyle family, which has held considerable estates in Yorkshire for upwards of four centuries, were anciently seated at Hoyle Hall, in the parish of Halifax.
William Hoyle, clerk to Sheffield Cutlers Company married Barbara, heiress of John Fretwell of Hooton Levitt Hall.
William Hoyle (1742-1807), son of Nathan Hoyle c.1711, was baptised 22 August, 1742.
Nathan Hoyle was a Schoolteacher, and at Guisley School from about 1751-1774. He was agent to Rev. H. Wickham, rector of Guiseley, he lived at Ovenden House.
William(1742-1807), his son, married twice. On 1st January, 1762, he married Barbara, daughter of John Redfearne esq. of Sheffield. By Barbara, heiress of John Fretwell of Hooton Levet Hall had issue:
- William b.11 July 1773
- John b. 4 June 1776
- Elizabeth (1769-1776)
- Barbara b. September 1771
He married secondly to Sarah Cutforthay on 4 February 1802. The Cutforthay's were of Aughton Hall.
William born 1773 succeeded his father who died September, 1807 age 66.
This William (b.1773) married in August 1798 to Mary/Martha daughter of George Johnson of Lound, Notts. Children:
- William Fretwell Hoyle, his heir, b.1801.
- Robert Cutforthay Hoyle b.Nov.1804, m. Ann Dickson ans succeeded to Aughton Hall by the will of her father.
- Nathan b.1806
William(b.1773) died 1847 aged 74
William Fretwell Hoyle Of Ferham House and Hooton Levet Hall married September, 1830 to Hannah daughter of George Clarke Walker of Doncaster. They had one son:
- Fretwell William Hoyle, F.G.H.S. born June 1831. In 1860 at Eastwood Lodge, Rotherham. He married in 1860 at St. Luke's, Leeds, to Rosa, third daughter of Albert Davy, esq., of Leeds, Consul of the United States of America.
William Fretwell Hoyle married secondly in April 1834 to Jane Grave Walker. They had 12 children:
- George Wm b. 1836
- Robert Parker b.1837
- Henry Cutforthay b. 1838
- John Walker b.1843
- Samuel Saunders b.1845
- Charles Frederick b.1851
- Ferham, Arthur b.1852
- Jane Walker b.1856
- Hannah Clarke
- Catherine
- Emma Mary
Emma Mary Hoyle married in August 1874 to Sir William Salmond, Major General, K.C.B. They had five children, including two sons:
- Sir (William) Geoffrey Hanson Salmond,(1878–1933), air force officer, who was born in August 1878 at Hougham, Dover. He married in 1910 Margaret Mary, eldest daughter of William Carr, of Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk, and had a son and 3 daughters. He died in London April 1933.
- Sir John Maitland Salmond, (1881–1968), marshal of the Royal Air Force, who was born in London 17 July 1881. John Salmond married twice, first, in 1913, to Helen Amy Joy, of Rubislaw, Aberdeen (d. 1916), daughter of James Forbes Lumsden of Aberdeen; and, secondly, in 1924, to Monica Margaret Grenfell (d. 1973), elder daughter of Lord Desborough. There was one daughter by the first marriage and a son and a daughter by the second. Salmond died at Eastbourne in April 1968.
A fine stained-glass window was erected by a relative of William Fretwell Hoyle, in Maltby Church, a window commemorating his mother, Hannah Clarke, wife of W. F. Hoyle, esq. (born Feb. 19, 1810, died Oct. 8,1831), the subject of which is Hannah presenting her son Samuel to the high-priest Eli. The design was furnished by Mr. Hoyle himself, and it was executed by Messrs. Wailes of Newcastle; its character is very rich, and the window forms a very striking ornament to the church.
PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED. William Fretwell Hoyle and Robert Marin the younger, Rotherham, Yorkshire, attornies, solicitors, and conveyancers. 15th June 1856