1 gen 1543 anni - wherreours

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Quarriers or quarry workers. In the contract of 1422 for Catterick Bridge it was stated that <i>the wherreours brekes the … (sic) stanes and scapels them in the saides qwerrels</i> (). To ‘scapple’ stones was to rough hew them and this phrase neatly distinguishes the work of the quarrymen from that of the masons. The by-name or surname occurs from the late thirteenth century, e.g. 1297 ‘Ralph <i>le Quarreur,</i> Bolton Priory (YRS154/81) and 1323 ‘Henry <i>le Quarreour,</i> Sandal, near Wakefield (YRS109/17). A second <i>Henry le Queriowre</i> lived in Embsay in 1379 (PTWR) and his descendants were still in the parish over 160 years later. The spellings of their surname are of interest: 1473 <i>Quaryor</i> (YRS132/4), 1522 <i>Warrear</i> and 1543 <i>Wharrear</i> (YRS145/15,76). See YRS155/76

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