A timeline of Hook
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Date AD
Historical Events
Hook
Life
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43-409 Romans in Britain Locally powerful in York
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409-1066 Anglo Saxon England Possible Hermit living in Huc
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793-1066 Norse raids on northern Suggestions of Norse or Viking
England settlement at Hook
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1066 Norman Conquest
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1085 Doomsday book - Norman No mention of settlement at
Lords given parcels of land Huc - Huc probably given to
in northern England Lord de Huuc whose forebears
were Norman conquerors
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1100-1135 Henry I Ankelinus de Huuc - Lord of
the Manor with Avise his wife
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1189-1192 Richard I Did Roger de Huuc join 3rd
Crusade?
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1199-1216 'Bad' King John Roger and Margaret de Huuc
- Lord and Lady of the Manor
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1215 Magna Carta
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1216-1272 Henry III
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1224 John de Houk granted
permission for a Chantry
Chapel
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1225 One of the de Huuc family
most likely buried in the
church
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1250 Moat was added around the Manor House about this time
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1272-1307 Edward I Willian and Alice de Houk
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1304-1307 William High Sherrif of
Yorkshire
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1307-1327 Edward II Thomas and Joan de Houk
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1324-1327 Thomas de Houk ward to
Margaret Dispenser
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1377-1399 Richard II Hook mentioned in Poll Tax
Documents of 1379
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1399-1413 Henry IV Hall Garths leased to Thomas
Ughtred os St. Mary's Abbey
in York
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1407 Inclesmore map is drawn
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1455-1487 War of the Roses Were Hook people involved?
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1492 Columbus' first voayge
to America
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1499 Hook churchyard consecrated
for burials
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1534 Henry VIII becomes English Roman Catholic
head of the English churches become Church of
church England including Hook
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1542 Thomas Cranmer's Prayers now said in English
English Prayer Book in Hook. Previously said in
Latin
1611 King James' 'Authorised' This English Bible used at
Bible is published Hook from then onwards
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1626-1635 Dutch River constructed.
Don now into Ouse at Goole
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1642-1649 English Civi War
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1665 Great Plague begins
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1706 Sotheron, Jefferson and
Godfrey become joint Lord's
of the Manor of Hook
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1721 Joshua Jefferson in his will
leaves Almhouses in Water
Lane. One room is to be used
to teach 12 poor Hook
children for free
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1743 Hook Hall built by the
Sotherons
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1768 Industrial Revolution The Act of Inclosure for Hook
drawn up. Becomes law in
1877
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1771 Mechanisation of agriculture
begins to change the shape of
the village and its land use
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1774 Frank Sotheron goes to sea
aged 9
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1775-1783 American War of Members of both the
Independence Sotheron and Jefferson
families fought in different
battles
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1797 Stockers of Hook establised
Pinfold under their bye-law
men
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1804 Hook House built
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1805 Battle of Trafalgar Frank Sotheron (later
Admiral Sotheron) serves
under Lord Nelson
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1816 Hook's first Methodist Chapel
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1825 First passenger steam Railways begin to take over
train from rivers and horse-drawn
coaches as the 'motorways of
the day', Hook does not get a
station
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1832 Cholera epidemic in area
- 76 burials in Hook
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1836 Hook's second Methodist
Chapel built
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1844 Hook Church is restored
mainly paid for by Thomas
and Lucy Sotheron who also
pay for Hook National School
to be erected
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1848 2nd Cholera epidemic in the area
- 121 burials in Hook
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1869 Ouse rail bridge opened at
Hook
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1874 Hook's third Methodist Chapel
built
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1914-1918 First World War
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1925 Memorial Hall opened
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1917-1926 Great Depression Hook Shipyard - Calvert & Co. -
Shipyard closed
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1930-1984 Cleveland Oil Terminal in Hook
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1939-1945 Second World War 08/06/1944 Halifax Bomber
crashes at Hook
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1976 New primary school built on
the old cricket ground
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2000 Hook tapestry created
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2007 Last piggery closes in Hook
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