University Archives
Tate family, of Hemingborough
Edith Iona Tate (1864) was the daughter of Charles Grey Tate (d.1900) and Jane Tate née Ion. The family background was that of several generations of Cambridge scholars who went into the church and Edith's grandfather, James Tate (b.1800), was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity and had taken over from his father as master of Richmond School, holding that position from 1833 to 1863 alongside a number of rectorial posts. Jane Ion was the daughter of John Ion and Anne Marshall and she brought to her marriage a considerable inheritance in cash assets and properties in Cumberland and the East Riding. She died in 1864, at the age of 26, in the year she gave birth to her one child, Edith Iona Tate. The papers relate to the family trust set up by her for her daughter to manage family property in Hemingborough and Ottringham in the East Riding of Yorkshire and Ouseby in Cumberland. They include estate papers, accounts, investment details and correspondence as well as Edith Iona Tate's bank book with the Selby branch of the York City and County Bank 1885-1894 and the burial certificate of her uncle, John Ashton, from whom she also inherited money in 1888. [DTT]