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Tetley

Tetley Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire):: habitational name from Tetlow in Manchester. The placename derives from the Old English male personal name Tetta or female Tette + Old English hlāw ‘mound hill’. occasionally a habitational name from Tetley in Crowle (Lincolnshire). The placename derives from the Old English male personal name Tetta or female Tette + Old English lēah ‘wood woodland clearing’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Tenley, Betley, Titley, Exley, Batley, Tilley, Heatley, Webley
F rom: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Plot No. 2006

Lucy Anne Tetley 1810-1861

Plot No. 2007

Joshua Tetley
Hannah Tetley

Lucy Anne Tetley Plot 2006

Joshua Tetley Plot 2007

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In Memory Of
Lucy Anne Daughter Of
Joshua And Hannah Tetley
Who Died At The Hollings
10th December 1861
Aged 51

In Memory Of Hannah
Wife Of Joshua Tetley esq.
Who Died 13th May 1857
Aged 72
Also Of The Above
Joshua Tetley
Who Died 26th August 1859
Aged 81

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Plot No.	Name	Burial Date	Age
2007	Hannah TETLEY	19 May 1857	73
2007	Joshua TETLEY	31 Aug 1859	81
2006	Lucy Ann TETLEY	14 Dec 1861	51

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Joshua Tetley of Hollins Hall.

Joshua Tetley was the founder of Tetley’s Brewery in Leeds, and he retired with his wife Hannah to Hollins Hall on the outskirts of Hampsthwaite (Hollins Hall Retirement Village). His passion for the brewery came from his father William, a maltster, who became bankrupt. Joshua bought his first brewery in 1822 for £409, which became Tetley’s Brewery and later took on his son Francis as a partner in the brewery.

From the late 1840s, he began to take a lesser role in the management of the brewery (it employed thirty-two men in 1848), retiring from the partnership in 1858. Two years earlier, he had moved to a large house in the country, Hollins Hall, by Hampsthwaite, where he died on 26 August 1859. He is buried with his wife in St Thomas a Becket Church Yard.

Further information on Joshua can be found on a plaque outside Hollins Hall.