Isaac Abraham married Ann Tyreman and their three children were Jane [1775], Mary [1780] and Anne [1764]. Thomas son of John the shoemaker married Jemima Lancaster in 1776 and they had five children Thomas [1779], Edward [1784], Robert [1787], John [1790] and Milcah [1794] who appears to have been named after an earlier Milcah for whom no baptism record could be found but who married John Cussons in 1760. John Abraham born in 1759 married Elizabeth Barr who bore John [1783], William [1784] and Hannah [1791].
The family fortunes had improved by the beginning of the third quarter of the 18th century and the rent roll of 1772 showed John Abraham with 93 acres and Thomas with 46 but the last records of the family being in Old Byland are the burials of William in 1821 and Isaac in 1825 and as it seems reasonable to assume that Roger Abraham was living in the village in the first quarter of the 17th century the family tenure can be calculated as at least 200 years.
ABBOT
John Abbot was born in Old Byland in 1626, he married Elizabeth Prest in 1654 and their daughter Elizabeth was born in the same year and died in 1955. They had another nine children born between 1656 and 1676 including a second Elizabeth and a second William as the first one died at the age of one in 1669. William Abbot had three children William [1655], Easter [1656] and Margaret [1662]. John and William Abbot each paid tax for one hearth in 1673 and four years later they were both tenants of medium size farms, paying the 4th and 5th highest rents on the Old Byland estate.
William born in 1655 had six children Elizabeth [1690], Anne [1693], Sarah [1695], John [1698], Edward [1701] and Margaret [1707]. Elizabeth married Stephen Backhouse in 1728 and William born 1670 married Isabel Lawn in 1710 and he must have died fairly young as she was a widow in 1717 and tenant of the medium size farm previoulsy held by her husband. John born in 1698 married Elizabeth Storry in 1712 and their four children were John [1713], Mary [1715], William [1717] and Ann [1721].
William born in 1717 married Ann Wilson in 1755 and they had two daughters Elizabeth [1757] and Sarah [1760] and because no tenancy records have survived for the years between 1772 and 1846 William was the last member of the family to be listed as a farm tenant, having 18 acres in 1772 but the family continued to live in Old Byland as his daughter Sarah married Thomas Chapman of Tilehouse Farm in 1793 and the naming of their daughter Christiana born in 1795 suggests the possibility that Christiana Abbot for whom no baptisms could be found came from the same family. As Thomas Abbot son of Thomas was baptised in Old Byland in 1802 and no Abbot burials were recorded after that date it is believed that the Abbot family lived in Old Byland for about 180 years.
