For a Father's Pride (36 page)

The Moorhouse family hailed from The Bull at Broughton, near Skipton in North Yorkshire. William Moorhouse lived with his mother at The Bull, and moved to Skipton in 1851. He
was William Stockdale’s apprentice in a grocery shop on Sheep Street and, while there, visited outlying farms and was introduced by a Dales family to the delicacy they called ‘lemon
cheese’. In 1873 William married Angiolina Porri from Caroline Square, whose father owned a business in Sheep Street, Skipton, and the couple moved to Leeds and produced seventeen children.
While working for his new employer – the grocer Ellison’s – William produced lemon cheese, which he supplied to them and other grocers. It proved very popular, and in 1887 the
family moved to Burley, where he started the Moorhouse business by making lemon cheese, orange marmalade and mincemeat; Moorhouse’s became the first company to produce mincemeat on a
commercial basis in April 1891. The Moorhouse business grew stronger year by year as William’s sons joined the business, and it became a household name, known for its jams and spreads and
especially for its Christmas puddings.

By Diane Allen

For the Sake of Her Family

For a Mother’s Sins

For a Father’s Pride

I wish to acknowledge my thanks to Roy Sedgwick, of Cowgill, an ex-signalman on the Settle-to-Carlisle Railway. His knowledge of the line gave me inspiration and guidance for this
book. I am also grateful for the use of information from
Memory Lane, Leeds
, Volume 1, published by the
Yorkshire Evening Post
, with its valuable insight into Victorian Leeds.

First published 2014 by Macmillan

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