Richard Ecroyd Tatham

https://www.tathamhistory.org.uk/tatham-family.php

"The chart is a remarkable achievement. Richard Tatham had few of the aids available to today's family historian: no family history centres or websites; no access to personal census information; and the statutory registration of births, marriages and deaths was a recent innovation. Even more remarkable is the fact that he was only 18 when he completed the chart in 1856.

Richard Tatham was a Quaker, born in Settle in 1838. He went to Ackworth School, Pontefract, and then to school in York, before working for 4 years in his father's business in Settle. In November 1857, he moved to York, where he worked for Joseph Rowntree, returning to Settle in early 1860. In February that year, with the help of his brother (Robert) and his father's apprentice, he started a Sabbath School for young people (15+) and adults. In the summer of 1860, he began to show signs of a serious lung disease, which eventually caused his early death in 1861. For further biographical information, see The Sabbath School Teacher: A Memoir of Richard E. Tatham by John Ford, published in 1861: "a simple record of his short but bright course of earthly service".

Richard E. Tatham's genealogical work can be viewed using the following links."

1. The book (excluding the chart). This is the BYU version, with Rev. Grange's letter appended. (bad link)
2. The whole chart in one strip.
3. The chart divided into 14 sections. The sections are sized for A4 portrait printing, with overlaps to facilitate joining them up into your own giant chart.
Tatham History Society is indebted to Phil Fern for providing the PDFs of the chart. Some parts are a little faint; the PDFs came to Phil as copies of copies, and he doesn't know how far removed they are from an original printed copy. He is a genealogist, and a descendant of John Tatham, and has discovered some errors in the chart, so its accuracy can't be taken for granted.

(read source for more on Settle)