The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19

Boiling Hall and Chellow Grange, which stand respectively on the two hills top- plng the east and west sides of the val ley in which Bradford itself lies, interest Tn the new mistress of the White House has been keen and every chapter of the wonderful story of the Bradford Bollings has been recalled.
 Strangely enough, the whirligig of time has turned one of the two storied mansions which Mrs. Gait may claim as the homes of her ancestors into a museum, and the other into a golf club house. For the first Boiling hall has Within the past two months been made by the Bradford City corporation into sort of local Valhalla, and a tremen- dously fascinating one, while the sec- ond, Chellow Grange, has, for the past 12 years, been the headquarters of the West Bradford Golf club, an organiza- ton which numbers several hundred members, including most of the mill Hona1re mill owners and spinners of the district round about.
 It is this latter building which may be described as Mrs. Galts real ances- tral home, since it was from CheIlow Grange that Robert Boiling, who founded the American branch of the house, went to Virginia in 1860, as a boy of 15, to seek, and as is proved, to find, his fortune in the new world There, in after years he met and even- tually married Jane Rolfe, the grand daughter of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, through their only son, Thomas, and thus founded the branch of the house of which the erstwhile Miss Edith Boiling is a member. Thus, at least, the English records have it, though, apparently the American ones chronicle that it was a son of Col. Robert Boiling, formerly of Chellow r,,1x n American records name this one as John, and declare him to have been the great-great- great grandfather of Archibald Boiling, of whom Mrs. Gait s father was a descendant, but this point is a relatively small one. It is unmis- takab1e that Chellow Grange, now largely modernized, the home of the West Bradford Golf club, was the era dle of the American branch of the house, and to this day one of the prin- cipal residences of the American Boll- ings, is called "Chellow,' though it stands amid wide vineyards on the sunny slopes of Buckingham county, in Virginia, instead of in the center of an English landscape. In England, meanwhile, the family appears to have died out There are no Bollings in Bradford at all events, nor have been for couple of hundred years, but their history is a living thing, and cu riously interesting one it is.
 The manor of Boiling, or Bowling, as it is sometimes spelled, was one Of the earliest in the Bradford area The name existed even in Saxon times, but antiquaries unite in believing that the first of the family so named was a stranger in the locality. When Rich- ard Cour de Lion was at the wars, or in captivity, his brother, John, as every reader of "Ivanhoe" knows, was indus triously undermining his authority and his throne, to which eventually he succeeded. Some person, whose origin is unknown (but whose name was evi- dently Tristram), appears to have earned King Johns gratitude for some piece of work unspecified, and in re- turn he was granted the manor of Boiling, in Bradford. To Bradford he came and adopting, as was the cus- tom of the day, the territorial title, he was a Boiling henceforth, the first of many Tristram Bollings. He 1t was who began the building of Boiling hall, the splendid mansion of many differ ent periods which is now Bradford's new museum. (The halls old peel tower'' is supposed to have been this mans work). In time, others attached to it. bit by bit, more commodious and increasingly splendid residence And so the line went on, surviving amongst other things. the terrible vlsi- tatfon known as the black death, by which third of the whole hsps popalas.on n.on of Europe is believed 10 nave oeeh swept away.
 Tn the nearby Chellow district, the monks of Selby abbey owned good deal of land, and they built themselves there a. "grange." monastic grange was more than a mere granary, though in a corn growing country such building would