His christening from FamilySearch:

name: James Bartholemew
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 29 Mar 1824
baptism/christening place: KENTFORD,SUFFOLK,ENGLAND
father's name: William Bartholemew
mother's name: Mary
indexing project (batch) number: C13235-1
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 989537
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In 1861 he was a publican at the Crown, High St, Newmarket:

Surname Forename  Age  Relation  Occupation  Birth Place

Bartholomew James 35 Head Publican Kentford, Suffolk  
Bartholomew Matilda 40 Wife Ickworth, Suffolk
Bartholomew Arthur 11 Son Scholar Newmarket, Suffolk
Bartholomew William 10 Son   Scholar Newmarket, Suffolk
Bartholomew Thomas 7 Son Scholar Newmarket, Suffolk
Bartholomew James 4 Son Newmarket, Suffolk
Pope Elizabeth 25 Niece Bar Maid Ickworth, Suffolk
Isaacson Maria 22 Servant Housemaid Swaffham, Cambridgeshire
Knights Eliza 26 Servant Cook Snailwell, Cambridgeshire
Long James 16 Servant Waiter Boy Soham, Cambridgeshire
Fordham Ziba 17 Lodger Groom Radwinter, Essex

Ref: RG9/1032/F?

Address: [Meatuoce House] recte: Crown, High St
Parish: Newmarket St Mary
Registration District: Newmarket
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In 1881, his two eldest children has moved out (or died) though he did have a granddaughter:

Surname    Forename   Age  Relation   Occupation  Birth Place

Bartholomew James 57 Head              Inn Keeper     Kentford, Suffolk
Bartholomew Matilda   62 Wife            Ickworth, Suffolk
Bartholomew Thomas 27 Son Inn Keepers Son  No Occupation Newmarket, Suffolk
Bartholomew James 23 Son Inn Keepers Son  No Occupation Newmarket, Suffolk
Bartholomew Sarah 6 Grand Daughter Scholar                      Newmarket, Suffolk
Pope Elizabeth 44 Niece Barmaid Inn                  Ickworth, Suffolk
Rawlinson Alice 23 Servant Housemaid Domestic Servant   Cowlinger, Suffolk
Finch Mary 18 Servant Cook Domestic Servant        Stetchworth, Cambridgeshire
Stimpson Joseph 22 Servant Ostler Inn Domestic Servant  Soham, Cambridgeshire
Barnes Joseph 18 Servant   Waiter Inn Domestic Servant  Hammersmith, London
Dalton Edward N 26 Boarder   Private Tutor Teacher        Plaistow, Essex
Dalton Constance 18 Boarder                             Manchester, -

Ref: RG11/1677/F?

Address: High Street White Lion Inn
Parish: Newmarket St. Mary
Registration District: Newmarket
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This has to be his death:

Surname   First name(s)   Age   District   Vol  Page
Deaths Jun 1887   (>99%)
Bartholomew James 63 Newmarket 3b 305
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His probate index:

BARTHOLOMEW James
Personal Estate £1,368 10s. 6d.
7 July [1887]  The Will with a codicil of James Bartholomew late of Newmarket Saint Mary in the County of Suffolk Inkeeper who died 16 April 1887 at Newmarket Saint Mary was proved at the Principal Register by Matilda Bartholomew of Newmarket Saint Mary Widow the Relict the sole Executrix.
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Jeremy Bartholomew, a fellow descendant from William Bartholomew of Suffolk has located an article and photo from the Sporting Review on this James Bartholomew:

Jeremy commented that the article must be wrong in saying the James' father, William, came from Doncaster.  I agree with this as his father in 1841 said he was born outside England but in one of Wales, Scotland and Ireland.  While William the father could not be found in 1851, from 1851 to 1881 James' eldest brother William consistently reported in the censuses that he had been born in Scotland and a birth record can be found on the Scotland's People site.
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[Mid way through page 12 of the January 1858 edition of The Sporting Review]


                       J Bartholomew
                   The Celebrated Jockey
      Engraved by J.B.Hunt, from a painting by Harry Hall
                         BY CASTOR
                           -----

  We live in perilous times; and accidents by flood and field crowd upon us.  Never, for instance, did a hunting season open with such a run of serious casualties; although anybody who has been half an hour with hounds knows the reason why.  When boys are bird-nesting, and gardeners gathering raspberries, we must not be surprised to find green fences as well as green fields.  The country, in a word, was never known to be blind at this season of the year; and loose horses, and broken collar-bones, with even more lamentable ills, have been the consequence.  But it is not the Eighty Hunter alone who risks his neck.  That prime minister of fortune's favours, the well-worked jockey, may meet with as much mishap in a mile's scurry over the flat, as if he were bound to take everything in his line.  How many such may we reckon up within this season or two!  Robinson, in the still hale autumn of a glorious career, disabled for ever by a restive brute.  Marlow so shattered, that it is doubtful if he can ride again--the poor "Vicar". after successfully overcoming almost every misfortune a horseman could be tried with, slain outright at an awkward turn on a country course.  Within a week or two, another light-weight, little Deer, is as fatally injured; later still, F.Bell dies from a fall in a hurdle-race; while but a year previous, another of the best of our jockeys has his career stopped in the very full of its prosperity.

  If ever a man ranked high amongst our celebrated jockeys, it was Bartholomew at the time this portrait was taken.  If ever a man promised to attain the very first place in his profession, it was Bartholomew

[Between pages 12 and 13 is his full-page portrait]

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when he met with his accident at Goodwood. There was no one, at that period, who had worked his way up to so much good riding ; and no one was there who deserved it more. Of proved ability as a horseman, with a good head and great power, he united the most unimpeachable honesty. Perhaps, indeed, in so trying a kind of lifo, few have retained so good or so appropriate a manner. "He's a curious fellow," said one of our heaviest bettors to us, when talking him over ; " a shy, odd, reserved sort of man." In fact, just the one for his place. A jockey, like the horse he rides, should not make too much noise, or he will never run on.

James Bartholomew, though more familiarly known as " Ben," is Yorkshire bred, and Newmarket born. His father, who came from the vicinity of Doncaster, married and settled at Kentford, some four miles from Newmarket, on the Bury road. He kept there, for some time, "The Cock" Inn, a hostlery well known to the Chifneys, Arnulls, Wheatley, Goodison, and others of the old school of jockey, as the turning point in many a weary walk. It was here, in their wasting excursions, they could take just five minutes' rest ere trudging back again; and it was here, in the March of 1824, that one of the most worthy of their successors first saw the light. Many a wrinkle must "Ben" have heard, and treasured up, from those Eldons of their order; and often must he now regret that he can no longer follow in their footsteps on the Bury road. Of course, the ruling passion was soon contracted; and at a very early age, the hero of this brief history left the Cock Inn for William Ridsdale's stables at Newmarket. His schooling here, however, was of but short duration. In twelve months Mr. Ridsdale lost most of his horses, and Ben was for some time out of work. Still, he had already established something of a character as a quiet, steady lad ; and this, with his former master's strong recommendation, soon procured for him another. He could scarcely have chosen a better tutor than the late Joseph Rogers, under whom Bartholomew completed his education, and for whose stable he made his first appearance in public. With "the old man," indeed, he soon became a great favourite. The lad's portrait was introduced into a picture with a famous mare, and " many is the half-crown I got from being asked into the parlour to show how like it was to me." It could not have been, either, a difficult one to take ; for, just then, Ben's face was a good deal like a full moon, and his figure about as broad as long.

  The connection with the Rogers' stable has never been severed; although Bartholomew soon came out as a jockey on his own account. As far back as the spring of 1841 we find him in regular practice at Newmarket, where, in the Craven Meeting, he won a race at 6st. 12lb., for Mr. Batson, on Barbara; and in the Second Spring Meeting, the Suffolk Stakes for Pettit, on Langolee, drawing 5st. 11lb. Two seasons after this, in 1843, he gets a mount for the Derby on Mr. Harvey Coombe's Fake-away; a gentleman who, like Mr. Rogers, has never since tired of him. It is one of those jackets —- the purple and white —- Bartholomew always looked at home in. From this period up to the close of 1847, our young jockey came fairly into repute. A variety of circumstances gave him a great deal of riding for bis old master's stable, and some of his best races are to be traced to this era in his career. In 1845, for instance, he won the New Stakes at Ascot, for Lord Lonsdale, on Joy ; beating the then-renowned Sting by a head, with avcrj large field behind them ; no less than twenty others ran, with 12 to 1 as the market price against Joy. Than, again, in the autumn of the

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same year, he had the best of another still well-remembered contest ; when, for the same noble lord, he won the Grand Duke Michael, on Jericho, overcoming George Edwards on the favourite, the handsome Idas, also by a head. ButJericho, although not altogether the most fortunate, was always a fancy of Ben's; and in the opening of the next year, he pulled through another famous race with him. This was for the Port, which brought out a field of four, the picked horses, and, still more certainly, the picked jockeys of the day: — Sam Day, on Old England; Flatman, on Miss Blis; Robinson, on Idas; and Bartholomew, on Jericho. The finish was left to Jericho and Old England; and the Calendar, which had just then taken to registering particulars in full, records it as "a splendid run in with two; ending in favour of Jericho by a head." In 1847 we can remember him at Ascot, on Jericho, for the Cup; and more successful with Trouncer, for Mr. Coombe. But it was not a good year, and by the next he had Lord Exeter's first jacket in his keeping. The engagement as not a long one; and by the time the Midas and Stockwell turn had come, their triumphs had to be written under''theNormanConquest." The Bishop of Romford's Cob, Swordplayer, Tisiphone, Cosachia, Gardenia, and Glenalvon, were amongst the best which Harlock could prepare for Ben's finishing touch. In the next few years, we have him still creeping on, with Captain Lane, Mr. Ford, Lord Glasgow, Mr. E. R. Clarke, Mr. Osbaldeston and others, added to his list of employers.

  Bartholomew did a good deal in a quiet way for Captain Laue, and was very great on that clipping two-year-old Payment, for Mr. Ford. He, however, considers Ruby the best young one he ever handled. Becoming more and more known and liked, and a favourable opening or two occurring, the year 1855 saw our jockey fairly established amongst the best of his trade. He had an immense deal of riding, in this season -— on Fly-by-Night and Lord Derby's horses for Scott's stable -— was as well mounted by Mr. Stanley on Mary Copp and Co. —- fourth for the Derby, on Flatterer; third for the Oaks on Capucine; with a very good week at Ascot, always a favourite course of his. Lord Bruce, Mr. Rudstone Reade, and Sir Charles Monck now took their turn for his services.

  No year could have opened more auspiciously than did the follow ing. Bartholomew had unquestionably the call of any man of the day, and no one was less likely to abuse such an advantage. He was by this recognised as the first jockey for Scott's stable, with many others always anxious to have him hen they could. Up to the time of his accident he rode in every race of any importance* -— the Two Thousand and Thousand Guineas Stakes, the Chester Cup, the Derby, the Oaks, the Ascot Cup, the July, and, in fact, in all the great events previous to Goodwood. How Fly-by-Night did not win the Derby is still a mystery with him ; as, indeed, after the Ascot performances, it was to most people. Bartholomew was again in luck here, winning a rather remarkable race for the Cup on Winkfield ; made, as it was, yet more memorable by the excitement of the owner, who, it is said, never got over it. His jockey's fee was the handsome sum of two hundred. At Goodwood Ben opened still under the most favourable auspices. On the first day he won the Gratwicke for Lord Derby on Fazzoletto, and the Lavant on Impérieuse, for "Mr. Newland." The next day, as is too well known, he was one of the most injured of all the jockeys down in

[Footnote]: * This half-year's work shows 66 mounts, of which he won 31.

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the fearful smash for the Goodwood Stakes. At the turn near the
Craven starting-post, Chevy Chase ran on the bank, and then fell back into the course ; a whole crowd of horses, of course, coming on to her, seven of which were also down. These included Bartholomew, on Baron Rothschild's Hungerford, and Mundy on Jolly Marine ; both so severely injured as to have to remain for several weeks in the Chichester Infirmary. A subscription, amounting to £450, was subsequently divided between these two, and Ashmani and Ilcarndcn, who were also, though less seriously, hurt.

  Bartholomew wintered carefully and well ; and with every prospect, as it was thought, of resuming his riding this last spring. Unfortunately he has now found it impossible to waste, and during the year he has been but twice up. In the Newmarket Craven Meeting, he reached 9st. on Pit-a-pat for his old employer, Mr. Coombe (in the Craven of '56 he had ridden for Mr. Coombe at 8st.); and at Ascot, for the Cup, he again rode Winkfield at 9st.3lb. As the horses went to the post on that bumper day, a cry rose in the Stand that somebody was off! It turned out to be again poor Ben, whose stirrup-leather had broken, just as Winkfield twisted suddenly round. He, however, rode the race, and we so saw him safely through probably the last he ever will ride.

  Since then, Bartholomew has abandoned all hopes of the cap and jacket ; and, with a young family depending upon him, has at once taken to another calling. He is now the landlord of the Crown Inn, Newmarket, a business in which his past career will be sure to serve him. He has deservedly gained the respect both of his employers and his fellows ; and neither, we trust, will refuse to give him another fair start.

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From Shop's History Newmarket:

For 216 High St, The White Lion:

1896  Death of Thomas Bartholomew
1896  Thomas Bartholomew, White Lion PH - Kelly's Directory
1891  Matilda Bartholomew, Inn Keeper, White Lion Inn - Census
1887  Death of James Bartholomew
1881  James Bartholomew
1872 - 1873  Landlord: James Bartholomew, ex jockey, previously at The Crown - No.26-28 High Street
- son of licensee of The Cock at Kentford - Newmarket Journal


For 26-28 High St, The Crown:

1874  Bartholomew James, victualler, Crown and White Lion Hotels, High Street - White's Directory
1861 - 1871  Crown: - Publican: James Bartholomew

Their marriage registration:

Surname   First name(s)      District   Vol  Page
Marriages Mar 1846   (>99%)
Bartholemew James Thingoe 13 825   
Bilson Matilda    Thingoe 13 825
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