When he was seven years old his father died, leaving him a small estate, part of which was the manor of Tappington, in Denton, Kent, mentioned so frequently in his later publication The Ingoldsby Legends.
当他七岁的时候，他的父亲去世了，给他留下了一个小小的遗产，其中一部分是位于肯特郡丹顿的塔平顿的庄园，在他后来出版的《英戈尔兹比传说故事集》中经常提到。