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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 29 September 07 21:12 BST (UK) »

wodell, do you know where this is, is it a museum?  I plan to go back to Aspatria area in 2008 and will have a car again.  Or do I need to be in the Durham area.  I also had ancestors who were miners there and in Yorkshire.  Some in Aspatria were miners, but some were farmers.

I have learned this year that  Mr. Lawson was a major mine owner.  So he was not only a MP, but at one time he was knighted and became a Sir. There may be a statue of  him in Carlisle, but I'm not sure,  The Lawson family and their servants lived at Brayton Hall and Brayton farm.  I've found them on several census records.  RedFox
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CRNWL:  Dawe, Bawden, Leming
CHES: Heginbotham
YRK:  Dawe, Jackson, Ranson, Leming
LANC:  Dawe, Harris, Thomas, Bellamy or Billany, Bayliff, Madsen
EAST SSX:  Etchingham - Woolgar
SCT: RXB-Robson, REN & LNK-Lisle/Lyle/Leill, Taylor, Masson
WALES: Dawe
USA:  MI - Dawe, Stringer, Lisle, Robson, Davidson, Mills, Handy, Betzner, Leeper, Fankboner, Ross, Lyle
IRE: Bell, Prestley/Priestley
GER: Wuerttemberg - Betz
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 29 September 07 21:54 BST (UK) »

 :Dhi, there isnt a museum at aspatria, just some old mine ruins, i do recall a seeing some photos of the miners somewhere, i,ll try to remember where at,
the mining museum is on line its quite interesting if you have mining connections, but if you need to know any local geography i worked in the villages surrounding aspatria,
due to work i am only on line at weekends(i wish it could be more),
the lawsons were quite a powerful family at one time, there still is a lawson street in the town,
i know how genealogy can be a pain but our local dialect will make it worse,we call aspatria, speeyatree,dunno why.
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 29 September 07 22:27 BST (UK) »

 :Dhi, its me back again, the site is  www.dmm.org.uk.
it lists all shafts sunk dates productivity, and a number of employees names and addresses, as well as a photo of the pit, and links to sites where you will find details of the owners, hope it helps, wodell
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 30 September 07 02:12 BST (UK) »

Thanks for the website, wodell.  The only Cumberland mine I found was in Workington.  There was one man killed in that flood incident, but not sure if he fits in my family tree or not.

The street you said is Lawson I figure used to be called Newtown in the census and parish records.  I was going through some research a relative did in 1992 when his family went over to visit Aspatria.  That was what the man who lived on that street told them.  I was also on that street in 2005 - I didn't know it was called that.  The man working in his garage there said the houses across the way were probably built about 1840.  I had to wonder if my ancestor hadnn't lived there.   

The women I met in Carlisle told me then to pronounce Aspatria - speetree - like you did.  One of the women said that is how the train conducter pronounced it.
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CRNWL:  Dawe, Bawden, Leming
CHES: Heginbotham
YRK:  Dawe, Jackson, Ranson, Leming
LANC:  Dawe, Harris, Thomas, Bellamy or Billany, Bayliff, Madsen
EAST SSX:  Etchingham - Woolgar
SCT: RXB-Robson, REN & LNK-Lisle/Lyle/Leill, Taylor, Masson
WALES: Dawe
USA:  MI - Dawe, Stringer, Lisle, Robson, Davidson, Mills, Handy, Betzner, Leeper, Fankboner, Ross, Lyle
IRE: Bell, Prestley/Priestley
GER: Wuerttemberg - Betz
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 30 September 07 08:52 BST (UK) »

Hi Wodell, Thanks for that.

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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 30 September 07 21:44 BST (UK) »

Hi, there were loads of pits (sorry coalmines) in west cumbria. My ggf blew himself up at dearham pit. There was a huge disaster at one of the whitehaven pits I think in the 30's. I remember the spoil heaps at salterbeck, flimby (at least 2 pits there) and 1 at northside workington  that when they removed the spoilheap in the 60's the tides scoured the bay of all the sand and we were left with practically no beach and the coastal railway needs constant protection there now. Ggf is on the dmm site (henry graham).
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 30 September 07 21:53 BST (UK) »

That DMM site is very interesting even though it only has Workington pits on it.  I did see a Graham.  Also saw some who might have been my ancestors, both Wilkinson.  Two had last names I recognized from people I've chatted with on  the Cumberland list - Sandwith and Oglanby. 

It's a site worth looking at  for several counties, mostly around Durham - Yorkshire, Northumberland, etc.  But also other areas.  RedFox
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CRNWL:  Dawe, Bawden, Leming
CHES: Heginbotham
YRK:  Dawe, Jackson, Ranson, Leming
LANC:  Dawe, Harris, Thomas, Bellamy or Billany, Bayliff, Madsen
EAST SSX:  Etchingham - Woolgar
SCT: RXB-Robson, REN & LNK-Lisle/Lyle/Leill, Taylor, Masson
WALES: Dawe
USA:  MI - Dawe, Stringer, Lisle, Robson, Davidson, Mills, Handy, Betzner, Leeper, Fankboner, Ross, Lyle
IRE: Bell, Prestley/Priestley
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 30 September 07 23:00 BST (UK) »

That DMM site is very interesting even though it only has Workington pits on it.

I have answered this on the Cumb List, but will repeat my reply here

Only Workington pits?
 
I suggest you take another look - there are over 60 named fatalities at Aspatria.
 
http://www.dmm.org.uk/lom/1888_301.htm
 
http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/b030.htm
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 30 September 07 23:57 BST (UK) »

My g.g.grandfather lived in Dalton, Ulverstone and was an iron ore miner in 1861.  Anyone know anything about that?

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BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) -  Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
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« Reply #24 on: Monday 01 October 07 00:04 BST (UK) »

Just had a look on google and found a site all about Iron Ore Mining in the Dalton area.  Apparently it was the principal mining town of Furness.  There are also some reports of deaths down the mines.  One is of a man with the same surname as my g.g.grandfather although as the death was in 1828 and my g.g.grandfather wasn't born until 1835 it obviously wasn't his father.  It is a common surname in the town, but might have been some relative.

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BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) -  Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #25 on: Monday 01 October 07 00:09 BST (UK) »

Lizzie

You might find something here about a specific mine

http://www.dmm.org.uk/lom/1902_305.htm
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« Reply #26 on: Monday 01 October 07 00:11 BST (UK) »

Geoff

Thanks for that.  I don't know which mine my g.g.grandfather worked in.  I do know by 1871 he had taken his family to Hull.  Perhaps he felt being a dock labourer was safer than an iron ore miner.

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BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) -  Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #27 on: Monday 01 October 07 01:14 BST (UK) »

Thanks, Geoff.  I also answered you on the Cumberland list.  I was distracted.  I didn't look past the first page and paid no attention to the column on the left-hand side.  I had been on this website several years ago, so I should have known better.  As I said on the C. list, I was distracted.   RedFox
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CRNWL:  Dawe, Bawden, Leming
CHES: Heginbotham
YRK:  Dawe, Jackson, Ranson, Leming
LANC:  Dawe, Harris, Thomas, Bellamy or Billany, Bayliff, Madsen
EAST SSX:  Etchingham - Woolgar
SCT: RXB-Robson, REN & LNK-Lisle/Lyle/Leill, Taylor, Masson
WALES: Dawe
USA:  MI - Dawe, Stringer, Lisle, Robson, Davidson, Mills, Handy, Betzner, Leeper, Fankboner, Ross, Lyle
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #28 on: Thursday 04 October 07 17:08 BST (UK) »

 ;Dgosh how lucky am i , the householder behind me, woke up an his garden had gone, thats cos we live over one of them west cumbria mine shafts, its been there since before the formation of the ncb and before the owners were made to keep records,the village rests on pillars of coal a bit like cleator moor does on iron ore,
i think digging through records is safer than coal,?
but i am off work for a few days, and i have the workington 1700, 1901 cdrom if any one needs any info, wodell Wink
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Re: question to any Cumbria experts out there
« Reply #29 on: Thursday 29 November 07 22:06 GMT (UK) »

Hello Kena...I have just joined ten minutes ago and I am delighted to reply to your post having been brought up in Aspatria.  (Hope I am not too late)

I think Brayton Gate was a farm on the road to Aspatria.. The Hall was the home of the

Lawson family.  Sir Wilfrid Lawson (1829 to 1906) was the local M.P. and local benefactor. He was best known as President of the United Kingdom Alliance (Temperance Movement.)  He is in Online Encyclopaedia.

As well as the memorial to him in Aspatria (St. George)  there is a very fine life-size statue of Sir Wilfrid on the Embankment in London just in front of the back (riverside) windows of the Savoy Hotel.

Thursby is between Wigton and Carlisle.  Wigton is a small market town  eight miles from Aspatria. Two well known people attended the grammar school there .....Anna Ford (her father was the vicar)  and Melvyn Bragg.            ( And me)

Aspatria was a mining village, it is exactly mid way between Wigton and Maryport.

Allhallows Parish  is the neighbouring one to Aspatria.  It includes Fletchertown, Mealsgate, Baggrow, Bolton Low Houses, Blennerhasset, Red Dial,etc......all tiny villages within a small radius.

By the way there is lots on Google about these places,  I have just checked Images of Cumbria via Google.

The painter Sheila Fell came from Aspatria.  She was one of L.S. Lowry's protegees.

Incidentally my ancestor Barbara Frears had her baby in Cockermouth Workhouse in 1866 and gave her maiden name as Reay but whether it was due to mis-hearing or something like that I don't know yet.

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