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Yorkslass
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Hello all,
Can anyone tell me anything about Captain French, Kendal.
We have ancestors marrying there in 1851.
I've googled it, but all that comes up are maps and addresses for business etc.
It sounds as if it has some history, but I can't find anything!
Any help appreciated,
Yorkslass.
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Norris, London 1800's
Bird, Gt Yarmouth 1800's
Smowton, Yarmouth/Norwich 1770
Dublack, Yarmouth
Binks, Essex
Wilcock, Lancashire
Kettlewell, Yorkshire
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Yorkslass
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Posts: 384
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Hello,
Thank you both for looking this up for me, Barbara and Jen.
Barbara, the photo is lovely - it looks like the place hasn't changed much in 150 years - pretty hillside cottages. I do wish the enumerators had put actual street numbers on those censuses - then we could find the very place, as it's obviously still there.
Jen, how lucky you are to live there! William Wilcock and Agnes Read were married at the Parish Church in Kendal on 23 March 1851, and their first son was born at Captain French 14 December 1852.
It is the name that intriques me -did a French Captain live in Kendal, and become so famous that a street was named after him? I wonder. I really would appreciate your looking in your Kendal Books.
Thanks again to you both,
Yorkslass
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Yorkslass
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Posts: 384
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Good morning Jen,
I'm sorry you have to go rummaging- I know what you mean about things "disappearing". It happens to me all the time!
I don't want to put you to any trouble - if you can't find your own book, please don't make a special trip to the library.
Thanks again,
Yorkslass
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genjen
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I found it - lurking behind a load of my partner's spy novels. How did that happen?
Here are some passages from a chapter named "Captain French Lane, Tenterfield and their characters" in Memories of Old Kendal by Jack O'Connor. Published 1961. I hope I'm not breaking the rules here and that the acknowledgement makes it legit!
"It would be difficult to separate Captain French from Tenterfield - one is part of the other. Captain French traditionally owes its name to a certain Captain French but our local chronology supplies the added name of Brougham's Lane, after the name of the parliamentary candidate in the 1818 election. Evidently, the inhabitants favoured the True Blues."
"In Speed's plan of 1614, this lane is called Rotten Row - or Routine Row - so named because the corteges went by that route from Soutergate to the old cemetry on Kirkbarrow, the church burial ground. The Captain French from whom it took its name was a churchwarden at the Parish Church in 1660. He it was, perhaps, who built most of the houses in the little thoroughfare."
" Like Fellside, Captain French and Tenterfield inhabitants had handlooms to provide them with extra bread and dripping."
" There is something about a community such as Captain French which is less noticeable in suburban areas. Interwoven into the fabric of the inhabitants' lives is something from the vocation they followed............As Kendal was divided from Kirkland by a tiny beck*, it follows that Captain French Lane had its territorial divisions. The clan spirit was as much in evidence as over the border. The place names are not recorded on the survey maps but Neddy Broo, Pig Hull Square, Back Folly and Bush Yard were thresholds over which you 'stept at thi peril.'"
" The names of the handloom weavers........included Tom Smith, Dick Troughton, Harry Wardley, William Wilcocks, Edward, Jackson, George Noble, Harry Megson and a Dixon whose forst name couldn't be remembered."
There is masses more of this but I don't want to post stuff which is not of interest so I'll stop there.
* the tiny beck in question is currently in spate, running literally just outside my front garden wall!
It was, like a lot of Kendal on this side of the river, basically an area of woollen industry. There are references to the tenterhooks on from which materials were stretched to dry. How many people when talking about being apprehensive about something, refer to being "on Tenderhooks", so misquoting the real term, of "on tenterhooks" which is what is is really all about.
If you want more, give me a shout.
Cheers,
Jen
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Essex: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow DUCK Spurden HARMONY
N.E.Scotland: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NR Yorks: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
Westmorland: Dickenson, Jackson Ewbank Waller
Staffs: White Knight
Surrey: Knight
Durham: Smith
Hants: Williams Grose Lush Venson
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Yorkslass
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Posts: 384
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Oh wow, Jen, that is fantastic!
Thank you so much for looking and especially for typing it all out.
There's plenty there to get my teeth into. My husband will be delighted too, as it's his ancestors who lived there.
To find his name, too - is a special bonus.
I'll have a look to see if that book is still in print, or whether it's one I can get off the internet.
Once again, thanks a million,
Yorkslass
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Yorkslass
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Posts: 384
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Thanks Jen,
I've had a quick look online, and the book is for sale on quite a few sites - ranging from £6 to £30, so it's a must!
Yorks
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Radcliff
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Hello I to found this name in a census,when looking for my Bibby side of my family,they were weavers,one was a wool weaver and one a flax dipper living next door to each other,when I was last in Kendal I had a wander that way,sorry nothing to help you with,happy researching Gillian 
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Gunning County Down,Kneale Isle of Man,Riddle Tynemouth,Bibby Kendal/Bradford,Colenso Penzance/Barrow-in-Furness,Steele Corney Fell,Chapman Ely,Dawes Alfreton,Blamire Westmoreland and Ulverston
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