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Topic: Anyone want any searches or photos done in Whitehaven (Read 12161 times)
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Hi Anne
Bob is right about St Beghs church being the catholic church in Whitehaven. St Benedicts is in Mirehouse, but wasn't there in those days. There is also St Marys on Kells, above Whitehaven, also wasn't there then. St Beghs is your best bet, but if you don't have a birth certificate to go on, and no definite date, it will be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
St Marys at Cleator is about ten minutes away, but it depends if he actually lived in Cleator or Egremont.
St Beghs only have a few records in the record office, their books haven't been transcribed yet.
I hope you find something. William sounds like my grandfather - very elusive - I haven't found anything about him, and I've been looking for 15 years!!!
Good luck
Rosemary
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GROGGINS, GLASSON, FARRELLY, PYE, CAMPBELL, HENVY, GLAVE - Ireland, Whitehaven (Cumberland)
BEARDEN, BOWMAN - Whitehaven/Beckermet Cumberland
ROONEY, WARD, MALONE - Ireland, Cleator Moor (Cumberland)
MAIN, CUTTER, CLAYTON, PRYKE - Thetford, Swaffham (Norfolk)
FORD/E - Ireland, Warwickshire England
COULTHARD - Whitehaven/Workington (Cumberland)
DWAN - Ireland
LAWSON - Isle of Man, Whitehaven
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Hi Anne
St Marys at Cleator don't have many old graves left. I was up there a few months ago with my mother-in-law, who could remember visiting her grandmother's grave just by the church, but it wasn't there. We visited the priest's house, who told us the map/plan of the graveyard had been destroyed in a fire a few years earlier, so they have no record of who is buried there, and whereabouts. He also said that some of the graves are under the wide tarmac path that goes around the side of it. There is also a newish porch on the side of the church. I wouldn't be surprised if there are also graves underneath there.
So your relations could be there, under the path, like ours. Also if they didn't have much money at the time, they may just have had a wooden cross, which could have rotted away with time. I was really upset that they were allowed to do that with the path, how dare they?
Good luck with St Beghs.
Best wishes
Rosemary
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GROGGINS, GLASSON, FARRELLY, PYE, CAMPBELL, HENVY, GLAVE - Ireland, Whitehaven (Cumberland)
BEARDEN, BOWMAN - Whitehaven/Beckermet Cumberland
ROONEY, WARD, MALONE - Ireland, Cleator Moor (Cumberland)
MAIN, CUTTER, CLAYTON, PRYKE - Thetford, Swaffham (Norfolk)
FORD/E - Ireland, Warwickshire England
COULTHARD - Whitehaven/Workington (Cumberland)
DWAN - Ireland
LAWSON - Isle of Man, Whitehaven
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Hi Andrew
Welcome back. Sorry to hear about your troubles, but glad to see you back
Rosemary 
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GROGGINS, GLASSON, FARRELLY, PYE, CAMPBELL, HENVY, GLAVE - Ireland, Whitehaven (Cumberland)
BEARDEN, BOWMAN - Whitehaven/Beckermet Cumberland
ROONEY, WARD, MALONE - Ireland, Cleator Moor (Cumberland)
MAIN, CUTTER, CLAYTON, PRYKE - Thetford, Swaffham (Norfolk)
FORD/E - Ireland, Warwickshire England
COULTHARD - Whitehaven/Workington (Cumberland)
DWAN - Ireland
LAWSON - Isle of Man, Whitehaven
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