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Cumberland / Re: Joseph Harrison mother's name
« on: Thursday 10 November 22 22:27 GMT (UK)  »
Please Remember that there is a Brigham about two miles from Cockermouth and also a hamlet called Brigham within the confines of Keswick. Keswick came within the Cockermouth Registration District.

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Englethwaite Hall boys home Cotehill
« on: Tuesday 15 March 22 16:07 GMT (UK)  »
I have just come across this thread. There is considerable information on the Cascat Index of Cumbria Archive Service. This is the link
https://archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/calmview/
Just enter Englethwaite in the search box and 40 or so entries will come up.
It must also have catered for girls in the 1950's as a friend of mine's mother was at the house back then.

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Cumberland / Re: Old photos of Frizington
« on: Thursday 25 November 21 16:18 GMT (UK)  »
There are 52 photographs of Frizington on

Cumbriaimagebank.org.uk


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Cumberland / Re: Netherby Hall Estate - Bruntons Hill Farm
« on: Thursday 19 August 21 11:45 BST (UK)  »
I think Gan Yam is right in suggesting that they went to the school at Kirkandrews Moat. It would only be a few hundred yards from Bruntonshill if they crossed Carwinley Burn by one of the many paved fords.
As quarrymen they would probably be employed in the extensive quarry at Low Moat as there would be a fair amount of dressed stone required for the Scotsdyke and Riddings stations as well as the viaduct for the Langholm branch and numerous road bridges. There was also a quarry at Laws Hall about a mile to the south of Bruntonshill.
You will find that most of the farms and houses provided accommodation for the railway workers. I did research on the neighbouring Nicholforest parish where the population went up from 749 in 1851 to 1216 in 1861. Some of the names concocted by the Irish navvies are unrepeatable here but can you imagine the atmosphere when an English enumerator went into a hut housing 20 rough and ready navvies and then said he want to know all their names, ages, where they were born and if they were married. Must have been really scary. There was a murder just up the road at Penton Bridge Inn in 1861 which shows how rough the workers were.
There are many more maps at maps.nls.uk The National Library of Scotland as per pm to you.

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Cumberland / Re: Missing Marriage: Richard Pattinson to Ruth Brown both of Kirkoswald.
« on: Wednesday 04 August 21 09:21 BST (UK)  »
I don't know where you where you are based but the Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle holds the methodist and Quaker records. They currently have an enhanced enquiry service. The contact details, taken from their website are:

Lady Gillford's House
Petteril Bank Road
Carlisle
CA1 3AJ
Telephone: 01228 227284
Email:  carlisle.archives@cumbria.gov.uk

Good Luck

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Re your initial post. They may have been quakers or other non-conformist religion. Kirkoswald had non-conformist chapels: i.e. Congregational (at Parkhead), Wesleyan plus three independent congregations. Quakers could meet at Sowerby or Penrith.

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Cumberland / Re: Border Reivers clan names
« on: Monday 26 April 21 12:53 BST (UK)  »
I think Sallyyorks and Iluleah back in 2018 seem to consign the Reivers to myth and legend. Nothing could be further from the truth. They were a very real and constant threat on both sides of the borders and as for evidence of their depredations, there is masses of it. So great was the threat that a whole new codex of law "Border Law" had to be drawn up to try and bring some sort of normality to the region.

Regarding the curse of Bishop Dunbar, do I feel cursed? As a Forster of reiver ancestry; not in the slightest.

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Cumberland / Re: History question
« on: Tuesday 02 March 21 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
Crivens Skoosh, I didnae realise I was the product of a "mixed" marriage until you pointed it out. Please don't look for bias or prejudice where none exists or is intended.

Joking aside, I can tell 10ken that Tweddle is a name most commonly associated with the parish of Stapleton in North Cumberland. I have gone through the Stapleton marriages from 1740 to 1760 and cannot find a Nancy or Ann Tweddle/Tweedale/Tweedal. The only entry I have come across that is remotely close is:
4 May 1751. David Little and Mary Tweddle, married.

There were quite a lot of Kennedy's in Bewcastle Parish, neighbouring Stapleton, so that may be worthwhile looking at.


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Cumberland / Re: History question
« on: Sunday 28 February 21 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
Are we not getting off the track a little? 10Ken's question was about a marriage in North Cumberland, not about marriage in another country which, admittedly, does border North Cumberland. The ball is back in 10Ken's court if he wants to give names and locations.
Incidentally there was no parish without a church in North Cumbria in 1750 except for Kirkandrews on Eden and there services were held in the nearby Beaumont parish, about a mile away.

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