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Shield Family of Gateshead.

My ancestor Beatrice Shield nee Henderson had two sons. After her marriage she lived at Gateshead.

Beatrice was born at Aspatria, Cumberland in 1903 and died in childbirth in 1938 (I think.)

Is anyone else descended from this family or is researching it?

I would be glad to hear any information about their descendants, please.

Sarah
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 Hi annaandchester

Have you heard of the book "Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin"  by Margaret Forster, the English novelist and biographer?

It gives the full history of J.D.Carr and the biscuit works at Carlisle.

Might give you a lead.                                   Kind regards from SarahB

My ancestor Ritson Frears travelled from Ravenglass to Bermuda in 1831 to work as a joiner in the royal naval Dockyards, with his wife Betty and son Thomas.  By 1841 they were back in Kent on the way back to Cumbria.  They had eight children altogether so there must be plenty of descendants from this family.  What I am trying to find out at present is....

Where were they all in 1851?  I can find no result in that census.  In 1861 they were in Eskdale.   In 1841 they were at Woolwich, presumably Ritson was working at the Chatham dockyards.

How did they travel up north in 1841?  (Mother, father and five young children)

The railways were only just being built and certainly in Cumbria not until the 1850s.

Where should I be looking to find out about transport at that time?

I have Hunter Davies' book 'A Walk along the tracks'  ( hooray for one of our own Cumbrian authors)

I am most impressed with Rootschat......hope someone out there has one or two ideas.                                   SarahB

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.

Good luck with everything. 
                                                                                             SarahB