William Steele/Nixon and James Steele 1800 - 1813 Bewcastle

[Gan Yam]

Hi

I'll look at the marriages and death's next time I'm at the Archives and let you know what I find.

Have you thought about subscribing to British Newspaper Archives to find any articles or family notices that may help you with all of your Steel searches.  The Carlisle Patriot and the Journal are both on line up to the end of the 1890's and do contain things from the west of Cumbria.  Sometimes you can get snippets of info just from death or marriage notices alone that may help to piece bits together for all of your Steel family.  I think you can subscribe just for a month for about £10. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Just a thought! you may have already tried it.

J

[sirsimon]

I'll have a look when I can

I appreciate the help, living in Wales I am very far from the archives and therefore cannot access records that you can

[Gan Yam]

Had a look at marriages and deaths in Bewcastle for James, but couldn't see anything.

J

[sirsimon]

thanks

If there is no marriage, then he either died young or just vanished

[Gan Yam]

He could have emigrated?  From research I know that other families from the Bewcastle area went to Canada, USA and also Australia around this time

[sirsimon]

I do not know sorry.

On the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, there is a James Steele moving to New York in 1828, he was apparently born in 1812. Doesn't give me a birth location.

[shirl100]

I do not know sorry.

On the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, there is a James Steele moving to New York in 1828, he was apparently born in 1812. Doesn't give me a birth location.

The actual record on familysearch shows James age 16 a farmer was accompanied by John, might help rule it in or out! https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-20230-50068-99?cc=1919703

Shirl

[sirsimon]

thank you for finding it

Unfortunately I don't think this is James, as it doesn't mention anything about Cumberland and I have no idea whom this John is. Its puzzling to see James has just vanished.

His mother Sybil lived in Bewcastle until 1839 and she never married, his brother William apparently died in 1826, aged 26 in Bewcastle.

But there's nothing on James.

[clearly]

The Church of England was not the only church in Bewcastle. There was the Presbyterian or Scotch Church. At some time during the 19C the minister of that church wrote down what had happened to people who moved out of the parish e.g. emigrated, married, died etc.

I will be at the archives tomorrow morning so will see if I can find anything.

Also have you tried Scotlands People? Newcastleton in Roxburghshire is the neighbouring parish to Bewcastle and there was a lot cross-border marriage.