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Title: Ackenthwaite Westmorland or Cumbria? help please
Post by: barbarai on Saturday 21 June 14 11:58 BST (UK)
Hi, I have just found an ancestor that says she comes from Ackenthwaite, Westmorland on the census', i'm trying to find parish records for Ackenthwaite, but have had no luck so far, even with a google search! can someone please tell me where this town is and in which county as again i am getting conflicting information, thank you  ???
Title: Re: Ackenthwaite Westmorland or Cumbria? help please
Post by: JenB on Saturday 21 June 14 12:08 BST (UK)
Ackenthwaite was a small hamlet forming part of the larger Parish of Heversham with Milnthorpe (County of Westmorland)

It wasn't a Parish in it's own right.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WES/Heversham/

http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=350500&Y=481500&A=Y&Z=120
Title: Re: Ackenthwaite Westmorland or Cumbria? help please
Post by: barbarai on Saturday 21 June 14 12:11 BST (UK)
thank you  ;D
Title: Re: Ackenthwaite Westmorland or Cumbria? help please
Post by: Ruth Gibson on Tuesday 10 March 15 19:25 GMT (UK)
Ackenthwaite is part of Beetham.The part near the church I  think.
Title: Re: Ackenthwaite Westmorland or Cumbria? help please
Post by: Ruth Gibson on Monday 23 March 15 18:49 GMT (UK)
Sorry I was wrong when I  posted that Ackenthwaite is part of Beetham.  In the old days there was a railway station for Milnethorpe and this was at Ackenthwaite . My gt gt grandfather Thomas Hodgson was innkeeper at the Station Inn on the 1871 cencus.
Ruth
Title: Re: Ackenthwaite Westmorland or Cumbria? help please
Post by: cristeen on Tuesday 02 August 16 12:46 BST (UK)
My Ackenthwaite ancestor christened his children at Beetham and Heversham if that's of any help. The church in Milnthorpe (St Thomas's) wasn't built until the 1830s