Hello, I don’t know if you’re still monitoring this or even still interested in Flosh? I live at Flosh, just outside Kirkland and although I did some research shortly after we came here I haven’t done anything recently. I’d be interested to know what your family will shows with regard to Flosh. I have discovered that a Dobson family lived here later in the 18th century although I’ve not been able to prove any connection to my Dobson’s. All the dates stones in the property have the surname initial D and I had wondered if the Dobsons had been here a long time. Certainly the family appear to have been based at a nearby farm called skeleto all the dates stones in the property have the surname initial D and I had wondered if the Dobsons had been here a long time. Certainly the family appear to have been based as a nearby farm called Skelling. I had wondered if they had spread out from there. However if your Richardsons owned or were long term tenants of the property earlier in the 18 century then that probably disproves my theory. I hope your researches have been successful. Unfortunately for me I have an ancestor, Richard Dobson who although I know he married at Morland in 1785 and was a husband man of Crackenthorpe, (near Appleby) at the time, seems impossible to trace further back. There are several Dobson families in the area at the time but none who have a son Richard, in the late 1750s, who lived to adulthood. Richard died at Hag Gap, Brough in Aug 1815 aged 56, although of course the age may be an approximation. Regards, Duncan Dobson
