Docker / Docker Hall Arkholme - Shepherd family

[garstonite]

Sorry Bridgebabe for jumping in with Cragg family on your thread ..
John -C ... maybe start a new thread for your Cragg family - and welcome to Rootschat

Baptism: 20 Mar 1825 St Michael the Archangel, Whittington, Lancashire, England
James Margisson Cragg - [Child] of James Cragg & Jane
    Abode: Docker
    Occupation: Husbandman

wonder where the Margisson name comes in ??

Baptism: 30 Dec 1827 St Michael the Archangel, Whittington, Lancashire, England
John Cragg - [Child] of James Cragg & Jane
    Abode: Docker
    Occupation: Husbandman
Baptism: 23 May 1830 St Michael the Archangel, Whittington, Lancashire, England
Elizabeth Cragg - [Child] of James Cragg & Jane
    Abode: Docker
    Occupation: h
Baptism: 16 Sep 1832 St Michael the Archangel, Whittington, Lancashire, England
Edward Cragg - [Child] of James Cragg & Jane
    Abode: Docker
    Occupation: Husbandman
Baptism: 23 Nov 1834 St Michael the Archangel, Whittington, Lancashire, England
Richard Cragg - [Child] of James Cragg & Jane
    Abode: Newton................I presume they now live in Newton - is this local to Docker ??
    Occupation: Farmer

[punkyfish]

The close family are the current residents of docker hall and it definetly still exists. Its still a farm and is easy to find on Google maps. Post code la6 1ap

[John_C]

Hi Everyone
Thanks for the information. I shall start a new thread.

My family migrated to Australia (which is where I live) around 1860. These Craggs are my ancestor's cousins and nephews. I'm trying to ascertain whether any still survive in the area today.

[BarbaraJA]

Hello Brenda,
I just found your post mentioning the family of Joseph Shepherd who married at Kirkby Lonsdale about 1751. I'm hoping you can send me the information you have on his first marriage and children. He is my 4X Grt Grandfather. I have details on his second wife and family, and information from his will (although I haven't seen that myself as yet). Do you know the name of his first wife?

Thanks very much,
Barbara

[Bridgebabe]

Hello Barbara
Joseph is also my 4 x gt grfather.  Perhaps you are also connected to the Hird / Newhouse / Lamb families in the area, as I am?
 Please let me have your email by pm and I can let you have info
Kind regards, Brenda

[BarbaraJA]

Hello Brenda,
Thanks for the reply. No, I don't have those names. My line to Joseph Shepherd and Jane Collier Addison is through their son Joseph, born 1782 Whittington, and his wife Ann Parker. Their son Joseph Shepherd (born 1806 Whittington) married Jane Birkett. They are my GG Grandparents.
Thanks again. My email is barbarajeanaa@comcast.net

[Gillg]

You can see the two Docker hall farms on Google Satellite/Earth on Docker Lane, which leads from the road between Burton-in-Kendal and Whittington.  There are bits of its history on other references on Google, too.  Our family used to drive past the end of the lane quite often when heading for Kirkby Lonsdale.  Curiously there was a well-known couple, Lord and Lady Docker, often in the news at that time and in my childish mind I connected them with this place, but most probably with no reason at all.  You can read all about the notorious Lady Docker and her husband (described somewhere as the Posh & Becks of the 1950s) on Wikipedia, if you are interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah,_Lady_Docker

There is another Docker not all that far away from the one you are interested in.  It's very close to Kendal and also has a Docker Hall, again a farm.

Gillg

[Bridgebabe]

Hello Barbara, I have messaged you with the info I have on name/ marriage to first wife and the baptisms of the children by this marriage (some of whom married at Whittington). The info is from Family Search records and I have not yet checked out at the archive office. Hope it has arrived OK
Kind regards, Brenda

[closemma]

Did you make it to Docker Hall Barbara? My family have lived there for the last hundred years or there about. The name Joseph shephard rings a bell actually. We have some old for sale notices relating to the farm - I think his name may have been on those perhaps? I will check next time I'm home. The farmhouse has been there since the 17th century, and was a pottery before it was a farm. If you haven't made it up there yet then I'm sure my parents would be happy to show you around.
Emma