August 2022 - Cumbrian Characters

Joseph Studholme

Posted on August 28, 2022August 28, 2022 by HarrietP

Joseph Studholme – a Carlisle surveyor and land agent – got a fairly brief mention in this post about William Robinson Martindale & Port Carlisle: His will doesn’t tell us a great deal more ... Read More

Thomas Cartmel Jones

Posted on August 21, 2022August 7, 2022 by HarrietP

The photos I took at Beacon Edge Cemetery, Penrith, last summer, were pretty random. Just a handful or so between the chapel and my great-great-grandparents’ (side-by-side) graves. Some of them turn... Read More

Seathwaite riot

Posted on August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 by HarrietP

Seathwaite is a small hamlet in Borrowdale valley, in the Lake District (1991 population 152 people). It’s hard to imagine anywhere less likely to be a hotbed of violence, but Seathwaite has two dub... Read More

Cumbrian Characters

Family history is so much more than names and dates

Month: August 2022

Joseph Studholme

Thomas Cartmel Jones

Seathwaite riot