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Cumbrian people – alphabetical by surname
A
Bridget Abbot and Margaret Abbot
Dr James Ainslie of Kendal, and his son Henry Ainslie
Christopher Alderson (son and father)
Christopher Rowland Alderson
William James Anderson
Ann Angus
Armstrongs (clan)
Jane Armstrong
John Armstrong of Lanercost
PC George Ashburn (Ashbourne)
Ann Atkinson, milliner, of Kirkby Lonsdale
George Sedgwick Atkinson
Frances Atkinson, of Lamplugh
John Atkinson of Penrith
B
Frank Balmer
Richard Bargatt (Bargett)
John Barham
Alfred Barnes
John Barnes
PC John Barnes
Lancelot Barnes
Isaac Barrass
John Baty
Christopher Beck
Allan Bell, of Wigton
Andrew Bell and wife Mary Bell
Elizabeth Bell (B 1801, Talkin)
Frederick Bell, Wigton
Mary Bell
Mary Leathwaite Bell (b 1819)
John Bell
Joseph Bell
Richard Bell (b 1769)
Thomas Bell (d 1871), brother William Bell
Thomas Watson Benson, wife Sarah Dixon Gill, children John Dawson Benson and Sarah Jane
Robert Bertram
Charles Binyon
Christopher Bird
Joseph Bird
Sarah Birket
Elizabeth Blackstock and son John Blackstock
Thomas Blackburn, son George William Blackburn
John Bland, Vickers Bland
Mary Blaylock
Mary Blenkinship/Blenkinsop
John Ellwood Boadle
Sarah Boak
Thomas Boak, William Boak (and brother Joseph)
Richard Bowes, of Cockermouth
Francis Boustead, of Ainstable
Samuel Boustead (Bowstead)
John Bowstead (Bousted), of Beck Bank
- (also Ann Bowstead, Joseph Bowstead, James Bowstead, Thomas Bowstead)
Edward Harrison Bradley
Isaac Braithwaite
Robert Briscoe (married Isobel Dawson)
John Brough
Joseph Brough
Henry Peter Brougham
James Brougham, of Kirby Stephen
Caleb Brown
George Brown, of Whitehaven
John Brown, of Intack
Mary Brown
George Brownrigg
John and Barbara Brownrigg (daughters Ann, Mary, granddaughter Barbara)
William Brownrigg
Mary Brunskill
Councillor Burney
Ann J Brydon
Anthony P Brydon
Elizabeth G Brydon née Wilson
James Brougham
John Brydon
C
John Callaghan
John Cameron
Robert McQueen Cannon
William Cannon
Thomas Gibson Cant
- part 1
- part 2
- part 3
- and the Armstrong perjury case
Robert Carleton, of Penrith, and here
Edward Carr, of Kingstown (and Hannah, Jane and Michael)
Joseph Carr, of Whitehaven
David Carrick, Carlisle banker
John Cartner, Margaret Cartner, Mary Cartner
George Carruthers, of Glasson (and Mary Carruthers) – and here
Jefferay Carruthers, of Carlisle. And again
John Carruthers, Lowthian Gill
John William Carruthers, Joseph Carruthers, parents John Edward and Catherine (Penrith)
Isaac Carter
Isaac Cartmell
James Carty
Robert Charleton, wife Kate, children Ethel, Mona, Joseph Robert, and Robert Craddock Charleton
Sir Frederick William Chance .
Mary Christopherson
Jane Clapperton
Ann Clarke
Anthony William Clarke
Elizabeth Clarke, prisoner
George Clerk, of Kirkby Londsale
Dean Francis Close
Joseph Cockbaine
John Cockburn, of Shap and Margaret Cockburn
Christopher Cooper (Kitty Cooper)
Hugh Coulston
William Cowan, of Whitehaven
George Cowen
Jane Jackson Cowen (a hardened woman)
Isaac Cowen
John Cowen
Joseph Cowen
Frederick Cowper, of Carleton Hall
Blanche Althea Crackanthorpe
Dayrell Eardley Montague Crackanthorpe
Montague Crackanthorpe (Montague Hughes Cookson
Francis Dayrell Montague Crackanthorpe
Hubert Crackanthorpe
Oliver Montague Crackanthorpe
William Cradduck,
Robert Crossland
William Cumberland
Blance and Alfred Nathaniel Holden Curzon (Lord Scarsdale)
D
William Dacre, vicar of Irthington
Thomas Dalgleish
Ann Dalton (b 1851)
Isabella Dalton
James Dalton (b 1817)
Joseph Dalton, wife Ann née Stephenson
William Dalton
Jane Davidson (née Jane Watson)
William Dawes
Thomas Dawson, daughter Mary Dawson
Ann Dent, née Ann Pears
C A Dempster
James Denwood
John Dennison and a family of bonesetters: Joseph Dennison, George Dennison, Tom, and Jane.
Thomas Denton
Bridget Dixon, of Harras, sons Thomas, John and Caleb Dixon
John Dixon, publican and horticulturalist
Thomas Dixon, Penrith publican
Thomas Dixon, of Froddle Crook
John Dockray
Ellen and Colonel Robert Henry Curzon Drury-Lowe
Mary Elizabeth Douglas
Thomas Douglas
John Dunghillson (married Ann Ladyman)
Frecheville Lawson Ballantine Dykes,
E
Oswald Elliott (son of Wilson Elliott, draper and councillor)
Catherine Emerson
Isabella English
Evan Evans
F
Henry Fallowfield
Richard Fallowfield
Jane Faulder
Hannah Farish
Rev James Farish
Robert Farlam, Frances Farlam (née Frances Hetherington)
Rev John Fawcett
George Fawell 1743-1772
George Fawell 1821-1905
George Fawell, inventor of the British boiler and here
Isabel Fawell (née Smith)
John Fawell died 1791
Thomas Fawell of Albany, NY
John Fenton, of Nether Scales, Catherine Fenton,
Joseph Ferguson, of Carlisle
Sarah Ferguson, of Bleath Gill
Cuthbert Fisher
Councillor I Fisher
William Vincent Fitzsimmons
Dorothy Fleming
Sir George Fleming
- and the Wood Case
Mary Fleming
Fletcher – the Fletchers of Hutton-in-the-Forest
Lady Catherine Fletcher (later Smith, née Dalston)
Richard Forsyth, of Kendal
Joseph Foster
Robert Fox
Joan Freer (Joanne Frere)
Hugh Flynn
G
Robert Gate and wife Elizabeth
William Gelderd
Thomas Gibson
Charles Gilder and wife Hannah
Edward Gill
Reverend John Gill
Fanny Glaister
Thomas Glaister
Joseph Gleve
Joseph Goulding
Robert Goulding
Grahams of Cumberland
- part 1
- part 2
- part 3
- See also the Pacification documents (under ‘Border Reivers’ in the topics index)
Arthur Graham, of Yanwath Hall
Christopher Graham, Dalston
John Graham, of J&J Graham grocers 1861
John Graham of Baldhow Farm
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
Sir James Graham – 1837 election
Mary Graham (a ‘hardened woman’)
George Graham, of Kingstown
Lang Will Graham
- and here
Walter Graham of Netherby, and son Richard Graham
William Graham, poacher, Henry Graham, Joseph Graham, mother Nanny Graham
John Grave
Elizabeth Frances Greaves
Abraham Greenhow, and parents John Greenhow and Mary née Hodgson
Joseph Grisedale (Joseph Grisdale), and
- wife Elizabeth, children William Grisedale, Ada Eliza, Lizzy, (Rachel) Annie, Mary Agnes Grisedale
Anna Grove/Anna Hills
William Gully
John Gunson
H
Thomas Gill Halliburton
Robert Hamilton
Owen Hancock
William Hanlon and John Hanlon
William Harbett, of Drigg
James Hargreaves, photographer
Jennett Harkness (married Robert Simpson)
Ada Harper, Alice Greenup Harper, Henry and Roseanna Harper
Samuel Harper
Thomas Harrington
John Harrison
Lancelot Harrison
Mary Harrison, 4
William Musgrave Hartley
Edward Williams Hasell and here
Alderman Hastwell
George Head Head
A Helder
Peter Henderson
John Heskett
Joseph Heskett, mother Mary Ann, siblings Ann Rhoda, James, father John
Hugh Hetherington, of Whitehaven (son of Joseph)
Police Constable Thomas Hetherington
Thomas William Hetherington x2
James Hewitt
Margaret Hinde, sister Isabella Hindi
Robert Hindson, wife Isabella, daughter Mary Ann, son John
John Hoad
Jane Hodgson
Isaac Hodgson
John Hodgson, Elizabeth Hodgson, Sarah Hodgson: Threlkeld siblings
John Hodgson, Whitehaven
Joseph Hodgson, Great Braithwaite
Sir Richard Hodgson, mayor of Carlisle
William Hodgson
William Nicholson Hodgson
James Holland
Isabel Holme, John Holme
John Holme, of Martindale and brother Thomas Holme
William Horsley
The Howards
Joseph Howe
John Howson
Pearson Howson and here and again
Andrew F Huddleston,
- and here
John Hughes
John Huntingdon
I
Edward Irving of Stapleton
Edward Lawson Irving and wife Mary Jane
Ernest Irving, journalist (son of George Irving, ironmonger)
Ernest Kirkbride Irving
James Irving (and wife Barbara, and their children), of Blackwell House.
- James Irving’s death
Jane Irving (Jane Todd) of Patterdale and Penrith
Peter Irving of Port Carlisle
- his coat of arms with his wife Jane
- the brig Robert Burns
- his apprentices
- baths share photo
- his house
Peter John Irving
- and here
J
Annie Jackson (née Irving/Todd)
Hannah Jackson
John Jackson, of Martindale
John A Jackson, shoemaker
Joseph Jackson of Waverton
Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson / Countess Ossalinsky
William Jackson , of Yanwath
- and here
William Jackson ii of Yanwath (and mother Hannah, and sisters Hannah, Mary, and Catherine.
John Jameson
William Jarman, Customs officer
William Jarman, druggist and ‘vet’
Francis Jollie
Percy Johnston
William Johnstone
John Paul Jones
K
Henry Kendall
Joseph Kennedy
Rev William King
John Kirk
William Kirkbank
John Kirkbride
John Kirkpatrick
John Kitchen
L
Samuel Ladyman
Thomas Lambert
Thomas Lamley (or Lambley)
Janet Lazonby
Edward Lawson (1832-1852)
John Lawson (d 1805)
Joseph Percy Lawson
Lowther Lawson
Pattinson Lawson
Sir Wilfred and Lady Mary Lawson and here
Simon Leach
John Leak and family
James Leonard
Robertson Lidderdale, of the Westmorland Militia
Ann Little, husband George Little, children Isabella, Margaret, John, Robert, Annie, Joseph)
Jane Little, confectioner, husband John Little
Lawrence Little
Eliza Lynn Linton
Widow Eleanor Liverick, of Brampton
Mary Ann Longrigg
- daughters’ deaths (Ada, Annie and Emma Pears)
Dr Henry Lonsdale and again and here and again
Lowthers
- Wicked Jimmy and the militia, here and here
- Wicked Jimmy’s Inglewood Forest land grab
- Wicked Jimmy’s ghost !
- James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
- William Lowther, the 1st earl
- William Lowther, the 2nd earl, and here ,
- Henry Lowther, the 3rd earl
- Hugh Lowther the 5th, ‘yellow earl’
- Robert Lowther (1681-1745)
Ann Lowthian
John and Sarah Lowthian and family
Nathaniel Dean Lowthian, and brother Abraham Tom Lowthian
Isabella Lunson
Mc/Mac
Colonel Maclean, of Lazonby
Michael McCumisky, brother George McCumisky
Stuart McCurrie/Stewart McCurry
Leila Macdonald
Isabella McGee, daughter Eliza
Terence McGrady
Sergeant James McGuffie
Henry McNeil
M
Percy Wilfred Machell
Samuel Marshall
William Marshall MP
William Henry Marshall
Robinson Martin, and parents James and Mary
William Robinson Martindale
Thomas Martindale and the Martindale family
Harriet Martineau
- and here
John Mason
John Matthews of Kirkbride
Richard Mattinson
Gavin Melville, of Carlisle
Widow Mary Melville, of Keswick
John Merryman, Westmorland
Frances Milburn and Isaac Milburn, of Cardew Hall
Joseph Milburn, of Silloth, wife Ann
Dinah Mooney
John Moore
Hannah Moore
Robert Bendle Moore
Tom Moore
H Mullen
John Lowry Mullender
Elizabeth Murphy
Sir George Musgrave, and here, and here
N
John Nanson
Anthony Nelson, of Port Carlisle
John Nelson of Maryport
Sarah Nelson, of Kingstown
William Nelson
William Nevison
Sarah Nicholson, Sceugh Dyke and husband Septimus Nicholson
Thomas Nicholson, fireman
Elizabeth Noble, of Brampton
Mary Noble, of Ellerton, Hesket-in-the-Forest
Edward, John, and Joseph Norman, of Beaumont
O
Mary Ann Oldcorn
PC William Oldcorn
Jonathan Oldman
Countess Ossalinsky (Mary Jackson)
Christopher Ollivant
John Ollivant
Thomas Ollivant
P
Christopher Parker, Skirwith
Frances Parker, née Frances Thwaytes
George Parker
Margaret Parkin, tragedy
William Parkin, L&NW Railway
William Parkin, publican
Isaac Patterson
Jane Pattinson, Longburn murder victim
John Pattinson (debtor)
John Pattinson of Whitrigg
Joseph Pattinson (d 1880)
Lancelot Pattinson
Thomas Pattinson (b 1838) of Westfield House and Kirkland House
Benjamin Pears (b 1841)
Christopher Pears (b 1788 Holme Cultram)
Christopher Pears (b 1803, Aspatria)
Christopher Pears of Hesket-New-Market
Christopher Pears (b 1821)
Esther Pears
Isaac Pears
Jackson Pears
Joseph Pears the vet
- daughters’ deaths (Ada Pears, Annie Pears, Emma Pears)
- a clever dog
Mary Pears (died 1870)
Robert Graham Pears
- donation
- at Yanwath (reprised here)
- a dreadful experience
Robert Graham Pears junior
Thomas Pears (b 1834, Craggs)
Thomas Pears (b 1851) of Fellside
William Pears (b 1855) of Fellside
William Pearson (b about 1786), of Borderside, Crosthwaite
Ann Peat (b 1836)
Dr Anthony Peat, of Salmon Hall and Workington
Anthony Peat (1756-1814)
Elizabeth Peat
Jeffray Peat (Jeffery Peat) (1769-1836)
Jeffray Peat (1797-1844) and wife Mary
Mary Peat (married George Carruthers)
Rachel Peat (b 1836)
- husband and children’s deaths (John Matthews, Mary Lawson Matthews, Elizabeth Matthews
Katherine Pennington
Robert Henry Pepper (son of John Pepper)
David Petrie – and Catherine, Helen, Mary Jane and John
Sarah Pharoah, Margaret Pharoah
Henry Pilkington, Jane Ann, sons George Henry, Joseph Harold, Charles
William Pinder
Joseph Pocklington
John Pool (or John Poole)
John Porter
Humphrey Porter
Portland, Dukes of
- William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd duke. Inglewood Forest
Rev Charles Moyes Preston
James and Joseph Pridholm
Shirtcliffe John Priest
John Purdy
Q
R
Robert Railton
Edward Rainbow (wife Elizabeth)
Charlotte Relph
Margaret Rennier
Thomas Reyson
James Richardson, General Wolfe Inn, Penrith
John Richardson, of Borrowdale
Robert Richardson, of Penrith
Allan Taylor Rigg
Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)
Clem Richardson, gamekeeper
Henry Richardson, solicitor
James Richardson, landlord of the General Wolfe
James Richardson, draper
Joseph and Mary Richardson, of Hudscales
Joseph Ridley, wife Grace Elizabeth Ridley, children Annie Ridley and others
Dorothy Ritson
Elizabeth Ritson
Sarah Jane Robertshaw
Annie Robinson/Annie Smith/Mary Ann Smith/Annie Thornborrow
Anthony Robinson
Jane Robinson
Robert Robinson
William Robinson
James Rogerson
James Rome b 1872
Joseph Rome
William Rome
James Room
John Rooney
John Roper, of Shap
John Rothery, of Egremont
Edward Hervey Rowland
John Ruddy
James Henry Rutherford
S
John Salkeld
John William Salkeld
Robert Sander
John Sanderson, Ann Sanderson
John Sanderson, Mary Sanderson, Penrith
John Sanderson, of Dalston
Mrs Mary Sandwick
Fanny and Beauchamp Prideaux Selby
Elizabeth Pocklington Senhouse,
Humphrey Senhouse x several!
Sir Benjamin Scott .
John Scott, Thomas Scott, William Scott, of Kingstown
William Hudson Scott
John Sewell
Robert Sewell, astronomer
William Sewell
Bernard Shannon, wife Jane, children James. Patrick, Sarah, Mary A
Thomas Sheffield, dentist and son Isaac Sheffield
Henry Shepherd (and son Harry)
Robert Shields
Jonathan Simm
Elizabeth Simpson (Elizabeth Peat) (b 1802), of Port Carlisle
Rev James Simpson
Edward Simpson
Jane Simpson (Jane Irving) of Port Carlisle: her coat of arms
Jonathan Simpson
John Simpson, currier
Joseph Simpson, fitter
Sally Simpson (Sarah) of Wigton
Thomas Simpson, gamekeeper, wife Margaret
John Skelton
George Smith, of Kendal, distiller
Henry Smith, of Ulverston
John Smith of Carlisle
Margaret Smith, née Pattinson, Longburn murder victim, and husband Thomas
Richard Smith, of Egremont
Thomas Smith and Hannah Smith
Bishop Thomas Smith
William Smith, of Brough
Edward Southwell
John Topping Stafford,
John Stalker of Dalston
John Stalker of Penrith
James Steel (and his statue)
- and here
John Steel
Richard Stephenson, of Kingstown
Ann Stewart
Rory Stewart, former MP
John George Storey
Thomas and Eleanor Storey
Walter Notman Strong
Joseph Studholme daughters Elizabeth and Ann
- and again here with sons John a
- and Joseph and daughters Mary and Esther
Robert Studholme, of Biglands
Mary Sturdy (née Moore)
Jeremiah Sullivan (author J Sullivan)
Isaac Swainson, of Hawkshead
T
James Taylor, Whitehaven
Tom Telford (family include Henry Eustace Telford)
John Robert Thomlinson
Aaron Thompson
Harrison Thompson
Jane Thompson, confectioner. Children include Samuel Thompson, Jonathan Thompson.
Jonathan Thompson, fire brigade captain
John Thompson, of Great Salkeld
John Thompson, of Port Carlisle
William Thompson, of Whitehaven
Christopher Thornborrow of Ulverston
Jane Thornborrow 1691
Mark Thornber
William Albert Thornber
William Thornburrow, licence woes, keeping pigs
John Thornthwaite
Jane Thorp
Charles Hutchinson Thurnam
John Dodsworth Thurnam
William Graham Thurnam
Ella Thwaites (née Richardson)
Philip Tianney
Anthony Tickell
George Tiffin
Joseph Timperon
Isaac Todd, auctioneer
John Todd, of Kendal
William Toppin, draper and hotel keeper
Wilson Towers
Joseph Trauman, riot leader
Joseph Tremble, nurseryman, and; here, along with Elizabeth Tremble
Mary Tremble, née Pears
John Joseph Troughear
Joseph Troughear
Walker Tunstall
William and brother Joseph Turner, of Greenhead
George Tweddle, hats and caps, Carlisle
John Tweddle, of Alston
William Tyson
U
Charles Marshall Ure, wife Jane, son William Allen Ure
V
John Varty
W
Edward Wakefield
John Wakefield
Frederick Walker
Mary Walker, of Temple Sowerby
Joseph Walsh
Albert John Walton and Thomas William Walton
David Ward, of Bowness on Solway
John Ward, weaver
John Ward, stonemason, daughter Mary Ward
John Ware
Thomas Warwick
James Wasdale
James Wasdale, and Bella Wasdale
Thomas Watman
William Weight and Isabella, née Atkinson
David Weir
Dorothy de Welpdale,and Walther Hutchinson Whelpdale and others
William John Welsh
John Westmorland
John Wharton
Agnes, Anne and Isabella Wilkinson, of Kendal
Mary Wilkinson, of Nether Scales
Martha Wilkinson (widow) of Kendal
William Wilkinson, of Harrington
Ann Williamson wife of George Brownrigg
Annie Williamson (Annie Foster/Annie Granger)
Garwain Williamson
Richard Wilson Wills
Ann Wilson
James Wilson, of Kendal
John Wilson, printer
John Hewson Wilson
Joseph Wilson
Richard Wilson, of Kendal
Robert Wilson, of Kendal
Ann Wood/Skelton/’Lawson’
James Wood, the Longburn murderer
Mary Wood
William James Wood
Mary Wright
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