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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
William James Anderson
Ann Angus
Armstrongs
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)
Alfred Barnes
John Barnes
Lancelot Barnes
Isaac Barrass
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
Charles Binyon
Sarah Birket
Elizabeth Blackstock and son John Blackstock
John Bland, Vickers Bland
Mary Blaylock
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
John Brough
Henry Peter Brougham
James Brougham, of Kirby Stephen
George Brown, of Whitehaven
John Brown, of Intack
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
John Brydon
C
John Callaghan
John Cameron
Robert McQueen Cannon
William Cannon
Robert Carleton, of Penrith, and here
Edward Carr, of Kingstown (and Hannah, Jane and Michael)
Joseph Carr, of Whitehaven
David Carrick, Carlisle banker
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
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
Elizabeth Clarke, prisoner
George Clerk, of Kirkby Londsale
Joseph Cockbaine
John Cockburn, of Shap and Margaret Cockburn
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)
James Dalton (b 1817)
Jane Davidson (née Jane Watson)
William Dawes
C A Dempster
James Denwood
John Dennison and a family of bonesetters: Joseph Dennison, George Dennison, Tom, and Jane.
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
Frecheville Lawson Ballantine Dykes,
E
Oswald Elliott (son of Wilson Elliott, draper and councillor)
Isabella English
Evan Evans
F
Henry Fallowfield
Richard Fallowfield
Jane Faulder
Hannah Farish
Rev James Farish
Robert Farlam, Frances Farlam (née Frances Hetherington)
George Fawell 1743-1772
George Fawell 1821-1905
George Fawell, inventor of the British boiler and here
John Fawell died 1791
Thomas Fawell of Albany, NY
John Fenton, of Nether Scales, Catherine Fenton,
Sarah Ferguson, of Bleath Gill
Cuthbert Fisher
Councillor I Fisher
William Vincent Fitzsimmons
Sir George Fleming
Mary Fleming
Fletcher – the Fletchers of Hutton-in-the-Forest
Richard Forsyth, of Kendal
Joseph Foster
Joan Freer (Joanne Frere)
Hugh Flynn
G
Thomas Gibson
Edward Gill
Reverend John Gill
Joseph Gleve
Joseph Goulding
Robert Goulding
Arthur Graham, of Yanwath Hall
John Graham, of J&J Graham grocers 1861
Sir James Graham – 1837 election
Mary Graham (a ‘hardened woman’)
George Graham, of Kingstown
William Graham, poacher, Henry Graham, Joseph Graham, mother Nanny Graham
John Grave
Elizabeth Frances Greaves
Joseph Grisedale (Joseph Grisdale), and
- wife Elizabeth, children William Grisedale, Ada Eliza, Lizzy, (Rachel) Annie, Mary Agnes Grisedale
Anna Grove/Anna Hills
William Gully .
H
Thomas Gill Halliburton
Robert Hamilton
Owen Hancock
William Hanlon and John Hanlon
William Harbett, of Drigg
James Hargreaves, photographer
Ada Harper, Alice Greenup Harper, Henry and Roseanna Harper
Samuel Harper
John Harrison
Mary Harrison, 4
William Musgrave Hartley
Edward Williams Hasell and here
Alderman Hastwell
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
James Hewitt
John Hoad
Sir Richard Hodgson, mayor of Carlisle
John Hodgson, Elizabeth Hodgson, Sarah Hodgson: Threlkeld siblings
John Hodgson, Whitehaven
Joseph Hodgson, Great Braithwaite
William Hodgson
William Nicholson Hodgson
James Holland
Isabel Holme, John Holme
John Holme, of Martindale and brother Thomas Holme
William Horsley
The Howards
William Howson
Andrew F Huddleston,
- and here
John Hughes
I
Ernest Irving, journalist (son of George Irving, ironmonger)
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 and his wife Jane
- the brig Robert Burns
- his apprentices
Peter John Irving
J
Annie Jackson (née Irving/Todd)
Hannah Jackson
John Jackson, of Martindale
John A Jackson, shoemaker
Joseph Jackson of Waverton
Mary Jackson
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
Joseph Kennedy
Rev William King
John Kirk
John Kirkbride
John Kirkpatrick
John Kitchen
L
Samuel Ladyman
Thomas Lamley (or Lambley)
Janet Lazonby
Edward Lawson (1832-1852)
Lowther Lawson
Pattinson Lawson
Sir Wilfred and Lady Mary Lawson and here
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
Lowthers
- Wicked Jimmy and the militia, here and here
- Wicked Jimmy’s Inglewood Forest land grab
- James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
- William Lowther, the 2nd earl, and here ,
- Henry Lowther, the 3rd earl
- Hugh Lowther the 5th, ‘yellow earl’
- Robert Lowther (1681-1745)
Nathaniel Dean Lowthian, and brother Abraham Tom Lowthian
M
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
William Marshall MP
Robinson Martin, and parents James and Mary
Thomas Martindale and the Martindale family
Harriet Martineau
John Mason
John Matthews of Kirkbride
Richard Mattinson
Gavin Melville, of Carlisle
Widow Mary Melville, of Keswick
John Merryman, Westmorland
Joseph Milburn, of Silloth, wife Ann
Dinah Mooney
Tom Moore
H Mullen
Sir George Musgrave, and here, and
N
John Nanson
John Nelson of Maryport
Sarah Nelson, of Kingstown
William Nelson
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
Christopher Ollivant
John Ollivant
Thomas Ollivant
P
Isaac Patterson
Jane Pattinson, Longburn murder victim
John Pattinson (debtor)
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)
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
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
Elizabeth Peat
Jeffray Peat (Jeffery Peat)
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
Henry Pilkington, Jane Ann, sons George Henry, Joseph Harold, Charles
William Pinder
Joseph Pocklington
John Porter
Humphrey Porter
Portland, Dukes of
- William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd duke. Inglewood Forest
James and Joseph Pridholm
Shirtcliffe John Priest
Q
R
Robert Railton
Charlotte Relph
Margaret Rennier
James Richardson, General Wolfe Inn, Penrith
John Richardson, of Borrowdale
Robert Richardson, of Penrith
Allan Taylor Rigg
Clem Richardson, gamekeeper
Henry Richardson, solicitor
James Richardson, landlord of the General Wolfe
James Richardson, draper
Joseph and Mary Richardson, of Hudscales
Dorothy Ritson
Elizabeth Ritson
Annie Robinson/Annie Smith/Mary Ann Smith/Annie Thornborrow
Jane Robinson
Robert Robinson
James Rogerson
James Rome b 1872
Joseph Rome
William Rome
James Room
John Roper, of Shap
John Rothery, of Egremont
Edward Hervey Rowland
John Ruddy
James Henry Rutherford
S
Robert Sander
John Sanderson, Ann Sanderson
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
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)
Elizabeth Simpson (Elizabeth Peat) (b 1802), of Port Carlisle
Rev James Simpson
Jane Simpson (Jane Irving) of Port Carlisle: her coat of arms
John Simpson, currier
Joseph Simpson, fitter
Sally Simpson (Sarah) of Wigton
Thomas Simpson, gamekeeper, wife Margaret
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
William Smith, of Brough
Edward Southwell
John Topping Stafford,
John Stalker
James Steel (and his statue)
John Steel
Richard Stephenson, of Kingstown
Ann Stewart
Rory Stewart, former MP
John George Storey
Thomas and Eleanor Storey
Walter Notman Strong
Robert Studholme, of Biglands
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 Samual Thompson, Jonathan Thompson.
John Thompson, of Great Salkeld
William Thompson, of Whitehaven
Christopher Thornborrow of Ulverston
Jane Thornborrow 1691
Mark Thornber
William Albert Thornber
William Thornburrow, licence woes, keeping pigs
Jane Thorp
Ella Thwaites (née Richardson)
Joseph Timperon
Isaac Todd, auctioneer
John Todd, of Kendal
William Toppin, draper and hotel keeper
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
U
Charles Marshall Ure, wife Jane, son William Allen Ure
V
John Varty
W
Frederick Walker
Mary Walker, of Temple Sowerby
Joseph Walsh
Albert John Walton and Thomas William Walton
John Ward
Thomas Warwick
James Wasdale, Bella Wasdale
David Weir
William John Welsh
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
Ann Wood/Skelton/’Lawson’
James Wood, the Longburn murderer
Mary Wood
William James Wood
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