1851 census area of Matterdale as described in Census Book ENUM. DISTRICT No. 10 - MATTERDALE Chapelry. The whole of the Chapelry of MATTERDALE including Greening, Brownrigg, Rushmire, Matterdale End, Bank House, High Hollas, Church House, Thorneythwaite, Dockray, Bank, High Row, Beckbotton, Crookwath, Borrowscale, Dowthwaite Head, Swinside, Backside, Troutbeck, Gillhead, Gillsrow, Redsyke, Wallthwaite, High Gate, Lobbs, Bull Low and Park Gate. WILL OF THOMAS DOCKERAY of THORNITHWAITE in MATTERDILLE, CUMBd. Will was written on 23 March 1650
Will was proved on 12 February 1652
In the name of God Amen The twenty third Day of March one thousand sixe hundred fifty I Thomas Dockeray of Thornithwaite in Matterdille and within the parish of Grastocke sick and weake in bodie yet whole of mynde and in good and perfect remembrance praised be God doe herein ordayne and make this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following
First I bequeath my soule to Allmighty God my Maker and Redeemer and my body to be buried in the earth of Matterdille paying the accustomed duties thereto belonging
Item I give and bequeath to my eldest sonne Thomas all the loose wood as feets, bords, dormands, and other loose wood, And all the husbandrie geere and the Stabe stones, my wife having her share withe husbandrie geare during her life naturall or soe longe as shee keepeth her Widdowhead
Item I give and bequeath to my sonne Robert Threescore pounds and to stand in full satisfac[i]on for his Childs portion
Item I give and bequeath to my wife one black heifer and her calfe
The rest of all my goods and Chattells moveable and unmovable my debt legacies and funerall expences being discharged and paid After my wife having her thirds divided forth I give and bequeath to my wife and fower youngest children William, Annas, Jane and Margaret, whome I ordayne and make my whole and sole Executors of this my last will and Testament
And this is my mynde that after the geare being prized as shortly as possible can be, after that my before menc[i]oned Executors shall have the geare equally devided amongst them And everyone to knowe their owne
I ordayne and make John Dockeray of Dockeray and John Grisedall of Mollehouse Thomas Harrison of Dockeray and John Wilson of Ulkethrawe Supervisors of this my last will and Testament desyring them to see it performed according to my mynde herein menc[i]oned
Whereunto I have set my hand the day and yeare above written
Thomas Dockeray marke
Int p[re]sente of John Dockeray John Wilson John Nesfeild Christopher Wilson Thomas Dockeray./
This Will was proved at London before Sr. Nathaniell Brent Knight doctor of lawes and Master or Keeper of the Prerogative Court the twelfth day of february in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred fifty one (English Style) by the oath of Annis the Relicte of the deceased and one of the Executors therein named To whome Administration of all and singuler the goods chattells and debts of the sayed deceased which any manner of way concerne the same will was granted and committed shee being first legally sworne by virtue of a Commission in that be halfe issued forth well and truely to Administer the same The like power being reserved to Annas Jane and Margarett the other Executors therein named when they shall come to legally require the same./
PRO, catalogue reference: PCC Prob/11/1841, will of Thomas Dockeray of Greystoke, Cumberland, 12 February 1652 (dated 23 March 1650).
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This is the only item which comes up when you search on MATTERDALE | | Title: | Second report from the Select Committee on Commons together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix | | Ford List Title: | Provisional orders for inclosure | | Corporate Author: | House of Commons.Select Committee on Commons | | Chairman: | Walpole, Spencer | | Abstract: | Committee consisting of 12 members to consider inclosure of Maltby, Redmoor and Golberdon Common and inclosure and regulation of Matterdale Common; concludes that provisional orders of inclosure commissioners be confirmed by Parliament without modification. Petitions against the proposed inclosure were received from the Mayor and Corporation of Sheffield, inhabitants of Maltby, inhabitants of Rotherham, Mayor and Corporation of Rotherham, Literary and Scientific Society of Rotherham. Oral evidence taken from 26 witnesses including inclosure commissioner, assistant commissioner, civil engineer, MP, solicitor, land agent of Earl of Scarborough, clergyman, landowner, mayor of Sheffield, cutler, resident of Rotherham. 1838 questions in total. Appendix contains reports by the Inclosure Commissioners on the commons concerned.
See also: 1st (158), 3rd (219), Special (198) Reports, 1878-79, viii | | Series: | Sessional papers | | Session: | 1878-79 | | Bound Set Volume No.: | viii | | Paper/Bill No.: | (173) | | Total no. of pages: | vi, 137 | | Publisher: | HMSO | | Date Published: | 1879 | | Ford List Keywords: | Agriculture - Enclosures, Commons | | Modern Church of England Carlisle Diocease map can be found at http://carlisle.anglican.org Item details for PRO WO 97/9/115 JOSEPH SOWERBY Born MATTERDALE, Cumberland Served in 1st Life Guards Discharged aged 43 1799-1822 The one great man of Swindale is John Hodgson, the famous historian of Northumberland, born here November 4th, 1780, and baptised November 13th. . He was the son of Isaac of Swindale, stonemason, and Elizabeth his wife, late Rawes. They afterwards moved to Rosgill. The Hodgsons were an old local family, and according to the custom one of the sons received a good education for holy orders. John, the eldest of seven sons and four daughters, was at Bampton School from seven to nineteen years of age, where he was well grounded in classics, mathematics, chemistry, botany, geology, and acquired an interest in natural history and local antiquities through his free rambles in the country. His parents were too poor to send him to the University, and so he became master of Matterdale, with a stipend of £11 per annum (see my paper in this volume of Transactions), and subsequently of Stainton, near Penrith. For a full record of his life and labours see Atkinson's Worthies of Westmorland, Raine's Memoir, and the Dictionary of National Biography. As Rosgill, in Shap, has claimed the honour of his birthplace, I may add that Hodgson himself, in his account of Westmorland in Beauties of England and Wales, confirms the Shap Register by saying that he was born at Swindale, and not at Rosgill Head. His ancestors were of Rosgill Head, and after his birth his parents removed thither, where his brothers and sisters were all born. He died June 12th, 1845, and was buried at Hartburn, in Northumberland. There are no documents of any kind at Swindale, or in the possession of the vicar of Shap. The Rev. S. Whiteside had seen in Mr. Sewell's time a Terrier, but in 1878, when enquiry was made, neither Mr. Brunskill nor any one in the chapelry knew anything of it. |
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