[list-cumbria] Brocklebank 1775 'Cumberland Pacquet - 35'

[Steve Hayes]

On 10 Sep 2024 at 9:35, gauntde--- via list-cumbria wrote:

> From: William Brocklebank <brocks1917 at gmail.com> 
> Sent: Monday, 9 September 2024 10:13 pm
> To: Dorothy Gaunt <gauntde at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Brocklebank 1775
> 
> Daniel Brocklebank (shipbuilder)
> 
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> 
> Daniel Brocklebank (c. 1741-1801) was a shipbuilder, first in North America
> and then in  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehaven> Whitehaven, and a
> mariner in between. 
> 
> He was born in 1741 (or 1742) at 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blennerhasset_and_Torpenhow> Torpenhow,
> England. At age 14 he moved to Whitehaven to take up an apprenticeship as a
> carpenter for a shipbuilder.

I find this quite interesting, as my wife has BROCK(LE)BANK ancestors from 
the Silecroft/Whicham area, one being an Agnes BROCKLEBANK daughter of Thomas 
BROCKLEBANK and Agnes JACKSON, baptised at Whicham 17 Dec 1737. 

I'm not sure how far Torpenhow is from Whicham, but I wondered if there might 
be a connection. 


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