[list-cumbria] Torpenhow to Skelton

[Diane Rushworth]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 at 16:59, petra.mitchinson--- via list-cumbria <
list-cumbria at list.cumbriafhs.com> wrote:

> It says Fitz in the image, not 50!
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> And there is a Fitz in Torpenhow parish, according to the Cumberland Place
> Names Index, at grid reference NY 16 41.
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> It is on modern maps, about one mile south east of Aspatria.
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> Petra
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> *From:* list-cumbria <list-cumbria-bounces at list.cumbriafhs.com> *On
> Behalf Of *Nev Ramsden via list-cumbria
> *Sent:* 22 February 2025 16:52
> *To:* Genealogy email list for Cumbria <list-cumbria at list.cumbriafhs.com>
> *Cc:* Nev Ramsden <black.sail38 at zen.co.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: [list-cumbria] Torpenhow to Skelton
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> I enclose an image.
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> Nev.
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> *From:* petra.mitchinson--- via list-cumbria
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> *Sent:* Saturday, February 22, 2025 3:36 PM
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> *To:* 'Genealogy email list for Cumbria'
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> *Cc:* petra.mitchinson at doctors.org.uk
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> *Subject:* Re: [list-cumbria] Torpenhow to Skelton
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> Interesting. Was this to prove her settlement? But clearly she must have
> been married or widowed as she had a different surname from her parents.
> And thus she would have belonged to her husband’s settlement. Or was she a
> premarital child and went under her mother’s maiden surname? Not very
> likely if her father later married her mother. Or was this simply to prove
> her age?
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> There are a couple of things I do not understand.
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> “living at 50 in the Parish of Torpenhow” – what is 50 in this context?
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> “her father and mother with himself originally went from Bewaldeth...” –
> should that not been “with her” (i.e. Sarah)?
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> Petra
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> *From:* list-cumbria <list-cumbria-bounces at list.cumbriafhs.com> *On
> Behalf Of *Nev Ramsden via list-cumbria
> *Sent:* 22 February 2025 15:03
> *To:* list-cumbria at list.cumbriafhs.com
> *Cc:* Nev Ramsden <black.sail38 at zen.co.uk>
> *Subject:* [list-cumbria] Torpenhow to Skelton
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> The following note is to be found pinned to a page of the Torpenhow Parish
> register covering the years 1750-51
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> John Mounsey aged 79 living at 50 in the Parish of Torpenhow appeared
> personally before me and made oath that he has known
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> Sarah Wells ever since she was a child. That she was the eldest daughter
> of John & Ann Fletcher and that she was said to be six years younger
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> than himself and from his own knowledge her father and mother with himself
> originally went from Bewaldeth in the Parish of Torpenhow to
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> Skelton-woodend in the Parish of Skelton where she now resides.
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> Edward Stanley, Justice of the Peace for the County of Cumberland, dated
> 20 July 1825
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> Nev. Ramsden
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