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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Cumberland => Topic started by: DJER007 on Tuesday 12 June 07 18:12 BST (UK)
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Can any one help with information on the Walker family, my ancestor is Thomas Walker 1841, census shows him living at Sylecroft with parents, father is William Walker, mother is Franny Walker (nee Brocklebank) also present in the house hold is grandparent William Brocklebank.
I am looking for other brothers / sisters to Thomas, who having married Ann Atkinson eventually moved up to Picket Howe Farm outside of Egremont and then into Golden Lion Whitehaven. Does any one have any info on Kellet House in Whicham, i think one of his brothers adopted this small mansion.
Any information further back on the Brocklebank side would be welcome
Thanks
DJER007
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The 1841 census has Fanny born c1786 but, according to the IGI, Fanny might have been born Frances Brocklebank, baptised 06/10/1782 at Whicham, daughter of William Brocklebank and Agnes Walton who married 19/05/1782 at Whicham (when William was about 26)
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/search_igi.asp
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As your ancestors seem to be of some substance, unlike mine usually listed as "husbandman" or " miner", you may like to investigate
www.historicaldirectories.org which I think is run by Leicester or Loughborough Universities.
It is not the easiest of sites to navigate round but if you get to "place " or "location" and click on roughly cumbria, a whole list of directories comes up. If you click on one with roughly the year you're interested in and then enter your place or name in the search box, you are in. For instance Mannix 1847 directory and "brocklebank" brought up 21 references. I don't have the time or background knowledge to help you further but I have spent several weekends tracing upper class members of the family.
bob
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Sitheil
Thanks for the information on Francis Brocklebank. Index's from 1861 show that a William Brocklebank Walker is living in Kellet House (Whicham) I'm wondering if this is the Eldest son of Francis (nee Brocklebank) & William Walker, who would then be elder brother to my gr gr gr grandfather Thomas Walker.
thanks
DJER007
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Bob
Thanks also for the directory information, these are very useful I've found other lines of my family in them, I could spend hours searching through them!
DJER007
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I have! Days in fact.
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bob
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;D Hi,
If you would like more information on this family contact Jill Coulthard through her website www.jillcoulthard.com. Jill has researched this family and has lots of info.
CK
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I have a Mary Brocklebank in my tree from around that area born around 1796. Probably a link with her somewhere along the lines. Also lots of Brockbanks from around that area.
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Hi there! Don't have anything useful to contribute to your search really, but just had to drop by to say that I was kicking over Silecroft beach last weekend and found a brick there with 'W B Walker Brickworks - Sylecroft' stamped in it. Added it to my collection of bricks that I have found from round the area which I use as doorstops. My Mum saw it and said that Grandad used to have a heap of those in his back yard. She said that Will Walker lived in Kellet House in Silecroft right behind our then home (we had Kellet Cottage just behind Kellet House for 40 years) and that Walkers owned the brick kiln on what is now Silecroft Caravan site up the road. The clay was dug out from what is now the duck pond end of the caravan site, and the sand was brought up from the beach at the end where my caravan now stands. Perfect site for a brickworks with plentiful clay, water and sand. She said my Great Gran remembered Walker's Bricks were all laid out in the sunshine on the field to dry before kilning, right in the place where our caravan stands now! :)
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I now live in Kellet cottage having bought it 4 years ago from the Addison family who had owned it from circa 1960. I understand Kellet House was in the ownership of William Walker until recently when it was sold to the Taylors. Members of the walker family now live in Merseyside..
If you have any info or photos of Kellet cottage I would love to here from you
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How great to hear from someone living in the wonderful (if exhausting!) Kellet Cottage. It is the best news I have had in ages and I am thrilled to hear from you! I have indeed been watching you (and another - your son/Dad perhaps?) working the exhausting task of sorting out that lovely old cottage all summer, with great interest. The new flagging on that courtyard and front path, and especially fitting those slabs round the manhole cover, must have been an absolutely thankless task. Have today closed up my caravan on the site after a week of torrential rainfall right up until yesterday night, and returned to Manchester - a three and half hour journey because of the flooding - but wonderful sunshine for my return trip today so I can't complain too much... Would love to talk about the cottage - especially as my old Mum (you must have met her when purchasing as she was the one responsible for the selling side of things when Prof.Addison died) has fantastic recollections and all the detailed back-history logged four generations deep, in her mind! I will give you my email addy so that we could perhaps correspond outside of this arena if that is easier for you? I am sure no-one else is particularly interested to read detailed info about difficulties with the boundaries between the garage and the septic tank! LOL! I am
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and I think we 'met' very briefly during the summer when I held one of my toddlers up to see over the wall on our way to catch the train to Millom - you were deep in reflagging if I remember correctly! I'd love to hear from you about your progress on the cottage when you have time, all my very best childhood memories are based there... Talk soon hopefully. Thx. Keiva.
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How nice to hear from you. Yes I remember you leaning over the wall and asking about progress this "summer". I seem to have been working on the externals all year but due to the weather progress has been pitifully slow.
Thanks for your email address. I wsill send some photos to you tomorrow. My e address is
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If you would like more information on this family contact Jill Coulthard through her website www.jillcoulthard.com. Jill has researched this family and has lots of info.
I'll certainly do that too. My wife's great grandmother was Sarah Jane Walker, daughter of William Walker and Agnes Duke. I think she may have been a 2nd cousin of the Thomas Walker referred to here. Most of her brothers and sisters died young, it seems.
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Can any one help with information on the Walker family, my ancestor is Thomas Walker 1841, census shows him living at Sylecroft with parents, father is William Walker, mother is Franny Walker (nee Brocklebank) also present in the house hold is grandparent William Brocklebank.
My wife's great grandmother Sarah Jane Walker was born in Sylecroft/Whicham. Her parents were William Walker and Agnes Duke. William Walker may have been a cousin of your Thomas. His parents were John Walker and Frances Hodgson, and John Walker's parents appear to have been Joseph Walker and Agnes Brocklebank.
Joseph and Agnes seem to have had three sons, Joseph, William and John.
Joseph seems to have married a Margaret.
William married Frances (Fanny) Brocklebank
John married Frances (Fanny) Hodgson.