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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Cumberland => Topic started by: kathb on Friday 25 February 11 14:27 GMT (UK)
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I have this as the place of birth on an ancestors certificate of 1865. Can anyone help me locate this place please?
Regards
Kathb
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Have you tried Genuki for information on this?
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CUL/CastleSowerby/index.html
I'm still looking for the Cow Rigg bit!
Jen
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MODIFIED: Ignore this one....it's nowhere near Castle Sowerby, sorry!
I tried Google maps and found this
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?rlz=1T4SUNC_enGB374GB375&q=cow+rigg+longtown&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Cow+Rigg,+Easton,+Longtown,+Carlisle,+Cumbria+CA6+5RR&gl=uk&ei=XL5nTdiRGoK0hAeFnr2fDw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA
Gosh, what a long link! But it shows Cow Rigg as being mear Easton in the far north of Cumbria.
Jen
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If it helps, in the 1871 census Cowrigg comes up in the Parish of Castle Sowerby and the Township of Bustabeck.
Neighbouring farms are Sour Nook, Stockwell, Doby Hill, Style, Birks & Birks Hill.
Gosh, what a long link!
You could shrink it using 'shrink link' at the bottom of the page :D
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Take a look at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=337500&Y=541500&A=Y&Z=120
There's a 'Low Currig' there, which could have originally been Cow Rigg
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Jen, I'd agree with that. You can almost hear how the changes would have happened, if you imagine the word cow being pronounced more like coo.
Other Jen :D
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Neighbouring farms are Sour Nook, Stockwell, Doby Hill, Style, Birks & Birks Hill.
Sour Nook also shows up on that map, and if you pan north Birks Hill comes into view :D
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Thanks everyone for the help, do you think this was the name of a farm or a village? Help please?
Regards
Kathb
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I am no expert, but when googling Cow Rigg, a page came up for Marriages in the Longtown area ,
sample marriage record,
November 19 th 1836,at Longtown,
Saturday last ,Mr John Baxter of Baty town to Miss Wilson of Cow Rigg
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In 1871 there was only one family there, and if you look at the map you'll see it seems to be a house by itself.
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JenB is correct :)
Go to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=337500,542200
then select (on right) 1863-1895 1:2500 map
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when googling Cow Rigg, a page came up for Marriages in the Longtown area ,
I think that's the Cow Rigg jen mentions in her reply #2, but Kath is specifically asking about Cow Rigg in Castle Sowerby parish.
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Yes it was but I modified it when I realised my mistake. ;)
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Yes it was but I modified it when I realised my mistake. ;)
That's the one Jen mentioned in reply #2 before she modified it ;D
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I have modified my message to as there was Cow Rigg farm ,in Easton, Arthuret or have I put that the wrong way round,
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Brilliant thank you once again to fellow Rootschatters, it looks like it was a farm.
Another mystery solved thanks to you all.
Regards
Kathb
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Hello Kathb
Cowrigg - Castle Sowerby used to be a ale house and a farm together. I would think it would have been in the parish of Raughton Head. It is surrounded by Raughton Head, Sebergham, High Bridge, Stockdalewath. I believe that the building is still there today (the location is a little hard to find!)
Regards
Oletta
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Thanks Oletta, this sounds promising. The ancestor who lived there was an Inn Keeper prior to living there in 1865 and after in the North East, so it fits very well.
Can you tell me please how you know or found out that this address was an Alehouse and Farm?
Thank you
Regards
Kathb
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Hi
My Great, Grandmother Catherine Angela Carr was born at Cowrigg in 1898
Best wishes
Oletta
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Oletta, this is great news. I know my ancestors where there in 1865 when their second daughter's birth was registered at this address. I am not sure how long they lived there as the next reference to them is in 1871 in Jarrow. Do you know when your family moved onto Cow Rigg?
Thanks for your help
Kathb
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Hello Kathb
My Great, Grandmother was not born at Cowrigg but her brother was! Joseph Carr (Catherine Angela's father) and his family lived at Cowrigg from about the early 1900's.
Rgards oletta
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The pub at Cow Rigg was called (I think) the Travellers Rest and is now a private dwelling. I think at one point the building was owned by Lime House estates (private school near Dalston) and they sold it 10-15 years ago. I know this because we got the details from the estate agents at the time.
There is a planning app for Travellers Lodge, which I thnk is the same place http://eforms.eden.gov.uk/fastweb/detail.asp?AltRef=07/0616 and you can click and view on a map.
Hope this is helpful (and if any of the details are incorrect, I apologise - it is a long time since the pub closed and I haven't driven round those roads for years)
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Cowrigg was definitely a public house called the Traveller's Rest. I proposed to my wife in it in 1968. It would be in Castle Sowerby parish originally but must be close on the border of Sebergham parish and Raughton Head parish. Now a private house with little indication of its past.
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I finally found it on goolge street but the long and lat for Travellers Lodge, Cowrigg, Raughton Head is 54.7718° N, 2.9655° W.
My great gradnfather was Joseph Carr born 1874 at Cowrigg if any one is interested in exchanging details.
Photos are 1977 Cowrigg with Josephine Jones (Nee Carr) and her husband Rupert Henry Jones and the second photo is now