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Westmorland / Re: Fothergills of Mallerstang.
« on: Tuesday 16 August 11 16:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Brie,

Actually, what might be handy for me is if you have any old maps of the region from around the 1700s or earlier?

Thanks,
Tom.

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Westmorland / Re: Fothergills of Mallerstang.
« on: Tuesday 16 August 11 16:15 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Darlingtonian on Friday 12 August 11 22:45 BST (UK)
Hi Jan & Tommi,

If you can't get in touch with Ron, I have the letters from Mary Fothergill of Brownber Cottage, they are to a Miss Isabel and her sister in 1909......you kindly sent me the letters Jan.

There is no mention of anybody called Michael but they may throw some light on your Yorkshire Fothergill branch of the family..... and they are lovely to read .... very interesting and so many people mentioned. 

It just shows that the Fothergills were interested in their ancestors so many years ago.

As Jan says Tommi ..... you will have to make a few more posts before you can receive private messages....... then I can send them to you
Jean

Hi Jean,
I'd love to read the letters to see if there may be a connection to my line.. please send them through whenever you can! :)

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Westmorland / Re: Fothergills of Mallerstang.
« on: Tuesday 16 August 11 16:13 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: frederickay on Friday 12 August 11 22:18 BST (UK)
hi Tommi , now the excuses . i have stripped my house as I am carpetting and everything is in garage and my hard drive is in shop and i am on lap top which doesn't carry any info, If you put up three posts i will be able to private message you with some info in the next week. In meantime . the fothergills i mention were in the ravenstonedale area and the letters were from the ravenstonedale family history group. They have now gone on line and i think you will get them thru google . otherwise i will send you address when my computer is up and running . the second place is the Kendal archive s. I went there and they have so much Fothergill info mation i was unable to gather it as I am only fractionally related to them thru marriage and I didn't want to get too far off track . Hope I hear from you because it does sound promising with these letters i have here tho for some reason I thought it was a women writing
 i did send them to Ronald Long so if you feel like being a detective you maybe able to contact him .
 Thanks Fred,


Thanks for the info... I'll reply to both of these posts and hopefully that'll allow me to pm! :)

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Westmorland / Re: Fothergills of Mallerstang.
« on: Tuesday 16 August 11 16:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi Brie,

My line is from the Newcastle branch 'B', in Richard Fothergill's Second History book.  My earliest known ancestor is Michael Fothergill, b. 1763 at Reeth, Yorkshire, d. 1837 Stannington, Northumberland.  In 1784 he married a Hannah Law in Durham.

Any info would be great!  Although I've got most of the detail from Michael on down to me from census and BMDs.  Any photographs or other info (overseas travel etc) would be good if you know of any, or anything earlier than 1763 that could link us to another line.  Genetically, my line is distinct from the Ravonstonedale line by Y chromosomal DNA, although similar to a Featheringill (USA) branch that came off maybe a couple generations before Michael b.1763.

Thanks,
Tom.

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Westmorland / Re: Fothergills of Mallerstang.
« on: Friday 12 August 11 19:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: frederickay on Friday 07 November 08 01:58 GMT (UK)
hi , I am a Wharton from Kirby Stephan but in 2005 i went to ravenstonedale to look for info on my Wharton's in that area as well. at this time i think i copied some letters to a miss Isobel.?? ... stupidly i have not put her reference to me but they are from a M. Fothergill. they are dated 1909 and are absolutely full of fothergill history . to quote " i feel certain there has been a very near connection and great friendliness between the York F.gills and the brownber ones . The Carr end fgills. said they exchanged from Mallerstrang the last fgill in mallestrang died about ten years since and they owned their farm for more than 300 years. castlewaite by name ,yet they always said they sprung from r.stonedale "
Are you interested in me scanning these letters to you . Jan

Sorry this is bringing up an old post.. but in my tree I have a Michael Fothergill, b.1840 Liverpool d.1920 and decends from Michaels that lived around the Yorkshire dales.  He had a daughter, Isabella, and a wife also Isabella.  Just wondering if there might be a connection?  There seems to be relatively few M. Fothergills, and my line contain the only Michael Fothergills that I've come across.

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