Where is/was Cow Rigg, Castle Sowerby?

[Oletta]

Hi

My Great, Grandmother Catherine Angela Carr was born at Cowrigg in 1898

Best wishes

Oletta

[kathb]

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

[Oletta]

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

[claireandsi]

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)

[clearly]

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.

[krismcd99]

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