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John Martindale, farmer of Newchurch parish
« on: Sunday 31 January 16 14:59 GMT (UK) »
OK, so all my family lines are from London and the Southeast; but I always knew that sooner or later the Martindale line was likely to drag me up to Cumbria. Now I believe it has.

I believe that the migrant was John Martindale, a Quaker, who married Martha Taylor at Horsleydown meeting house in Southwark on 31 May 1694.

He is described as John Martindale of Aldgate Parish London Tobacconist, son of John Martindale of Newchurch Parish in the County of Cumberland Farmer Deceased.

It's the father, John Martindale of Newchurch Parish in the County of Cumberland deceased who interests me. Obviously, he must have died before 31 May 1694 .... but I have no idea how much before; and I am not having any joy in tracing any record of him at all in the online search tools.

I will be most grateful for any scraps of information that you may be able to turn up.
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: John Martindale, farmer of Newchurch parish
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 31 January 16 15:52 GMT (UK) »
Hello , Watermillock church records has a John Martindale , burial 1688 / 6th nov , Newchurch Is Gowbarrow / Watermillock  regards Westlass

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Re: John Martindale, farmer of Newchurch parish
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 10 February 16 21:46 GMT (UK) »
The good news for you is that the baptism, marriage and burial records for what is now known as Watermillock All Saints parish still survive as far back as 1580 and are available at the Cumbria County Archives (Ref. PR 132/1 and 132/2). See link to complete list below:

http://www.archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/CalmView/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=PR%20132

Perhaps you (or someone visiting Carlisle Archives Office to help you out) might be able to find further details of your John Martindale, or even a generation or two before him. 

As you are probably aware, it was in this area (Gowbarrow Park) that inspired William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
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