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HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

dianelr  (View posts) Posted: 30 Jan 2005 2:53PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: hutchinson,
Hello, My husband has an ancestor James HUTCHINSON (born c. 1790) who appears to hail from either Kendal Westmorland (1851 Glamorgan Census) or Windomore/Windermere Westmorland (1861) Glamorgan census. By 1829 he is in Glamorgan and his first wife, Martha, has died. He does have a daughter Jane born c. 1837 (we only know not in Glamorgan). At the same time, we find a George HUTCHINSON (born c. 1797) and a Robert HUTCHINSON (born c. 1795) also in Glamorgan coming from Stavely Westmorland ... don't know if they are related or not ... haven't got the geography of Westmorland down yet.

So, if you have come across the HUTCHINSON family or are doing research in these locales and have any suggestions, I'd love to communicate. Thanks in advance for any assistance!

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

dianelr  (View posts) Posted: 30 Jan 2005 3:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
Oops ... daughter Jane was born c. 1827! not 1837 ... she clearly was not born in Glamorgan ... so, possibly in whatever town James and Martha lived before moving ... maybe Westmorland ... maybe somewhere else!

Sorry about the confusion with the date!

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

lyn872  (View posts) Posted: 21 Feb 2005 6:16PM GMT
Classification: Query
I can help a little with the geography - Kendal and Windermere are nine miles apart, and Staveley is half-way between the two. All are in the former county of Westmorland (now part of Cumbria).

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

Diane Richard  (View posts) Posted: 21 Feb 2005 9:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: hutchinson,
Thanks Lyn ... appreciate the geography ... odds are the Hutchinson families from all these towns are probably related at some point ... still trying to sort that all out!

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

tsumigirl  (View posts) Posted: 27 Jun 2007 1:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi ,I don,t know if we can help each other here, but I will tell you what I have got about Hutchinson in Westmorland...
Lancelot Hutchinson(1680+) married Agnes Burra(1681)in 1703,at Crosby Ravensworth ,and in Agnes,s brother ,s will he left money to their, 5 children,
James,Lancelot,William,Reynold,and a sister Agnes. but I havn,t been able to go further than that .The Hutchinson side I havn,t been able to pin down in a particular Parish ,so ............
Look forward to hearing from you Tsumi

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

chrisjwest  (View posts) Posted: 14 Jun 2009 5:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi,

If you're still trying to track down the Hutchinsons of Staveley in the Parish of Kendal, it may well be worth checking out the 'South Westmorland Burial Index' which covers the same area.

Good Hunting

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

dianelr  (View posts) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 2:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks so much! It's about time for me to revisit this branch of the family!

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

cowenpauline  (View posts) Posted: 21 Sep 2009 11:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hutchinson
A few things about the area your Hutchinsons came from which might help.

Windermere was called Applethwaite until the 19th C., so to find strays - people who were born there but living somewhere else - in the census you need to look up both. There were a group of Hutchinsons - Nathan, James and Robert living there in the late 18th C, and they all had a number of children, though I couldn't tell you who they all were. James lived at Common, a farmhouse which still exists just off the road between Windermere and Staveley. There was also a William, who lived at Winster and Crook, which roughly speaking are between Bowness/Windermere and Staveley.

The Hutchinsons disappear from Windermere in the early 19th C, but in 1851 most of their descendants live very close by, and in 1851 two of them, Nathan and Isaac, are farming at Staveley.

Windermere Parish Church is in Bowness beside the lake, and the parish includes Bowness (formerly Undermillbeck) and Windermere (formerly Applethwaite). All the other places are in the vast parish of Kendal, which had a large number of chapels of ease including Staveley and Crook. The IGI usually puts all entries under Kendal, so you can't tell whether people lived in the town of Kendal or one of the outlying districts, but the chapels actually kept their own registers. The chapel registers are often quite small so it's easy to find someone, though some were so small they did not always have a priest, so families might use a neighbouring one. The records of Windermere and Kendal parishes are on microfilm at Kendal Record Office.

I have a lot of records for Windermere but not Staveley. If I find anything that might be useful to you I'll let you know.

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

dianelr  (View posts) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 1:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for the added information about the area and the parishes - the first mention of Applethwaite. I got so bogged down in trying to understand the geography and parish structure of the area that I have "paused" for a long time on this branch of my husband's family. Anything found would be much appreciated and your new information (to me) might invigorate my research!

Appreciate, Diane :-)

Re: HUTCHINSON ... Kendal or Windomore/Windermere? Westmorland

cowenpauline  (View posts) Posted: 22 Sep 2009 8:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hutchinson
I have done a bit more research. If you go to www.edenlinks.co.uk and look at the pages on the villages in Kendal ward you can find out a lot about the area, including the 1777 Window Tax. There were six Hutchinsons in the townships outside Kendal, all near Staveley, but none in Windermere itself. However, two, Robert and William, lived at Hugill, which is on the road between Windermere and Staveley, and close to Common Farm, where a Hutchinson family lived later. Then Nathan, Robert and James all appear in the Windermere parish registers in the 1780s/90s, and also William, although he lives at Winster and Crook.

I think they were related because the name Nathan and also Isaac appear in so many Hutchinson families in the area and also in Wales. Nathan and Elizabeth Hutchinson lived at Borrans in the 1780s and 1790s. This is on the border of Applethwaite and Hugill. There are two entries for daughters of James in the 1790s (I haven't got the whole register for the period)living at Common. Common belonged to Robert who left it to his son William in 1811. William lived in Nottingham so his brother Isaac was the tenant. He shared it with another brother George, who was churchwarden in Windermere in 1822, but Isaac seems to be on his own in the land tax of 1829. He is the only Hutchinson left in Applethwaite.

Sorry I couldn't find your James. He may be there on a page of the register that I haven't got, or at a nearby chapel. I found some one had written about him and another person about George on the Ancestry website.

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