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Cumbrian Genealogy - A full transcription of names contained in trade directories from Parson and White 1829, Mannex and Whellan 1847, Harriet Martineau 1855 and Bulmers 1901. Many parish register transcriptions too.
Images Of Cumbria - Cumberland and Westmorland Parishes index, with links to parish descriptions, transcribed from Mannix and Whellan, 1847 and 1851. Photographs and ballads too.
Cumbria Ancestral Research - Professional genealogy services.
History of the Parish of Clifton - Based largely on the writings of the Revd. Richard J.S. Watson, A.K,C, Vicar of Great Clifton, 1970.
UK Genealogy Cumberland - Genealogy links and maps. Research aids in the former county.
UK Genealogy Westmorland - Genealogy links and maps. Research aids in the former county.
Hills, Patterson and Graham - Family history from the Border areas of England and Scotland.
Robley - Family members who have their origins in the county, now spread worldwide. Includes a few famous Robleys eg. Maj.Gen. Horatio Gordon Robley, Robley Dunglison, and Joseph Robley once Governor of Tobago.
Matterdale Matters - A collection of transcriptions, census, tithe documents, parish registers and directories plus more from the parish of Matterdale in Cumberland.
Ducksbury - Family research, mainly from Kendal Westmorland, descendants of William born c 1785.
Westmorland Mailing List - The county of Westmorland was established for administrative purposes in 1131 but was merged in 1974 with Cumberland, the Furness part of north Lancashire and a small part of North Yorkshire to form the county of Cumbria.
The Hunters of Kendal, Westmorland - The family history site of Nigel Hunter, tracing the 'Hunter' line and associated families back into the 1600s.
Ulverston Heritage Centre - Museum, heritage centre, family history group, membership, local history and historical research.
Cumbria Archive Service - Contact details for public record offices in Carlisle, Kendal, Whitehaven and Barrow in Furness. Brief indication of the types of records held.
Docwra Family Research Project - Origins, history, heraldry, famous members of the Docwra family which originated in Cumberland. Includes searchable name database, document and image archives.
Matthews Genealogy - This site's focus is on the Matthews and related families which, in the main, lived in the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, England.
Joseph Nicholson and Isabella Ellwood - Family tree of the descendents of Joseph Nicolson from Cumberland, Canada, and Ballarat.
Jill Coulthard - Family page containing Mossop information. Coulthard, Walker and Fox lines from mid-west Cumberland.
Westmorland, England - Abstracts of Wills - A collection of abstracts of wills for persons living in the old English County of Westmorland.
Memorial Inscriptions from Longtown - A collection of gravestone inscriptions from churchyards in the Longtown area of Cumbria, including Arthuret, Kirkandrews on Esk and Kirklinton.
The History Studio - Local, family and house history, by Chris Craghill.
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Genealogy To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." 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In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Genealogy The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Genealogy blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Genealogy I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Genealogy To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Genealogy To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Genealogy "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Genealogy "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Genealogy Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Genealogy Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Genealogy Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Genealogy You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. -- F. M. Knowles No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Genealogy You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Genealogy "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Genealogy Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Genealogy The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Genealogy Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Genealogy "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry Genealogy A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. -- Lewis Grizzard We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Genealogy
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