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Facts and Events
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Rawlinson, of Greenhead, in Colton.
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- The Rawlinsons are of a long standing in High Furness, and were very numerous in the parish of Hawkshead and Colton. Alexander, the immediate predecessor of the last abbot of Furness, was of that name. The well-known Curwen Rawlinson has left a pedigree of his family from the reign of king Hen. VII. down to his own time; which is as follows.‡
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- "Robert Rawlinson, son and heir of William Rawlinson, as also heir to a fair estate of Mireside and Cark Hall, descended on him from Robert Curwen, gent, his mother's brother. He married Jane, daughter of Thomas Wilson, of Heversham Hall, in Westmorland : by her he had issue Curwen Rawlinson, his eldest child, and six daughters, viz. 1. Anne, married, first, to Christopher Crakenthorp, of Newbiggen, in Westmorland, esq. her second husband was George Bynard, physician, at Bristow ; 2. Elizabeth ; 3. Catharine ; 4. Ellen ; 5. Dorothy ; 6. Jane. He had also a younger son, William Rawlinson, who was a student at St. John's College, Cambridge.
- ‡ The original is in the possession of Mr. T. Atkinson, of Dalton.
—taken from: The Antiquities of Furness by Thomas West. A new edition with additions by William Close. Published in 1805—S1
References
- ↑ The Antiquities of Furness. Illustrated with Engravings. By Thomas West. A new edition with additions by William Close. Printed and sold by George Ashburner, … 1805
pp.317-318.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Registers of the Parish Church of Cartmel in the County of Lancaster - Christenings, Burials and Weddings, 1660-1723. Transcribed, edited and indexed by Robert Dickinson. Printed for the Lancashire Parish Register Society by James Clegg , Rochdale: 1957
p. 4.
The Registers of Cartmel / BAPTISMS /
« 1662. / … / Sep. 4 /
Jane f. Roberti Rawlingson de Carke esq. »
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