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Dawson Fold
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Deaths |
Baptisms |
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Wilson 1703 |
Dawson 1633 |
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Wilson 1706 |
Harrison 1637 |
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Dickinson 1746 |
Wilson 1699 |
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Dickinson 1756 |
Dickinson 1735 |
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Dickinson 1764 |
Dickinson 1737 |
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Dickinson 1792 |
Dickinson 1738 |
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Dickinson 1795 |
Dickinson 741 |
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Dickinson 1799 |
Dickinson 1743 |
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Dickinson 1746 |
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Dickinson 1762 |
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Dickinson 1766 |
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Dickinson 1769 |
Dawson Fold - Tenants and Owners
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1600 |
Dawson Family farming Dawson Fold (1535 or before) |
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1655 |
Knipe Family occupants |
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1669 |
William Knipe Dawson Fold allocated seat in chappell |
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1680 |
Richard Frankland had an Academy at Dawson Fold |
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1715 |
Agnes Dawson (infant) burial Heversham Church |
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1718 |
Chris Dawson Yeoman Farmer |
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1720 |
Dawson fold conveyed by Roland Hewartson to John Pearson |
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1729 |
John Dickinson purchased Dawson Fold £860-7-6 |
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1729 |
Kiln How 2 acres purchased from Tobias Atkinson £44-7-6 |
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1729 |
Richard Docker tenant farmer |
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1734 |
John Dickinson gave Dawson Fold to his son Daniel (Robert Dickinson son of Daniel married Elizabeth Turner) |
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1785 |
14th Feb Robert Dickinson purchased dwelling house barn cow shed stable orchard garden and 1 acre of land the property of Richard Noble for £47-10-0 (Dwelling in the Row ) |
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1795 |
Robert Dickinson died aged 60 ( Mathew Walling willed £350) |
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1815 |
Heversham Award John Dickinson received 4 plots of land 560 Low common allotment 643 Land between the river Gilpin and the main drainage ditch 596 Moss end with Peat Moss and 727 an Allotment at Hubbersty Crosthwaite |
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1834 |
Kendal Records office John Dickinson sold Lime to Richard Cragg for £2-17-6 |
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1851 |
Census Daniel Dickinson Farming 115 acres |
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1860 |
D and W Dickinson won 1st prize with a shorthorn bull at Crosthwaite Show |
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1861 |
Census Daniel Dickinson Farmer |
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1867 |
Pulled down part of Dawson Fold and built New House |
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1869 |
Kendal Mercury April 10th Daniel Dickinson foreman of Jury, Kendal court |
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1871 |
Census Daniel Dickinson farmer |
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1875 |
Westmorland Gazette Buyer wishes to purchase Damsons at 6 shillings and sixpence to seven shillings per score |
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1879 |
Mathew Walling received a letter from Mr Dickinson asking if he was interested in taking the tenancy of Dawson Fold Farm |
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1880 |
April 27th Sale of Shorthorn cattle and sheep at Dawson Fold |
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1880 |
Mathew Walling with his son William aged 13 became tenants |
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1881 |
Census Mathew Walling farmer |
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1881 |
Census William Dickinson occupier of the new house |
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1884 |
Westmorland Gazette advert APRIL 30th Sale of effects for William Dickinson (deceased) |
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1884 |
Dickinson family left Dawson Fold to Arthur Hoggarth who had family connections with Dickinsons |
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1886 |
Westmorland Gazette report William Walling of Dawson Fold won a ploughing match at Beetham Hall |
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1889 |
Westmorland Gazette advert sale of cottage garden barn shippon and parrock occupied by Mrs Inman for the estate of the late William Dickinson of Dawson Fold. Also 2 fields Nancy Ridding and Hanah Ridding tenanted by Mathew Walling |
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1890 |
Mathew Walling won second prize in a ploughing match at Park House Farm |
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1891 |
Census Mathew Walling Farmer aged 50 |
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1900 |
William Walling farming Dawson Fold . He had married Hanah Trotter daughter of James Trotter South Low farm (his second wife) They had four sonsWilliam Mathew James and George |
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1920s |
Sam Strickland planted a three acre orchard mostly apples for Major L S Hoggarth (1914 -18) he had taken over the Dawson Fold estate from his father Arthur |
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1924 |
Mathew Walling died aged 83 |
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1930 |
Arthur Hoggarth died |
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1941 |
George Walling married Annie Kitching they had two daughters Nancy and Christine and farmed Dawson Fold in partnership with his brother James |
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1946 |
Partnership between George Walling and James dissolved James went to farm Mislet Nr Windermere |
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1962 |
26th December Major L S Hoggarth died aged 82 |
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1966 |
26th April George Walling sold his dairy herd 42 cows |
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1968 |
23rd August Combining Barley at Dawson Fold |
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1971 |
5th February Annie Walling died aged 60 |
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1970s |
George Walling had new bungalow built at Dawson Fold |
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1971 |
4th July Isabella Hoggarth aged 72 wife of Major L S Hoggarth died estate valued £17,217 – 37 leaving Dawson Fold Farm to Mrs Barr |
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1970s |
Roy and Eileen Bainbridge occupied the farm house |
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1970s |
Gordon Pitt purchased the New house at Dawson Fold from Mrs Barr for £11000 |
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1975 |
10th March Nancy Walling died aged 32 |
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1980 |
George Walling purchased Dawson Fold farm with 85 acres |
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1981 |
Spring George Walling had stock sale Beef Cattle and Sheep |
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1982 |
Low common allotment (part of Dawson Fold) 8 acres purchased by J H Trotter for £16,000 |
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1985 |
April 2nd George Walling died aged 74 estate valued £i44,000 George was a pioneer of farm shops selling large quantities of fruit and vegetables mostly Damsons and Potatoes. He was also a successful mangold grower selling truck loads every Spring for sheep feed |
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1985 |
Westmorland Gazette Advert for sale by private treaty Dawson Fold farm house for Christine Walling and sons purchased by Mr and Mrs Midgeley |
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1989 |
Westmorland Gazette 31st July sale of 26 – 68 acres Part of Dawson Fold farm for Trustees G H Walling deceased purchased by Swinton Insurance for £62,000 |
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2002 |
19th April above land sold to Mr Carter Black Bull Witherslack |
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2005 |
Stephen Walling converted a barn to a dwelling |
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