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Flodder Hall

 

Flodder Hall gets its name from being near to flooding water.  This is one of the largest farms in the valley with probably the oldest farm house.  An inscription on the porch is still in evidence as follows –

            SI SEPIENS FORE VIS
            SEX SERVA QVOE TIBI MANDO
            QVID LOQVERIS ET VBI
            DE QVO CVI GVOMODO QVANDO

Which when translated is –

IF YOU WISH TO BE A WISE MAN OBSERVE THESE SIX THINGS WHICH I COMMAND YOU: WHAT YOU SAY, AND WHERE, OF WHOM, TO WHOM. HOW AND WHEN.

Deaths

Baptisms

William  Knipe  1652

Mary  Knipe  1649

Tobias  Knipe  1656

Ann  Knipe  1700

Mary  Knipe  1666

Knipe  1704

Isaac  Knipe  1667

Knipe  1706

Mary  Knipe  1699

Knipe  1708

John  Knipe  1734

Margaret  Knipe  1710

Margaret  Knipe  1740

John  Knipe  1716

John  Knipe  1741

Isaac  Knipe  1717

John  Layfield  1742

Elisabeth  Noble  1739

Peter  Layfield  1743

Thomas  Biggins  1762

Ellen  Layfield  1745

Hannah  Briggs  1766

John  Biggins  1764

William  Moon  1785

Edward  Briggs  1766 

Betty  Benson  1788

Isabel  Briggs  1767 

Frank  Benson  1791

Patience  Benson  1769

Sally  Benson  1794

Thomas  Allan  1772 

Patience  Benson  1796

Margaret  Allan  1784

Mally  Benson  1797

Francis  Benson  1796 

Thomas  Robinson  1797

Elizabeth  Robinson  1809

Richard  Robinson  1799  

 

Jane  Robinson  1801  

 

John  Robinson   1803

 

Elizabeth  Robinson  1806

 

Robert  Robinson  1808

 

Ellen  Robinson  1811

Flodder - Tenants and Owners

 

1535

Evidence of Knipe family living at Flodder

1606

Carving above the fireplace with Knipe name incorporated

1639 – 1682

Tobias Knipe lived at Flodder

1645

Samuel Knipe buried at Crosthwaite Church

1649 – 1727

Mary Knipe lived at Flodder

1653

William Knipe buried at Crosthwaite Church

1669

Seating in the Chapel allocated to Knipes of Flodder

1675

Mary Knipe married James Hodgson

1700

Mary, wife of William Knipe, died

1700

John Knipe married Margaret Symson of Flookburgh

1711

Marriage bureau or cupboard dated 1711 in the bedroom at Flodder

1727

In James Hodgson’s will he left Johnscale’s Farm to John Knipe of Flodder

John Knipe and Margaret’s family

1702

Mary born 1702 and married Thomas Dennison from Laithwaite at a date unknown

1704

Tobias Knipe born

1706

Jane Knipe born and married Thomas Harrison from Hundhowe at a date unknown

1708

William Knipe born

1710

Margaret Knipe born and married James Inman from Sedbergh at a date unknown

1711

Susanna Knipe born and married John Bracken from Redman Tenement (address unknown)

1716

John Knipe born

1718

Isaac Knipe born and later took Holy Orders

1734

John Knipe (father) died

1741

Margaret Knipe (mother) died

1743

Tobias Knipe sold Flodder Hall to William Yeats for £1,307 – 10s – 0d but he refused to sign.  The tenant was Matthew Layfield, rent £40.

1764

Tobias Knipe died

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1770

William Long tenant

1807

Crosthwaite  records - John Robinson owner died

1809

Crosthwaite records – Elizabeth Robinson died.  Purchased by Mr Adam.

1815

(From Argles papers)  John Wakefield purchased Woodlands 850 acres bordering Flodder Hall for £902.  

1815

(Kendal Chronicle – 1st February)  to be sold on the premises at Flodder Hall. 20 spring and 12 backend calvers, 38 young stock, long horned bull, 4 good working horses, one colt, one filly, 2 foals, horsegear, hay, corn, straw and household furniture

1827

Purchased by the Wakefields for £3,600

1827

William Long tenant

1841

(Census)  John Bennett tenant

1850

John Bennett died

1865

Tablet on porch inscribed WHW (William Henry Wakefield)

1871

(Census)  Thomas Bennett tenant (son of John Bennett)

1874

Argles purchased Flodder Hall

1881

(Census)  Thomas Bennett wife and nine children farming Flodder Hall 148 acres

1881

Report of an early harvest at Flodder Hall cut oats July 29th

1890

John Bennett tenant, farmed at Flodder until 1922 (he was a Chairman of the Lyth Drainage Committee)

1890

James Bennett (aged 24) of Flodder Hall married Agnes Phillipson (aged 20)

1922

(Westmorland Gazette)  to let Flodder Hall 138 acres tenant John Bennett

1922

(Westmorland Gazette)  sale of 60 cattle, 4 horses, 7 pigs, implements and furniture for John Bennett

1922

William Cottam tenant followed by Smith’s Brewers (Mr Gibson was farm manager)

1933

To let, tenant G Smith, 118 acres

1942

Thomas Wilson tenant.  Had 4 sons – Thomas, Arthur, William and Alan, and 2 daughters – Doris and Iona

1942

14 tons of damsons sold £28 a ton, pickers received 2s. 0d per score (20 lbs)

1944

(Farmer and Stockbreeder)  picture of Lyth Valley floods – cornfields under water

1947

22nd February – heavy snow fall 6” - froze for 6 weeks.

1949

Sale of farming stock for Thomas Wilson - dairy shorthorns up to £210 guineas

1951

Wilsons vacated Flodder Hall

1951

Mr Stephen Barnes tenant, had three sons Kellet, Fred and Thomas.  The Barnes family were the owners of a very successful Ayrshire cow herd.  Mr and Mrs William Sharp were the next tenants.  Edward Sharp in partnership with his father are present tenants of Flodder Hall.

 

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