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THE BEWLEY AND RELATED FAMILIES By Donald Dean Parker, Sr. Published by the Author 1946 DEl)ICATION Dcdicstcd to the memory of my maternal great grandfather, John B€'>7ley, 1787-1869, of Buck&bnnk, rloodhouses, und Cnusa Grc.nge in Cum~erlsnd County, Englund. Thunksgiving, 1946 Donald Dean Parker, Sr. Brookings, South Dakota. PATRONS This limited edition has been especially prepared for the follo'.7ing institutions, libraries, and persons: (Arranged alpha betically by states:) Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California; Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Ill.; Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine; American Antiquarian Society, \7orchester, Massachusetts; Ne 1,-: England Historia Qenealcg ical Society, Boston, Nass.; "')etroit Public Library, Detroit, Hichigan; Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, Minn.; lfis souri Historical Society, St. to1Ais, :Mo.; Public library, Cincin nati, Ohio; The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio; The Historical Societ~r of ?ennsylvania, Phila delphia, Penn.; Tennessee State library, Nashville, Tonn.; G-en ealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake Gity, Utah; National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Vlashington, D.C.; The Librs.r;7 of Congress, '.7ashington, D.c.; The 1:lisconsin State Historical Societ:r, liaclison, '}isoonsin. Dr. ~.F. Bo~ley, Director of the ExpGrimsntal end Research Station, Choshunt, Hcrts., England; Hr. c. Arthur Bey;lcy, 335 Florence Avr ., Norwalk, California; Mrs. Isabella Beviley Neill, Dcnair, California; Hr. B£YilE-y Allen, Alhambra, California; and Hr. vrne st Be',-.rley, Hade st o, California. (see page 125 ff.) RELATEn FAMILIES The related families referred to in the title include the follo',-:ing: (Arranged alphabetically:) Allinson, Atkinson, Beck, Behrens, Be',7ley, Blain, Bone, Bro1;me, Crozier, Daniels, Davis, Denton, Gate, Graham, Harrison, Hetherington, Ladyman, to,--1es, Lowther, I oore, Nicholson, Parker, Patterson, Pearson, Relph, Riakerby, Ro'.7land, ~mney, Scott, Setrnll, Siepherd, Stubb, Tom linson, Young. (See especially pages 58-61, 69-94, and index.) TA:SI~ OF CONTENTS Title page - Jedicntion - Patrons - ~slated FamiliES List of l.Iai)s, Sketches, and Photographs Cumbsrlund County - I,t-1:i ;Phys'lcsl '.ana.'_' G-theral :ch-aTac-+eristics l History of Cumberl::md Cour,,ty to the 16th Century 3 Border Jays ond Border Wuys 9 Religion and Joligious Customs 25 CuL1bcrland Sports, AnciGnt and Modern 33 Cumberland Parishes - Ancestral Homes 35 Farming Conditions in England 50 Farming in the Dal2ton Heigh'borhood 54 The Bervleys of Cumberland 56 Bewley Castle 64 The Be7dey- Ancestry in Its Various Branches 69 Rev, Josiah Relph, 'Ths Poet of the North' 95 The Pearson Family 102 Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson Bewley, 1796-1877 106 John Bo71ley of Buc1rnbank, Woodhouses, and Causa Grange 107 The Will of John Be~ley, 1787-1869 110 BeTTley Coat of Ar~s 112 John Pearson Bs~ley and Jans Patterson 114 Descendants of John Pearson Dsuley and Jane Pattereon 120 G.sorg6 PattE.rEon £md Mary GrEham 122 John Pearson Be~lcy, Genealogist 124 Other Be·.-·lcy FnmiliGs from Cumberland County 125 Various Be~loy It0os of Interest 128 Index of PerEons nnd Places - Bibliography List of Mr.ps, Skotchcs, r.nd Photogrcrihs Page Map of the Border: Cumberland County and Dumfriesshire 8 The Donald Dean Parker Family, 1945 24 Bri~ish Isles - places of family residence and· interest 49 Pedigree chart of the Bewley-Patterson ancestry · 67 Key to the Bewley ancestry in its various branches 68 Jessie Bewley Parker, husband, and chi1dren 72 Map of Dalston and adjoining parishes, Cumberland County 102 Bewley Homes and Places of Interest in Cumberland County and Wales. Top row: two views of early Bewley home at Buckabank, built by John Bewley, 1'795. Second ro·i7: Two views of the Raughtonhead Church, rebuilt by the Rev. John Bewley, 1760; center, Bewley Castle ruins. Third row: Bewley castle ruins; Causa Grange, home·of the Bew leys, 1854-1946. Fourth row: left, Dalston Church and Grammar School; beneath it, another view of Causa Grange. Remaining pictures: Llansannor Court in Wales 10? New Zealand - North and South Islands 107 Photographs of the Bewleys, 1787-1890 108 Sketch map of lochinvar and Mt. Hope farms, and a plat of Mount Hope farm. (Jessie Bewley Park0r and family lived on the latter, 1904-1907.) 110 Descendants of John Bewley and Elizabeth Pearson 111 British Isles - places of family residence and interest 113 The Bewleys of Lochinvar, 1890, and Lochinvar - the Be~- ley home after 1888, Bervvyn, Maryland 117 Photographs of daughters and grandchildren of John Pear son Bewley and Jane Patterson, ~ith other views. Top row: Dalston Church; Brandon Hall. Second row: Daugh ters and grandsons. Third row: The old tobacco barn - first home of the Bewleys in America, 1876-1888; Be~ ley descendants. Fourth row: Daughters; Bewley des cendants. Fifth row: Be'7le;y granddaughters; Bev1ley de scendants. Bottom row: Barn at Llansanno~ Court in Wales; Jessie BeTTley Parker, 1926; Tombstone of John Pearson Bewley (1826-1880) and Jane Patterson Bewley (1830-1890) in St. John's Cemetery, BGltsville, Md. 119 George Patterson and his wife, Mary Graham, their grave stone and homes in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, mainly at Cote, Eskdalcmuir. LowGr lGft, at Craigs. (ThGy were the parents-in-law of John Pearson Bewley.) 121 Sketch of Llaneannor Court - Bewley home, 1872-5, Wales 123 1 CIDU3ERLANTI COUNTY - ITS PHYSICAL AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Cumberland County, the home of our English ancestors, lies in the extreme northwest of England, close to the Scrottish border. Though it is far from the great centers of population, it has play er an important part in the political and military affairs of the past, chiefly because its most important town, Carlisle, lies very close to the border between England and Scotland. At the present, as in the past, most of the population has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. Increasingly during the past few centuries the important deposits of coal and iron, lying e.lon~ ths coast, have been worked. Whitehaven, Workington, and Maryport, ranging from 12,000 to 26,000 in population, have grown up near these deposits, but away from these industrial centers, and CarlisLe, with its 45,000, there are no large cities or towns. :9ua to th,3 hilly nat·:..re of a large portion of the county, the people in the ,ast have lived mainly in scattered homesteads or smal'l. hamlets in t·no valley bottoms, or in larger villages and towns on ~~1e lov,la11-i tracts. Phy3ioally, the oounty may be divided into three main regions. Two of these are fell areas with hills rising from 600 to 2000t or even 3000 feet. The reg'lon i!l Vlhich our English ancestors lived occupies sbout half the area of the county and is less than 600 feet in altitude. Toward the south the county is bordered by the famoas Lake District, a noted vacation area for tourists. Associ ated with the district are the names of the poets: William Words mcuth, Samuel Taylor Coleridget Hartley Coleridge, Thomas D€ Quin cey, Robert Southey, and others who have sung of the natural beau ties of the Lake District. Bordering the county on tho oast is tho Pennine range of mountains, whilG on the wost is tho Irish Sea. Most· of tho rivers arc small, swift, and oloar, and are unnav igable, exoept for the Eden, which allows of the passage of small boats to a point a little below Carlisle. Though a number of placG-names in the county include the word 'forest', there are no real forests in Cumberland to-day. Woods do oocur, but they are not numerous and most of them have been planted in recent times. In thG lower parts of the valleys are often found thick growths of hazel, bircht Willow, alder, ash, and oak. To-day less than four per cent of the whole county is woodland. It used to be quite otherwise. Up until the late Middle Ages a royal forest, Inglewood, occupied an area of over 150 square miles. Our English ancestors lived in and on the western border of this royal forest which lay just east and southeast of Carlisle. The scenery of the oounty is varied and muoh of it is very beautiful, though our ancestors lived in the less attraotive, but . more productive distriot. The open Vale of Eden, however, is noted ~or its natu~al beauty. The greatest length of the county is 75 miles, while the small est bread th t:n·ou5h the heart of C-.imberlan<'.I. is 25 miles. Its area is 973,086 acTes or 1520 square miles. It occupies about one thir":y-~thirc. of tl1e entire area of England, and only eight English coQnties are smellar. 2 The pr inc i:1& J. river of Cur:ibe rland is the Ti'den which rises in the Pennino Hil:s ana enters the county from 7estmoreland a f6w miles east of Ponrith. Three miles northwest of Appleby it flows directly past New Bewley and Bewley Castle. Into it at Carlisle flows the Caldew, the small stream along whose banks lived the Bewleys and re:ated families. The Fden is ovor 60 miles in length and 35 of these are in Cumberland. Throughout its course it flows over sandstone rooks. After passing Armathwaits the Eden valley expands and passes gradually into the plain of Carlisle. The Esk River, flowing southward from the Eskdalemuir region, forms part of tho border between CumbGrland and Scotland. It and its tributaries might bo rcgardod as distinct from the F.dcn, but as tho two rivers enter the Solway Firth olosc togtther, scparatod by only a narrow traot of marshland, thoy may be regarded as parts of the same river system.