Requests from visitors to our site
We get many requests from visitors to the site who are looking
for information about the area or family history. We are happy
to help, here are a few of the requests we have had recently:
I am researching my Clifford family
ancestry and find it recorded that two important members of
that family are noted as having been buried at Shap Abbey.
If it wouldn't be too much trouble,
I wonder if you could tell me if there are burials places for either
of these persons still at Shap Abbey (which I understand
is ruins) or if there is nothing in existence that records their
burials in your area:
Sir Robert de Clifford died: 20 May
1344
Sir Roger de Clifford died: 13 July
1389
And anything known about the Clifford
family in your area would be appreciated.
Thank you
Sincerely
Alton Rogers
Marysville, Washington, U.S.A.
"Hello Shap,I have
enjoyed looking at your Website. I am trying to trace my family
tree.My name is Paul Berryman Sartin.My father: Richard Berryman
Sartin was Born in Shap Cumbria in 1902Who Died in 1946
in a road accident.
Any information
would be wellcomed."
"Having
left the North 35yrs ago I will soon be returning for a railway
adventure to retrace my past. How can I photograph the
railway summit sign; is it still there? Is it near the
A6 or across private land. Is there a good b/b nearby
or in Shap village"
"We
are tracing my wifes family history which is the [salkeld]
family, it has led us to shap.The 1901 census has led us to
the crown hotel in shap,that was run by James Ireland and his
wife Frances Grace Ireland,ex wife of Robert Salkeld, Frances
Grace was a Castley before she married Robert Salkeld. we cannot
seem to locate the crown hotel, and we were wondering if it
has been demolished or had its name changed. we would be grateful
for any information" "I noticed a request on your great site (this has been my
first visit) for family pictures of the 'People and Places of Shap'
and 'Wedding Snaps'. As I live in Western Australia, I'm not able
to phone the ladies mentioned (Jean Jackson and Liz Amos) and thought
I might e-mail them instead. Are you able to forward this e-mail
to the relevant members of the History group or the Heritage Centre?"
See the family
photos and information that Leah sent. (opens in new window) "I have just visited your website and noted the 'Story of
Mardale exhibition'. I am in the process of writing a curriculum
pack for KS3 schools and am including a section on Mardale. I wonder
if you could provide me with images of Mardale before the valley
was flooded to include in the pack. I would also be interested
in any accounts from people at the time of the proposed flooding
- either for or against.
Any assistance in this would be very much appreciated and of course fully acknowledged."
"Having
left the North 35yrs ago I will soon be returning for a railway
adventure to retrace my past. How can I photograph the
railway summit sign; is it still there? Is it near the
A6 or across private land. Is there a good b/b nearby
or in Shap village"
I would be interested in hearing from anyone
who knows anything about the
Noddle family that lived in Shap in the early 20th Century. John
William
Noddle my great great uncle was a railway signalman, and lived
at 11 Church
Street, Shap, with his wife Mary (nee Kirkpatrick). They had at
least two
children; Mary Isabella (b1909) and John Raymond (b1918). John
William was
originally from Caldbeck.
Many thanks
Belinda Noddles
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