Also known as Rawlings, Rawlin, Rowlin, Rowling etc.
This is a line of several generations from Cumberland. They seem to have remained in a small area of the western Lake District, though my reconstruction is tentative and mainly based on the registers of one parish.
9. Jeremiah (born by about 1670, died 1762) and Martha (born by about 1670, died 1755) RAWLING of Hollins in the parish of Lamplugh in Cumberland. Martha had also been a RAWLING before their marriage. More
8. Jonathan (born towards the end of the 17th century, died 1763) and Elizabeth (born towards the end of the 17th century, died 1761) RAWLING of Hows and later Hollins in Lamplugh. Elizabeth had been a FRIER. More
7. William (b abt 1733) and Mary RAWLING of Hollins. More
6. Jeremiah (b abt 1770) and Ann RAWLING of Hollins. More
5. Jonathan (b abt 1802) and Jane (b abt 1803) RAWLING of Godferhead at Loweswater. Jane had been a PEARSON. More
4. Jeremiah (b 1847) and Margaret (b 1852) RAWLING of Hollins. Margaret had been a JACKSON. More
3. Jackson (b 1878) and Catherine Ann (b 1877) RAWLING of Mosser. Catherine had been a SWAINSON. More
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Jeremiah RAWLING married Martha RAWLING on 20 December 1689 in Lamplugh. They lived at Hollins in that parish. They are known to have baptised the following children:
Jane 1694 in Ennerdale - she may have married John WOOD in 1719 in Lamplugh.
Joshua 1704 in Lamplugh (of Hollins) - he was renowned as a cow-doctor and his book on the subject was published after his death in 1792. He was buried in Lamplugh.
Elizabeth 1708 in Lamplugh - she does not seem to have married and was buried in Lamplugh in 1761.
Thomas 1711 in Lamplugh - his later life is unknown.
I also think they had Jonathan, probably by about 1700 and perhaps away from the above two parishes - for his later life see below. And they may have had John, who is buried in Lamplugh in 1723 as 'of Hollins' with no corresponding baptism.
Martha died in 1755 and was buried in Lamplugh; Jeremiah survived her until 1762 and was likewise buried in the parish. He must have been of a very ripe old age, if he married 73 years previously.
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Jonathan RAWLING married Elizabeth FRIER on 13 June 1719 in Lamplugh. They lived at Hows in that parish. Their children were:
Thomas 1720
Jeremy 1722 (died 1766 and buried at Lamplugh)
Martha 1725 (married John GUEST, 8 January 1749 at Lamplugh)
John 1727 (died 1730 and buried at Lamplugh)
Henry 1729
Jonathan 1732 (died 1733 and buried at Lamplugh)
William 1733 (see below)
I believe that as Jonathan's parents and unmarried sister Elizabeth grew older or less well, Jonathan and Elizabeth moved to Hollins from Hows. Jonathan's mother Martha died in 1755 and his sister Elizabeth in 1761. Elizabeth Jonathan's wife died only a few weeks after her sister-in-law and was at Lamplugh on 29 December 1761. Jonathan survived her by not much more than a year and was also buried in Lamplugh, on 13 March 1763.
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William RAWLING was a yeoman of Hollins in Kelton, Lamplugh (there is more than one Hollins in the parish - it isn't explicit which one is referred to above), married to Mary. They had children:
Martha 1762 (married James ROBERTSON 6 March 1788 at Lamplugh; they seem to have christened two children, William and Hannah RAWLING, on the same day as well)
Hannah 1767 (married Henry TYSON 7 December 1789 at Lamplugh; they also seem to have christened a son, William RAWLING, on the same day)
Jeremiah 1770 (see below)
Fanny 1776 (Married Nicholas DICKINSON 26 October 1800 at Lamplugh)
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Jeremiah also lived at Hollins, with Anne. I could speculate again that Anne was daughter (or other relative) of John JACKSON. Their children were:
William 1797 (married Ann, lived at Arlecdon, had one child Joshua about 1825, all buried at Lamplugh: Joshua 1837, William 1865, Ann 1892)
John Jackson 1800
Jonathan 1802 (see below)
Mary 1804
Sarah 1805
Elizabeth 1807
Ann 1810 (died aged 7 months, buried Lamplugh)
Note that the parish register information I have ends in 1812 so there may be later children I don't know about.
Jeremiah was still living at Hollins in 1837, renting a cottage and two perches of land from John CROSTHWAITE and owing no tithe.
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Jonathan married Jane PEARSON, though I don't know the exact date - probably about 1825-28. Jane was the daughter of a farmer from nearby Ennerdale, and slightly younger than Jonathan. They had the following children, and I guess they would have been living at the birth-places at those dates (though the Ennerdale locations may have been Jane staying with her own family for her early confinements):
Ann born about 1828, Ennerdale (died Ann WILLIAMSON 1887, poss married Henry WILLIAMSON 1854 Loweswater)
Thomas born about 1830, Ennerdale
Bridget born about 1836, Loweswater (died Bridget JACKSON 1911, poss married Jonathan JACKSON 1863 St Bees)
Jane born about 1840, Loweswater
Mary born about 1845, Loweswater (died Mary JACKSON 1920)
Jeremiah born 1847, Loweswater (see below)
Ennerdale is the same valley as Hollins in Lamplugh, but across a parish boundary. Loweswater is several miles from Hollins, in the next valley to the north. By 1847, and at the 1851 census, the family lived at a small place called Godferhead there. Jonathan is described as a farmer of 160 acres, and there are two young male farm workers also living with the family.
Jane died in 1874. By 1881 Jonathan had retired and gone to live with his son Jeremiah and his family at Hollins (see below). He died in 1891.
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Jeremiah was a farmer at the Hollins when he married Margaret JACKSON on 19 December 1874 at Lamplugh. Margaret was the daughter of a local farmer; she was 22 and Jeremiah 27. They had children, all born in Lamplugh:
Jonathan 1875/75 (died 1935, commemorated on his parents' gravestone in Ennerdale)
Jackson 1878 (see below)
Jane 1880 (lived to 100, died in 1981 and commemorated in Ennerdale churchyard alongside her sister Elizabeth)
Anne Mary about 1882 (married Edward WALLACE and moved to South Africa; also lived to 100 and died about 1984)
Elizabeth 1886 (became a head teacher in Whitehaven; died in 1950 and commemorated in Ennerdale churchyard alongside her sister Jane)
William abt 1888
Thomas J abt 1892
In 1881, as well as the first three children, they are living with Jeremiah's father Jonathan in his retirement (see above). Jeremiah is described as a farmer of 70 acres, and living with the family are a boy of 15 and a girl of 16 described as servants and therefore presumably employed on the farm and in the house respectively. In 1901 they no longer had servants living there, but perhaps with sons of 22, 12 and 8 (Jonathan appears to have left home), and daughters of 20, 18 and 15 they had plenty of labour and/or not enough room. There is evidence that the children had a decent amount of schooling - I have a book (Principles of Agriculture) inscribed with Jackson's name and age (15), Ennerdale school and the date (1893).
Jeremiah died in 1939, aged 91, and Margaret died in 1947, aged 95. Both are commemorated with their son Jonathan in Ennerdale churchyard.
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Jackson married Catherine Ann SWAINSON on 21 February 1905 at Lamplugh. Catherine was, at 27, slightly older than Jackson; she had been born in Wales to a coal mining family with Cumberland roots, but her father had been killed in an industrial accident when she was a child and she had been brought up by her uncle in Lamplugh.
By 1912 they had established themselves at a farm called Gill Brow at Mosser; this is in the parish of Brigham, some distance north of Lamplugh. They had a son and two daughters in the 1900s and 1910s - I won't give details because some people in my grandparents' generation are still living.
Jackson was still described as a farmer in 1934, when he would have been in his mid-50s, but he is described as a retired farmer when his wife Catherine died in 1954 - she was 76 and he 75. When he died in turn, in 1959 aged 81, he was living with his grand-daughter in the local market town of Cockermouth.
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