Jeremiah (1847-1939) and Margaret (1852-1947 formerly JACKSON) RAWLING of Hollins in the parish of Lamplugh
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Immediate ancestors:Jonathan and Jane RAWLING; Joseph and Mary JACKSON - Immediate descendant: Jackson RAWLING
The Rawling story - RAWLING research notes
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They appear on Jackson RAWLING's birth certificate (GRO births Sep Q 1878 RAWLING Jackson, Whitehaven 10b 613), with Margaret's maiden name and their address, which match other sources such as their marriage and deaths.
Jeremiah's parents were Jonathan and Jane RAWLING, according to his birth certificate (GRO births Sep Q 1847 RAWLING Jeremiah, Cockermouth XXV 85). Margaret's were Joseph and Mary JACKSON according to hers (GRO births Mar Q 1852, JACKSON Margaret, Whitehaven 10b 455).
Jeremiah seems to have taken over the family farm, the Hollins, in his 20s. He was a child of his parents' middle age, and his older brother Thomas seems to have died or left. By 1874, when Jeremiah was 27, his (recently-widowed) father Jonathan was in his mid-70s. Jeremiah is described on his marriage certificate that year as 'farmer' not 'farmer's son', and Jonathan is described as 'retired' in 1881. Margaret was just 22 when she married and in the absence of evidence to the contrary I assume she helped on her own parents' farm until then.
Jeremiah and Margaret married on 19 December 1874 in the parish church at Lamplugh (GRO marriages, 1874 Dec Q RAWLING Jeremiah and JACKSON Margaret, Whitehaven, 10b 1042). I infer that they immediately lived at the Hollins - certainly they were when their son Jackson was born in 1878.
Their children were all born in Lamplugh:
Jonathan 1875/76
Jackson 1878
Jane 1880
Anne Mary about 1882
Elizabeth 1886
William abt 1888
Thomas Jackson abt 1892
In 1881, as well as the first three children, they are living with Jeremiah's father Jonathan in his retirement (and a young nephew working on the farm, and a girl working as a domestic servant). Jeremiah is described as a farmer of 70 acres. In 1901 they no longer had workers living there, but perhaps with sons of 22, 12 and 8 (Jonathan appears not to be living with the family at this point), 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); I understand that school documents survive showing attendance by some of the younger children, and two of them went on to become teachers themselves - see below
Both lived long lives: Jeremiah died in 1939 at the age of 91; Margaret survived him until 1947, dying at the age of 95. Both are commemorated with their son Jonathan in Ennerdale churchyard.
I don't yet have anything on wills or similar.
Jonathan I think would have become (as he matured and his father aged) the main farmer of the Hollins - since at least two of his younger brothers didn't and since I understand that the family farms there to this day. He died in 1935 (aged only 59 and before either of his parents) and is commemorated on his parents' gravestone in Ennerdale.
Jackson set himself up as a farmer in another parish a few miles away, with family of his own - he has his own page.
Jane does not appear to have married or moved away. She lived to 100, died in 1981 and is commemorated in Ennerdale churchyard alongside her sister Elizabeth.
Anne married Edward WALLACE and moved to South Africa, having children there, but returning to visit at least once; she also lived to over 100 and died about 1984.
Elizabeth became a head teacher in Whitehaven. I don't think she married. She died in 1950 and is commemorated in Ennerdale churchyard alongside her sister Jane.
I do not know what became of William.
Thomas Jackson married Elizabeth BIRKETT, a local girl, and had a child with her, but very shortly was called up to serve in the Great War, ending up in Mesopotamia by 1919. He was said to have been affected by his experiences and to have been a rather distant husband and father, with a tendency to drink at the Conservative Club to the detriment of his domestic life. He made a career as a school teacher and was headmaster of the school in Ennerdale. He and Elizabeth died in 1968 and 1969 (I don't know which way round). My information on him and his family comes from a book called How Hall, published by the Lamplugh and District Heritage Society.
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Links:
Immediate ancestors:Jonathan and Jane RAWLING; Joseph and Mary JACKSON - Immediate descendant: Jackson RAWLING
The Rawling story - RAWLING research notes
index of surnames