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Bampton

Old undated map showing location of parish by William Mackenzie, scanned by Sarah Reveley. Click for full version of whole county (n.b. 700KB to download)."This parish is bounded on the East by the parishes of Lowther, Shap, and Morland; on the South, by the parish of Shap; on the West, by the parishes of Barton and Askham; and on the North, by the parishes of Askham and Lowther: and contains about 140 families, [in 1777] all of the church of England, one only excepted.

The whole parish is but one township or constablewick, and probably of ancient time hath been but one manor, when it received the name of Bampton. But so early as any account hath occurred to us, Bampton was divided into two parts, Bampton Patric and Bampton Cundale; both so called from their respective proprietors.

Within Bampton there is a place called Knipe, which is often spoken of as distinct from Bampton; as where it is said Bampton and Knipe Patrick, Bampton and Knipe Cundale. Knipe is so called from its situation. It signifies the top of a hill or rock. The Saxon word is kniæp. The Icelandic word is gnype. Nab is a word of the like derivation, signifying the top and outermost verge of a steep hill. Thus opposite to Knipe, towards the east. we find Hardendale Nab.

The church of Bampton is dedicated to St. Patric. It is a vicarage in the patronage of the crown. "

Nicolson and Burn: The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. 1777. Transcribed by Anne Nichols.


Cemeteries

Monumental inscriptions were transcribed in Monumental Inscriptions of Westmorland by E. Bellasis 1888-89 and are available on Westmorland Papers.

Census

Returns survive for the 'census' of 1787 and are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WQ/SP/C. They are transcribed in Vital Statistics published by Curwen Archives Trust 1992. ISBN 1897590008. There is a transcription on EdenLinks

Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1901.

A transcript of the 1841 census of Bampton [HO107/1162] has been provided by Virginia Gretton.
The surnames included are:

ABBOTT, ARCHER, ATKINSON, BANKS, BAXTER, BECTON, BIRD, BLAND, BOWES, BOWSTEAD, BRAIDLEY, BROWN, BRUNSKILL, BURN, BURROW, BURTON, CAPSTICKS, CASTLEY, CHAPELHOW/CHAPLHOW/CHAPLEHOW, CHERRY, CLEG, COOKSON, COOPER, CREIGTON, DALTON, DENISON, DIXON, DOBSON, DOCKER, DOCKERA, DOUTHWAITE, DOVER, EBDEL, EDMONDSON, FADDAN, FALLOWFIELD, FARRER, FOSTER, FOULSTONE, GARMAN, GASGARTH, GRAHAM, GREENHOW, GRIG, GRISDALE, HALL, HARRISON, HART, HEADMAN, HETHERINGTON, HILL, HODGSON, HOGARTH, HOLME, HOOSON, HUDSON, HUNTER, ION, JACKSON, JAQUES, KIEVLEY, KINDLYSIDE, KIRKBRIDE, KNAGG, LAMB, LANGHORN, LEACH, LOWERY, LOWIS, LOWRAIN, LOWSON, LUNN, MARCHELL, MARTIN, MATTINSON, MATTOCKS, MEDCALF, MILLER, MILNER, MOFFAT, MORPHET, MOUNSEY, NEVINSON/NIVNSON, NEWTON, NICHOLSON, NOBLE, OBDELL, ODE, PARR, PATTINSON, PEARSON, POOLEY, RAWES, RICHARDSON, ROBINSON, ROWLANDSON, RUDD, RUSSEL, SANDERSON, SCOT/SCOTT, SEWELL, SHERMAN, SIMPSON, SLEE, SMITH, SOWERBY, STEPHENSON, STODDART, STOUT, TEASDALE, TINKLER, TOMPSON/THOMPSON, TURNER, TYSON, UBANK, WAKEFIELD, WALKER, WARD, WINDER, WILLIAMSON, WILKINSON, WILSON, WHARTON, WOOF, VIPOND, YOUNG.

Transcript and index for 1851 has been published by the Cumbria Family History Society and also in 'North Westmorland - An Index to the 1851 Census' compiled by David Lowis and Barbara Slack.

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Church History

St Patrick. Church rebuilt 1726-8 including W tower. Later additions 1885. The font may be Norman.

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Church Records

The parish records and BTs are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WPR15

Baptism registers [1630]-1936
Marriage registers [1630]-1972
Banns registers 1754-1925
Burial registers [1630]-1903
Bishops transcripts 1665-1881

For searching on www.familysearch.org see Jake Prescott's list of IGI batch numbers.

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Directories

The details for the parish from the Parson & White's Directory for 1829 are transcribed on Edenlinks site.

History

Bampton, or Banton, a Village situate upon the River Loder, in which we
observe nothing memorable but a good Free-School built, and endowed by Dr.
Thomas Sutton, a Native of it. He was educated in Queens College, Oxford,
and having taken Holy Orders, became Minister of Culham in Berkshire, and
Lecturer of St. Helens at Abingdon, which he at length exchanged for the
Lectureship of St. Mary Overhees in Southwark, where having continued some
Time, he was desirous to finish a Work of Charity which he had began, and to
that End took a Journey to this his native Place, and there put his Hand to
the Finishing of this School which he had began. Having done this, he
hastened to London again to his Charge, taking Ship at Newcastle, but in the
Way was with many others cast away, and drowned in 1623, being then not
forty Years old. Some of their Bodies were taken up, and among them Dr.
Sutton's, as was thought, which was buried at Aldborough in Suffolk. Drury,
the Jesuit, rejoiced greatly at the Doctor's Death, and the more, because he
said it was a Judgement on him for being so zealous against Popery in his
Preaching; but Drury's Censure was returned upon his own Head two Months
after, for he was killed by the Fall of a Chamber in Black-Friars, at an
Assembly of Romanists, to whom he was Preaching.
Bampton-Candale and Bampton-Patrick, two Manors belonging to Roger Lord
Clifford 4th, of which he died possessed 13 Rich. II. And left them with
other great Estates to his Son and Heir Thomas.


Magna Britannica et Hibernia.Volume 6: Westmorland by Thomas Cox (Vicar of Bromfield, Essex) 45 pages, printed in 1731.
Transcription by Sarah Reveley,  Joan Fisher and Lisl Schoenwald. (Rootsweb Westmorland Listmembers)  (c)  2003

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Maps

A present-day web map is available from Multimap.

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Population

1641/2 795(est)
1671 670(est)
1787 678
1801 600
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Probate Records

Bampton is in the diocese of Carlisle and wills will be in Carlisle Record Office.

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Last updated: 16/08/04 Dave Huddart