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View from Bowness across the Solway Firth. Bowness Church Stained glass window

The Fell Family:

Anthorn view across the Solway Firth Inside Bowness Church

The Lightfoot Family:

The village of Bowness.

Also native to this parish:

Farm in Bowness on Solway St Michael's Church The Solway Firth

Bowness on Solway

Memorials in the Church:

Matthewman Hodgson, died 1831


John Hodgson, died 1839

WILLS - Full transcripts of the following can be provided here:

We have records of names and relationships from these wills:

Annie LIGHTFOOT,  02 March 1883

Hannah LIGHTFOOT ,  1895

Hannah LIGHTFOOT ,  28 January 1891

James LIGHTFOOT,   14 April 1874

John LIGHTFOOT ,  1 March 1881

Margaret Bell LIGHTFOOT,   Abt 1892

Martha LIGHTFOOT,   16 March 1893

Rachel LIGHTFOOT,   30 December 1871

Robert LIGHTFOOT,  4 December 1878

Sarah LIGHTFOOT,   29 October 1886

Thomas LIGHTFOOT,   1868

Thomas LIGHTFOOT,   10 March 1866

Thomas Little LIGHTFOOT,   28 May 1894

William LIGHTFOOT,   28 July 1876


Isaac Fell BARKER,   1891

Leah Frances BARKER,   1892

Margaret BELL,   1844

John BORRADAILE,   1842

Joseph BORRADAILE,   1897

Thomas BORRADAILE,   1873

William DOBBINS,   1840

Thomas FAULDER,   Abt 1869

Sarah Jane HALL,   1907

Martha HEWSON,   1732

Ann HODGSON,   Abt 1788

George LAWMAN,   1862

Hannah LITTLE,   1851

Rachel LITTLE,   1843

Albert NICHOL,   1849

Frances PATTINSON,   1845

Mary Hannah PATTINSON,   1895

Robert Stanley PATTINSON,   1892

Thomas PATTINSON,   Abt 1892

William John PATTINSON,   1899

Margaret PEILE,   Abt 1762

Esther Isabella PENRICE,   1833

Fanny Elizabeth RICKERBY,   1869

John RICKERBY,   1867

Thomas SMITH,   Abt 1882

Elizabeth STALKER,   Abt 1850

Sarah STALKER,   1848

Abraham STUDHOLME,   18 November 1808

Richard STUDHOLME,   22 May 1806

Robert STUDHOLME,   1804

William SWAINSON,   Abt 1809

William SWAINSON,   Abt 1836

John Joseph THOMPSON,   1873


Ann FELL,   1738

Ann FELL,   1829

Ann FELL,   1781

Elizabeth FELL,   6 December 1807

Elizabeth FELL,   6 February 1812

Henry FELL,   1780

Henry FELL,   1820

Henry FELL,   1822

Henry FELL,   1826

Henry FELL,   1836

James FELL,   1835

John FELL,   1753

John FELL,   1783

John FELL,   1815

Joseph FELL,   1745

Joseph FELL,   1776

Joseph FELL,   1805

Joseph FELL,   1814

Joseph FELL,   4 March 1810

Joseph FELL,   Abt 1807

Margaret FELL,   1750

Margaret FELL,   1816

Margaret FELL,   1826

Margaret FELL,   23 December 1810

Martha FELL,   1740

Martha FELL,   1819

Martha FELL,   2 October 1809

Mary FELL,   1743

Mary FELL,   22 June 1812

Mary Ann FELL,   1848

Matthew FELL,   1822

Nancy FELL,   1800

Robert FELL,   1815

Sarah FELL,   1748

Sarah FELL,   1792

Sarah FELL,   9 November 1810

Susan FELL,   1778

Susannah FELL,   1817

Thomas FELL,   1819

William FELL,   1786

William FELL,   1830


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At the western end of Hadrian’s Wall lies Bowness, a village which overlooks the Solway Firth.  

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