SOME WEST CUMBRIAN CHURCHES - 2

Here are a few photographs of West Cumbrian churches taken on our travels.    I hope you may find some family associations of your own.




CORNEY - St. John the Baptist




CORNEY - St. John the Baptist
The church stands high on the fells




CORNEY - St. John the Baptist - interior
Robert Coulthard and Ann Brocklebank were married here on 12th October 1859
Robert's family came from St. Bees.    Ann lived at Langley Place, Corney, near the coast




BOOTLE - St. Michael
This was the church of our Grice and related families including the Parkers of The Tarn, Bootle
Ann Brocklebank's mother was a Grice from Bootle and her father a Brocklebank from Whitbeck




BOOTLE - St. Michael - Interior
John Brocklebank and Elizabeth Grice, Ann's parents, were married here on 3rd December 1829




BOOTLE - Dissenting Chapel
This was founded in 1780 by Joseph Whitridge, a London Merchant and native of Bootle
under Lady Huntingdon's Connexion
Some of our related families worshipped here and are buried in the grounds