BEWLEY OF DALSTON
The
name Bewley was very common in the Dalston area.
Mary
Bewley married John Robinson at Dalston in 1749. There were three Mary Bewley baptisms
at Dalston in the relevant period: 6 April 1727 (daughter of John Bewley of Raughton), 27 December 1730 (daughter of Abraham Bewley of Gatesgill), and 3 April 1733 (daughter of Thomas Bewley of Buckhowbank). However, the Mary Bewley who married John
Robinson was evidently the first of these. Probate records name one of the
guardians for John Robinson’s children as John Bewley of Raughton,[1]
and Mary (Bewley) Robinson herself was stated to be of Raughton
in her marriage bond. Furthermore, the bond states that she was above
twenty-two years of age in July 1749.[2]
A
stone at Dalston has a monumental inscription to John Bewley who died on 26
March 1731 in his fifty-sixth year. The same stone also commemorates some
individuals who died earlier.[3]
They are only recorded by initials and dates of burial in the inscription but
in conjunction with the parish registers, they can be identified as Thomas
Bewley of Raughton (buried 11 July 1686), Frances
Bewley of Raughton (buried February 1686/87) and
Margaret Bewley of Raughton (buried 7 June 1703). It
seems that Margaret was the mother of the John who died in 1731 and wife of
another John. Probate records indicate that Thomas and Frances were husband and
wife[4]
but their exact connection to the John who died in 1731 is not clear. Both of
John’s parents were evidently Bewleys so there could
be a link through either of them. Thomas’s nuncupative will names a son John
but it does not mention a daughter Mabel, whereas the will of John Bewley (died
1714/15), who seems to have been the father of the John who died in 1731, names
the testator’s sister Mabel Bewley. The will of Thomas Bewley does not mention
a daughter Margaret either, so it is not clear whether he was the maternal
grandfather of the John who died in 1731. It is not immediately obvious whether
all the references to John Bewley in Thomas’s will are to the same person, so
Thomas may have had both a son and a son-in-law called John Bewley. The will mentions
“young Tho: Bewley” who might be the Thomas baptised on 4 March 1676/77, son of
John.
An
abstract of the 1669/70 marriage bond for John Bewley and Margaret Bewley describes
John as “Bewly, John, Jun, Stockalwath,
Dalston”,[5]
suggesting the possibility that his father was another John.
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matrilineal ancestry goes through Ann (Graham) Bewley. Genetic testing shows my
mtDNA haplogroup to be V10a.[6]
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BEWLEY
1 JOHN BEWLEY of Raughton,
Dalston, Cumberland, was buried on 13 March 1714/15 at Dalston.[7]
He married first, on 1 August 1670 at Dalston, MARGARET BEWLEY.[8]
She was buried on 7 June 1703 at Dalston.[9]
John married second, on 16 January 1706/07 at Dalston, ANN BLAMIRE.[10]
Children of John and Margaret (Bewley)
Bewley:[11]
i REBECCA BEWLEY, bap 5 Mar
1670/71, Dalston,[12]
bur 13 Apr 1696, Dalston.[13]
ii THOMAS BEWLEY, bap 28 Mar 1673,
Dalston.[14]
2 iii JOHN BEWLEY (1674-1731); m ANN
GRAHAM.
iv THOMAS BEWLEY, bap 4 Mar 1676/77,
Dalston.
v ISAAC BEWLEY, bap 19 Jun 1681,[15]
bur 26 Jul 1687, Dalston.[16]
vi JONATHAN BEWLEY, bap 14 Oct 1683,
Dalston.[17]
vii ROWLAND BEWLEY, bap 31 Jan 1685/86,
Dalston.[18]
viii MARY BEWLEY, bap 8 Apr 1688, Dalston.[19]
Child of John Bewley:[20]
ix JOSEPH BEWLEY.
2 JOHN BEWLEY of Raughton,
Dalston, Cumberland, yeoman, was baptised on 16 August 1674 at Dalston,[21]
died on 26 March 1731 and was buried on 28 March 1731 at Dalston.[22]
He married on 31 July 1726 at Dalston, ANN GRAHAM.[23]
She was born ca 1692 and buried on 12 February 1776 at Dalston.[24]
Children of John and Ann (Graham) Bewley:
i MARY BEWLEY, bap 6 Apr 1727,
Dalston;[25] m(1) 25 Jul 1749, Dalston, JOHN ROBINSON;[26]
m(2) 11 Oct 1761, St Cuthbert, Carlisle, JOSEPH CARLILE[27]
(see here).
ii JOHN BEWLEY of Raughton,
yeoman, bap 24 Dec 1728, Dalston,[28]
d Oct 1802, Raughton;[29]
m 19 Nov 1759, Dalston, ELIZABETH PEAT.[30]
iii JOSEPH BEWLEY of Buckabank, yeoman, bap 9 Feb 1730/31, Dalston,[31]
d 14 Nov 1802, Buckabank;[32]
m 12 Feb 1758, Hesket in the Forest, MARGARET SLACK.[33]
[1] Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1760/W630, PROB/1762/T(3).
[2] R. Morris Richardson, Edwin Dodds and Clement Singleton, Diocese of Carlisle Marriage Licence/Bonds, vol. 2 (Millom, 1998), 129.
[3] James Wilson, ed., The Monumental Inscriptions of the Church, Churchyard, and Cemetery, of S. Michael’s, Dalston (Dalston, 1890), 43.
[4] Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1686/WNINVX3; Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1686/AINVX8.
[5] R. Morris Richardson, Edwin Dodds and Clement Singleton, Diocese of Carlisle Marriage Licence/Bonds, vol. 1 (1994), 5.
[6] Result from FamilyTreeDNA.
[7] James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 2:236; Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1714/WX8.
[8] James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 1:127; R. Morris Richardson, Edwin Dodds and Clement Singleton, Diocese of Carlisle Marriage Licence/Bonds, vol. 1 (1994), 5.
[9] James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 2:230; James Wilson, ed., The Monumental Inscriptions of the Church, Churchyard, and Cemetery, of S. Michael’s, Dalston (Dalston, 1890), 43.
[11] James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 1:97, gives a list from the register of “all the Baptisms of John Bewley Children of Raughton” between 1670 and 1688. Some of the dates are slightly different from those given in the main register sequence of baptisms and it is possible that they are birth rather than baptism dates although that is not how they are described. There are indications that the Bewleys were Quakers which could be connected with the baptisms being reported together in a list.
[20] The will of John Bewley (Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1714/WX8) mentions his sons John Bewley, Jonathan Bewley and Joseph Bewley. The latter may be the Joseph, illegitimate son of John Bewley of Raughton, who was baptised at Dalston on 26 Oct 1704: James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 2:21. There was also an “Anne bastard of Anne Sewell and John Bewley of Raughton” baptised at Dalston on 13 Mar 1708/09. Joseph may be the “Joseph Bewly alias Sewell” who was made executor of the will of Ann Carlile of Buckabank in Dalston in 1733 (Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1733/WINV365). The testator’s identity is uncertain but she may be the Ann Blamire who married John Bewley in 1706/07 as a Thomas Carlile and Ann Bewley were married at Dalston on 15 Feb 1723/24.
[22] James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 2:247; James Wilson, ed., The Monumental Inscriptions of the Church, Churchyard, and Cemetery, of S. Michael’s, Dalston (Dalston, 1890), 43; Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1731/WINV552. A William Bewley was one of the men who took the inventory of John’s estate.
[24] James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 2:272. The marriage bond for Mary Bewley and John Robinson in July 1749 noted that Mary’s father was dead but that her mother consented to the marriage. An Ann Bewley married Thomas Dixon at Dalston on 18 Feb 1731, but from the order of the entries, this appears to be 1730/31, when John Bewley was still living, rather than 1731/32, so it would not be a remarriage of Ann (Graham) Bewley some months after John’s death.
[26] Dalston parish registers (Cumbria Archive Service, PR 41/4); R. Morris Richardson, Edwin Dodds and Clement Singleton, Diocese of Carlisle Marriage Licence/Bonds, vol. 2 (Millom, 1998), 129.
[27] St Cuthbert, Carlisle, parish registers (Cumbria Archive Service); Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1762/T(3).
[29] James Wilson, ed., The Monumental Inscriptions of the Church, Churchyard, and Cemetery, of S. Michael’s, Dalston (Dalston, 1890), 43 (giving 16 Oct as the date of death); Carlisle Journal, 23 Oct 1802 (indicating 17 Oct was the date of death); Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1802/W62.
[30] James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 2:173; James Wilson, ed., The Monumental Inscriptions of the Church, Churchyard, and Cemetery, of S. Michael’s, Dalston (Dalston, 1890), 44; Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1802/W62.
[32] Carlisle Journal, 20 Nov 1802; James Wilson, ed., The Parish Registers of Dalston, 2 vols (Dalston, 1893-95), 2:302; Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1802/W64.
[33] England Marriages, 1538–1973 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKBX-XNG); R. Morris Richardson, Edwin Dodds and Clement Singleton, Diocese of Carlisle Marriage Licence/Bonds, vol. 3 (2001), 85.