BEWLEY OF DALSTON
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 with a monumental inscription to John Bewley (ca 1676-1731)
also commemorates some individuals who died earlier. 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). Further research may shed
some light on their connections.
My
matrilineal ancestry goes through Ann (Graham) Bewley. Genetic testing shows my
mtDNA haplogroup to be V10a.[3]
I
welcome comments on this page. My e-mail address is on my home page.
BEWLEY
JOHN
BEWLEY of Raughton, Dalston, Cumberland, yeoman, was
born ca 1675, died on 26 March 1731 and was buried on 28 March 1731 at Dalston.[4]
He married on 31 July 1726 at Dalston, ANN GRAHAM.[5]
She was born ca 1692 and buried on 12 February 1776 at Dalston.[6]
Children
of John and Ann (Graham) Bewley:
i MARY
BEWLEY, bap 6 Apr 1727, Dalston;[7]
m(1) 25 Jul 1749, Dalston, JOHN ROBINSON;[8]
m(2) 11 Oct 1761, St Cuthbert, Carlisle, JOSEPH CARLILE[9]
(see here).
ii JOHN BEWLEY of Raughton,
yeoman, bap 24 Dec 1728, Dalston,[10]
d Oct 1802, Raughton;[11]
m 19 Nov 1759, Dalston, ELIZABETH PEAT.[12]
iii JOSEPH BEWLEY, bap 9 Feb 1730/31,
Dalston.[13]
[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] Result from FamilyTreeDNA.
[4] 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.
[6] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] St Cuthbert, Carlisle, parish registers (Cumbria Archive Service); Cumbria Archive Service, PROB/1762/T(3).
[11] 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.