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FAMILY HISTORY
Members of the Society
have helped many people researching their family histories.
Family interests are listed by members and included in the Membership
List so that members with similar interests can contact each other.
The list is only available to members.
Information on many properties and families is kept in named files in
the History Room in Community Office. The society also has copies of
books and articles on the area and relevant documents such as poll tax
lists, muster rolls, lay subsidies and Charity Commission reports. The
room is open to the public.
The archives hold copies of parish registers, tithe maps and
schedules, censuses, land tax returns, deeds and wills, as well as an
extensive collection of photographs dating from about 1858 onwards.
Trinity College, Cambridge has contributed many documents concerning
St Andrew's Church, and Sedbergh School has provided the surviving
governors' minutes up to 1874 when it ceased to be the Free Grammar
School of King Edward VI In Sedbergh.
Items available include:
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Parish registers for Sedbergh, Garsdale, Dent and Howgill.
Censuses for Sedbergh, Dent and Garsdale.
Graveyard recordings for Sedbergh, Dent, Garsdale, Cautley, Frostrow
and Hawes
Deeds and Wills
Tithe Maps and Land Tax Returns
An extensive, and growing, collection of photographs dating from
about 1858
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The Church
The Free Grammar School king Edward VI, now Sedbergh School |
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Example of available
Information
Extract from the beginning of the will of Richard Hodgson
1720,Mariner of Dent. Others wills available include William Sill,
1784, brother of John Sill of Jamaica and West House in Dent,
Miles Mason, 1822, the potter born in Dent 1753, and transcripts
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