I am researching a family named Askew in Dublin and Cumberland and seem to have hit a brickwall. A kind subscriber to the Dublin list has sent me an entry she found in an index from the keeper of public resources in Ireland which states that Robert ASKEW died in Dublin in 1746, occupation founder and intestate. Robert's wife Mary and three children, Elizabeth, Thomas and Robert, moved to Dunningwell, parish of Millom in Cumberland. I have obtained a children's bond dated 1747 which appoints his widow as administrator and the other signatories to the bond are John PONSONBY and William PATRICKSON. The bond was organised by Matthew Postlethwaite, vicar of Millom. I am not sure what founder means, probably that he worked in a foundry, could be either metal or a glass foundry. Given the status of the persons signing the children's bond and that the son, Robert, was designated as a gentleman on his marriage certificate from Thwaites in 1769, [he was also educated as he became writing master at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne], I suspect he was probably a manager of the foundry. Does anyone know anything about the Ponsonby or Patrickson families and whether they owned businesses in Dublin at this time? There are several relevant entries on the IGI but they are entries submitted by members of the LDS and therefore cannot be further investigated. These are for a marriage of Robert Askew to Mary Rogers in Dublin in 1734, Mary Rogers birth in 1713 and the birth of Robert Askew in Dublin in 1700. Presumably there must have been some source for these submissions but I cannot locate them. Anyone got any suggestions? Ivan

Ivan Gregory wrote: <snip> >I have obtained a children's bond dated 1747 which appoints his >widow as administrator and the other signatories to the bond are >John PONSONBY and William PATRICKSON. <snip> From Caesar Caine's book on Copeland parishes: 'Ennerdale Marriages (sheets in disorder)' 1769, June 2d, William Patrickson, of Skailgill, and Elizabeth Benn, of Todholes, both in the parish of St. Bees, marryed 1711, May 20th, John Ponsonby, Esq., of Haugh, Haile in the parish of Haile, and Isabel Patrickson, of Skailgill, Gentlewoman, in the parish of St Bees, marryed 1764, July 8th, William Patrickson, of Foulyeat, in St Bees, husbandman, and Mary Towerson, of Swinside, in Ennerdale, in the presence of John Towerson and Joseph Fletcher [I'm descended from the Towersons of Swinside, don't ya know] Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net