Mary, Do you know how your family came to be at Lowther? My ancestor Robert Wells lived at Thrimby and was a tenant there. His children were baptized in the 1610s and 1620s in both Morland and Lowther. I thought that was a bit peculiar. John B. Wells   --- On Mon, 1/11/10, Mary B. <bonemarjo@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Mary B. <bonemarjo@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] DOBSON To: eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, January 11, 2010, 11:29 AM William DOBSON b. 25 July 1629 Lowther, Westmorland, d. Low Hall, Hackthorpe, Westmorland. He married Jane (unknown) They had Christopher Dobson b. 12 March 1670/71 Lowther, Westmorland, D. Warren House, Hackthorpe. He married Margaret JACKSON 01 May 1714 at Lowther, Westmorland They had John Dobson b. 07 October 1716 at Lowther, Westmorland He married Christine Elizabeth Wilhelmina RITTER (She was born Flanders, Belgium) They had Wilhelmina Dobson b. 1748 Low Hall, Hackthorpe, Westmorland - D. 1820. She married John COLE 21 February 1787 at St. Mary's the Virgin in Nottingham. (Proven) John COLE, son of John COLE and Francis TUFFIN, b. 16 July 1733 (Proven) They had John b. 20 Dec. 1767, Mary b. 26 OCt 1769, Elizabeth b. abt 1771, Samuel b. 06 Mar 1774, married Eliz/Betty ATKINSON (my line) William (married Nora STEPHENSON), Sarah, Rachel, Jane, Hannah, Eunice  IF anyone has any connections to the information above, I'd like to hear from you.  As you can see, there are lots 'holes' that need to be filled in and proven. Mary B. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ATKINSON - Staveley/Kendal; BROWNE - W-Ashford-Kent/Liverpool; COLE - Holme-Pierrepont/Nottingham/Westmorland/Liverpool; DOBSON - Nottingham/Westmorland; JOHNSON - Liverpool; TUFFIN - Holme-Pierrepont/Nottingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------                           _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message