Today was a voyage of discovery.  Off to Crosby Ravensworth to look for Dents, Kings Meaburn Dents again, Colby Ann Atkinson (nee Graham) birth, Appleby-in-Westmoreland Ann Atkinson (nee Graham) christened, Warcop Richard Atkinson birth.

Crosby was a bit larger that I thought it would be.  We found the church, luckily, they had a map of the headstones with names so we found it easy to find the Dents.  5 mentioned, 1 killed in the Second World War, the other 4 were relatives.  We took photos of the headstones and coordinates and tried to read as much as we could.  A great find as we weren’t really expecting to find much.

We also found a couple of Atkinsons…don’t know if they are related or not.

We just drove through Kings Meaburn and took a couple of photos.  Robert Dent was born there.

On to Colby were Ann Atkinson (nee Graham) was born, it is very small village even now.  Once again a few photos, not much to find.

Appleby-in-Westmoreland was a very much bigger place with a Castle and several churches.  This is where Ann Atkinson (nee Graham) was christened.  Popped into the information centre and asked them about records, they said they were all a Kendal which is on tomorrows list to visit. Had some lunch in a local café then went to the church.

Once again not much to get from here, but a great church.  Took photos.

Then headed toward Warcop where Richard Atkinson was born.  A small village again, but it had a school.  We wandered around the church, but not much to see.

A lot of the driving was on narrow, twisty, hilly little lanes.  We met several cars unexpectedly.  But coming around a narrow right angle bend on a very narrow lane to find, not one, but two tractors coming for us just about made Jude expire!!!  The farmer laughed at her!