The Hawksworth Family

Of

New Ing (New Inn) Farm Shap.

Information collected by Mr Jim Lowis of Rose Bank assisted by

Jean Jackson. All information can be corrected if new information is received.

The first Edward Hawksworth who brought his family to New Inn Farm as it was then called was born in Kendal. Baptised on 9 th March 1788 he was the son of William and Agnes Hawksworth. The Hawksworth family seemed at the time to be mostly found in Yorkshire and Lancashire, although they are mentioned in Lincolnshire and probable came into Lancashire with the agricultural and industrial revolutions .

How Edward came to north Westmorland is not known at present

but records show that he married Sarah Lowden at Crosby Ravensworth on 14 th June 1819. Sarah was born at either Morland or Great Strickland.

Their first daughter Jane was baptised at Crosby Ravensworth on 12 th November 1820.

Sarah their second daughter I am sure was born in1822 at Rosgill. There were several anomalies when researching the births of the children. Sarah`s birth does not appear at all on the Shap records but elsewhere there are two references to her baptism. One in 1820 and one in 1829, both saying Shap. When dealing with her marriage it became clear that the earlier date was the one and finally after cross referencing many documents it became almost certain that her date of birth was 1822. This falls into the pattern of regular child bearing of the time.

Daughter number 3 was Agnes who was born at Rosgill and baptised at Shap on 18 th October 1824.

We are of the opinion that the family moved from Rosgill to New Inn at Shap in the years between 1824 and 1829 as Edward Hawksworth is mentioned in Parsons and Whites directory of 1829 as being a farmer in Shap.

First son Edward was baptised on 18 th December 1826.

The next child was baptised on 17 th March 1829. This is the second Sarah entry and on very careful consideration we believe that this is a mis-entry and it is indeed William. There is no record of a baptism or birth for William and we think that a simple mistake was made, entering the mothers name instead of the baby`s. Further searches of census and other records places Williams birth very firmly in 1829.

The next child recorded is John, baptised on 22 nd Feb 1835. However there is in the burial register the recording of a Thomas who died age three in 1836 age 3. There is no record of this little boy`s baptism but his existence would keep the birth pattern in place.

The last child recorded is Margaret who was baptised on 17 th April 1836. There is again an anomaly with Margaret as another Margaret was baptised in 1831 both in the registers and both children of Edward and Sarah Hawksworth. We thought perhaps that the first Margaret had died in infancy was `replaced` by the 1836 Margaret but there is no record of her death. This remains a puzzle. 1831 was too early to be the birth of Thomas.

It is said that the farmhouse was named the New Inn as it was built in the late 1700`s to accommodate the bourgeoning stage coach trade. There is a possibility that the house was an enlargement of an existing dwelling as a barn is dated 1708. The farm that Edward Hawksworth tenanted was owned by Lawrence Harrison of Penrith and would probably have been created from land involved in the land enclosures which occurred from the mid 18 th century. At some point the licence of the New Inn was transferred to the building now called Rural House. This may have happened in the early 1800`s. There is no record of a name before the New Inn in the 1851 census. The early 1840`s brought much change to Shap with the coming of the railway and documents exist of the land acquisitions at this time.

Apart from John and Margaret the whole family stayed very close to New Inn all of their lives.

Census records.

The 1841 census shows the whole family living at New Inn.

Edward Hawksworth 53 Farmer

Sarah Hawksworth 42

Jane Hawksworth 20

Sarah Hawksworth 19

Agness Hawksworth 16

Edward Hawksworth 14

William Hawskworth 12

John Hawksworth 6

Margaret Hawksworth 5.

Charles Atkinson 23.

Charles Atkinson is a lodger and was born at Barton Tirril. He and Sarah Hawksworth married on the 10 th September 1843. It is almost certain that Charles Atkinson came to work at New Inn as a `servant in husbandry`, his description on their first child`s baptism records and met Sarah then. However I think he worked for the railways later on. They took up residence at New Inn Cottage, now Rose Bank and lived there for the rest of their lives.

They had two children, John a son baptised on 31 st Dec 1843 and a daughter Jane, baptised 26 th September 1846. I have double checked the dates for marriages and baptisms as we are aware that the gap between some of them is very close.

Agness Hawksworth was married a few months before her sister Sarah. In February 1843 she married Robert Ion who had been born in Shap in 1824 and was described as a Grocer, Son of Joseph Ion also a Grocer. They raised a family at the grocers shop, details of which are in the Ion file.

Edward senior was buried at Shap on 9 th April 1846 age 58.

Edwards death seems to have brought about a great change. In 1841 the family seemed to be managing to work the farm themselves with just Charles Atkinson as a farm servant.

1851 Census. New Inn.

Sarah Hawksworth. Head 52. Farmer of 146 acres.

Jane Hawksworth Daur. 30 Farmers Daughter

Edward Hawksworth Son 24 Farmers Son

William Hawksworth Son 22 Farmers Son.

John Hawksworth Son 16 Scholar.

Margaret Hawksworth Daur. 15 Scholar.

One thing of note here is the age of the two children who are scholars.

15 and 16 seem to be past the usual age when children left education in these times.

Charles and Sarah are at New Inn Cottage with Charles having left the

farm work and now described as a Rail Labourer. Only one child is where with them, Jane a daughter age 5. Their son John had died in February of 1846 age two, just six weeks before his Grandfather Edward Hawksworth.

1861 Census.

Sarah Hawksworth Head 62. Farmer of 14 6 Acres

Jane Hawksworth Daur. 40

Edward Hawksworth Son 35

John Hawksworth Son 26

Thomas Rawes. Son in Law. 30. Farmer of 62 acres.

Margaret Rawes. Daughter 25. Wife

Agnes Hawksworth Grandaughter. 4. Scholar.

Thomas Holme Farm Servant. 22.

Thomas Rawes, son of Thomas Rawes, farmer of Keld married Margaret Hawksworth on 16 th February 1861. They were obviously newly married at the time of the 1861 census but by the time they had their first child, William, in 1862, they had moved to Southfield Cottage. Another child Thomas was born there in 1863. Further work needs to be done on this little branch of the family. It is possible they moved towards Stainton at some point as a Thomas Rawes was brought to be buried at Shap from there on 7 th May 1902 age 72.

Sarah has a granddaughter Agnes at this point. She is the daughter of Jane, who must have had her outside marriage when she was about 36.

Jane never married a remained at New Inn all her life along with Edward who also never married.

William is no longer at New Inn. 1n 1861 he is to be found at Shap Abbey in the employ of Mr. John Irving.

Charles and Sarah Atkinson are still at New Inn Cottage with their daughter Jane.

1871 Census. New Inn Farm.

Sarah Hawksworth. Head. 72 Farmer of 80 Acres

Edward Hawksworth Son 44. Farmers Son.

Jane Hawksworth Daur. 50 Farmers Daur.

Agnes Hawksworth G-daur.14

William Threlkeld. Farm Servant 19.

A reduction of acres clearly marked here.

Charles Atkinson is the only occupant marked at New Inn Cottage. Wife Sarah and daughter Jane are not in residence. This may be another mistake in transcription. Sarah has returned by the 1881 census.

William Hawksworth is to be found in Hulme Manchester, in 1871 staying with his Brother John, who is described as a Clerk, Book-keeper and shown to be married to a Cheshire born girl. William is described as an unemployed farm labourer. This was may be a visit or maybe he went for work there.

1881 Census.

Sarah Hawksworth Head 82 Farmer of 130 Acres. Empl.2men

Edward Hawksworth Son 54

Jane Hawksworth. Daur 60.

John Raw. 30 Indoor Servant.

Agnes Raw. G-daur 24

Isaac Lamb. 19. Farm Labourer

Again the acreage is of the farm is slightly different.

Agnes, Jane`s daughter and Sarah`s grand-daughter married John Raw of Keld in November 1880.

William has returned to live at Shap and he is lodging with a family named Head who are living in the next dwelling north of New Inn, which must be Fothergill House. It is interesting to note that William stays with the Head family for the last 25 years of his life. We did

but wonder why he did not return to New Inn, or indeed help his family running it. It is a vast house and cannot have been fully occupied by the remaining family.

Charles and Sarah Atkinson are still at New Inn Cottage.

1891 Census.

Edward Hawksworth Head. 64. Farmer

Jane Hawksworth. Sister 70. Farmer.

Agnes Raw. Neice 34

Robert Raw. 7

Jane Raw. 5

John Raw. Nephew in Law. 40 Farm Servant.

John Henderson 26 Farm Sevant

Frances Lamb. 21. Servant.

Sarah, Mother of the family was buried at Shap on 2 nd February 1883. Edward and Jane, both unmarried are the only ones of the original family left now at New Inn. Agnes, Jane`s daughter is still there, her husband John helping on the farm and their children growing up there.

William has moved with the Head family to Pleasant View.

Charles Atkinson, now a retired railway servant and Sarah are still at New Inn Cottage.

By 1901 the only remnant of the Hawksworth family living on New Inn property is Sarah Atkinson, still at New Inn Cottage.

Charles, her husband was buried on 3 rd February 1889 age 79.

Edward was buried on 15 th February 1894 age 67

Jane was buried on 21 st May 1897 ending the families 70 or so years association with the house.

William died in 1904. Age 75. He was buried on 23 rd December 1904 while still living with the Head family. His grave with headstone is in Shap Churchyard near the corner of the east window.

Sarah remained at New Inn Cottage ( now known as Rose Bank)

until her death in 1909 age 86. She was buried from New Inn Cottage on 13 th May.

The Hawksworth name died out at Shap at this point, with only the daughters having children. John however did have a family in Manchester but at present we can trace only girls.

The farm had always been a tenanted one. We know that in the 1860 Land Valuations it was owned by Mr. Lawrence Harrison who was a solicitor in Penrith but railway land requisition documents dated 1843

record Lawrence Harrison as the owner and Edward Hawksworth as the tenant.

Sometime after either Edward`s or Janes`death the farm was tenanted by Mr. William Atkinson who is in residence at the time of the 1901 census. He had a daughter Frances who married Mr. Wilson Lowis of Field Gate Bampton in……………

In 1926 the farm was sold by Messrs Little of Penrith to Mr Wilson Lowis of Fieldgate at Bampton, a member of a very old Shap family.

The acreage at the time of purchase was 134.5

In 1943 it was purchased by Mr William G.S. Graster (89.4 acres)

In 1946 it was purchased by Mr. Thomas Milburn (89.4 acres)

In 1967 it was purchased by Mr. Raymond Kirkby with only 2.6 acres.

This was a time when many farms were separated from their acreage.

The farm land was purchased between Mr. William Barnett Atkinson and Messrs Wood of Crosby Lodge.