Brough Family History (continued)
In
this survey, a John BROUGH is listed in the "copyhold tenement" of
Brockholes, which appears to have been to the west of the parish, near
Pelutho, Tarns and Aldoth. Fifty years later, a similar Manorial
Survey, conducted in 1589, shows no BROUGHs in Brockholes (by then
written as Brockhills), but lists an Antho BROUGH in the
village
of
Newton Arlosh
. All further references to the name BROUGH
in the parish in surviving documents from the next hundred years,
either make no mention of location, or specify '
Newton
',
which I take to be Newton Arlosh, three miles to the north-north-east
of Abbeytown. This leads me to speculate - I think quite reasonably -
that there was probably only one BROUGH family in the parish at the end
of the 16th century and that it was based in Newton Arlosh. Further,
that over the following century, the BROUGHs remained in and around
Newton Arlosh.
Quoting again from the 1847 History, Gazeteer and Directory of Cumberland:
"Newton
Arlosh, or Long Newton, a scattered village, 4 miles N. by E. of the
abbey, and 7 miles N.W. of Wigton, is said to have been the ancient
capital of the parish, and its church the original parochial structure
- which was very small, being only 9 yards by 4, exclusive of the
tower, ... it is supposed it was a place of refuge. The old fabric,
after having lain for many years in ruins, was restored in 1843 ... and
... when rebuilding this edifice, a heap of human bones, skulls,
&c., was found in a corner of the building; which circumstance,
together with the thickness of its walls, seems confirmatory of the
opinion that it was once deemed a place of safety and defence. Several
respectable families in the neighbourhood continue to bury their dead
in the church yard"
Whether
the BROUGHs were amongst those respectable families I have not yet
ascertained; few records of the earliest burials there survive. The
absence of marriage records for most of this period and the many gaps
in the baptism and burial records means that we shall probably never
know much more with certainty, but the BROUGHs emerging from the
surviving documentation are:
-
William BROUGH(E): whose daughter Janat was buried on
3 Apr 1586
, and who was, himself, buried on
29 Sep 1606
.
-
Antho BROUGH: Known to be in
Newton
in 1589 and there at least until Aug 1618 when his daughter Eliz was baptised.
-
George BROUGH/BOURGH: who had a child Jo baptised on
22 Feb 1607
and another child buried on
20 May 1621
-
John BROUGH: whose son Robert was baptised on
26 Sep 1641
, and who was, himself, buried in 1670.
-
Andrew BROUGH: whose son Andrew was baptised
9 Mar 1655
and whose daughter Ann was baptised
4 Mar 1656.
