By John Slaughter
Not much to report this time however I did receive an email from Louise MacCarthy the author of ‘A Family in Chancery’ in the December 2024 edition of Soul Search.
She had written:
We recently went to Carlisle again and visited the Carlisle Archive once more primarily to investigate Kirklinton Hall. The Hall is partly ruined still but has three holiday cottages and we actually stayed in one of them for three nights. The grounds are beautiful and the owners are planning a wedding venue and have already opened cafe and gardens. In our family tree my husband Ian has relatives with Kirklinton in their name. John Kirklinton Saul (1815-1868) and his son George Graham Kirklinton Saul (1854-1927). When we went to Carlisle last year we noticed that there was an estate named Kirklinton Hall but we were busy with Ian’s Granny’s book so did not have time to look at further. We had a lovely few days and found out a lot about that part of the family and their estate. I have attached the history of the hall to the present day and also the Kirklinton Saul part in more detail as well.
One thing I was wanting to research, and have spent a lot of time on this, was to find out why the family has Kirklinton in their name and from when relating to the purchase of the estate. I found the birth register for George Graham Saul and it appears that he was christened with the name Kirklinton Saul although he dropped the surname Saul in 1877 and just used Kirklinton while he was at University but I can’t find out why. I could not find any birth details for John Kirklinton Saul. In the 1841 and 1851 census he is John Saul but in the 1861 census he is John Kirklinton Saul. On his marriage certificate in 1852 he is John Kirklinton Saul which is several years before they bought the Hall. Both George Graham’s wife, Mary Alison Dorothy Kirklinton Saul and his mother Mary Fredricka Kirklinton Saul used the name as well.
While in Carlisle we also visited the Cathedral, Crosby on Eden Church and Kirklinton Church and found the family memorials. The ones in Kirlinton Church all have Coats of Arms on them and John Kirklinton’s Coat of Arms is actually on one of the walls of the Hall. nhad been coal miners and both were named David. It was the his grandfather who had moved to the north east of England from the county of Cumberland, a journey that was also taken by a good number of other folk around that time. My research has shown that none of the north east Sauls had originated there but had migrated from other areas. No doubt such journeys were undertaken for the purpose of finding work. Roger’s grandfather had been born in Maryport, Cumberland in 1826 and from census returns we can date his migration to the north east coalfields as having taken place sometime between 1861 and 1871. He was a coalminer in Cumberland so perhaps the move may have been occasioned by the running down of the mine in which he worked and a need to find new employment. The chart to which we have now been able to add Ian’s ancestry originates with a John Saul and Elizabeth Benson who married in 1697 in the Holme Quaker Meeting.
