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The Kirkbride Family
The Kirkbrides are my
mother's mother's side of the family. I haven't gone as far back with them as I
have with the Dowdings but what I lack chronologically is more than made up for
in quantity
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This is my mother -
Audrey Brown
Born 25th March
"some time ago now!" |
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This is her mother - my
Grandmother - Doris Kirkbride
Born 22nd May 1905 at Lindeth,
Undermillbeck, Westmorland
Died 22nd February 1988
Doris worked in service in
her early years like many young girls of her time.
Married Cecil Walter Brown on
18th August 1930
at The Parish Church,
Heversham, Westmorland
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St
Peter's Church
Heversham
Westmorland
For
more information about Heversham click HERE |
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Doris' father was
Miles William
Kirkbride
born 1877 in Bowness,
Windermere
died 22nd February
1947
Miles was a
stonemason by trade |
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Her mother was
Margaret Anne Webb
born 1879 in Applethwaite,
Westmorland
died 1st January 1956 |
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Both sets of photographs are
somewhere in the order of fifty years apart
The wedding of Margaret Ann
Webb and Miles William Kirkbride
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This
was a large family. There were ten children in all: |
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Albert Kirkbride
Born 1903
Lindeth, Undermillbeck
Died - Date unknown
Married Florence
Children - Kenneth |
Gladys Kirkbride
Born 22nd May 1904
Lindeth, Undermillbeck
Died 4th May 1975
Married Fred Swinnerton
12th March 1942
Children - Raymond |
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Doris Kirkbride
Born 22nd May 1905
Died 22nd Feb 1988
Married Cecil Brown
18th August 1930
Children - Audrey & Joan |
Arthur Kirkbride
Born 7th Jan 1907
Lindeth, Undermillbeck
Died - Date unknown
Married Mary Mahoney
2nd October 1937
Children - Jaqueline |
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Nellie Kirkbride
Born abt. 1908
Died - Date unknown
Married Mr Twiby
Children - Paul, Patricia & Elizabeth |
Gertie Kirkbride
Born - Date unknown
Lindeth, Undermillbeck
Died - Date unknown
Married Joe Cahill
Children - Ronald |
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Margaret Kirkbride
Born - Date unknown
Died - Date unknown
Married Bernard Murphy
Children - ? |
Mollie Kirkbride
Born 24th February 1914
Died - Date unknown
Married James Tomlinson
Children - Sheila, Judith
& Bruce |
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Freda Kirkbride
Born 1915
Died - Date unknown
Married Bob Thexton
Children - Roy |
Maurice Kirkbride
Born 22nd Dec 1919
Died 23rd Sept 2003
Married Joyce Guilderthorpe
1st September 1928
Children - Gillian (to first wife
Kathleen) |
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The 1881 British Census gives the
following information for the Kirkbride family:
Elim Grove, Undermilbeck, Westmorland
| Name |
Rel. |
Occupation |
Marriage |
Age |
Sex |
Birthplace |
| Miles Grisdale Kirkbride |
Head |
Fisherman |
Married |
26 |
M |
Bowness
Westmorland |
| Jane Kirkbride |
Wife |
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Married |
31 |
F |
Ambleside
Westmorland |
| Miles William Kirkbride |
Son |
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4 |
M |
Bowness
Westmorland |
| Mary A Kirkbride |
Daughter |
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2 |
F |
Bowness
Westmorland |
| David E Kirkbride |
Son |
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5 months |
M |
Bowness
Westmorland |
| William Kirkbride |
Father |
Fisherman |
Widowed |
61 |
M |
Applethwaite
Westmoreland |
| William Jenkinson |
Brother-in-law |
Mason |
Unmarried |
26 |
M |
Ambleside
Westmorland |
| John Martin |
Boarder |
Mason |
Unmarried |
20 |
M |
Lancaster
Lancashire |
My Gt. Gt. Grandfather, Miles
Grisdale Kirkbride and his marriage to Jane
These
photographs and the photograph of the wedding of Miles William were sent to me
by
my second cousin Stephen Kirkbride who
is Albert Kirkbride's grandson.
Dowding
Brown Brewin
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