Bampton

M.I.s for Bampton were transcribed in Monumental Inscriptions of Westmorland by E. Bellasis 1888-89 and are available on Westmorland Papers.

Returns survive for the 'census' of 1787 and are held at the Kendal Record Office of Cumbria Archives Service. The Record Office reference is WQ/SP/C. They are transcribed in Vital Statistics published by Curwen Archives Trust 1992. ISBN 1897590008. There is a transcription on EdenLinks

Census returns are available from the usual sources for 1841-1911.

A transcript of the 1841 census of Bampton [HO107/1162] has been provided by Virginia Gretton.
The surnames included are:

ABBOTT, ARCHER, ATKINSON, BANKS, BAXTER, BECTON, BIRD, BLAND, BOWES, BOWSTEAD, BRAIDLEY, BROWN, BRUNSKILL, BURN, BURROW, BURTON, CAPSTICKS, CASTLEY, CHAPELHOW/CHAPLHOW/CHAPLEHOW, CHERRY, CLEG, COOKSON, COOPER, CREIGTON, DALTON, DENISON, DIXON, DOBSON, DOCKER, DOCKERA, DOUTHWAITE, DOVER, EBDEL, EDMONDSON, FADDAN, FALLOWFIELD, FARRER, FOSTER, FOULSTONE, GARMAN, GASGARTH, GRAHAM, GREENHOW, GRIG, GRISDALE, HALL, HARRISON, HART, HEADMAN, HETHERINGTON, HILL, HODGSON, HOGARTH, HOLME, HOOSON, HUDSON, HUNTER, ION, JACKSON, JAQUES, KIEVLEY, KINDLYSIDE, KIRKBRIDE, KNAGG, LAMB, LANGHORN, LEACH, LOWERY, LOWIS, LOWRAIN, LOWSON, LUNN, MARCHELL, MARTIN, MATTINSON, MATTOCKS, MEDCALF, MILLER, MILNER, MOFFAT, MORPHET, MOUNSEY, NEVINSON/NIVNSON, NEWTON, NICHOLSON, NOBLE, OBDELL, ODE, PARR, PATTINSON, PEARSON, POOLEY, RAWES, RICHARDSON, ROBINSON, ROWLANDSON, RUDD, RUSSEL, SANDERSON, SCOT/SCOTT, SEWELL, SHERMAN, SIMPSON, SLEE, SMITH, SOWERBY, STEPHENSON, STODDART, STOUT, TEASDALE, TINKLER, TOMPSON/THOMPSON, TURNER, TYSON, UBANK, WAKEFIELD, WALKER, WARD, WINDER, WILLIAMSON, WILKINSON, WILSON, WHARTON, WOOF, VIPOND, YOUNG.

Transcript and index for 1851 has been published by the Cumbria Family History Society and also in 'North Westmorland - An Index to the 1851 Census' compiled by David Lowis and Barbara Slack.

Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts are held by Cumbria Archives :
originals at Kendal RO and microfilm copies at Carlisle RO.

See the CASCAT online calogue for WPR15 for information on these and other parish records..

For searching on LDS familysearch.org see IGI batch numbers (compiled by Jake Prescott)
or use the batch number search site (by Hugh Wallis).

Nicolson and Burn: The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. 1777. Transcribed by Anne Nichols.

"This parish is bounded on the East by the parishes of Lowther, Shap, and Morland; on the South, by the parish of Shap; on the West, by the parishes of Barton and Askham; and on the North, by the parishes of Askham and Lowther: and contains about 140 families, [in 1777] all of the church of England, one only excepted. The whole parish is but one township or constabled into two parts, Bampton Patric and Bampton Cundale; both so called from their respective proprietors. wick, and probably of ancient time hath been but one manor, when it received the name of Bampton. But so early as any account hath occurred to us, Bampton was divide . . . Within Bampton there is a place called Knipe, which is often spoken of as distinct from Bampton; as where it is said Bampton and Knipe Patrick, Bampton and Knipe Cundale. Knipe is so called from its situation. It signifies the top of a hill or rock. The Saxon word is kniæp. The Icelandic word is gnype. Nab is a word of the like derivation, signifying the top and outermost verge of a steep hill. Thus opposite to Knipe, towards the east. we find Hardendale Nab. The church of Bampton is dedicated to St. Patric. It is a vicarage in the patronage of the crown."

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The University of Leicester History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1829

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Magna Britannica et Hibernia.Volume 6: Westmorland by Thomas Cox 45 pages, printed in 1731.Transcription by Sarah Reveley, Joan Fisher and Lisl Schoenwald.(Rootsweb Westmorland Listmembers) (c) 2003

"Bampton, or Banton, a Village situate upon the River Loder, in which we observe nothing memorable but a good Free-School built, and endowed by Dr. Thomas Sutton, a Native of it. He was educated in Queens College, Oxford, and having taken Holy Orders, became Minister of Culham in Berkshire, and Lecturer of St. Helens at Abingdon, which he at length exchanged for the Lectureship of St. Mary Overhees in Southwark, where having continued some Time, he was desirous to finish a Work of Charity which he had began, and to that End took a Journey to this his native Place, and there put his Hand to the Finishing of this School which he had began. Having done this, he hastened to London again to his Charge, taking Ship at Newcastle, but in the Way was with many others cast away, and drowned in 1623, being then not forty Years old. Some of their Bodies were taken up, and among them Dr. Sutton's, as was thought, which was buried at Aldborough in Suffolk. Drury, the Jesuit, rejoiced greatly at the Doctor's Death, and the more, because he said it was a Judgement on him for being so zealous against Popery in his Preaching; but Drury's Censure was returned upon his own Head two Months after, for he was killed by the Fall of a Chamber in Black-Friars, at an Assembly of Romanists, to whom he was Preaching. Bampton-Candale and Bampton-Patrick, two Manors belonging to Roger Lord Clifford 4th, of which he died possessed 13 Rich. II. And left them with other great Estates to his Son and Heir Thomas"

Historical notes for Bampton from The Later Records relating to North Westmorland by John F. Curwen (1932) available on British History Online.

Cumbria County History Trust has published a "Jubilee Digest" for the township of Bampton.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference NY492166 (Lat/Lon: 54.542018, -2.787164), Bampton which are provided by:

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• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
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Bampton is in the diocese of Carlisle and wills will be in Carlisle Record Office.

Hearth Tax records for 1674 Bampton transcribed on Edenlinks.
Hearth Tax records for 1674 Bampton Patrick transcribed on Edenlinks.
Window Tax records for 1777 Bampton transcribed on Edenlinks.