. Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861. i mi || fMR rin| i j ,■ FlUfifni j . nfH Om j. XI. MAUGHANS FIRST ACCOUNT, 1854. [According to my best information (for which I am indebtedto Professor W. G. Collingwood ; Chancellor J. E. Prescott, Canonof Carlisle ; Rev. George Yorke, Rector of Bewcastle ; Rev. T. , Vicar of Lanercost; and Mr. John Maughan, of Maryport,Cumberland, nephew of the antiquary), Rev. John Maughan(pronounced Mawn, but locally now and then Maffan) was bornat Lanercost Abbey Farm, April 18, 1806, and baptized atLanercost Abbey, Janua

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. Some accounts of the Bewcastle cross between the years 1607 and 1861. i mi || fMR rin| i j ,■ FlUfifni j . nfH Om j. XI. MAUGHANS FIRST ACCOUNT, 1854. [According to my best information (for which I am indebtedto Professor W. G. Collingwood ; Chancellor J. E. Prescott, Canonof Carlisle ; Rev. George Yorke, Rector of Bewcastle ; Rev. T. , Vicar of Lanercost; and Mr. John Maughan, of Maryport,Cumberland, nephew of the antiquary), Rev. John Maughan(pronounced Mawn, but locally now and then Maffan) was bornat Lanercost Abbey Farm, April 18, 1806, and baptized atLanercost Abbey, January 6, 1807. His grandfather, NicholasMaughan, born in 1733, came to Lanercost from the County ofDurham, and became the tenant of the Abbey Farm. He wasmarried to Elizabeth Bowman, of Nether Denton, was churchward-en in 1789, and died May 14, 1798. He had a son John, thefather of the antiquary, who was born at Lanercost in 1770,succeeded to the Abbey Farm, married Mary Moses, and died atLanercost, April 28, 1830. The Rev. John Maughan, one of afamily of thirteen children, was born as stated above, took bisdegree of B.

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