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Hello again, Ron,
I have looked up the name of the researcher for whom I visited Orton. It was Kate Burns. To find her, search for her name on this Genforum message board.
I also came across some information which I sent to her. In case it is of interest to you, I append it below:
"If you are not acquainted with Nicholas Carlisle’s book, and I have no way of knowing if you are, this material may be new to you. I have, therefore, scanned it and reproduced it below. Carlisle was an awful snob and tended to concentrate on the “best” people! He also made disparaging remarks about those who fell below his idea of acceptable social class, so please don’t take offence at his summary of the Blands of Orton. He infers that the were “inbred“! (By the way, he tells us that Orton was also known as Overton.)
1377.
COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND.
BLAND,
OF GIBARD, IN THE PARISH OF ORTON.
ARMS.-Argent, on a bend, sable, three Pheons, or.
THE FAMILY of BLAND, of Gibard, the name of an antient Patrimony which belonged to them, in the Parish of ORTON in Lonsdale, were of very considerable Antiquity in the County of Westmorland, into which they probably branched from the adjacent Parish of Sedbergh, in the County of York.1
1 Thoresby's Ducat. Leod., edited by Whitaker : Appendix. fin. 125.
1596.
COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND. BLAND,OF ORTON.
THE following Extracts from the earliest Parish Register of ORTON, which commences in July, 1596, have been commu nicated in the kindest manner by The Rev. ROBERT MILNER, the present Vicar, 11th of November, 1825.
MARRIAGES.
1596. July 21. Roger Bland and Christabell Bland.
1597. May 10. Richard Bland and Margaret Hatswetle.
1599. June 24. Christofer Thornbrow and Sycill Bland.
1600. Dec. 18. James Birkbeck and Isabell Bland.
1601. July 30. Henry Bland and Christabell Atkinson.
1602. July 8. George Sharp and Mabell Bland.
1604. Oct. 26. Richard Bland and Margaret Parke.
1610. July 5. Thomas Birkbeck and Margaret Bland.
161 l. Dec. 7. Edward Stevenson and Christabell Bland.
1613. July 15. Thomas Bland and Margaret Bland.
1622. July 11. Edward Bland and Issabell Thornbrow.
1624. May 15. Anthony Bland and Rebecca Willan.
July 1. Robert Thornbrow and Jane Bland.
1625. Oct. 20. George Tebay and Jane Bland.
Jan. 19. Anthony Bland and Issabell Haisthwitle.
1627. Oct. 15. Edmond Bland and Agnes Whitehead.
(No Entries.)
1640. June 25. Edward Thompson and Mabell Bland.
Nov. 26. Edward Bland and Sibell Birkbeck.
1642. June 2. Thomas Bland and Katharen Dodgson.
June 9. Launcelot Wilson and Elizabeth Bland.
1644. Dec. 19. Robert Bland and Margaret Wharton.
1646. July 9. John Nelson and Elizabeth Bland.
The next Register Book commences with the year 1654, so that there is manifestly a chasm of seven years between the two Books.
BAPTISMS.
1597. Dec. 4. Elizabeth, da. of Henry Bland.
Jan. 18. Richard, son of Robert Bland.
1601. March 21. Elizabeth, da. of Oliver Bland, of Ellergill. 1606. Dec. 21. Henry, son of Henry Bland.
1607. Dec. 28. Frances, da. of Richard Bland.
1608. June 26. Jane, da. of Henry Bland.
Oct. 19. Lancelot and Mary, son and da. of Henry Bland.
1612. March 7. Margaret, da. of Henry Bland.
1620. April 14. Edward and Henry, " the reputed Sonnes of John Bland, of Sedbergh, illegit."
Aug. 27. Margaret, da. of Thomas Bland.
1621. Feb. 20. Henry, son of Thomas Bland, of Raisbank.
1622. Sep. 29. Agnes, da. of Thomas Bland, of Woodend.
1625. May 8. Richard, son of Thomas Bland, of Bank.
June 23. Richard, son of Anthony Bland, of Orton.
1626. Sep. 17. Christabell, da. of Edward Bland.
1628. Oct. 5. Mary, da. of Thomas Bland.
1629. Jan. 31. Margaret, da. of Anthony Bland. Margaret, da. of Edward Bland.
1631. Oct. 30. Henry, son of Thomas Bland, of Raisbank.
Jan. 25. Margaret and Mary, daughters of Thomas Bland, of Orton Town.
1632. April 29. Margaret, " the reputed daughter of Robert Bland."
1633. Oct. 6. Henry, son of Edward Bland, of Orton.
1635. June 7. Margaret, da. of Thomas Bland, of the Raisbank.
1636. Oct. 28. Agnes, da. of Thomas Bland, of Orton.
(No Entries.)
1639. May 26. Agnes, da. of Anthony Bland.
Sep. 8. Thomas, son of Thomas Bland, of Raisbank.
1643. March 27. Lancelot, son of Thomas Bland.
1644. Sep. 9. Henry, son of Lancelot and Susanna Bland, of Orton.
1645. March 30. Thomas, son of Robert and Margaret Bland, of Woodend. Roger, son of Thomas and Katherine Bland, of Orton.
1646. Oct. 10. Edward, son of Thomas Bland, of Orton.
BURIALS.
1596, Sep. 12. Edward Bland.
Oct. 20. The wife of Richard Bland. March 10. Roger Bland.
1597. July 6. The wife of Anthony Bland.
1603. Sep. 2. Humphrey Bland, of Tebay.
Oct. 24. Margaret, the wife of Richard Bland, the Younger, of Orton.
1607. Sep. 28. Sycil Bland.
Dec. 6. The da. of Oliver Bland.
1611. Dec. 10. Oliver Bland.
Feb. 21. Ellen, the wife of Robert Bland.
1624. Aug. 4. Elissabeth, the da. of Oliver Bland.
1625. July 14. The wife? of Anthony Bland.
1627. May. 27. Richard Bland.
1628. March 28. The wife of Robert Bland.
1632. Oct. 12. , The wife of Anthony Bland, of Westend.
1633. Dec. 16. The wife of Richard Bland, " of the Crosse."
Feb. 5. The wife of Richard Bland, of Westend.
1635. Aug. 18. The wife of Oliver Bland, of Ellergill.
1639. Jan. 27. The wife of Anthony Bland, of the Town-end.
1640. Jan. 19. Agnes, daughter of Thomas Bland.
23. Margaret, daughter " of the said Thomas."
1642. June 28. Henry Bland.
It will be observed, that these Extracts terminate with the year 1646, and it was not requisite to continue the search any later.
But the BLANDs appear to have been numerous here at every period of the Registers, and particularly so in the last half Century.
There is no place in this Parish at present known by the, name of Gibard, and the oldest Inhabitants invariably say, that they never heard of the name either in Orton or in any other Parish.
It does not appear that any of the name of BLAND have been eminent here, or, in any respect, Persons of note. They are in the present age generally of the humbler class of So ciety, and are numerous in most of the Parishes in the County of Westmorland, as many Families have removed from one Parish to another.
It will scarcely have escaped notice, how frequently the same Families have intermarried with each other,-a circum stance, which is not unusual in the North of England, and Sir CUTHBERT SHARP acquaints us in his History of Hartlepool. p. 150., that the Fishermen there " are nearly all a'kin."
LANCELOT BLAND, by his Will dated the. 20th ofJuly, 1648, and proved on the 29th of April, 1650, directs his body to be buried in the Parish Church of Orton,-gives to his son HENRY BLAND, and his heirs, all his freehold lands and cus tomary lands, &c., in Orton alias Overton, and in Orton Fields, -entrusts the tuition and education ofhis son HENRY BLAND to his Father-in-law, JOHN TAYLOR, and his brother THOMAS BLAND, and to his brothers-in-law JAMES TAYLOR and RO BERT WHITEHEAD,-gives small legacies to ISABEL YAIRE, and her son THOMAS,-to his brother's son LANCELOT BLAND,-to every of the four children of ROBERT WHITE HEAD,-and all the rest of his estate he gives to his son HENRY BLAND, whom he makes his sole Executor, and he appoints his father-in-law JOIN TAYLOR, his brother THOMAS BLAND, and his two brothers-in-law JAMES TAYLOR and RO BERT WHITEHEAD, Supervisors of his Will.1
In the Catalogue of THE GRADUATES Of OXFORD, p. 23., it appears that a LANCELOT BLAND took his Degree of M. A., at QUEEN'S COLLEGE, on the 28th of January, 1767.
1 Prerog. Off. Regist. 1. Pembroke, 211. p. 48."
Hope this is of some use!
Malcolm Bland
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