Kitchen of Kitchen Ground in Irton Parish and their Descendants

by Nev. Ramsden

There must have been a Kitchen family living at Irton in Cumberland, or the surrounding area, at the time that the farms, then called Grounds, belonging to Furness & Calder Abbeys were sold off. These Abbeys & their properties had been obtained by Thomas Leigh of London, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. This was carried out on the instructions of Henry VIII in the years following the order of c.1540. This would be the time that the tenenment of Kitchen Ground in Irton parish came into being and therefore it was free of most of the Irton Manor dues.

As there was no Parish Register available for the parish of Irton before 1680 then this family history relies heavily upon the Probate records of the families involved.

Topics covered:- Irton Parish, Kitchen Ground Farm, the Kitchen family, Local history, Gaspe Bay, Quebec.