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POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF NAME
Strands – shore – Old English Anglo Saxon 7th Century onwards
Bulman Strands – “Shores of the bull pool or marsh” from bula mere myrr strand
HISTORICAL RECORDS
Bulman Strands has appeared in historical documents since the 14th Century. Without any standardised spelling the scribes of the day made up their own. Hence Bulman Strands appears in a variety of forms but is none the less recognisable.
1374 – Bulleman Place
Rental of John de Hothome and Walter de Pedwardyn, knts.
Listed amongst their Tenants at will
Richard son of Agnes holds a plat called Bulleman place (rental amount missing)
Richard son of Agnes holds a cottage (rental amount missing)
The same Richard for free farm yearly (rental 6d)
(‘Crosthwaite and Lyth’, in Records Relating To the Barony of Kendale:
Volume 2, ed. William Farrer and John F Curwen (Kendal, 1924), pp. 90-112 Originally published by Titus Wilson and Son, Kendal, 1924)
www.british-history.ac.uk/kendale-barony/vol2/pp90-112
1525 – Bulmerstrandes
Twenty one year lease of tithe at Skelsmergh from the Abbott of St Mary’s Convent York to James Leyburne Esquire 26th June 1525
“also thei have latten to ferme to the seid James Layburn all the tethe cornez of Bradeleyfeld and Tranthwate wth Connyswik, Bulmerstrandes and Bradesl[ak] [eaten away] with ther intakes and approwmentes which Thomas Layburn father to the seid James occupied afortyme;”
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https://www.british-history.ac.uk/kendale-barony/vol1/pp355-376
Records relating to the Barony of Kendal, ed W. Farrer and J F Curwen, C W Ree 4,5,6, Kendal 1923-6
1530 – Bulmerstrondes
Ministers accounts in public record office (DL 29 SC 6)
1548 – Bulmyerstrand
– Will of Sir James Laybourne 1548
“To Thomas Laybourne my uncles son y^tenement of Bulmyer strand for his naturall lyfe”
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Wills & inventories of the archdeaconry of Richmond
1578 – Bulmanstrads
– Court of Chancery – Pleadings
National Archive Kew Ref C 2/Eliz/W6/25
Claim by devise. A tenement called Bulmanstrads, Westmoreland of which Bryan William was seized
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5709797
1613 – Bulmunstrang
– parish records Kendal
1637 – Bulmanstrands
– Page 186 of A CALENDAR OF THE HILL TOP DOCUMENTS.
82. Lease of tenement called Tarnside in Crosthwaite by Willam Harrison of Lythe, co. Westmorland, farmer to Thomas Swainson of Townend in Crosthwaite; and the same from William Harrison and Rowland his son to Thomas Swainson of Bulmanstarnds. ^1637.
Scott, S. (1920). A Calendar of the papers and documents in the possession of Mr. James Burrow of Hill Top, Crosthwaite, near Kendal. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian &Archaeological Society 20 (Series 2). Vol 20, pp. 177-187. https://doi.org/10.5284/1063529
1715 – Bullmarstand
– parish records Crosthwaite
1726 – Bulmanstrands
– parish records Crosthwaite
1748
– water corn mill & kiln called Bullmanstrands in Crosthwaite & Crook
1763 – Bulmanstrands
– Mrs Brunskill of Hill Top has deeds from 1763 (Leaflet “Crosthwaite” 1977)
Lettice Burrow’s husband James left his estate of Dodgshow, Crosthwaite to his nephew James Burrow son of Jas. Burrow of Tarnside, subject to a payment to her annually of £8 and his estate Mill and Kiln at Bulmanstrands in Crosthwaite and Crook subject to £6 annually.
1828 – Bulman Strands
– Will of James Burrow of Nook
I also give and devise unto and to the use of my son James Burrow his heirs and assigns for ever all that my moiety or undivided half part or share of and in a certain tenement or estate called and known by the name of Bulman Strands situate in the townships of Crook and Crosthwaite Lyth in the townships of Kirkby Kendal and Heversham in the county of Westmoreland with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging subject never the less to the payment of forty pounds a piece without interest to each of my three grandchildren, namely Betty and Sarah Docker and James Docker son and daughters of my late daughter Isabellla Docker deceased and to be paid to them as as they severally attain the age of twenty one years.
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