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SOME OF THE OLD FAMILIES IN THE PARISH 
OF CROSTHWAITE: 
THE BROWNRIGGS OF ORMATHWAITE, &c. 
By J. FISHER CROSTHWAITE, F.S.A. 
(Read before the Ke eswick Society. ) 
In undertaking another paper on the Old Families in the Parish 
of Crosthwaite, I find that I have undertaken a more difficult 
task than I anticipated. The materials are scanty, and the time 
required in searching for them is more than I have had at my 
disposal. I have, however, decided to draw your attention in this 
paper to the family of Brownrigg, and to give you such facts as I 
have been able to gather, which I hope may not prove altogether 
- yninteresting to the members of this Society. For this information 
I naturally go first to the parish registers. We here find the 
different estates upon which the family resided before they finally 
settled at Ormathwaite, where the last of the family, William 
Brownrigg, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., so long resided, and died in the 
first year of the present century, leaving no descendants. 
The first burial of which I have a note is dated— 
“1607, Feb. 23rd.—Christopher Brownrigge of Milnbecke.” 
Then follows :— 
~ “1640, March 2oth.—William Brownrigg of Milnbeck. Quier.” 
“1669, July 22nd.— William Brownrigg of Milnbeck. Quire.” 
The first Brownrigge of Ormathwaite mentioned is— 
“1677, Sept. 1.—An Brownrigge of Ormathwaite. Quire.” 
