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1 749- March loth. We have the burial of Timothy, son of 

 Peter Crosthwaite of Wanthwaite. 



But the family sent off sons who settled in other places. Mr. 

 William Jackson, F.S.A., found in the register of St. Nicholas 

 church, at Whitehaven, as follows : — 



1700. May i2th. Peter Crostwheat, ye son of Tho. Crosthw'- 

 of the Parish of Crostat. 



Buriall. 

 Duty to ye King, 4s. 



At that time there was a duty on births, deaths, and marriages. 

 " It was an expensive thing to die," Mr. Jackson observes, " mar- 

 riages and births were encouraged by a lower rate of duty." I find 

 on reference to our register of births that this was a young man 

 from Setmabanning. 



One member of the elder branch of the family went from Setma- 

 banning or Wanthwaite, and settled in Ireland, a long time ago. 

 I am unable to fix the date. Mr. Richard Hone, Suffolk-street, 

 Dublin, says: — "The family are probably descended from a 

 Thomas Crosthwaite, described in an ordinance made in the year 

 1654, for 'settling one hundred pounds per annum in Ireland upon 

 Richard Uriel and Thomas Crosthwait, of Cockermouth castle, in 

 the county of Cumberland, in satisfaction of their losses and faithful 

 services.'" This ordinance was confirmed by the Act and Declar- 

 ation (made by Cromwell's Parliament) touching several acts and 

 ordinances made since the 20th April, 1653, and before the 3rd of 

 September, 1654, and subsequently by an Act of the Irish Parlia- 

 ment, fourteenth and fifteenth Charles II., chapter 2, section 20, 

 (1662,) a grant of land, yielding one hundred pounds a year, was 

 directed to be made in favour of Thomas Crosthwait. 



It would no doubt be interesting to know what the faithful 

 services and losses were that Royalists and Cromwellians alike 

 considered should be recompensed. 



Three brothers of this family became clergymen of the Estab- 

 lished Church. The eldest was the Rev. John Clarke Cros- 

 thwaite, A.M., who began his ministry as Dean's vicar of Christ 

 Church Cathedral, Dublin, and examining chaplain to the Bishop 



