Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger BaitingRobinson, Jacob
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Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting
Robinson, Jacob
Wrestlers; Wrestling
About 1798, James Fawcett, miner, Nenthead.
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" 1800, " " "
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" 1809, Thomas Golightly, miner, Alston.
This wrestler afterwards removed to the West Cumberland mining district;
and in February, 1819, was killed by the fall of part of a roof in one of
the Whitehaven coal pits.
About 1810, Robert Rowantree, shepherd, Kingwater.
About 1815, Andrew Armstrong, farmer, Sowerby Hall.
About 1816, Thomas Peat, farmer's son, Blencow.
" 1817, John Dobson, Cliburn.
" 1818, John Robley, Scarrowmannock.
" 1819, " "
Robley emigrated to America several years after this date.
About 1820, Isaac Maughan, Alston.
" 1821, " "
Maughan settled in Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he died during the cholera of
1832.
About 1823, J. Spottiswoode, miner, Alston.
" 1825, John Weightman, husbandman, Hayton.
About 1826, John Weightman, husbandman, Hayton.
Weightman won two years, and received a guinea and the belt each time,
these being the usual awards to the victor at that date.
1828, Thomas Armstrong, Carlisle; Elliot (perhaps of Cumrew) wrestled
second. Bowman, of the Gale, won the second day's wrestling.
About 1830, Joseph Graham, Dufton Wood, Appleby.
About 1833, Jonathan Woodmas, Alston.
1838, Thomas Morton, farmer, The Gale, 1st; Isaac Farlam,
Bowness-on-Solway, 2nd.
About 1839, Thomas Morton, farmer, The Gale.
On one occasion Morton wrestled through the ring without taking his coat
off.
About 1841, John Salkeld, land-surveyor, Huddlesceugh.
1844, _First day_: Joseph Elliot, Croglin, 1st; Thomas Teasdale, Ousby,
2nd. (Sixty-five names entered, including John Buck, John Milburn, and
Joseph Morton.) _Second day_: John Nixon, Langwathby, 1st; John Slee,
Blencow, 2nd.
About 1845, Joseph Shepherd, Crewgarth, Melmerby.
1847, Joseph Morton, farmer, The Gale, 1st; John Milburn, Weardale, 2nd.
Joseph Morton also won once or twice on the second day. John Milburn
stopped at Melmerby on his way home from the Carlisle meeting, at which
latter place he carried off the head prize the two following years.
About 1850, Joseph Morton, farmer, The Gale.
Morton threw Halliwell of Penrith, and, we believe, Anthony Mc.Donald of
Appleby wrestled up with him. This was the last Round held at Melmerby.
FOOTNOTES:
[8] "Melmerby Annual Sports will take place on Monday, the 6th day of July,
1846, when the following Prizes will be given to contend for:--£2 to
Wrestle for; £2 for a Hound Race; and handsome prizes for Running, Leaping,
and other amusements, as usual."--[_Advertisement._]
LANGWATHBY ROUNDS.
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