St Anne's - History

The Parish of Haverthwaite

St Anne's Chapel was built in 1824/25 by local subscriptions which were aided by a grant from the Incorporated Society for promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches and Chapels on the condition that 200 of the "sittings" were to be free and un-appropriated for ever. It was originally a Chapel of Ease under Colton and without a legally defined district; later a district was assigned to the Chapel from Colton and shortly afterwards a district was added from the parish of Cartmel. In 1866 when the then incumbent of Colton resigned the chapel became the Parish Church for Haverthwaite and the new consolidated district became a parish for all ecclesiastical purposes.

St Anne's Parish Church in the Spring - providing a fine show of daffodils

St Anne's Haverthwaite - A Potted History and Dates

Registers

The Haverthwaite Church Registers begin as follows: -
 
Baptisms – November 1832*
Burials – February 1833*
Marriages – October 1862**
 
*Earlier baptisms and burials were registered in Colton and Cartmel
**No earlier marriages were celebrated here

William Fell - one of Wellington's soldiers

William Fell

William Fell, a local lad was a soldier who served in the Pensinsular Wars in the 52nd Light Infantry between 1809 and 1821.
 
Willam was part of Wellington's Army (which eventually defeated Napolian at Waterloo) during the often bitter and bloody campaign through Portugal and Spain.