Dowbiggin Family Reunion

Here I am posting Adobe PDF files documents about the July 2003 Dowbiggin Family Reunion being held in Lancaster, England.

• PowerPoint presentation converted into webpage: Click here.
• Click here for the letter and survey about the reunion.
• For an update flyer, click here.
• Click here for a basic itinerary of the reunion.
• Click here for information about arrival and checking in procedure at the University, as well as useful local information for use during your stay.
• Click here for a menu from the Wheatsheaf of our Sunday pub lunch on the coach tour.

Reunion details:

The cost of the reunion includes the following:

• Conference room hire (Saturday)
• Lunch Saturday (see below)
• Guest Speaker
• Coach Hire (Sunday)
• Pub Lunch (Sunday)

Please see below for more details. I look forward to hearing from everyone soon, and even more to meeting everyone at the reunion. Make sure to plan on bringing any information, notes, and documents you may have regarding your family's history. I also welcome pictures that I can take home and scan to include in records as well as in a memento booklet from the reunion.

Click here for a basic itinerary of the reunion.

Click here for information about arrival and checking in procedure at the University, as well as useful local information for use during your stay.

Saturday's Lunch will be "a platter of cold meats with a selection of freshly prepared salads" as follows:

• a meat platter to include traditional home baked ham, succulent roast turkey, and tender roast beef
• a selection of savoury vegetable quiches
• an assortment of freshly prepared salads to include tossed mixed salad, Italian pasta salad, rice salad with vinaigrette, egg mayonnaise
• fresh orange juice

Guest Speaker will be Stephen Sartin of Judges' Lodgings Museum in Lancaster. He will be speaking about "The Lancashire patrons of Arthur Devis, a Jacobite sympathiser." Mr. Sartin will be able to tell us the story of the Benisons and Dowbiggins of Hornby Hall, and show us the splendid Devis picture "Hornby Hall and Castle," which hangs in the Judges' Lodgings. Thomas Benison and his wife, Ann Dowbiggin, are shown in the garden of the hall in Devis's painting.

Sunday's Coach Tour will take us first to Dowbiggin, outside Sedbergh. Anyone who would like to can have their picture taken with the sign to Dowbiggin (below). Dowbiggin itself is a small hamlet of farms and houses. From Dowbiggin, we will visit several locations, including (but not limited to) Kirkby Lonsdale, Ingleton, Bentham, Tatham, and Tatham Fells. Please let me know of any locations in the area that you would like to visit.

Come have your picture taken beneath this sign!

Sunday's Pub Lunch will be at the Wheatsheaf in Ingleton, Yorkshire.
Click here for a menu (in Adobe PDF format).