Name Origins
Up Name Origins Ada Iredale Ainsdale Allonby Archer Arethusa Astoria Bessfield Calabar City of Carlisle Cockermouth Cumbrian Derby Park Dimsdale Dovenby 1 Dovenby  2 Drumalis Embleton G Broughton Iredale Kinkora Lizzie Bell Lizzie Iredale Lodore Lonsdale Lorton Martha Fisher Mary Ann Wilson Mowhan Penrith Peter Iredale Ravenhill Seaton Ulidia Ullock Vale of Doon

 

ORIGIN OF SHIPS' NAMES

 

Name

Built

Bought

Relevance

Remarks

Ada Iredale

1872

1872

Family

Named after Peter Iredale's daughter, Ada May

Ainsdale  

1890

1903

JHI

Allonby

1882

1882

Cumbria

Village

13

km

NW

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Archer

1876

1876

Family

The maiden name of Peter Iredale's wife

Arethusa

1891

1915

None

Ship bought with name

Astoria

1885

1885

Cumbria

Village

4

km

NW

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Bessfield

1886

1904

John Porter's farm

Calabar

1864

1864

Geographical

Coastal Town on the E. Nigerian and W. Cameroonian borders. Peter Iredale may have been stationed there as super-cargo.

City of Carlisle

1875

1875

Cumbria

One of the main cities in Cumberland

Cockermouth

1876

1876

Cumbria

Town

E

of Maryport, Cumberland

Cumbrian

1879

1879

Cumbria

generic term for people from Cumberland

Derby Park

1887

1887

Family home

Residence in 1885

Dovenby (1)

1871

1871

Cumbria

Village

4

km

NW

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Dovenby (2)

1891

1891

Cumbria

Village

4

km

NW

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Drumalis

1890

1890

?

Embleton

1881

1881

Cumbria

Village

4

km

E

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Connection?

G. Broughton

1874

1874

Cumbria

Village

5

km

W

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Iredale

1889

1894

Family

Kinkora

1888

1888

?

Lizzie Bell

1877

1877

Family

Lizzie Iredale

1868

1868

Family

Named after Peter Iredale's daughter, Martha Lizzie,born 1862

Lodore

1892

1892

Cumbria

Lonsdale 

1889

1894

JHI

Lorton

1888

1888

Cumbria

Village

6

km

SE

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Martha Fisher

1875

1876

Family

Possible relation. There is a John Fisher as one of the chief mourners at funeral of Peter Iredale

Mary Ann Wilson

1856

1871

None

Ship bought with name

Mowhan

1892

1892

?

Penrith

1866

1870

Cumbria

Town

38

km

E

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Peter Iredale

1890

1890

Family

Ravenhill

1891

1912

John Porter's Residence

Seaton

1873

1873

Cumbria

Village

10

km

W

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Ulidia

1889

1889

?

Ullock

1875

1875

Cumbria

Village

8

km

SE

of Cockermouth, Cumberland

Vale of Doon

1869

1882

None (but Cumbrian)

Ship bought with name