St Bees Priory Register Names before the Dissolution
Tom Dalzell
This is a selection of local names transcribed by the Surtees Society from the Register of The Priory church of St Mary and St Bega.
Even with a wide variation in spelling the names are essentially those we are familiar with today. As the names have changed so little in nine hundred years one wonders just how old they were when they were first written down by the monks of the Norman Priory