Local Census of 1838, Lothersdale, Yorkshire
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In preparation for the new church which was being built under the inspiration 
of Mr John Benson Sidgwick he felt it necessary to know whom he might consider 
probable worshippers and he undertook the compilation of a local census on 
10th July, 1838. He made a few notes of Quakers and Methodists, and where he 
noticed real poverty he left 1/- [one shilling].

Head of family		Residence	Children    Children	Total	Notes
					under 7	    up to 14
David Whiteoak		Mittenhouse				  5	Wife unbp
George Whiteoak		Fold		   3	      1		  6	1 unbap
Jas Whiteoak		Bent-Hall	   2			  4	
Jas Whiteoak		Wintergappe	   2	      3		  8	
John Whiteoak		Fold		   3	      1		  6	2 Meth
Mary Whiteoak		Dowshaw		   3	      1		  9	
Richd Whiteoak		Brigstone	   1			  3
Wm Whiteoak		Fold		   1	      2		  4	1 unbap
Wm Whiteoak		Hazel Head				  5	
Wm Whiteoak		Raygill		   3	      1		  6	1/-
Wm Whiteoak		Sunnyside	   3			  5	4 unbp 1/-

Total Lothersdale			 156	     98		621
Total outside township but within parish  80	     55		302

Total in ecclesiastical parish = 923 souls.

[In 1838 the largest households were those of Wm Smith of Norrod (11), Mr Spencer 
of Raygill (12), Thos Throup of Oakcliffe (12) and J B Sidgwick Esq. of Stone 
Gappe (14).]

It was during the period that John Benson Sidgwick was resident at Stone Gappe 
that Charlotte Bronte was governess to his children and attended the church - 
for which she made an altar cloth. It is probable that she visited Kildwick Church 
on many occasions, where she would see the numerous Currer memorials; and it is 
quite within the realms of possibility that her pen name of Currer Bell was derived 
from such source.

[From "The History of Lothersdale", by Kenneth Wilson & others, published by The 
Parish Council of Lothersdale, 1972. Notes in square brackets are my own.]