Kendell is in Westmorland county - more connections to me and Vietnam'Westmorland (sometimes spelled Westmoreland) in North West England no longer exists as a county, the original core of it having merged into the modern district of Eden within the county of Cumbria.
The traditional county of Westmorland, like neighbouring Lancashire, was itself a new creation during the Middle Ages. It seems to have been treated as part of Yorkshire in the 11th century, and the eventual boundaries represented a merger between an earlier entity called Westmorland, and the Barony of Kendal, which was apparently originally considered part of the Honor of Lancaster, though it did not become part of Lancashire. Kendal is also now part of Cumbria.
The original Westmorland is sometimes referred to as Westmarieland and is later referred to as the Barony of Appleby or "Northern Westmorland".
List of High Sheriffs of Westmorland County:
1893: Jacob Wakefield, of Sedgwick House, Kendal[39]
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SEDGWICK is a township on the river Kent, in the civil parish of Heversham, but for ecclesiastical purposes in the parish of Crosscrake, and is 2 � miles south-by-west from Oxenholme junction station on the London and North Western railway, 4 north from Milnthorpe station on the same line, and 4 south from Kendal. The Kendal and Lancaster canal runs through the township. Sedgwick House, the seat of Jacob Wakefield esq. D. L., J. P. is a fine mansion of Lancaster free stone, surrounded by about 7 acres of well laid out pleasure grounds. The area is 484 acres of land and 11 of water; rateable value, �2,385; the population in 1901 was 221.
Sedgwick House; the family owned up to 5,000 acres in the late 19th Century.
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Family crest
Now how did that 20 gauge get from NW England to India?
