My name is Ray Kirkbride and I live in Oklahoma, USA. I found this beautiful website while doing research on my family tree. I have fallen in love with the English countryside and thought that I might find pictures of the area that gave us our family name. We hale from Kirkbride, Cumbria and there is evidence of a knight (Sir Richard de Kirkbride) in our linage. He died and was buried at Windsor Castle, but I can't find mention of him anywhere in the Windsorrecrds available to me. I'm sure it is because very few records were kept in 1330 when he died.There is also a small church that bears our family name still in the village of Kirkbride.

If anyone has pictures of this area, I would love to be made aware of their location. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Respectfuly, Ray Kirkbride

Hello Ray and a very warm welcome to POE. As you will see we are much more than a site for photographs of England, although of couse we think we have the best there are.

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I did spend a few moments checking which does seem to indicate he was buried at Windsor Castle----which I'm sure looked very different in the 1300s than what it does today.

After the death of King Edward I, Sir Richard de Kirkbride was listed on the Parliamentary Roll as one of his knights. 

He appears in documents in the National Archives as Sir Richard de Kykebride that were written in French in 1305 dealing with----requests the issue of a commission to deal with the theft by men of the region of wheat and wine being brought from Ireland but cast ashore after a shipwreck near Holmcultram.

Ray--if you wish, got your Kirkbride family back to Scotland in 1099 with Lord Odard de Loges.   Will sort it out and put on pdf file to email to you.