Dulcius Ex Asperis

The Fergusons of Carlisle, Harker, Morton, and Houghton Hall, in Cumberland, are all descended from Richard Ferguson, who married his cousin, Mary Ferguson, in 1746, and started the cotton-spinning industry in Carlisle. He was son of John Ferguson of the Bush-on-Lyne, in Cumberland, the third in direct succession at that place; the first of whom, Adam, died in 1642. She was daughter of Joseph Ferguson, the third in succession at Harker and Cringledyke, near Carlisle, of whom the first, Richard, is styled yeoman in a bond dated 1668. The family is supposed to have come from Galloway to Cumberland.
[Records of the Clan, p. 471]

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