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Simply putting my line out so all can tie me in where I might fit:

John Glendenning (b. ca. 1769; d. 1829, Darlington) m. Jane Jackson (b. 1770, Whorlton; d. 1807, Darlington)
parents of
Eleanor Glendenning (b. 1803, Darlington; d. 1881, Darlington) m. Anthony Smith (b. 1795, Bentham; d. 1876, Darlington), parents of
Anthony Smith, Jnr. (b. 1849, Darlington; d. 1906, Springfield, Illinois, USA) m/1 Grace Wrathall (b. 1844, Barnard Castle; d. 1885, Sprinfield, Illinois, USA--his first cousin, daughter of Elizabeth Glendenning & Thomas Wrathall and granddaughter of John Glendenning and Jane Jackson, above; m/2 Julia Ann Cain (b. 1861, Kinmundy, Illinois, USA; d. 1954, Springfield, Illinois, USA)
Edward Alexander Smith (b. 1895, Springfield; d. 1975, Springfield) m. Elsie Viola Farrand (b. 1898, Petersburg, Illinois; d. 1966, Springfield.

Ed & Viola are my maternal grandparents.

David McDonald

My question becomes how do you tie him to Barton? Census records? Family lore? Since the marriage predates civil registration, does the church register indicate the hometown?

I'm not trying to say you're wrong--I am trying to show how to strengthen the suggestion that the man you're seeking and the man I already have are, in fact, the same person.

There appears to be no question that the man I have does not remain in Darlington. Whither he goes, I have no idea. He--or someone of the same name--does have a child christened there in 1831. The family as I know it is concentrated in the Darlington/Barnard Castle/Newcastle area throughout the 19th Century, and only a bit of the next generation winds up leaving for the States, including what becomes my line.

DM

John is shown as a gardener in the burial record for his wife in 1807. I have a reference in my notes that say he may be from Kirby Stephen, but I don't know where that comes from.

I suspect he married a second time, to Hannah Maugham, on 15 Oct 1811 at Darlington St. Cuthbert.

Eldest son, George, was a butcher and died at Darlington in 1848.
John, next younger to James, was an inmate at the Darlington workhouse in 1871.
Robert was a bricklayer at the time his illegitimate daughter was christened in 1823.

Daughter Eleanor's husband Anthony Smith was a labourer and/or a teamster at Darlington.
Youngest daughter Elizabeth's husband Thomas Wrathall was a grocer at Barnard Castle. Their daughter married Eleanor's youngest son (first cousins intermarried) and they came to America in 1873. I am a descendant of Anthony by his second marriage to an American woman, which occurred within the month of his first wife's death.

The James I am tracking had a son, James, christened 26 July 1831 at Saint Cuthbert's, Darlington.

The siblings of James were christened at Barton, Saint Cuthbert's and Barton, Saint Mary's, with the youngest two being "done" at Saint Cuthbert's in Darlington in 1803 and 1806 respectively. Jane, their mother, dying in 1807.

David