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.
