M Inscriptions for Lanchester

[nort]

hi Adam,thanks for that,appreciated

Steve

[Icicle]

Hi Adam

Thank you so much for the info. This is very exciting!

I'll need to look further but it seems another piece of the jigsaw falls into place.

Vernon Mace had a daughter Vera b.Lanchester 1913.

Vernon and Henry worked at Malton Colliery but I'm not sure where they lived - will need to check the census.

Thanks again

[Adamand]

Hello again. I have modified the inscription with the full details.

Adam

[Anne Wilson]

Hi Adam
Thanks for the info on WILSONs.
Unfortunately, none are mine but I appreciate your time.
Annie

[KMFRoberts]

Hi Adam,
I wonder if I could trouble you for the Thornton entries.
Thank you in advance and for all the help you offering us all.
Kate.

[Adamand]

Hello Kate. I have already posted the only gravestone inscription for Thornton.
You can see it on post number 160.

Adam

[No-one]

Dear Adam

I would be very grateful if you could let me know what inscriptions you have for Armstrong.

I see you also have several Walton inscriptions. I've hit a brick wall with my Jane Walton (nee Armstrong), her husband Michael Walton, and their son John Thomas Walton who all lived in Leadgate, Lanchester, and who variously disappeared from the records between 1856 and 1881. I wonder if any of these names are mentioned in the Walton inscriptions you have.

If you have already posted entries for Armstrongs and Waltons, please forgive me for not spotting them.

Thank you very much indeed

Moni

[Adamand]

Hello Moni. Here is the only gravestone for Armstrong at Lanchester :-

To the memory of John Armstrong of Iveston, who died December/23/1862 aged 69 years.
Also Elizabeth, their daughter, who died June/5/1856 aged 19 years.
Also Sarah Simpson, their daughter, who died February/1853 aged 24 years.
Also Margaret, their daughter, who died October/??/? aged 27 years.

There are 13 Walton gravestones at Lanchester but I do not think any of them are linked to your family names.
The only Michael Walton that I have is for  a stone at  Stanhope but that is dated 1700's.

If you can give me more details of the Walton's I will look through all 75 inscriptions of Waltons  that I have.

Adam

[No-one]

Dear Adam

Thanks very much for the information. Sadly none of the Armstrongs are mine. I assumed that they would be buried in Lanchester because they lived in Leadgate, but perhaps they were buried with no headstones.

Thank you loads for offering to check for my Waltons. I really appreciate it, but it's quite a long shot and I don't want to waste your time. The information that you have supplied already has been very helpful because it has eliminated some possibilities.

However I’ve tried to summarise the info about them just in case you should come across them in your travels!

Jane Armstrong (b 1836 Hexham) married Michael Walton (a miner, b c1831, possibly in Cumberland) in 1856 in Lanchester. Jane gave birth to John Thomas Walton in Gateshead in 1857.

By 1861 Jane was back with her parents in Leadgate together with her son John Thomas Walton, but Michael Walton seems to have disappeared from the records (i.e. I can't find a likely census entry for him).

By 1871, Jane Walton also disappeared from the census records but her son John Thomas Walton was still living with his grandparents in Leadgate.

By 1881, John Thomas Walton too disappeared from the census records.

I have checked Free BMD for possible deaths, although I know that not all were registered.

There are lots of deaths for Jane Waltons on Free BMD between 1861 and 1871.  Between 1861 and 1865 I wouldn’t know where to start because no ages are given. From 1866 to 1871, the only possible one in terms of age is a 33 year old in the Auckland district in the June qtr 1866.

The only possible death I found for Michael Walton between 1856 and 1881 was for a 47 year old in the March qtr 1877 in the Auckland district, but he may be a different person to mine.

The only two possible deaths I found for John Thomas Walton are both simply for John Walton, one aged 16 in Weardale in the March qtr 1874 and one aged 20 in Weardale in the September qtr 1879.

Of course it’s also possible that Michael, Jane and John Thomas Walton all emigrated in staggered fashion over a period of 20 or so years!

I hope that eventually I will find out what happened to them.

With loads of thanks again and very good wishes

Moni