Benjamin Carrington d.1850 Liverpool

[lancsann]

There is also the Necropolis or Low Hill Cemetery Everton. This was used mainly for non-conformists but also for burial for people in central Liverpool where the church graveyard was full. Burials only online up to 1837.

[lancsann]

it might help us to know who the son/daughter of Benjamin is who was your ancestor. I gather from the 1841 census that Benjamin was not born in Lancashire.

[pinefamily]

Thank you Rolnora, Radcliff, and Lancsann.
Benjamin Carrington was born in 1776 in Hampsthwaite Yorkshire. He married twice, secondly to Ann Longley Booth on 18 May 1807 St Peters, Leeds. The eldest son of this second marriage was Peter (1807-1886), who was my ancestor.
Some time between 1813 and 1816, Benjamin, Ann and family moved to Liverpool; I assume this would have been for work purposes. With the help of the excellent Lancs OPC site, I have discovered they had more children in Liverpool. Peter was put on trial for stealing some brass, and was transported to Tasmania. On receiving his freedom, he came to South Australia, and settled down.
It is their life in Liverpool that I am piecing together at the moment, and Benjamin's death is the first piece of the puzzle.

[lancsann]

Did Benjamin & Ann have a son William born Leeds c 1816?

edit - probably not as on rereading he was born in Clint

[Blue70]

Burial could have been at St James Cemetery.


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[1karen]

Would this be him? (Taken from Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser on Thursday 13 October 1836)

Marriage
On Thursday last, at St. James's Church, Mr Benjamin Carrington, civil-engineer, to Mrs Pearce, relict of Mr John Pearce, civil-engineer, Bordeaux.

[pinefamily]

Thank you Lancsann, Blue70, and 1karen.
I've never come across a William before; there was another Benjamin Carrington (b.1781 Bradford) who was married to a Hannah from memory. When I started looking into my Benjamin in more detail, I kept getting the two families mixed up. Looking at the original records is the best option to clear these things up.
Wow, it looks like he got married for a third time. So Ann must have died some time between 1828 (birth of last child) and 1836.

[pinefamily]

And naturally St James' marriages stop at 1806 on the Lancs OPC site. 

[pinefamily]

A quick look on familysearch after breakfast shows Benjamin Carrington marrying Mary Pearce in 1836. At least I have a first name for her now.
It must have been a short marriage, as Benjamin was on his own in the 1841 census. There is a death registration for a Mary Carrington in the Liverpool district in 1840.