Maddison's of Stanhope

[Stewmad]

Hi I'm trying to find out my family tree and can go no further than a Stephen Maddison born abt 1730 of Stanhope. i cant find out who his father was as there is no birth cert.
If anybody could help it would really be appreciated.

[trish1120]

I cant see anything obvious for Stephen either but his Burial confirms his age;

22 Sep 1803, St Thomas the Apostle, Stanhope
Stephen MADDISON age 72
Abode Bucklerdale
Occp   Mason. Died 20 Sep

I can see a Marriage same Church 12 May 1756 to Jane WALTON

Strange they only seem to bapt 1 child there JOHN 18 Oct 1765, only Father named.
Abode Whelps's hill end

JANE Maddison wife of Stephen buried 22 Jan 1787, abode Bucklerdale****

I will look around a bit more and see if I can find anything else

EDIT just looked at Tree on Anc.
Note please the Jane Maddison buried 9 Apr 1794 has no other info on record and not Stephens Wife.
Burial of her is above 1787

[trish1120]

There is a JOHN Maddison bapt children from 1767 Stanhope also
Note on 1st bapt of a THOMAS 6 Sep 1767, Father cited as John MADDISON Junr***
Other children LOWENGER 10 Jul 1774/SARAH 15 Sep 1782/CATHERINE 24 Jul 1791
( 2 have mother as Jane and Elizabeth so confusing)

There is also a JOHN bapt 13 Dec 1771 Father CHARLES + 2 other children 1773/1774
Charles likely buried 20 Dec 1817 age 67 (c 1750)

Strangely a STEPHEN Maddison married Alice WALTON 05 Nov 1696 same Church

Not sure if you have used FreeREG but that is the source of my info.

[amondg]

Children of Stephen Maddison and Jane nee Walton at Stanhope.
Ref: Ancestry transcriptions

Jane bap 6 March 1757
Mary bap 23 September 1759
Hannah bap 7 March 1762
John bap 18 October 1765
? ten year gap
Anthony bap 30 June 1776

[trish1120]

From F/S
Bapts Stanhope, Father STEPHEN
JANE 6 Mar 1757
MARY 23 Sep 1759
HANNAH 7 Mar 1762
JOHN 18 Oct 1765
ANTHONY 30 Jun 1776

I the reason I am looking for all children is to establish possible Fathers name for Stephen.

FreeREG has these burials also, Father Stephen;
FEMALE 4 May 1779
ANTHONY 13 Apr 1791

[trish1120]

4 seconds behind

[goldie61]

Have you looked for any wills relating to the family?
If you're lucky, these can give a wealth of information about families.

The North East Inheritance database is a great place to start.
http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/data/neisearch.php

I see there are a nice lot listed for the Maddison name, including 2 for the name 'Lowenger/Lowinger Maddison', which I see is part of your family, and a very unusual name.

I see from the transcripts of St Thomas church marriages on Genuki, a Lowinger Maddison married Anne Story 16 Nov 1665 at Stanhope.
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DUR/Transcriptions/STP1613
Also one at Stanhope for a Lowinger Maddison 10 Sept 1700 to Sarah Greenwell.
Marriage of an Anthony Maddison to Mary Bainbridge 6 Nov 1800.
John Maddison to An Robson 9 June 1726.
John Maddison to Mary Watson 30 Jan 1732
John Maddison to Elizabeth Todd 3 June 1741

Plus many others

[goldie61]

On familysearch.org, fathers baptising children at Stanhope between 1700 and 1740 are Thomas, (5), Lowinger, (2), John, (3), and Anthony, (2).
No Stephen for any of them unfortunately, but you should really check the original register, as it is not unheard of for entries to be missed out, or unreadable, or mistranscribed, or there may be no entries at all for some years, either because those pages are missing for whatever reason, or lost, or there was no vicar at the church for some of the time.
Unfortunately, the St Thomas registers are still only on film on famiysearch.org, so you may have to wait until they are digitised, (they were supposed to have digitised all their films by 2020, so they're running a bit behind!), or visit the Durham record office to look at them


Film number 7939680 contains a printed book of marriages at Stanhope.
The marriage of Stephen and Jane Walton on May 12th 1756 has witnesses Joseph Barnfather and Nicholas Barnfather.
There were 5 marriages recorded that day. Another one was for a Thomas Barnfather and Ann Watson. Their witnesses were John Richardson and Thomas Watson.
It may be that the Barnfathers who witnesses Stephen Maddison's marriage were already at the church for the Barnfather marriage, and stepped in as witnesses, or they may have been friends or neighbours, or related in some way.

[goldie61]

Film number 4047743 is the BTs for Stanhope, which you CAN look at at home, but it only starts August in 1762. I can't see any earlier films.
You could check the later baptisms of Stephen's children,
John's baptism 1765 gives their residence as Whelpshilland (I think!). No wife's name.
Unfortunately, the baptisms for 1776 don't seem to be there - but you could re-check.