So...who were the Walton's that lived in Appleby Magna? What do we know about them and how do we descend from them?
Before going to England, I was able to do a lot of research from the comfort of my office in Raleigh. N. C. One very useful site is the Appleby Magna History Website (see general resource tab). They have made available local census records, parish registers and lots of photographs. This site is a gold mine!
The Appleby Magna parish register has been transcribed on the Appleby Magna History website. I reviewed this document and created my own document with just the Walton listings, as well as some explanations of the terminology used that I learned about in an English genealogy seminar I attended in Raleigh last fall. (See Walton Resource Tab). I used this document as a primary source to identify Walton's living in Apply Magna.
The first names that appear are John Walton and Jane Waterson (my Great-Great-Great Grandparents). Their wedding date is listed as January 21, 1821. Both are listed as "of Appleby parish" so they have presumably been living in the parish for some time prior to their marriage. Census records were not available until 1841, but later census records list John's birthplace as nearby Packington which we'll visit later.
The next group of records list the baptisms & burials of John and Jane's seven children: Thomas (1822-1836), William (1823), Elizabeth (1825), John* (1828), Joseph (1832), Ann (1834), Charles (1837)
Later burial records indicate Jane died in 1870 and John died in 1874.
I'll call this family the first generation of Walton's in Appleby.
* Note 1- John (1828) is my Great-Great Grandfather and will be the line of descent followed in this blog.
Another group of records list the baptisms & burials of John (1828) and Eliza Walton's children. Their Marriage is not listed here, indicating they were married elsewhere, probably in Shackerstone where Eliza Bonsall was born. Interestingly, none of Johns siblings (other than Thomas) are listed after their baptism. It would imply they did not marry or die in Appleby Magna. Does this mean they moved away as young adults? Their arents John and Jane remained here throughout their lives. More research will need to be done to provide a definitive answer.
John and Eliza's children are:
Emily (1853), Elizabeth (1855-1861), Jane Anne (1857), Mary (1859), John Joseph (1860-1860)
I'll call this family the second generation of Walton's In Appleby. But this is only the beginning of this family. They will have many more children, including George, my great- grandfather. They are living in Cheddleton by the 1871 Census, which we'll cover later, so they aren't in Appleby for an entire lifetime like John and Jane (generation 1) were.
To summarize, there are TWO related Walton families living in Appleby. The first generation came to age in the first half of the 19th century. The second generation was one of the children who started his family in his hometown and eventually moved away.
As I walked around Appleby Magna, I had to keep in mind two generations of Walton's living here through two connected time periods in a village that seems (to a visitor) to have stood still in time.
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