Hugh Flint

1763 - 1831

Hugh was born in 1763 in Tideswell, the 4th child of John and Hannah, and baptised at St John the Baptist's in Tideswell on 21st September that year ⁽¹⁾. He followed all the other men in his family, and became a lead miner ⁽²⁾.

He married Ann Walton (also known as Nancy), the sister of his brother Matthew's wife Jane, in Tideswell on 8th April 1788 ⁽²⁾, and they lived at Cross Gate, Tideswell ⁽³⁾. Their first child, John, was born in 1789 ⁽⁴⁾, follwed by Hugh in 1793 ⁽⁵⁾, William in 1796 ⁽⁶⁾ and James in 1799 ⁽⁷⁾. His eldest son, John, died in 1802 ⁽⁸⁾. His only daughter, Hannah was born in 1804 ⁽⁹⁾, followed by a second John in 1808 ⁽¹⁰⁾, and finally Matthew in 1810 ⁽¹¹⁾.

His youngest son, Matthew, died in 1829 ⁽¹²⁾. Hugh died in 1831, and was buried in Tideswell on November 23rd ⁽¹³⁾. His wife died less than two months later ⁽¹⁴⁾.

• John was born in Tideswell in 1789. He died aged just 13 in 1802.
• Hugh was born in Tideswell in 1793. He married Elizabeth Palfreyman in in 1817 and they lived in Litton where he was a farm labourer. They didn't have any children of their own, but later seem to have taken in Elizabeth's niece, also called Elizabeth, and her husband Edward Young. In 1843 Elizabeth and Edward had a son who they called Hugh Flint Young. In the 1851 census Elizabeth and Edward are nowhere to be found, and Hugh and Elizabeth have Hugh Flint Young living with them. It seems very strange for Elizabeth and Edward to have named their son after the uncle they were living with, and I'm tempted to wonder if there might have been some sort of "surrogacy" arrangement going on here! Hugh died in 1852, and his wife survived him by another 19 years. Hugh Flint Young died aged 16.
• William has his own page
• James was born in Tideswell in 1799. He initially worked as a labourer, probably on a farm. He married Mary Bingham in 1820. They set up home in Tideswell, but I can't say where initially (they lived in Back Lane from at least 1841). They had 10 children between then and 1850 - Mary, Hannah, James, Matthew, Elizabeth, John, Ann, Margaret, William and Martha. By the 1840s James was farming land in his own right, and the acreage increased over the years, as he obviously did quite well for himself. By the time he wrote his will in 1878, he owned 4 cottages in Townhead, as well as land and farm buildings, and his probate was valued in excess of £450. He died in 1879, 4 years after his wife.
• Hannah was born in 1804 in Tideswell. In 1827 she married Abraham Gregory, a blacksmith, and they lived with his father on Church Street in Tideswell. They had 4 children there, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, before in the late 1840s Abraham and their son Jacob moved to the west of Sheffield, where Abraham found work, and Jacob was apprenticed to a blade grinder. By 1861 Hannah had followed him, and they lived there with son Jacob, whilst son Isaac and his wife lived next door. In 1867 Abraham died and Hannah moved in with her son Isaac. They moved to north Sheffield in the 1870s, and she died there in 1885.
• John was born in Tideswell in 1801. He married Mary Middleton in 1830 and they had 7 children between then and 1848 - Mary, Matthew, John, Hannah, Hugh, Henry and Peter. John was described as a general labourer all his life, until just 3 years before his death in 1884 when he was said to be a stone mason.
• Matthew was born in Tideswell in 1810. He died there, unmarried, aged 18 in 1829.

1. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   September 1763
   Baptised Hugh the son of John and Hannah Flint of Tideswell   the 21
   
2. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following marriage entry :
   Hugh Flint of the Parish of Tideswell
   Miner and Ann Walton of the
   same Parish Spinster were
   married in this Church by Banns
   this eighth Day of April in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred
   and eighty eight by me Jo^{s This Marriage was soemnized between Us: Hugh his - _mark Flint   Ann her x _mark Walton
   In the Presence of: Job Swindall   John Dawson}
3. Its not clear whether they lived at Cross Gate immediately after they were married, as the the first few subsequent entries in the parish register don't mention a specific location ^{(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)}, but the later entries do ^(9)(10)(11).
4. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   Baptisms
   January 1789
   Do y^e 11 John y^e son of Hugh & Nancy Flint Tideswell
5. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   1793 Baptisms
   June
   24
   Do Hugn y^e son of Hugh & Nancy Flint Tideswell
6. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   [1796 Baptisms]
   June
   27 William, Son of Hugh & Ann Flint of Tideswell
7. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   1799 Baptisms
   September
   8 James son of Hugh & Nancy Flint of Tideswell
8. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   1802 Burials
   November 15 John Son of Hugh & Ann Flint of Cross Gate Tideswell
9. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   1804 Baptisms
   August
   26 Hannah Daug^r of Hugh & Ann Flint of Cross Gait
10. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
    Baptisms
    1808
    April
    3 John son of Hugh and Ann Flint of Cross Gait
11. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
    1810 Baptisms
    December
    6 Matthew son of Hugh & Nancy Flint of Cross Gate
12. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following burial entry :
    

    Name	Abode	When buried	Age
    Matthew, son of Hugh & Ann Flint	Tideswell	April 3d [1829]	yrs 18

13. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following burial entry :
    

    Name	Abode	When buried	Age
    Hugh Flint, Senr	Tideswell	Novr 23rd [1831]	yrs 67

14. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following burial entry :
    

    Name	Abode	When buried	Age
    Nancy, wife of late Hugh Flint	Tideswell	Jany 8th [1832]	yrs 62