Nancy (aka Ann) Walton

1769 - 1832

Nancy was born in 1769 in Tideswell, the daughter of John and Margaret Walton ⁽¹⁾. She had two older brothers, Richard and John, and an older sister Jane ⁽²⁾. Her brother Joseph was born in 1773 ⁽³⁾, her sister Margaret in 1776 ⁽⁴⁾ (but she only lived a year ⁽⁵⁾), and her brother James in 1779 ⁽⁶⁾.

Her mother died in 1786⁽⁷⁾. The following year his father remarried a much younger woman named Sarah Woodroof ⁽⁸⁾, who had the first of Nancy's half-sisters, Margaret, just four months later ⁽⁹⁾. Four more followed - Susannah ⁽¹⁰⁾, Grace ⁽¹¹⁾, Ann ⁽¹²⁾ and Sarah ⁽¹³⁾.

In April 1788 Nancy married Hugh Flint ⁽¹⁴⁾, her brother in law (her sister Jane was already married to his brother Matthew ⁽²⁾). Their first child, John, was born in 1789 ⁽¹⁵⁾, follwed by Hugh in 1793 ⁽¹⁶⁾, William in 1796 ⁽¹⁷⁾ and James in 1799 ⁽¹⁸⁾. Their eldest son, John, died in 1802 ⁽¹⁹⁾. A daughter Hannah was born in 1804 ⁽²⁰⁾.

Her father died in 1807 ⁽²¹⁾. She had another son John in the following year ⁽²²⁾ and finally, youngest son Matthew, in 1810 ⁽²³⁾.

Her husband died in November 1831 ⁽²⁴⁾, followed by Nancy less than two months later at the beginning on 1832 ⁽²⁵⁾.

• 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, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   [October 1769] Baptised Nancy the Daughter of John Walton of Tideswell       22
2. See her father's page
3. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   [April 1773] Baptised Joseph y^e son of John & Margaret Walton of Tideswell The end of the line is unreadable on microfilm, but it is the first entry in April. Val Neal's transcript gives 8th April.
4. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   [Baptisms 1776] July 25 Margaret, Daughter of John & Margaret Walton of Tideswell
5. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   [Burials 1776, August] 26 Margaret, Daughter of John Walton of Tideswell
6. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   [Baptisms 1779, September] 10 James, y^e Son of John & Margaret Walton of Tideswell
7. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   [Funerals 1786, Febr^y] 19^th Margaret, wife of John Walton     Tideswell
8. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   John Walton of the Parish of Tideswell Laborer
   & Widower and Sarah Woodroof of the
   same parish Spinster were
   Married in this Church by Banns
   this seventh Day of August in the Year One Thousand seven Hundred
   and eighty seven by me Rich^d Shuttleworth Vicar
   

   The Marriage was solemnized between Us	John Walton
   	Sarah Woodroof   X   her mark

   In the Presence of	Samuell Robinson
   	John Dawson

9. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
   [Baptisms, December 1787] 25 Margaret, D^r of John & Sarah Walton Tideswell
10. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
    [Baptisms, January 1789] 28 Susanah, y^e D^r of John & Sarah Walton Tideswell
11. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
    [1790 Baptisms, December] 26 Grace, D^r of John & Sarah Walton Tideswell
12. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
    [1792 Baptisms, December] 25 Ann, D^r of John & Sarah Walton Tideswell
13. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
    [1797 Baptisms, April] 24 Sarah, Daug^r of John & Sarah Walton of Tideswell
14. 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}
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell, includes the entry:
    [1807 Burials, December] 15 John Walton senior of Tideswell
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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

25. 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