The Darlington Arms- inn at Camelford ,Cornwall

Rear Admiral Sir Charles Ray Darlington KBE 1965 Director of Naval Education service. Joined RN 1941. Born Newcastle-under -Lyme. Son of Charles Darlington.

Certificates available
Birth of John Darlington- 5th Jan 1845, son of George, a tailor and Ellen ( smith)  of 66 Henry Edward St ,Liverpool

Birth of John Darlington- 11th March 1860, son of john, a general labourer and Alice ( Jump) Grey Horse , West Derby

Question of the Year

Newsletter 5-Autumn 1994

The Importance of Whitegate

I have been struck by the frequency of the Cheshire village of Whitegate as I review the many trees/charts that have crossed my desk. Because I have been unable to trace the 3x great-grandfather before his 1768 wedding in Liverpool, I do dabble with the LDS computer terminal at our local Family history Centre.

The only constant in our family for the four generations down to my father was the use of Joseph, Richard and John for the first three sons, and the use of Hannah for a daughter. I found a Joseph Darlington who married Hannah Tomlinson in Whitegate in 1722, had son Joseph in c1735 and son John in c1743. Joseph would have been 33 years old in 1768 and a possible prospect for my Liverpool Joseph.

My extract of the IGI for Whitegate does list the marriage of Joseph and Hannah but it does not show the birth of these two sons. The source was a member of the LDS church. Through the FHS I found that the source was Church of England Wills and Administrations. A copy of that 1763 will ( Valerie Ellis ) shows that Joseph and Hannah may have had two sons and three daughters.
Grandson John is left the estates of  Clayangor and Barthomly, while Joseph got the goods and chattels. It is not clear who is the father of grandson John. The daughters and their husbands are well provided for, but daughter-in-law Elin was given only one shilling and that 'she shall have no part or power any further'. It is not clear to whom Elin was married. If it is Joseph then he is not my 3xgreat-grandfather, unless there was a second marriage. If there was a son John and she was his wife then there is still a chance that Joseph left Darnhall for Liverpool and then married Elizabeth Lee in 1768. Perhaps he left because his nephew John got the estates. Elin could have been the wife of John, leaving Joseph as my possible ancestor. The name Darnhall is not easy to find on the map. Early maps show it south of Over and Whitegate.

A word of advice for Cheshire researchers

Getting back to an original family can be seriously complicated by intermarriage. As examples:

Richard Darlington m. Ann Darlington      Middlewich 1796
Job Darlington         m. Elizabeth Darlington Whitegate   1616
John Darlington m. Hannah Darlington Delamere   1843
Randle Darlington m.Margaret Darlington Whitegate   1594
Mary Darlington     m. John Darlington  Whitegate    1706
Matthew Darlington m. Mary Darlington  Whitegate    1688
All of these are from the IGI and within a ten-mile radius. Marrying a distant cousin is quite acceptable.

Darlingtons dying overseas
(From information supplied by Dennis Pearce of Twyford,Hants.)
James    convicted April 1739, transported to  America  June 1739
Abel         Born York, a tailor, enlisted Jan 1854 11th Hussars. Regiment sailed    to Crimea and took part in battles of Balaklava and Inkerman. Died 15th May 1855 at Kadikai, now part of Bulgaria.
Private Thomas Darington ( sic)  of Grenadier guards dangerously wounded in Sept 1855 in Crimea.

Kerenhappuch Riley Darlington
Job Chapter 7 Verse 14 lists Job's seven sons and three daughters- Jemima, Kezia and Kerenhappuch.!

Newsletter 6-Spring 1995

The Whitegate connection (contd.)

No-one has done more than Margaret Phillips to investigate the Darnhall and Whitegate lineage. She goes back to  a will date 1609 and challenges the parenthood of Job, the ancestor of the American branch. It is a very complicated study which requires the reader to have a copy of the Gilbert Cope book. If she is correct then Job is the son of John and not of Randle, his brother.

In the previous newsletter I mentioned the will of 1763. Michael Gandy has written with some useful comments. He points out that daughter-in-law Ellen is probably the mother of grandson John who is inheriting the estates. The land is kept in the family through an entail. This process prevents it passing to another family if Ellen remarries and owned the land in her own right. Being cut off with only a shilling was only a way of including their name in a will to protect their rights as a near relative even thouh land was tied up and could not be willed away.

More spare certificates
Marriage of John Darlington 25 yrs, pawnbroker, 30 Park St son of John Darlington dec'd, shoemaker  to Miriam Ball 20 yrs., 20 Barclay St Toxteth Park at Wellington rd Chapel, Toxteth Park.

The same John married again five years later. His second wife was Elizabeth Jane Veale, a 23 year old spinster of 13 Pembroke St, Bootle. The marriage took place on 15 May 1891 in Balliol Wesleyan Church, West Derby.

Marriage of Richard Darlington a house joiner of Aigburth and son of Thomas, cabinet maker. He married Anne Pullen 27th Feb 1865.

Death of Sarah Darlington 23rd Dec 1860 in Mount Pleasant area of Liverpool

Death of John Darlington age 45 , wood and ivory turner on June 29th 1848. Wife Jane of 10 Slater St present at death.

Birth certificate for Joseph Richard Darlington on 10th August 1876. Son of John, a labourer and Alice ( Jump) of 34 Etna St.