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Thomas Barton 1794-1879

BARTON, GELL, BURTON, HEROD

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 7/14/2017 at 21:03:10

Thomas Barton was born in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England. Baptismal Date: 2 Apr 1794 (England, Ancestry.com, "England, Select Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1910")

From: The Saga, The Derbyshire Connections of the Families Barton, Burton, Sellors, Stokely, and Wallis, by Peter J. Naylor, 1987:

"Thomas Barton kept a bible and recorded being a servant in 1823. It is not known what caused him to move from Dronfield, Derbyshire, a village near to and influenced by Sheffield, to Cromford, Derbyshire. He soon involved himself in lead mining. In 1841 he is recorded as a farmer, but from 1846 [census] he called himself a [woolen] draper, and remained so until he emigrated to Iowa in 1861, when he joined his daughter Mary [Barton Gell Burton Stokely Wilson], together with his wife, Grace Allen Barton. He was 66 at that time. [They lived with their daughter, Elizabeth Barton Herod, and her husband, Joseph Herod.]

His first drapery business was at the bottom of Cromford Hill, Cromford, an 'Arkwright House,' then known as the Wirksworth Road. He must have taken this business over from George Allen, Sr. [his father-in-law]. He later moved to premises in another 'Arkwright' house adjoining the Greyhound Inn on Cromford Market Place. His son George took over the business on Cromford Hill in about 1856. Both premises exist [in 1987] as private dwellings, the one on Cromford Hill was also used as a shop."


 

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