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John Darnton

Tobacco Merchant
Male Abt 1752 - 1835  (~ 82 years)


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  • Name John Darnton 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Born Abt Dec 1752  Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Baptism 29 Dec 1752  Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Occupation Between 1767 and 1835  [2] 
    Tobacco Merchant 
    Died 11 Mar 1835  Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Buried St John the Evangelist, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 7 Siblings 
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2021 

    Father John Darnton
              b. Abt 1710
              d. 1 May 1759  (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Mother Anne Scurr
              b. Abt 1715
              d. 30 Dec 1752  (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Married 30 Jun 1737  St Peter's, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 

    Wife Ann Healey
              b. Abt 1748
              d. 14 May 1784, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 36 years) 
    Married 28 Jul 1777  St Peter's, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Age at Marriage He was 24, she was 29  
    Children 
     1. Mary Darnton
              b. 1 May 1782
              d. 3 Dec 1795  (Age 13 years)
     2. Ann Darnton
              b. 22 Apr 1784, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 14 Aug 1865, Gledhow Mount Mansion, Gledhow, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Whilst there are a number of possible John Darntons born at roughly the same time, I think the most convincing is the one baptised 29th December 1752 in Leeds at the Call Lane Arian Independent Chapel, son of John Darnton. Many subsequent descendents in the Lupton family were baptised in this same chapel. John's burial inscription (see below) confirms his father's name was John.

      Looking for other baptismal records at Call Lane in the same period, we find John's eldest sister Mary, baptised 18 May 1738, suggesting that his parents must have married around 1737. That leads us to the marriage of John Darnton and Anne Scurr on the 30th May 1737, providing the trail to John of this page's parents.

      So in summary, John Darnton was born in December 1752 and baptised on the 29th of that year at Call Lane Arian Independent Chapel in Leeds, the son of John Darnton and Anne Scurr

      Career
      John become an apprentice to a tobacconist (John Cadman, of Leeds) in 1767 and continued in this trade for the rest of his working life.

      Death
      John Darnton died on the 11th of March 1835. A memorial flagstone at St John the Evangelist in Leeds reads:
      SACRED TO MEMORY JOHN DARNTON
      Son of JOHN & ANN DARNTON
      Departed this life 11th March 1835
      In the 81st year of his age.
      ANN his wife died 14th May 1784
      Aged 36 years.
      MARY second daughter of the above
      Died 3rd December 1795
      In the 14th year of her age.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt Dec 1752 - Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 29 Dec 1752 - Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 11 Mar 1835 - Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - St John the Evangelist, Leeds, Yorkshire West Riding, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    Tombstone / Memorial Inscription     		Tombstone / Memorial Inscription
    John Darnton, his wife Ann and daughter Mary

  • Sources 
    1. [S0136] England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), John Darnton; Piece 3674: Leeds, Call Lane Chapel (Arian Independent), 1695-1778, 29 Dec 1752.

    2. [S0459] UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), Jno Darnton; The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Collection: Board of Stamps: Apprenticeship Books: Series IR 1; Class: IR 1; Piece: 25, 13 Apr 1767.

    3. [S0046] findagrave, John Darnton; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189046532/john-darnton.

    4. [S0230] West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812, Ancestry, (ancestry.co.uk), John Darnton / Anne Spurr [sic]; West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: RDP68/9/1, 30 Jun 1737.

    5. [S0309] England Marriages, 1538–1973, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Ann Healey; (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2MV-CB7 : 10 February 2018), John Darnton and Ann Healey, 28 Jul 1777; citing Saint Peter,Leeds,York,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Sal, 28 Jul 1777.