Early Life
There's a baptismal record for a Susanna Flather, daughter of Joseph Flather, bapt. 14 April 1678 at Elland, which is SW of Leeds, just north of Huddersfield. If this is the right record, that would make her 25 when she married in 1703 which is about right. However, there's no way to be sure that this is the right person, other than the matching name.
She may have had a sister Phoebe (
see top of this page (Susanna and Christopher Darnton are below). This Phoebe, who married in 1703, must have been born before 1682: one possible candidate was born 30 Dec 1680 in Armley, a district of Leeds, daughter of William Flather. This location seems more plausible than Elland, as described for Susanna Flather above. This William Flather appears to have married an Ann Barraby of Hunslet, on the 26th of June 1672. They
married at Leeds St Peter, which is a common church in subsequent generations.
Lacking any real evidence of her parents at this stage, I will make her a Brick Wall.
Family Life
Susannah married
Christopher Darnton of
Briggate in Leeds, on the 19
th of August 1703 at St Peter's in Leeds.
Death
Susannah died in March 1742;
a memorial at St John the Evangelist's Churchyard in Leeds reads:
Sacred to Memory
Christopher DARNTONnd February 1738,
SUSANNAH, his wife died in March 1742.
John DARNTON, their son died 1st May 1759, aged 49 years.
ANN his wife died 30th Decr 1752, aged 38 years.
CHRISTOPHER son of John and Ann DARNTON died 19th April 1751, aged 15 days.
SARAH, a daughter, died 8th Decr 1763, aged 19 years.
HEPHZIBAH, another daughter, died 28th October 1766, aged 20 years, and was interred at Northorp Church, Lincolnshire.
ANN, another daughter, died 5th March 1788, aged 46 years
Abt 1680 - 1742 (~ 62 years)
