Birth: 1818 Bidborough, Kent, UK
Father: George Barton 1789-1861
Mother: Elizabeth Bennett 1797-1844
Christening: 24 May 1818 Bidborough, Kent, UK
Marriage: 26 June 1846 Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Anne Wilson 1824-1890
Death: October-December 1862 Whitechapel, Middlesex, UK
Robert Wilson Barton 1851
Emma Barton 1853
Anne Jane Barton 1855-1933
John Barton 1858-1933
Eliza Barton 1860
Three entries in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Elisha Barton baptised on 24 May 1818 in Bidborough, Kent, parents George and Elizabeth Barton.
In the 1841 census as Elisher Bartos (sic - in the index) aged 20 rounded down to a multiple of 5, not born in Sussex, and living with George and Elizabeth (parents?), Alfred, George and Thedore (brothers?) and Ellen and Emma (sisters?) in Northside of Cheapside, Brighthelmstone St Peter, Sussex, other possible occupants are George Parkett and Harriott Willand, both aged 20 and born in Sussex.
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 for Elisha Barton and Anne Wilson on 26 June 1846 in Largs, Ayr.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Elisha Barton and Anne Wilson on 26 June 1846 in Largs (602/ 30 428). "314 Proclamations June [...] 26 Elisha Barton and Anne Wilson both in this Parish One day".
In the 1851 census as Elersha (sic - in the index, Elisha on the original) Barton aged 32, born in Soubridge, Kent, an Ostler and living with his wife (Ann), son (Robert) and some 35 lodgers at 17 Thrawls Street, Artillary, Christchurch Spitalfields, Middlesex.
At the baptism of his son Robert in 1851 he was a shoemaker living in Thrawl Street, his daughter in 1853 a case maker in New Street Bishopsgate, and son in1858 a box maker living at 8 St Thomas Street.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Elisha Barton address a house at 4 Cock Hill, Bishopsgate Within and Withithout, City of London in 1855.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1930 for Elisha Barton, father George Barton on 29 October 1856. "29 day of Oct 1856 I Elisha Barton (Son of George Barton at Brighton Shoe Maker) occupying premises 4 Cock Hill, Bishopsgate ? in the City of London, General Dealer do hereby apply to be admitted to the Freedom of the City of London, by redemption,in pursuance of the Resolution of the Court of Common Council on the 17th March 1835 & 6 October 1856; and I hereby declare that I am not an Alien, nor the son of an Alien, and that I am above the age of Twenty-one years. [signed] Elisha Barton"
In the 1861 census as Elisha Barton aged 43, born in Brighton, Sussex, a box maker, and living with his wife (Ann), two sons (John and Robert) and two daughters (Ann and Eliza) and a lodger (John Truscott aged 40, born in Cleckenwell London, Middlesex, single and a carver) at 8 Thomas Street, St Mary Whitechapel, Middlesex. Several other families shared the same address.
Death of Elisha Barton in FreeBMD in October-December 1862 in Whitechapel (1c 321).
There are 29 entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees.
Elisha Barton was the great grandfather of Dennis Alfred Barton, husband of Sylvia Marion Croucher, my sister.
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