Birth: 4 September 1858 Whitechapel, Middlesex, UK
Father: Elisha Barton 1818-1862
Mother: Anne Wilson 1824-1890
Christening: 26 September 1858 St Mary Whitechapel, Whitechapel, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 25 April 1886 Christ Church with St Mary and St Stephen, Spitalfields, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Eliza Magson 1860-1902
Death: January-March 1933 Bethnal Green, London, UK
Ann Barton [Baker] 1886
Alice Eveline Barton 1887
John Robert Barton 1891
George William Barton 1892-1983
Florence Barton 1895
Louise Edith Barton 1899
Edith Rose Barton [Johnson] 1901-a1921
Birth of John Barton in FreeBMD in October-December 1858 in Whitechapel (1c 357).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for John Barton born 4 September 1858, baptised on 26 September 1858 at St Mary Whitechapel, Stepney, London, parents Elisha and Anne Barton.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for John Barton baptised on 26 September 1858 at Whitechapel St Mary, Tower Hamlets, parents Elisha and Anne Barton. "Page 312 Baptisms Solemnized in the Parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex in the Year 1858 [...] Septr 26th John, parents Elisha, a Box-maker and Anne Barton of 8 Thomas St. born Septr 4th 1858."
In the 1861 census as John Barton aged 4, born in Whitechapel, Middlesex, and living with his parents (Elisha and Ann), brother (Robert), two sisters (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.
His father died in Whitechapel in 1862.
I cannot locate the family in the 1871 census.
In the 1881 census as John Barton aged 22, born in England, single, a carman, and living with his widowed mother (Ann) at 50 Settles Street, Mile End Old Town, London. (The original is nearly illegible).
Marriage of John Barton and Eliza Magson in FreeBMD in April-June 1886 in Whitechapel (1c 634).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for John Barton aged 26, father Elisha Barton, and Eliza Magson on 25 April 1886 at Christ Church with St Mary and St Stephen, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets. "Page 101 1886 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the parish of Christ Church Spitalfields in the County of Middlesex. No. 197 April 25 1886 John Barton aged 26, a Bachelor and General Dealer of 2 Boundary St, father Elisha Barton, a General Dealer, and Eliza Magson aged 24, a Spinster of 57 Heneage St, father George Magson, a Looking-glass Frame -Maker. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Eastablished Church after Banns [both made their marks] in the Presence of us, George Thomas Magson and Ann Magson [who made her mark]".
At the christening of his son John Robert on 29 March 1891 at St Mary, Whitechapel he was a general dealer living at 31 Chicksand Street
In the 1891 census as John Barton aged 31, born in Whitechapel, London, a general dealer shop neither employed or employer, and living with his wife (Eliza), son (Robert J) and two daughters (Alice and Ann) at 1 Johns Court, Stepney, Mile End New Town, London. This address was shared with another family.
In the school admission for his son George William to Smith Street School on 2 April 1900 he was living at 1 Hanover Mews but in the entry for his daughter Florrie on the same date he was living at 1 Hannibal Mews.
In the 1901 census as John Barton aged 40, born in Whitechapel, London, a carman and employer, and living with his wife (Eliza), two sons (George and John) and two daughters (Alice and Louisa) at 8 Hannibal Road, Mile End Old Town, London.
At the christening of his daughter Elizabeth Rose on 4 August 1901 at Christ Church, Jamaica Street he was a carman living at 8 Hannibal Road.
In the school admission for his daughter Florence to Smith Street School on 28 August 1902 he was living at 1 Hannibal Mews.
His wife died in Mile End in 1902.
In the 1911 census as John Barton aged 52, born in Whitechapel, widowed with seven children, one having died, a general dealer or barrel buyer working on his own account, and living with his son (George W), two daughters (Elizabeth Rose and Florence) and two visitors (Ann Baker - married daughter and Bertha Baker - granddaughter) in two rooms at 11 Garden Place E, Mile End New Town, London.
Death of John Barton in FreeBMD in January-March 1933 aged 75 in Bethnal Green (1c 183).
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Barton born in Whitechapel, Middlesex in 1857, parents Elijah Barton and Ann Clark. Another entry gives his birth on 4 September 1858 in Whitechapel, Middlesex, parents Elisha Barton and Anne Wilson. Another gives his birth on 4 September 1858 at 8 Thomas Street, Whitechapel, London, his marriage to Eliza Magsonon 25 Aril 1886 at Christ Church with St Mary and St Stephen, Spitalfields, and seven children.
John Barton was the grandfather of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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