Birth: 1789 Chiddingstone, Kent, UK
Father: John Barton 1760-1824
Mother: Ann (Anne) ? c1759-1833
Christening: 12 April 1789 Chiddingstone, Kent, UK
Marriage: 19 September 1817 Tonbridge, Kent, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Bennett 1797-1844
Death: July-September 1861 Brighton, Sussex, UK
Elisha Barton 1818-1862
Theodore Barton c1821
Susan Emma Barton [Trower] 1822-a1946
Thomas Henry Barton 1824
Henry William Barton 1818-1862
Alfred Barton 1828-1899
George Barton 1832-1883
Ellen Barton 1835-1946
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for George Barton baptised on 12 April 1789 in Chiddingstone, Kent, parents John Jun and Ann Barton.
His three brothers and sister were born in Cowden from 1793 to 1799.
Entry in Ancestry England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780 - 1837 for George Barton and Esth Bennett in 1817 in Tonbridge. "Barton George = Esth Bennett Tonbridge Kent 1817".
Two entries in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Geo Barton and Eliz Bennett and for George Barton and Elizabeth Bennett on 1 September 1817 in Tonbridge, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1988 for for George Barton and Elizabeth Bennett on 1 September 1817 in Tonbridge, Kent.
His son was born in Bidborough in 1818 and his daughter in Brighton in 1822, and daughter in Southborough, Kent in 1935.
In the 1841 census as George Bartos (sic - in the index) aged 50, not born in Sussex, a shoe maker, and living with Elizabeth (wife?), Alfred, George and Thedore (sons?) and Ellen and Emma (daughters?) in Northside of Cheapside, Brighthelmstone St Peter, Sussex, other possible occupants are George Parkett and Harriott Willand, both aged 20 and born in Sussex.
His wife died in Brighton in 1844.
In the 1851 census as George Barton aged 60, born in Chidenstone, Kent, widowed, a shoemaker and living with his daughter (Emma), grandson (Fredrick) and three lodgers (William Haurkey aged 57 and born in Westminster, Sussex, William Haurtley aged 25 and born in Scotland and John Lee aged 17 and born in Madenlead, Berkshire, all single and gardeners) at 11 Oxford Street, Brighton St Peter, Sussex.
Death of George Barton in FreeBMD in July-September 1861 in Brighton (2b 112).
There are seventeen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for George Barton born in Chiddenstone, Kent in 1791 although some confuse him with the George Barton born in Hadlow in 1791.
Cowden is some 5 miles SW of Chiddingstone, and some 10 miles from Tonbridge, Bidborough is 3 miles SW of Tonbridgeand Southborough 3 miles south of Tonbridge.
George Barton was the second great grandfather of Dennis Alfred Barton, husband of Sylvia Marion Croucher, my sister.
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