Birth: 1799 Tattersett/Gatesend, Norfolk, UK
Father: Henry Belton 1750-1819
Mother: Phillis Barnes c1770-1832
Christening: 6 October 1799 Tattersett/Gatesend, Norfolk, UK
Marriage: 24 June 1823 East Rudham, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Mary Goodbody 1806-1832
Marriage: 18 September 1849 East Rudham, Norfolk, UK
Wife: Ellen Simmons 1813/9-1887
Death: March 1879 East Rudham, Norfolk, UK
Burial: 14 March 1879 East Rudham, Norfolk, UK
By Mary
Henry Belton 1823-1900
John Belton 1825-1828
Elizabeth Belton 1828-a1851
John Belton 1830-a1881
By Ellen
Esther Belton c1836-a1841
Mary Ann Belton 1837-a1856
William Belton 1843-1918 - grandson? - see notes
Sarah Ann Belton 1848-1848
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812 for Benjamin Belton baptised 6 October 1799 at Tattersett, parents Henry and Mary (sic) Belton. "Baptized 1799 [...] Benjamin Son of Henry & Phillis Belton Octr 6th".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for Benjamin Belton baptised 6 October 1799 at Tattersett, parents Henry and Phillis Belton. "Baptized 1799 [...] Benjamin Son of Henry & Phillis Belton Octr 6th".
Entry in Pallot's Marriage Index for England: 1780 - 1837 for Benjamin Belton and Mary Goodbody on 24 June 1823 in East Rudham "Female East Rudham Nofk 8 Benjamin Belton & Mary Goodbody 24 June 1823" and another for Benjn Belton and Mary Goodbody in 1823 in West (sic - in the index, East on the original) Rudham.
Entry in the Norfolk Transcription Archive for the marriage of Benjamin Belton and Mary Goodbody in East Rudham, Docking in 1823
Entry in Ancestry Phillimores Marriage Register Volume 8 for Benjamin Belton and Mary Goodbody on 24 June 1823 in East Rudham.
Entry in Ancestry England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780-1837 for Benjn Belton and Mary Goodbody in 1823 in West (sic) Rudham "Belton Benjn - Mary Goodbody 1823 E Rudham Norf 8".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Bishop's Transcripts, 1579-1935 for the marriage of Benjamin Belton and Mary Goorb... on 24 June 1823 in East Rudham, Norfolk.
Entry in East Rudham Marriages for Benjamin Belton on 23 June 1823.
Two entries in the IGI for the marriage of Benjamin Bellon and Mary Goorb, and for Benjamin Belton and Mary Goodbody, both on 24 June 1823 in East Rudham, Norfolk. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Transcripts of Church of England Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1600-1935 for Benjamin Belton and Mary Gorobery (sic) on 24 June 1823 at East Rudham. "Page 19? Marriages solemnized in the Parish of East Rudham in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1823. Benjamin Belton of this Parifh and Mary Goodbody?, Spinster of this Parifh were married in this Church by Banns with the Confent of [blank] this twenty fourth Day of June in the Year One Thoufand eight hundres and twenty three. [both made their marks] In the Prefence of us Charles Wright [made his mark] Sarah Belton [made her mark] No. 55".
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for Benjamin Belton and Mary Goodbody on 24 June 1823 at East Rudham. "Page 19 Marriages folemnized in the Parifh of East Rudham in the County of Norfolk in the Year 1823. Benjamin Belton of this Parifh and Mary Goodbody?, Spinster of this Parifh were married in this Church by Banns with the Confent of [blank] this twenty fourth Day of June in the Year One Thoufand eight hundres and twenty three. [both made their marks] In the Prefence of us Charles Wright [made his mark] Sarah Belton [made her mark] No. 55".
His four children were baptised in East Rudham from 1823 to 1830.
His wife, Mary, died in East Rudham in 1832.
In the 1841 census as Benyn Belton aged 35 (rounded down to the nearest multiple of 5), born in Norfolk, employed as a labourer and living with Easter, John Belton, and Maryanne (children?) and Ellen Simmonds aged 25 in East Rudham, Norfolk. Ellen Simmonds aged 25 is given at the same address. Unfortunately there are no relationships given so it is not clear who the children are. John is certainly his son from his first wife but Easter and Maryanne were apparently born after Mary's death and before his second marriage. They could be the children of Benjamin and Ellen. I cannot find a later reference to Easter (who I assume was Esther).
Marriage of Benjamin Belton and Ellen Simmons in FreeBMD in July-September 1849 in Docking (13 97).
Entry in the Norfolk Transcription Archive for the marriage of Benjamin Belton, a widower aged 53, and Ellen Simmons aged 38 in September 1849 in East Rudham, Docking.
Marriage of Benjamin Belton aged 53, father Henry Belton, and Ellen Simmons in the IGI on 18 September 1849 in East Rudham, Norfolk. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Benjamin Belton and Ellen Simmons on 2[sic] September 1849 in East Rudham, Norfolk. This may have been the first banns.
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of Benjamin Belton aged 53 and Ellen Timmons (sic) on 18 September 1849 in East Rudham. "Page 30 1849 Marriage solemnized in the Parish of East Rudham in the County of Norfolk. [No.] 59 Septr 18th Benjamin Belton [aged] 53, [a] Widower [and] Labourer [of] East Rudham, [father] Henry Belton, [a] Labourer, [and] Ellen Simmons [aged] 38. [a] Spinster [of] East Rudham, [father] Thos Simmons, [a] Labourer. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England [both made their marks]".
In the 1851 census as Benjamin Belton aged 50, born in Tattersett, Norfolk, employed as an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife Ellen, two sons (John and William) and daughter (Mary Ann) at East Rudham. I believe that William was his grandson rather than son - on the copy of entry of birth of William Belton on 5 October 1843 at South Creeke it states his father was Henry Belton, a labourer, and mother Rhoda Belton nee Tuck. However on the copy of the entry of marriage it states his father was Benjamin Belton, a labourer. On the subsequent censuses William's place of birth is given as East Rudham.
In the 1861 census as Benjamin Belton, aged 55 (on the original although it is at least 5 years out), born in Gatesend, Norfolk, employed as a rat catcher, and living on his own in the Street at the back of the Crown, East Rudham. Gatesend was an alternative name for Tattersett. His wife Ellen was living in as a servant with Elizabeth Drage and family in Bagthorpe Road, East Rudham.
In the 1871 census as Benjamin Belton aged 76, born in Galesend (sic - in the index, correct on the original), employed as a rat catcher and living with his wife (Ellen) at The Anchorage, East Rudham, Norfolk.
Death of Benjamin Belton in FreeBMD in January-March 1879 aged 80 in Docking (4b 247).
Entry in East Rudham Deaths for Benjamin Belton on 14 March 1878 (sic).
Entry in Ancestry Norfolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1995 for Benjamin Belton buried on 14 March 1879 aged 80 in East Rudham. "Page 26 Burials in the Parish of East Rudham in the County of Norfolk in the Tear 1879 [...] 1879 Benjamin Belton No. 203 [of] East Rudham [on] 14 March [aged] 80 years".
Entry in Ancestry One World Tree for Benjamin Belton born in 1798 in Tattersett, parents Henry and Phillis Belton, his marriage to Mary Goodbody in East Rudham on 24 September 1823, his four children, his marriage to Ellen Simmonds in 1849, his four children, and his death on 14 March 1878 (sic) in East Rudham.
Thirty one entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Benjamin Belton.
East Rudham is 6 miles west of Fakenham on the A148. South Creake is 7 miles NW of East Rudham, Tattersett/Gatesend is 1 mile east from East Rudham on the A148.
Benjamin Belton was Felicity's third great grandfather.
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