Bit thin on the ground in Whittingham
is Richard Mavin of Glanton
buried September 28th 1828 aged 43 years his brother
I believe so, their parents seem to be
Robert Mavin, born c 1752, married 4th May 1783, Whittingham, buried 1833 aged 81
and
Mary Morton, born c 1754, married 1783, died 11 Mar 1802, buried 13 Mar 1802, aged 48, Whittingham
I have found the following likely children for Robert and Mary:
John Mavin (as in first post) 1783-?
Richard Mavin 1785-1828
Elizabeth Mavin 1786 -?
Margery Mavin 1788 -?
Robert Mavin, 1790-?
George Mavin, 1792-1845
William Mavin 1794-?
Thomas Mavin 1798-? - there is a snippet in the Durham County Advertiser 5 Dec 1834, in the death announcements 'In America, 30th ult., much respected, Mr Thomas Mavin formerly of Glanton, Northumberland' which I have saved in the 'possibles' category for him, but its rather short of detail!
There is an Administration bond for George Mavin, which does have an error on his year of death - down as 1846 so looks like his admin was done before he died:-) and that says admin was granted to George Mavin (son of the John in the first post) who was 'the legal attorney of John Mavin, the natural and lawful brother and one of the next of kin'
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01k9r/That is another pointer, as well as the death cert for John's wife, to indicate he survived her - unless I am misinterpreting it.
Though these people are in my tree and I have been doing this for about 14 years now I am only just getting round to them :-) I did what we all do when I started, went through the IGI finding records filing them away and aiming to get back to Adam before tea time ha ha!
Once I exhausted both the IGI and myself. I decided to start back at the beginning - my daughters who I classed as generation1 (the Mavins listed above are Gen 7). Working on the theory that the available online stuff for the very long dead would still be there (and hopefully would increase by the time I got round to them) I have concentrated on documenting as much as I can for the more recent folk. In hindsight it was a good decision as there were still some people around I could ask questions of.
Its fun now to open folders I haven't touched for years and see what I had as 'possible' records and I am checking them out and adding to them.
Boo