Whittingham Monumental Inscriptions

[Tickettyboo]

Does anyone have access to these (pre1851)
I can see that NDFHS have them (along with other parishes) which I would happily buy but they only seem to come in microfiche format and I have no way of reading that - unless anyone can tell me of a method of scanning them via a home scanner/printer? Buying specialist equipment is not in the budget.

I am looking for MAVIN entries in Whittingham, if they exist.
I have (yet another) John Mavin, baptised 1783, married 1809, squad of children last known one baptised 1821. John was a Joiner and up to 1821 (last definite sighting) recorded on records as living in Glanton.
Can't locate him on the 1841 census, can't find a death registration or burial record for him. Though I try not to make assumptions, I think I'd be fairly safe in saying he is likely to have shuffled off his mortal coil by now.

His wife, Margaret (nee Smith) appears on the 1841 census in Glanton with her daughter, Mary. She died in 1845 at Glanton and was buried at Whittingham. I now have her death cert which says she was the 'wife' of John Mavin, joiner and her death was registered by her youngest (known) son, Joseph Robert Mavin. As it doesn't say 'widow of' then its likely he survived her - but not for this long :-)

The MI's are a possible straw to clutch at in case there is some sort of reference to him or maybe more info about his family which may , or may not, indirectly lead me to when he died.

Boo

[Radcliff]

Bit thin on the ground in Whittingham
is Richard Mavin of Glanton
buried September 28th 1828 aged 43 years his brother

[Tickettyboo]

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

[SelDen]

Hi Boo

The NDFHS may be able to send you the records in another format - I think I enquired about this a few years ago. You could flick an email to them to ask anyway.

I was looking at David Dippie Dixon's "Whittingham Vale" to see if there were any Mavins mentioned. So far have only come across a mention of Richard Mavin in a list of village tenants in Whittingham in 1821 - page 171.

Suspect this v interesting book is on-line if you google (apologies if you have already gone through this).

[Tickettyboo]

Hi Boo

The NDFHS may be able to send you the records in another format - I think I enquired about this a few years ago. You could flick an email to them to ask anyway.

I was looking at David Dippie Dixon's "Whittingham Vale" to see if there were any Mavins mentioned. So far have only come across a mention of Richard Mavin in a list of village tenants in Whittingham in 1821 - page 171.

Suspect this v interesting book is on-line if you google (apologies if you have already gone through this).

Thanks, I do have a .pdf copy, when I looked for it a few years ago it was not available for download here, but was in the US so got it via a friend over there.
I'll drop the NDFHS an email later and see what they say.

Boo

[Radcliff]

worth investigating Boo

John Mavin
carpenter/joiner
death recorded April 1850
Loudon CO
State,VA
Birth England
age 70
died of old age

[Radcliff]

Elizabeth Hornsby
spouse George
father Robert Mavin mother Mary
birthplace Wittingham
death/burial 23rd May 1854
Mavins Hill,Loudoun ,Virginia

[Tickettyboo]

Oh Radcliffe that is GOOD!! Thank you so much:-) I may have got there eventually but am very grateful for the super help!

I had got (last night) as far as finding a quite possible passenger list for the Thomas Mavin who was reported to have died in 'America' in 1834.

Sailed from Liverpool to New York on the Tamemeno, arriving 1 Aug 1834 - Thomas Mavin, age 36 so bless him he can't have been there long when he died in November. The passengers listed just below him were Margery Mavin, age 46 (matches with his sister that I have the baptism for) and the icing on the cake is that the next two listed are a George Hornby, age 46 and Elizabeth Hornby, age 48 so lots of boxes ticked there to make it likely.

I can see the death record for Elizabeth on Family Search but am struggling to find the death record for John Mavin, please could you point me to where you found it?

This has been a good day for my family history. I spent a happy few hours in an LDS FHC today and have oodles of records now for this family from the digitised images for Northumberland that can't be accessed from home (unless you are a church member or belong to an authorised organisation). Bliss!

thanks again RootsChatters expertise and willingness to help  is a great resource.

Boo

[Radcliff]

It's about time I did something for you Boo,
you are a star always willing to help others out ,xxx
oh by the way my name is actually Gillian


USA Federal census mortality  records is where I found John's death
Margaret Hornsby popped up later on ancestry
Margaret Mavins burial is on US find a Grave