James Farrington in Winwick and Sawtry

[AlexStewart]

Thank you to Steerpike for that useful note about a CD on Winwick records.
I have not found the birth or burial of James Farrington who married Susannah Clarke on 25th June, 1804 in Winwick, Huntingdonshire. I noticed recently that the two witnesses to the marriage ceremony were Simon Peake and Robert Hilson. The Peake family are well represented on the register because of their baptisms and marriages, but chiefly because John Peake was the parish clerk.
Robert Hilson, however, did not appear elsewhere and is more significant as a possible friend of James Farrington. I noticed Robert Hilson was connected to Sawtry, St Judith, and another Robert Hilson, possibly his father was born in Roxburghshire.
Can anyone throw any light on the Hilson family in Sawtry, Huntingdonshire? Is Robert Hilson a clue to the origin of James Farrington?
Alex

[steerpike]

I have just looked at our transcription of the burial registers still held in Winwick church (1813 - 2000) and there are several Farrington/ Farringdon burials, the last in 1990.
I will log those up to 1924 in case they are of use.
1) John Farrington bur 9 Apr 182 aged 12 weeks
2) Susan Farringdon bur 22 Feb 1863 aged 85.
3) Frederick Farringdon bur 14 Aug 1864 aged 1y 9m
4) Ann Rebecca Farrington bur 4 May 1881 aged 26
5) Susan Farringdon bur 12 Apr 1884 aged 25 days
6) Mary Farrington bur 2 Dec 1884 aged 68
7) James bur 10 Aug 1894 aged 83
Elizabeth Ellen bur 17 May 1898 aged 14
9) Rebecca bur 4 Apr 1900 aged 79
10) Mabel Elizabeth bur 28 Apr 1900 aged 2m
11) Vincent Charles bur 1 Apr 1908 aged 1
12) Louisa bur 13 Oct 1921 aged 46
13) Thomas of Oundle bur 13 Nov 1922 aged 71
14 Sarah Elizabeth bur 12 Jan 1924 aged 66.

No Hilsons noted but in Huntingdon Marriage Index they seem to be around Stow Longa, Upton, Steeple Gidding and Catworth, all within a few miles of Winwick. Note that Winwick is on the border with Northants - in fact until quite recently several acres were in that county.

Best wishes,
Steerpike

[AlexStewart]

Thank you, Steerpike, for the list of burials. I wonder if someone else can throw any light on Robert Hilson who was a witness on 25th June, 1804 in Winwick to the marriage of James Farrington and Susannah Clarke of Sawtry.
Was Robert Hilson also from Sawtry? Or did he come from a nearby parish as Steerpike suggests may be a possibility as the name Hilson appears in other Huntingdon villages in the 1700s and later.
Alex

[AlexStewart]

I am answering one of my own questions and asking another. I discovered today in the new Huntingdon Record Office in the excellent 2008 edition of the BTs of baptisms, marriages and burials, the date of the burial of James Farrington in Winwick. It was on 12 December, 1835. The helpful Rector added the number 61, which puts his birth most likely in the year 1774. I am still unable to find the parish of his birth. Does anyone have access to parishes around Winwick and Sawtry? Is there any evidence of the birth or baptism of a James Farrington around 1774? He may, of course, have come to Huntingdonshire from another part of the country.
Alex

[bedfordshire boy]

Many Hunts parishes are only available at Hunts Records Office, which is where you were today!

The only burial on the NBI in that part of Hunts was Mary Ann Farrington at Sawtry on 30 Dec 1804, with no marriages at all. Does the 1804 burial entry give any clues as to whether she might be connected to James?

Which I suppose brings us back to the Gr Gransden James Farrington, of whom there is no trace in burials or marriages in Hunts, nor does he appear in censuses. But of course Winwick is on the county boundary with Northants, so it's possible he was from that county.

David

[AlexStewart]

Yes, the burial record for Mary Ann Farrington for 30 Dec 1804, who therefore only lived for a few weeks, does state clearly that she was the daughter of James and Susannah.
There is a burial of Elizabeth Paddington on 15 April, 1808 in the same Sawtry register, who is also recorded as the daughter of James and Susannah. That could well be a mistake for Farrington.  Just afterwards is written: Sent to visitation.
However, I do not see how this helps to find the birth of the father. He was most probably born in 1774 as he died in Winwick in 1835 aged 61, but he is not recorded as born in Sawtry or Winwick.
He may well have come from another county. I note that a Samuel Farrington born in Haslington, Cheshire, married Ann Mercer in 1845 in Ringstead, Northants, and they ran the Swan Inn at Thrapston. It may be that James Farrington was born in another county  in 1774. He may also have been born in a parish near Sawtry or Winwick.
I am looking at any clues about connections with surrounding areas. For example, his daughter Mary born in Sawtry in 1814 married Samuel Beasley and they lived at Crowland.
Any other ideas will be much appreciated.
Alex

[james farrington]

hi alex

james farrington
birth 1785 in sawtry
death 1841 in winwick  age 56
spouse susanna clarke
son  james farrington  birth 1813


james is my great great great great grandad.

james farrington

[AlexStewart]

James
I am delighted to read your message. Please write again privately to
my own address and let me know what your line is back to James Farrington.
AS

[AlexStewart]

hi alex

james farrington
birth 1785 in sawtry
death 1841 in winwick  age 56
spouse susanna clarke
son  james farrington  birth 1813


james is my great great great great grandad.

James
How have you arrived at those dates? According to the Winwick register he died in
1835 at the age of 61 which would put his birth in 1774?
AS

james farrington