Hi,
I am looking for information on a George Buckton - born 1859, West Auckland and his sons - born across Eston / Skinningrove / Grangemouth presumably as following work in the ironstone mining industry.
I have him in the 1861 census living with grandparents named Holding but with no mother or father present. That is where the trail goes pretty cold. Anyone searching a similar line?
I understand George to later have been married to Isabella Cuthbert of Hinderwell (Yorks) and to have fathered 6, possibly 9 kids.
My great grandfather is George's 2nd born - Stephen who later married a Martha Maxwell (d. 1976 in Redcar). Himself the father of another Stephen, I understood the older Stephen to have died in 1937 in a mine / pit related accident. His son, my grandfather died in 1989 in south Manchester having left the NE in 1937, never to return as family legend goes.
There is even talk of the younger Stephen having 'helped' his father on his way that day in 1937 after years of abuse. Stephen junior that time would be 19 or 20.
Unfortunately I can find next to no trace of the older Stephen's siblings - William Danby, James Samuel, George, Ada Annie, Florence, (and possibly Jane Elizabeth, Margaret Helen and Harry) after 1901 and would love to hear anything on these names if anyone knows anything.
Being over in Japan for the past 18 years, it isn't easy to get along to churches and records offices as you may imagine.
Best.
MB
