Tallentire - Weardale

[DCH1954]

Hi, I’m descended from Anthony Tallentire 1714-1780 and Elizabeth Brumwell 1722-1775 but am struggling with the Tallentires in particular.  I can’t find a baptism for Anthony but in the marriage bond it states he’s from Stanhope parish and Elizabeth is from Gateshead.  They married at Gateshead but the children were baptised at Stanhope with my 4x great grandmother (Jane Tallentire 1761-1820) being baptised at St John’s Chapel (a chapel of ease for Stanhope so the others may have been baptised there too).  Anthony’s burial at St Johns Chapel states he lived at Westgate.  Anthony and Elizabeth had seven children; Anne, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Francis, Jane, John and Mary.

Any suggestions will be gratefully received
Clive

[trish1120]

Have you looked at Northumberland as a possible pob for Anthony?
Or even Cumberland as the surname seems to occur there.

[AlanBoyd]

Nothing directly relevant, but just in case you don’t have these:

Marriage Bond
14 Jan 1744 Thomas Emerson (of Stanhope, age 30, gentleman) obtained a licence to marry Ann Moses (of Hamsterley, age 23), directed to Stanhope or Hamsterley
Surety: Anthony Tallentire, gentleman, of Stanhope

Marriage, Stanhope, St. Thomas the Apostle
21 May 1761 John Philipson married Frances Brumwell
Witnesses: Anthony Tallentire; George Brumwell

Marriages, Stanhope, St. Thomas the Apostle
21 Dec 1767 Elisha Teasdale married Elizabeth Wallis
Witnesses: Anthony Tallentire; Mark Bainbridge

[AlanBoyd]

13 November 1756: Newcastle Courant

To be LETT, against the 12th of May next,

A Farm at East-gate, in the Parish of Stanhope, in the County of Durham, now in the Possession of Cuthbert Evans – Enquire of Mr Thomas Davison, Attorney at Law, in Pilgrim-Street, Newcastle; or Mr William Harrison, at Southwich, near Sunderland: Mr Anthony Tallentire, School-master, at West-gate, in Weardale, will shew the Premises.

[This will be but once more advertised. ]

[AlanBoyd]

There are baptisms at St John’s Chapel for Anne, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Frances, Jane, and John. Mary not found.

Note that Frances was a daughter (you have Francis). If John was Anthony’s only son, perhaps his father was also John? A tree on Ancestry has his father as John (1690) but I see no evidence. Perhaps this tree is yours and your reasoning is the same as mine?

I see that for his burial (also at St John’s Chapel) he is simply referred to as Mr. Tallentire. He must have been a noteworthy character in the locality.

[DCH1954]

Thanks Alan.  I’d missed the records where he was a witness or the marriage bond. As it happens his wife was a Brumwell so that’d fit in nicely.  The masculine spelling of Francis was via a transcription as I haven’t seen a PR for that one.  I’m assuming Anthony’s father was a John but have no evidence to support it yet.  I’m also a bit in two minds about Anthony’s standing.  The marriage states he’s a “Gentleman” that newspaper quote you sent suggests he’s a school master but at the burial there is an “m” after the entry which I thought might have indicated a miner although it could just as well indicated master I suppose.  Then again occupations can change with circumstances.  I’ve not been able to find a good fit in Northumberland, Teesdale, or the Cumbrian end of the dale for his baptism as yet,

Thank you very much for all the info and suggestions, I appreciate it tremendously.
Clive

[amondg]

Find a Grave has the burial of Frances (female) as the daughter of William Tallentire buried 1 November 1778

St John's Chapel

Needs more research

[Tickettyboo]

Durham Records Online have a transcript (from the PR) for the burial of
1st Nov 1788  Frances Tallentire of Westgate, daughter of Mr Tallentire

BTs for Stanhope - listed as burials at Chapel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6XBQ-7JT?
her father just listed as Mr Tallentire

so unless there is a surviving headstone or transcribed MI, I am not sure where the Find a Grave record has the reference to 'William' Tallentire from?

Durham Records Online have a transcript (from the PR) for the burial of
Mr Tallentire of Westgate on 28 Apr 1780

but the BT has that as
28 Apr 1780 Anthony Tallentire of Westgate
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6XBQ-HG3?

Boo

[AlanBoyd]

The lower panel in this image is from the burial of Frances Tallentire (Bishops Transcripts), showing the “daughter of” name and transcribed as “Mr” on FindMyPast. The upper panel is from the same page of the register, a few lines up, showing a  “Thos.”

I think it is clear that he was Mr Tallentire on this record and in his own burial record, which points to him being a person of note in the district.