John Cromton

Events

Date of Birth: 26 January 1717/18.

Date of Baptism: 2 February 1717/18.

Place of Baptism: Bolton, Lancashire.

This information appears in the parish register.

Date of Burial: 20 December 1769.

Place of Burial: St Mary the Virgin, Prescot, Lancashire.

The burial is recorded in the parish register.

Relationships

Father: Adam Crompton.

Mother: Alice Heap.

John's father is named in his baptism record. His mother Alice is also named and her surname is recorded in her marriage record. These relationships are confirmed in a 1754 lease.

Spouse: Mary Hardman. Married 2 October 1739 in Bolton.

The marriage is recorded in the parish register. Mary is named in her children’s baptism records. Mary was probably buried 27 November 1796 in St Mary the Virgin, Prescot.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

John Crompton (baptized 24 November 1742 in Bolton)

Thomas Crompton (baptized 30 March 1745 in Bolton)

Ellen Cromton (born 22 November 1747 - buried 5 March 1782 in Prescot) married Lionel Swift 25 November 1771 in Rainford, Lancashire.

Mary Cromton (born 4 December 1749 - buried 24 March 1749/50 in Prescot).

Joseph Cromton (born 6 February 1750/1 - buried 13 October 1827 in Prescot) married Elizabeth Taylor 4 July 1774 in Farnworth (near Prescot), Lancashire.

Mary Cromton (born 31 May 1753).

Evidence

Bolton-le-Moors parish register:

Baptisms February 1717/18

John S. of Adam Crompton of L. Lever born 26 of Jan. 2 [i.e. baptized 2 February]

[Baptisms] Novemb.^r 1742.

John S: of John Crompton Papermak.^r & of Mary his w. of L.L. 24

Bap: March 1744-5

Tho: S. of John Crompton of L. L. Papermak^r & of Mary his wife 30

Baptisms of children (Prescot, St Mary, parish register):

December 1747

Eccleston Ellin daughter of John Cromton farmer & Mary his wife was born the 22^d of November & Christened --- 6

December 1749

Eccleston Mary daughter of John Cromton farmer & Mary his wife was born the 4^th of December & Christen^d, --- 24:

February 1750/1

Eccleston Joseph Son of John Cromton farmer & Mary his wife was born the 6^th of February & Christen^d 24:

June 1753

Eccleston Mary daughter of John Cromton laboror & Mary his wife was born the 31 of May & Christened 11:

Burial of child (Prescot, St Mary, parish register):

March 1749/50

Eccleston Mary daughter of John Cromton farmer was buried --- 24:

A 1754 lease and release (Bolton Archives ZFL/8/1):

Conveyance by lease and release (release missing).

John Crompton of Eccleston near Knowsley, husbandman, eldest son of Adam Crompton of Little Lever, papermaker, deceased, Mary his wife, Adam Crompton of Little Lever, papermaker, son of Adam Crompton, deceased, Hannah his wife, Heap Crompton of Liverpool, sailmaker, son of Adam Crompton, deceased, John Longworth of Bolton, fustianmaker, Ellen his wife, daughter of Adam Crompton, deceased, Ralph Greenhalgh of Bolton. wheelwright, Alice his wife, widow of Adam Crompton, deceased, to Jacob Fletcher of Breightmet, yeoman, and John Fletcher his son - a messuage and tenement in Little Lever.

Date: 8 Apr 1754.

Burial (Prescot, St Mary, parish register):

December 1769

Eccleston: John Crompton Farmer bur:^d the 20

Probate bond

Know all men by these presents, that we Mary Crompton of Eccleston in the Parish of Prescot Widow of John Crompton of Eccleston Husbandman lately deceased & Adam Crompton of Eccleston aforesd Husbandman & William Blacklidge of Eccleston Husbandman in the Parish of Prescot & Diocese of Chester... [21 December 1769]

References

Parish registers of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire (St Peter). Digital images on Ancestry.com accessed 20 May 2020.

Parish registers for Prescot, St Mary’s. Digital images on Ancestry.com [accessed 24 September 2016].