Joseph s/o John Armstrong was christened on 9 Nov 1746 at St Mary Carlisle, in Cumberland. He was 25 when he married Mary Aspindale, in the same church on 6 Feb 1771. Five of their children were christened in St Mary’s church of England.
DALSTON GREEN
Joseph would have been abt 35 when he & Mary start appearing 4 miles to the south in the church register from Dalston Green. He was a Fuller of cloth living at Walk Mill (1787) and later Fulling Mill (1789) both in Dalston Green. Joseph probably worked in one of the cotton mills on the Caldew river until at least 1789. A later desciption of the village states that:
“The soil of the surrounding area is mostly “a dry loam, except near Dalston village, where it is gravelly, and is mostly laid down to grass for pasturage and meadow, but all kinds of grain thrive well in every part of this extensive parish. A great part of the arable land lies rather low, inclining gently to the river Caldew, which flows northward, and has upon its well-wooded banks three large cotton mills, an iron forge, a flax mill, and two corn mills, all of which are in Buckhow-bank township, but close to the village of Dalston."
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