John Flint

1790 - 1856

John was born in Tideswell in 1790, the eldest son of Thomas and Hannah (an elder brother Francis had only survived a couple of months), and was baptised at St John the Baptist's there on 3rd March ⁽¹⁾.

He married Ann Fletcher in 1812 ⁽²²⁾, and they had two daughters, Jane in 1813 ⁽²³⁾, and Emmet in 1815 ⁽²⁴⁾, before his wife Ann died, aged just 25, in 1817 ⁽²⁾. His second wife was called Hannah ^(4)(17), and they may have married in 1818 in Manchester where he had gone to work ⁽³⁾. Their first child Ann was born in 1819 ⁽⁴⁾, followed by Amelia in 1823 ⁽⁵⁾, and Philip in 1826 ⁽⁶⁾. Next they had twins, Margaret and George in 1829 ⁽⁷⁾, but unfortunately George only lived for a couple of months ⁽⁸⁾. Their youngest son Matthew was born in 1831 ⁽⁹⁾, and then finally there was daughter Matilda in 1832 ⁽¹⁰⁾. Matilda only lived to the age of two though, dying in a smallpox outbreak at the end of 1834 ⁽¹¹⁾.

John lived in Tideswell for most, if not all, of this time ⁽¹²⁾, but had moved to Cressbrook by 1841, where he was living with his wife and children and 5 lodgers ⁽¹³⁾. His mother died in December 1843 ⁽¹⁴⁾, then on the death of his father a couple of months later ⁽¹⁵⁾, John was left a house in Tideswell, on condition that he paid off the remainder of the mortgage (£10), and also a small amount of farmland with a shippen on it, on condition that he paid one pound a year, for five years, to his sister Charlotte ⁽¹⁶⁾. The house was already rented out, and it appears that John simply continued with this arrangement as he never left Cressbrook, and the tennant, Thomas Pickford, continued to live in the property.

John died of cancer aged 66, on 16th August 1856 in Cressbrook ⁽¹⁸⁾, and was buried in Tideswell two days later ⁽¹⁹⁾. His wife Hannah survived him by almost 15 years ^(20)(21). John had worked as a weaver all his life ^{(4)(13)(17)(18)}.

• Jane was born in Tideswell in 1813. She had an illegitimate son James in 1831, before marrying Thomas Smith the following year. They initially stayed in Tideswell, where they had (at least) five children - Mary in 1835, John in 1836, Ann in 1839, Elizabeth in 1847, and Margaret in 1851. They then moved just down the road to Cressbrook, where their next daughter Jane was born. Sometime after this they moved to Clayton in Lancashire, where there last known son, George, was born. Within a couple of years they moved back to Litton, where they stayed until the early 1870s, when they again headed back to Lancashire. Her husband died in Newton Heath in 1873, and Jane then became a housekeeper in Pendleton. She died in 1886, aged 72.
• Emmet was born in Tideswell in 1815. She married William Harrison in 1836, and they had at least three children - Thomas in about 1839, John in about 1843, and Matilda in about 1850. They moved to Clayton in Lancashire in the 1870s, where her husband died soon afterwards. Emmet lived there until her death sometime after 1891.
• Ann was born in 1819 in Tideswell, and moved to Cressbrook with her parents sometime around the late 1830s, where she worked as a weaver. She married Edward Heathcote from Longstone on Christmas Day 1849. They may possibly have had a daughter Hannah in 1850 who only lived for 3 months. They had no other children. They initially lived with her parents in Cressbrook, and after their death set up home on their own. She lived in Cressbrook until her death in 1888.
• Amelia has her own page
• Philip Heaton was born in Tideswell in 1826, but moved to Cressbrook with his parents around the late 1830s, where he worked as a weaver. He married Hannah Jackson, also of Cressbrook, in 1847. They had two children, John and Martha, before Hannah died in 1855. The following year, Philip married his widow's older sister Jane Jackson, and they had four children - Hannah Margaret, Mary Ann, Jane Ellen and Matilda. he moved to Tideswell in the late 1850s. Some time in the 1860s Philip went from being a simple weaver, to running a weaving business which employed 31 people, but its unknown whether he started this himself, bought it, or was an employed manager. Whichever, he changed jobs again in the 1870s, becoming an auctioneer. His second wife Jane died in 1882. In 1884 he married for a third time. This time to Sarah Ann Yates, a widow, originally from Ashford, who was living in Manchester. He changed jobs again sometime in the 1890s, bocoming a farmer. He died aged 84 in 1911.
• Margaret was born in 1829, probably in Tideswell. She moved to Cressbrook with her family in the late 1830s, where she worked as a cotton weaver. In 1854 she married John Robinson, a lead miner from Wardlow, and they set up home there. They had five children, Mary Jane, Hannah, Sarah Ann, John Robert & Martha. The eldest three of these, born before 1861 were living with her widowed mother, rather than with with John and Margaret at the time of the 1861 census, and by the 1871 census they were all living elsewhere as live-in domestic servants. However the youngest two were with John and Margaret in 1871. Her husband died sometime between 1881 and 1891, and Margaret went to live in Cheetham in Lancashire where she was initially described as a cowkeeper, but then later as a confectioner baker. She was still alive in 1901. Nothing more is known of her.
• George was the twin brother of Margaret, born in 1829. He only lived for about two months.
• Matthew was born in Tideswell in 1831. He wasn't with his parents in 1841, but nor has he been found anywhere else, and there is no record of a burial in Tideswell. There were a number of Matthew Flints of similar age in and around Tideswell at the time so I can't be certain, but he may be the one who married Eliza Joyce there in 1859, and had a son John in 1861 who only lived for a week..
• Matilda was born in Tideswell in 1832. She died of smallpox during an outbreak at the end of 1834.

1. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   [Bapts 1790]
   May
   2 John, son of Thos & Jane Flint       Tideswell
2. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
   

   Name	Abode	When buried	Age
   Ann Wife of John Flint	Tideswell	Augst 29th [1817]	yrs 25

3. The only known marriage between a John Flint and a Hannah found between the death of his first wife and the birth of his eldest child is in Manchester. The entry reads:
   19 October 1818 Marriage at The Collegiate Church Manchester By Banns.
   John Flint, Widower, of this Parish of Manchester, Weaver
   Hannah Bing, of this Parish of Manchester, Widow
   John Flint Signed his name
   Hannah Bing X
   In the Presence of Wm Hillkirk, John Beard
   I believe this is almost certainly the marriage of this John Flint and Hannah, for a number of reasons. Many other members of the Flint family (cousins and siblings of John) temporarily moved to Manchester for work in the early 1800s, so he could easily have done too. John's younger brother Matthew married in the same church. The description of the John Flint who married as a widowed weaver fits well. Hannah states in later censuses that she was born in Lancashire, so this would be in the right sort of area for her too.
   Given that the Hannah married in Manchester was a widow with the surname Bing, and that John and Hannah of Tideswell had a son Philip with the middle name Eaton/Heaton, I could be convinced that this were the correct marriage if I could find the burial of Hannah Bing's husband to establish his first name, then find a marriage between him and a Hannah Heaton. As yet I've been unable to do this.
4. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
   

   When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
   		Christian	Surname
   June 5th [1819]	Ann Daugr of	John & Hannah	Flint	Tideswell	Weaver

5. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following baptism entry :
   

   When baptised	Childs Christian Name	Parents Christian Name	Parents Surname	Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
   May 20th [1823]	Amelia Daugr of	John & Hannah	Flint	Tideswell	Weaver

6. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
   

   When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
   		Christian	Surname
   Oct 21st [1826]	Philip Eaton	John & Hanh	Flint	Tideswell	Weaver

7. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
   

   When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
   		Christian	Surname
   May 12th [1829]	Margaret & George twin children of	John & Hannah	Flint	Tideswell	Weaver

8. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
   

   Name	Abode	When buried	Age
   George, son of John & Hannah Flint	Tideswell	July 20th [1829]	Weeks 10

9. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
   

   When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
   		Christian	Surname
   Octr 21st [1831]	Matthew son of	John & Hannah	Flint	Tideswell	Weaver

10. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
    

    When baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents Name		Abode	Quality, Trade or Profession
    		Christian	Surname
    June 4th [1832]	Matilda Daugr of	John & Hannah	Flint	Tideswell	Weaver

11. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell includes the entry:
    

    Name	Abode	When buried	Age
    Matilda Daugr of John & Hannah Flint	Tideswell	Novr 2nd [1834]	yrs 2

    From 2nd October to 28th December 1834, of the 36 burials listed in the registers of St John the Baptsist's, 26 of them were children under 6 who are indicated as having died of smallpox.
12. The only reason to believe that John may have lived somewhere other than Tideswell around 1829 is that in later censuses, his daughter Margaret gives various place of birth. In the 1851 census, she is said to have been born in Litton, although this is only as a "do" to the entry above her. In 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 she is said to have been born in Tideswell. In 1901 she is said to have been born in Wardlow. As none of her siblings ever claim to have been born anywhere other than Tideswell, and as her baptism entry in the Tideswell Parish Register doesn't state a location at all (thus implying Tideswell), I think the most likely scenario is that she was indeed born in Tideswell, but the 1851 and 1901 censuses give the wrong place of birth.
13. Census of 7th June 1841 reads:
    Place: Cressbrook
    

    John Flint	45	Cotton Weaver	y
    Hannah do	45		y
    Ann Flint	20	Cotton Weaver	y
    Amelia Flint	15	do	y
    Philip Flint	15	do	y
    Margaret Flint	13	do	y
    Line marking seperate household in same house
    William Harrison	25	do	y
    Emma do	25	do	y
    Thomas do	1		y
    Susan Farmer	25	Cotton Weaver	N
    Charlotte Walton	15	do	N

14. Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

    When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
    Twelfth of december 1843 at Tideswell	Jane Flint	Female	79 years	Wife of Thomas Flint Weaver	Decay of nature	George Flint, present at the death, Tideswell	Thirteenth of december 1843

15. Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

    When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
    Eighth of Febuary 1844 at Tideswell	Thomas Flint	Male	74 years	Weaver. Husband of the late Jane Flint	Decay of nature	The mark of Jane Smith, present at the death, Tideswell	Eleventh of February 1844

16. Thomas Flint's will (page 1, page 2, page 3) (ref: B/C/11/Thomas Flint, Tideswell, 1844 @ LRO) reads:
    This is the last Will and testament of me Thomas Flint of
    Tideswell in the County of Derby Farmer made and published as follows -
    First I order and direct that all my just debts funeral expenses and the charges
    of proving this my Will be paid and satisfied by my Trustees and Executors
    hereinafter named out of my personal Estate and Effects with all convenient speed
    after my decease and subject thereto I dispose of my property as follows (that is to
    say) I give and bequeath all and singular my Household Goods and Furniture
    Plate linen China Glass Books Implements and Utensils of Household Stock in
    Trade and Farming Implements ready money and securites for money, Book and
    other debts and all other my Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and
    wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever to my dear daughter Caroline Flint
    for and during the term of her natural life and from and immediately after her
    decease then I Give and bequeath the same to her Son my Grandson George
    Flint his Executors Administrators and assigns for ever and to and for no other
    use intent or purpose whatsoever Subject nevertheless that my said daughter
    Caroline shall give All the Weaving Looms , situate in the Shop Chamber and one
    pair of Bedsteads unto my daughter Charlotte Robinson Wife of John Robinson of
    Tideswell aforesaid Weaver and I hereby order and direct that her receipt alone shall
    be a sufficient discharge for the same, but the same not to be removed until a
    twelvemonth and a day after my decease. And whereas I am well entitled to and
    interested in a certain plot piece or parcel of Land or Ground situate lying and being at the
    Townhead in Tideswell aforesaid with three several messuages dwelling houses or Cottages
    thereon erected And also a plot piece or parcel of Land or Ground lying near thereto and a
    Builing or Shippen thereon also erected which said plots pieces or parcels of Land or Ground
    Messuages Dwellinghouses or Cottages and Building or Shippen I dispose of in manner
    and form following and subject to such trusts and payments or charges as hereinafter
    are particularly expressed and declared of and concerning the same that is to say I
    give devise and bequeath All that Messuage dwellinghouse or Cottage with the land on
    which it stands situate at the Townhead aforesaid and adjoining to one Mr Stanfield's property
    and now used as a Weaving Shop and the Kitchen adjoining the same and the land on
    which it is erected and the use of a Road at the end of a House occupied by Thomas Pickford
    Together with as much land as is considered sufficient to erect a privy at the South end of
    my Garden to my son Matthew Flint of Tideswell aforesaid Weaver his heirs and Assigns
    for ever Subject nevertheless to the payment of the sum of Ten pounds of lawful
    money towards liquidating or paying the debt or sum of Thirty pounds which I have
    borrowed from the Steward and Trustees of the Litton Sick Society and I hereby charge the
    same premises with the payment of the said sum of Ten pounds but it is my will
    and mind that my said Son matthew Flint shall not enter into possession of
    the property contained in this last bequest until a twelvemonth and a day after
    my decease. And I give devise and bequeath all that other messuage
    dwellinghouse or Cottage adjoining to the said last mentioned House and which I live now
    live in together with the land on which it stands to my said daugter Caroline Flint
    for the term of her natural life and at her decease I give devise and bequeath the
    same unto my Grandson George Flint his heirs and assigns for ever Subject nevertheless
    to the payment of the like sum of ten pounds by my said daughter Caroline Flint for
    and towards liquidating or paying the said sum of Thirty pounds borrowed by me from the
    Steward and Trustees of the Litton Sick Society as aforesaid And it is my Will and mind
    that my Grandson George Flint shall be entitled to live in the said House during the life
    of my said daughter Caroline if he shall think proper so to do I also give and
    bequeath to my said daughter Caroline and to my said Grandson George Flint the use
    and privilege of a Road and privy situate at the East end of hte House occupied by
    Thomas Pickford their heirs and assigns for ever and I hereby vharge the property
    contained in this last bequest with the payment of the said Ten pounds. And
    I give devise and bequeath all that other or third Messuage Dwellinghouse or
    Cottage adjoining to the said last mentioned Messuage Dwellinghouse or Cottage and
    now in the occupation of one Thomas Pickford to my Son John Flint of Cressbrook
    in the said parish of Tideswell Weaver his heirs and Assigns for ever Subject
    nevertheless to the payment of the like sum of Ten pounds for and towards
    liquidating or paying the said sum of Thirty pounds borrowed by me from the
    Steward and Trustees of the Litton Sick Society as aforesaid and I hereby charge
    the said premises with the payment thereof And I give devise and bequeath
    All that other plot piece or parcel of Land or Ground and the Building or
    Shippen thereon erected with their appurtenances unto my said Son John Flint his
    heirs and assigns for ever Subject nevertheless to the payment of the sum of
    Five pounds to be paid by equal Installments, namely, the first Installment of
    Twenty shillings to be paid at my decease and the remainder to be paid by
    Installments of Twenty shillings yearly and every year to my said daughter
    Charlotte Robinson and I hereby charge the same premises with the payment
    therof and do hereby order and direct that her receipt alone shall be a sufficient
    discharge for the same, but it is my Will and mind that the property contained
    in the last bequest shall not come into the possession of my said son John
    Flint until a twelve month and a day after my decease And I hereby
    nominate constitute and appoint my Grandson George Flint and mt friend
    Francis Blackwell of Cressbrook Executors and Trustees of this my last will
    and Testament and I order and declare that they shall and may pay and
    reimburse themselves or himself all such costs charges and Expenses as
    they or either of them shall or may bear pay sustain or be put unto in or about
    the Execution of the trusts of this my Will or in any matter or thing relating
    thereto out of the monies or effects which shall come to their Hands and possession
    before any other payment or distribution thereof and I direct and declare that they
    shall not be answerable or accountable for any Loss Misapplication or
    Nonapplication thereof unless such loss shall happen or be occassioned by his or
    their wilful neglect or default And lastly I hereby revoke and make void all
    and every formaer or other Will or Wills by me at any time heretofore made and
    do declare this to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I Thomas
    Flint the Testatot have to the first and second Sheets hereof set my hand and to
    the third and last Sheet my Hand and Seal this second day of February in the year
    of out Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty four.
                       the Mark and Seal of
                                   +
                         Thomas Flint
    Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Testator
    Thomas Flint as and for his last will and testament in the
    presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the
    presence of each other have hereunto set and subscribed our
    Names as Witnesses to the due Execution hereof the Testator
    not being able to write he set his mark the Same having
    been fully explained to him
                Thomas Walker
                Alexander Flint
                Philip Heaton Flint
17. Census of 30th March 1851 reads:
    Place: Cressbrook
    

    John Flint	Head	Mar	60	Power Loom Weaver Cotton & Wool	[Derbyshe], [Tideswell]
    Hannah Do	Wife	Mar	60	Weaver's wife at home	Lancashshe, Moseley
    Edward Heathcote	Son in law	Mar	27	Ag lab	Derbyshe, Longstone
    Ann Do	Daur	Mar	31	Power Loom Weaver (Cotton & Wool)	Do, Tideswell
    Amelia Bramwell	Daur	Mar	27	Do                     Do	Do, Do
    Nancy Do	G. Daur		7	Scholar	Do, Litton
    Margaret Flint	Daur	U	21	Power Loom Weaver (Cotton & Wool)	Do, Do
    Susan Farmer	Lodger	U	35	Do                     Do	Middlesex, London

18. Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

    When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
    Sixteenth August 1856 Cressbrook, Litton	John Flint	Male	66 years	Hand Loom Cotton Weaver	Cancer on the face, Not Certified	Philip Heaton Flint present at the death Cressbrook, Litton	Seventeenth August 1856

19. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following burial entry :
    

    Name	Abode	When buried	Age
    John Flint	Cressbrook	August 18 [1856]	66

20. Death Certificate from Registration District of Bakewell states:

    When and where died	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
    Eleventh May 1871, Cressbrook, Litton	Hannah Flint	Female	81 years	Widow of John Flint, a handloom weaver	Old Age, Not Certified	P.H. Flint. In attendance, Tideswell	Thirteenth May 1871

21. Parish Register of St John the Baptist's, Tideswell contains the following burial entry :
    

    Name	Abode	When buried	Age
    Hannah Flint	Cressbrook Died May 11th	May 14th [1871]	81 years

22. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell (Val Neal's transcript) includes an entry for the marriage of John Flint of Tideswell, weaver, and Ann Fletcher of Tideswell, on 25/5/1812. I still need to confirm this with the original.
23. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell (Val Neal's transcript) includes an entry for the baptism of Jane, daughter pf John Flint, weaver, and Ann his wife, on 6/6/1813. I still need to confirm this with the original.
24. Parish Register of St John the Baptist, Tideswell (Val Neal's transcript) includes an entry for the baptism of Emmet, daughter pf John Flint, weaver, and Ann his wife, on 6/11/1815. I still need to confirm this with the original.