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11. Rebecca HARMSTON (1771-) married Jeremiah COPELAND, at Newton by Folkingham, LIN, twice. Their first marriage in May 1789 was annulled because she not being of age nor having any guardians legally appointed by the will of her father – Rebecca was the only surviving child not to be mentioned in her father's Will of 1786. Rebecca and Jeremiah were legally married in June 1790, and their daughter, Mary was baptised in the October. They went on to have another ten children.
12. Watson HARMSTON (1774-1851) married (1st) Sarah LILLY in 1796 in Waddington. Here, their first five children were born, and the eldest, John became a steward on a packet ship and his wife, Mary was employed as a post mistress in Barrow on Humber, LIN where they lived in the 1850s. Watson and Sarah moved to Canwick, LIN and they produced another four children. By 1825, Sarah had died and Watson had become a victualler and a Freeman of the City of Lincoln (by purchase), employing apprentices. He was also the proprietor of The Black Swan Public House, and adjoining coaching yard and stables in St Benedicts South, Lincoln City. In 1826, widower Watson HARMSTON married (2nd) Ann WILKINSON and had another five children. The second son of this new family, Charles, born in 1831, became an ironmonger – is this the connection between Elizabeth Rose (née HARMSTON) THOMPSON going to Manchester and her son, Edward Harmston THOMPSON later becoming an ironmonger? We shall see!
Mary (née WATSON) wife of John HARMSTON senior, died in September 1783, and John senior died four years later in 1787.
John HARMSTON junior, son of John senior and Mary (née WATSON) HARMSTON, was born on 20 September 1766. By the time he was twenty-one, his mother and father had both died leaving him and his younger brother, William, the family home, belongings and land. The next year, 1788, John junior married (1st) Hannah COPELAND in Newton by Folkingham, LIN and both were literate. His sister, Rebecca HARMSTON married her brother, Jeremiah COPELAND.
John junior and Hannah (née COPELAND) HARMSTON had two children:
1. John HARMSTON the younger (1789-cir 1834), married Mary Ann RIPPON - my line.
2. Ann HARMSTON (1790-1876), married William EDWARDS in 1814 at Waddington and had at least six children: George Harmston EDWARDS (1821-) born at Waddington and by 1859, was a bankrupt tobacconist of Lincoln; William EDWARDS junior; Louisa EDWARDS, married Thomas MILLS; Ann EDWARDS, married Michael PENISTAN; Henry EDWARDS and John Alford EDWARDS. In 1848, William EDWARDS senior of Sincil Street, Lincoln, died. In his Will he left his stables, yard and Inn, The Queen, in the High Street, St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln along with his two tenements and dwelling houses in Sincil Street to his wife Ann for her use but after her decease the sons to take preference over the daughters.
John HARMSTON junior and his wife, Hannah did not have any more children, but John junior apparently did - two - if the allegations are true. In 1803, John junior had a Bastardy Bond issued against him by Letitia BLACKBURN for a female child. This daughter was baptised Mary BLACKBURN in April 1803 at Waddington. Again, in 1815, he was cited as the putative father of a child of Ann CODD. Each time he was ordered to pay maintenance costs.
Hannah (née COPELAND), wife of John HARMSTON junior, died in October 1814 at Waddington.
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