HARMSTON Story Pt 2

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In May 1815, John HARMSTON junior (1766-1841) married his second wife, Mary TURNER born 1776 in Horsington, LIN.

Their children were all born in Waddington:
1. Mary HARMSTON (1816-1881). Married Richard PUTTERGILL in 1836 at Waddington.
2. Henry HARMSTON (1817-1821).

3. Charlotte HARMSTON (1818-1819).

4. Charlotte HARMSTON (1823-aft 1851) married Joseph Hall in June 1842, at Waddington.

John HARMSTON junior died on 29 December 1841 aged seventy-five years. In his last Will, written in 1835, he left his Houses, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and Appertenances to his wife, Mary and eighteen year old daughter, Charlotte, one of his only two surviving children. The other, Ann (née HARMSTON) EDWARDS, his daughter from his first marriage, clearly had no monetary needs.

Mary (née TURNER) his second wife, died fourteen years later, in 1855 at Waddington, aged seventy-eight.

John HARMSTON the younger, the only son of John senior and Hannah (née COPELAND) HARMSTON was born on 22 July 1789. After finishing his schooling, he would have served an apprenticeship in legal clerkship before attaining the title of Attorney – John HARMSTON of Waterside, Freeman of the City of Lincoln.

In July 1812, John the younger married Mary Ann RIPPON at Lincoln St Mary le Wigford. They had five children, the first, our John Edward HARMSTON was baptised at Waddington. The family then moved to the parish of St Swithins, Lincoln where the other four children were baptised.

Children:
1. John Edward HARMSTON (1812-1868) father of Elizabeth Rose HARMSTON - my line.
2. Cassandra Amelia HARMSTON (1815-1888) married Frederick Horton BURLEY, the son of William and Frances (née HORTON) BURLEY, and had three children. When a widow, aged sixty-six, she lived at 2 Friars Place, Lincoln.
3. George Edward HARMSTON (1817-1896) was a carpenter and machine maker. He married Sarah and lived in Canwick, LIN with their four children: John, George (a watchmaker), Ellen (a dressmaker) and William (an iron turner). The last three children were born in Lincoln where George Edward and Sarah lived for some time. In 1881, their home was at 42 Monson Street, Lincoln and next door to brother John Edward's widow, Elizabeth (née SINGLETON) HARMSTON. George Edward and Sarah HARMSTON returned to Canwick to be buried and where their joint, still legible, gravestone stands.
4. William HARMSTON (1819-1880), a coachsmith. In 1838, when nineteen and serving his apprenticeship he was sent to Lincoln Gaol for two weeks hard labour for misbehaviour – one of the common misdemeanours producing this sentence was being found drunk and disorderly. He was described as 5 ft 4½ ins tall with a pale complexion, could read well, his writing was imperfect but his behaviour while in prison was good. Two years later, and now 5 ft 6 ins tall, he was again sent to Lincoln Gaol for the same reason, but for only a week's hard labour this time. William did eventually manage to finish his apprenticeship and married Martha. They lived at 12 Felton Place in the parish of St Swithin Lincoln and had five children.
5. Lavinia HARMSTON (1834-).

John HARMSTON the younger’s death has not been found. In 1851, Mary Ann, (his wife) a widow and annuitant (a person with a private income) was living at 4 Straw Court, St Benedicts Lincoln with her youngest daughter, Lavinia. By 1861, sixty-seven year old Mary Ann was living at 1 Straw Court (the Straw family were Lincoln watermen) with her grandson, Robert H HARMSTON. Mary Ann died in 1873 in Lincoln.

John Edward HARMSTON was born on 27 December 1812 at Waddington, the oldest child of John the younger and Mary Ann (née RIPPON) HARMSTON. He, also, was a Freeman of the City of Lincoln and variously described as a joiner, cabinet maker or a journeyman carpenter. On 27 September 1842, he married Elizabeth SINGLETON, a servant, at Thorpe on the Hill, LIN.

Elizabeth was the daughter of William junior and Alice (née BANNISTER) SINGLETON who were married in 1809 at Fenton, LIN, and they had at least two children, John and our Elizabeth. Elizabeth was baptised in June 1815 at Thorpe on the Hill.

William SINGLETON junior was one of the five children of a wheelwright, William senior and Sarah (née GILBERT) SINGLETON and they all lived at Westborough cum Doddington LIN. William senior, born in Navenby LIN, was the sixth child of John and Ann SINGLETON.

John Edward and Elizabeth (née SINGLETON) HARMSTON’s first home in Thorpe on the Hill was the Cottage in the Field, Beacon Hill, where their five children were born and all were baptised in the parish church.

1. Elizabeth HARMSTON (1843-1849) was buried at Lincoln St Benedicts.

2. John Edward HARMSTON junior (1845-) a machinist/engineer and a Freeman of the City of Lincoln, married the girl next door, Marie PICKERING.
3. Elizabeth Rose HARMSTON (1853-1876) married (1st) James BAMBER, and (2nd) our Frederick Henry THOMPSON - my line.
4. Charles HARMSTON (1854-1891) was buried in Sheffield.
5. Alfred Singleton HARMSTON (1857-1932) an engine fitter married Almeniah (1858-1923).

At the time the 1861 Census was taken, Elizabeth (née SINGLETON) HARMSTON was living in Thorpe on the Hill with two of her children, Elizabeth Rose and Alfred SINGLETON. Her husband, John Edward was staying with his maiden aunt, seventy-six year old Martha RIPPON, a hatter by trade, at 210 High Street, Lincoln.

John Edward HARMSTON senior of Monson Street, Lincoln died in November 1868 and was buried at Canwick Road Cemetery, Lincoln. By 1881, his widow Elizabeth (née SINGLETON) was living at 41 Monson Street with her son, Alfred Singleton HARMSTON who was twenty-three and still single, eleven year old granddaughter, Mary HARMSTON, and a boarder called William Cow, a clerk from Ireland. Next door to the family lived widow Elizabeth's brother-in-law and his wife, George and Sarah HARMSTON. Elizabeth died in 1895 at Lincoln.

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