notes by P John Partington, revised October 2002

 JOHN (1796 - aft. 1850) AND HIS FOREBEARS

There seem to have been several Waring families, presumably interrelated, living just south of Preston, Lancashire, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They were Roman Catholics, and the little chapel of St Joseph in Brindle has records of their baptisms, marriages and burials. The first whom we can recognize with confidence as an ancestor of ours is John, born in 1796 in Walton-le-Dale. On 18 November 1816 he married Catherine Whitehead (born 1799 in Brindle) at Walton-le-Dale, and they had at least six children: James born in 1822, Eleanor (and Margaret?) in 1826, Thomas in 1833, Catherine in 1836 and Margaret in 1844. The 1851 census records John as a "farmer of seventeen acres" living at Berry’s Farm in Brindle with his wife and family.

THE CHILDREN OF JOHN (c. 1795 - aft. 1850)

John’s first child, James, was born in Walton le Dale in about 1818. In 1851 he was lodging with his sister Eleanor & family in Brindle, unmarried and working as a hand-loom weaver.

John’s second child, Eleanor, was born in Walton-le-Dale in 1823/4. On 11 July 1847 she married John Ascroft Partington at St Bede’s Roman Catholic chapel in Clayton Green, Leyland. They had at least two children: Thomas born in 1850/1 and Annie in about 1852. In 1851 the family was living at Berry’s Cottage near her father’s farm.

John’s third and fourth children, Thomas & Catherine, were born in Walton-le-Dale in 1832/3 & 1835/6 respectively. In 1851 the census records them both as living at home, unmarried, and working as "hand-loom weavers".