John BARTON’s oldest child was Nancy, born in Annan Scotland in 1867 before the family moved to Carlisle, Cumberland. She appears in the 1871 census living at 1 Freestone Place in the township of St Mary. At the age of 14 she is working as a piecer in a cotton mill. She’s still single in 1881 at the age of 24, still living at home and still a cotton worker.
In 1892 she married James BELL in Carlisle and in 1983 had a baby that died either at birth or soon thereafter named John Barton BELL, three years later had another son, John James BELL. But by 1901 she’s a 34 year old widow. She’s back living at home with the family in Hope Street, Carlisle with her 6 year old son. So far I haven’t found anything about James BELL. Their marriage and his subsequent death all happened over the 9 year period between when they were married and the 1901 census. The only way to continue to follow James would be to order a birth certificate for John J. giving his father's birth place and date.
When her husband died she would only be in her 30's and I wonder if she didn't marry again. When the 1911 census records for Cumberland are released I may be able to find this out.
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