Denton Genn Jnr of Quadring d. 1861

Nobody appears to know anything about Denton, son of Denton in my post of 27th August 2013 .  Denton is stated to have been a Labourer in the 1844 birth certificate for his son William and this is confirmed in the 1841 and 1851 census.  He spent much time in Quadring, but moved around a fair bit, obviously following the work.  He married Jane Mackinder at Boston, Lincolnshire in 1827.

Jane Mackinder was born in Boston in about 1810.  We do not know her parents for certain (yet) but they are almost certainly William Mackinder and his wife Susanna (nee Lawis) who are the only couple living in Boston and apparently having children at the relevant time.  Hopefully I will get access to the full Boston records in due course. 

The list of children may well not be complete, two unknown children being discovered in 2012.  Jane died in 1859 (National Burial Index).  After a long search I finally found Denton in the National Burial Index (he was indexed as Duelen Gen).  He died at Quadring in February1861 with a quoted age of 60. 

The deaths of the parents obviously caused a crisis, Denton the younger apparently being placed in the workhouse, he was there in 1861.  I think we must assume that William Mackinder was staring at the same fate and obviously decided to takes their chances in America

Denton and Jane had a number of children

John Thomas - two died in infancy

Rebecca  - married Thomas Bloodworth of Hawthorpe, an agricultural labourer, in 1860.  He was clearly son of Thomas & Angelina Bloodworth of Hawthorpe and it is clearly his sister Mary born 1837 who had a relationship with William Mackinder Genn in New York in 1866 and  was in the emigration of 1862 – this  Mary Bloodworth  having a suggested tentative birthplace of “Ilethorpe”,  clearly Hawthorpe mistranscribed  .  Thomas and Angelina Bloodworth are both on the New York passenger lists on Ancestry as is their daughter Mary. 

Isabella  - a servant.  She died a spinster in 1868 

Denton -  in the workhouse at one point.  A shoemaker - he died  unmarried in 1872   

William Mackinder - emigrated to the USA when he was 18 with the Bloodworths above.  See next post

Eliza & Phoebe - died infancy