Thomas LANGTON⁽¹²⁸⁹⁾

Bare facts

• Birth: 10 Oct 1770 at Kirkham, Lancashire [1].
• Christening: 01 Nov 1770 [1].
• Death: 04 May 1838 [1,2].
• Burial: 07 May 1838, Church Hill, Fenelon Falls, Upper Canada (now Ontario) [1,2].
• Occupation: Merchant
• Education: not known
• Father: Thomas LANGTON of Ash Hall, Kirkham, Lancashire (1724-1794) [1,2].
• Mother: Jane LEYLAND (ca 1731-1774)[1].

Other dates

• ca.1787: Aged 17 was sent to Riga, then in Russia, on behalf of Messrs. Thorley, Morrison and Co. with promise, not entirely fulfilled, of a partnership when he reached his majority. He remained in Riga for 15 years, only visiting England once during this period. [2]
• ca.1802: Returned to England and married (see below), renting and settling into Farfield, in the parish of Addingham, West Riding of Yorkshire.
• 1804: Purchased Blythe Hall, in the parish of Ormskirk, Lancashire.
• 1807: appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire.
• 1815-1821: Travel with his family around Europe, mainly Switzerland, Italy, Germany and France.
• 1826: Commercial crisis and winding up of his affairs, including the sale of Blythe Hall. Moved to Bootle, Lancashire.
• 1837: Left Liverpool for Canada, via New York, and settled at his son John's property on Sturgeon Lake, Upper Canada.

Marriage

• Marriage: 06 Apr 1802 [5].
• Spouse: Ellen CURRER⁽³³¹⁾.
  
  
  • Birth: before 25 Jul 1766.
  • Christening: 25 Jul 1766, Clapham, Yorks. WR [5].
  • Death: 01 Aug 1846.
  • Burial: Fenelon Falls, Upper Canada.
  • Father: Rev. William CURRER⁽²⁶⁶⁾ (1717-1803).
  • Mother: Ann STOKOE⁽²⁶⁷⁾ (1723-1800).
  • Notes: Ellen was a sister of my 3 x great-grandmother Ann Currer⁽¹⁰⁾.

Children

• William LANGTON⁽¹²⁹⁰⁾ (1803-1881)
• Anne LANGTON⁽¹²⁹²⁾ (1804-1893).
• Thomas LANGTON⁽¹²⁹¹⁾ (1806-1812)
• John LANGTON⁽¹²⁹³⁾ (1808-1894)

My attention was brought to the interesting information avalable on the Langton family by Chris Birch, to whom I am most grateful.

Sources for this page

1. Pedigree of Langton, of Preston and Broughton Court, afterwards of Kirkham, in Joseph Foster, Pedigrees of the County Families of England, Vol.1, Lancashire, London, Head Hole & Co., 1873.
2. Letters of Thomas Langton to Mrs Thomas Hornby, 1815-1818, with portraits and a notice of his life, Printed for private circulation by his grandchildren, Manchester, J E Cornish, 1900. Some parts have been placed on the web as part of a Birley website.
3. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.1, A-L, by John Burke and John Bernard Burke, London, Henry Colburn, 1848.
4. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. There are entries for Anne Langton and for John Langton, both of which also contain information on their father.
5. Parish register of Clapham, WR Yorkshire, 1595-1812 as transcribed by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and microfilmed by the LDS FHL, film no. 98551, item 3.

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