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Family Group Record: William Dearing & Ann Bilton

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HUSBAND William Dearing
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BIRTH:     abt 1814      PLACE: of Leven, Yorkshire, England
CHR.:                    PLACE:
MAR.:    8 Feb 1834      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
DEATH:  17 August 1876   PLACE:
BURIAL:                  PLACE:

FATHER:                         MOTHER:

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WIFE Ann BILTON
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BIRTH:  15 Oct 1813      PLACE: Seaton, Yorkshire, England
CHR.:   26 Oct 1817      PLACE: Sigglesthorn, Yorkshire, England
DEATH:     Aug 1886      PLACE: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
BURIAL:                  PLACE: City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT

FATHER: Francis BILTON           MOTHER: Mary LEE (or is it LEACH??)

OTHER MARR: 2) John Edward Metcalf, Sr. 8 Oct 1883 Salt Lake City, S-Lk, Ut

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CHILDREN
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 1. NAME: Mary Elizabeth DEARING
--- BIRTH:                   PLACE:
 F  CHR.:   10 Jul 1835      PLACE: Sigglesthorn, Yorkshire, England
    MAR.:                    PLACE:
    DEATH:                   PLACE:
    BURIAL:                  PLACE:
    CAUSE OF DEATH:
    OCCUPATION:
    SPOUSE:
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 2. NAME: Hannah DEARING
--- BIRTH:                   PLACE:
 F  CHR.:   26 Nov 1837      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
    MAR.:                    PLACE:
    DEATH:                   PLACE:
    BURIAL:                  PLACE:
    CAUSE OF DEATH:
    OCCUPATION:
    SPOUSE:
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 3. NAME: Amelia or Pamelia DEARING
--- BIRTH:  22 Aug 1843      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
 F  CHR.:   17 Sep 1843      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
    MAR.:                    PLACE:
    DEATH:                   PLACE:
    BURIAL:                  PLACE:
    CAUSE OF DEATH:
    OCCUPATION:
    SPOUSE: Leo SHANKS
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 4. NAME: Margaret DEARING
--- BIRTH:  15 Dec 1846      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
 F  CHR.:    7 Jul 1850      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
    MAR.:    3 Mar 1870      PLACE: Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
    DEATH:  28 Nov 1930      PLACE: Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho
    BURIAL:  2 Dec 1930      PLACE: Rigby Pioneer Cemetery, Rigby, Idaho
    SPOUSE: Thomas SAXTON
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 5. NAME: Janet or Jennet DEARING
--- BIRTH:  16 Mar 1849      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
 F  CHR.:    7 Jul 1850      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
    MAR. 1: 29 May 1870      PLACE: Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
    MAR. 2: 16 Jan 1879      PLACE: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
    DEATH:  16 Sep 1935      PLACE: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
    BURIAL: 19 Sep 1935      PLACE: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
    CAUSE OF DEATH: Cerebral Hemorrhage
    SPOUSE 1: James GOWAN
    SPOUSE 2: James Baker WATSON
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 6. NAME: Harriet DEARING
--- BIRTH:  20 Apr 1852      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
 F  CHR.:    5 Mar 1854      PLACE: Leven, Yorkshire, England
    MAR.:   11 Aug 1881      PLACE: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
    DEATH:  18 Jun 1926      PLACE: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
    BURIAL: 20 Jun 1926      PLACE: City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, S-Lk, UT
    CAUSE OF DEATH: Tuberculosis Peritonitis
    SPOUSE: Henry Thomas COWBURN

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DOCUMENTATION

HUSBAND – William DEARING

DEATH: source is FamilySearch; contributed by a Dearing descendant.

BIRTH: IGI; source is patron submitted record for baptism in 1937.

CHRISTENING?: Here is an entry from the IGI that might maybe could be him. Source is the extracted christening record:
Willm DEARING
CHRISTENING: 24 JUL 1809 Leven, Yorkshire, England
PARENTS: GEORGE DEARING / HANNAH

1841_BRITISH_CENSUS: Enumerated in Yorkshire: Parish of Leven,
William Dearing, male age 25, Ag Lab, born in the same county
Ann  “  female age 20, born in the same county
Elizabeth “  female age 5, born in the same county
Hannah  “ female age 3, born in the same county

1851_BRITISH_CENSUS: Enumerated in Yorkshire: Parish of Leven, Borough of Beverley. Where is Ann?
William Dearing Head, Married, Male age 40, occupation Farm Labour, born York, Leven
Hannah  “  Daughter, female age 13, born York, Leven
Amelia  “  Daughter, female age 7, born York, Leven
Mary  “  Daughter, female age 4, born York, Leven
Jannat  “  Daughter, female age 2, born York, Leven

1861_BRITISH_CENSUS: Enumerated in Yorkshire: Township of Tickton; Parliamentary Borough of Beverley; White Cross Road
William Dearing  Head, married, male age 50, occupation Gentleman’s Gardener, born Yorksh, Leven
Ann   “  Wife, married, female age 46, born Yorksh, Bewholme
Margaret  “   Daur, female age 13, born Yorksh, Leven
Janet  “  Daur, female age 11, born Yorksh, Leven
Harriett  “  Daur, female age 8, born Yorksh, Leven
Edward Robinson  GrandSon, male age 2, born Yorksh, Hornsea

1871_BRITISH_CENSUS: Enumerated in Yorkshire: Civil Parish: Holy Trinity; Municipal Borough: Kingston upon Hull; Municipal Ward: North Myton; Town of Kingston upon Hull; Ecclesiastical District: New parish of St. Stephen.  11 Bella Vue Cres.
William Dearing  Head, married, Male age 57 (puts birth 1814), occupation Laborer, General, born Yorkshire, Leven
Ann  “   Wife, married, female age 50, occupation Charwoman, born Yorkshire, Seaton
Amelia   “  Daur. Unmarried, Female age 26, occupation Outfitter’s Assistant, born Yorkshire, Leven
Harriet   “  Daur. Unmarried, female age 18, occupation Pupil Teacher, born Yorkshire, Leven
Annie     “  Grnd Daur. Female age 5, Scholar

 

WIFE – Ann BILTON

BURIAL_PLACE: Tombstone seen at Fayette Cemetery, Fayette, Sanpete, Utah by Vauna Kelly 5 June 2000.  The stone is a modern stone with the name Ann Dearing Metcalf and the spots for dates missing.  This marker is identical in style to numerous others in the Fayette Cemetery.  As per phone call 8 June 2000 with Janice Bown, Fayette Town Clerk & Sexton, this and the other markers like it are the result of an Eagle Scout Project done by a Fayette teen in about the 1980's - 1990's.  His goal was to memorialize the old unmarked graves in the Fayette Cemetery and he used available sources for grave locations & dates.
BUT...
Dearing descendant Kristen Moore has seen and photographed her tombstone in Salt Lake City Cemetery and has confirmed that she is buried there. That tombstone is a stone dating to the period. It is apparent that she is buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery and the modern stone in the Fayette Cemetery is a mistake.

 

BURIAL: Utah State Historical Society Burials Database; http://history.utah.gov/apps/burials/execute/searchburials
Burial Information: METCALF, ANN
Birth:      10/25/1812
Death:    8/1/1886
Burial:    8/1/1886
Place of Birth:      ENGLAND
Place of Death:    SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Grave Location:  Salt Lake City Cemetery , L_10_11_2E

MARRIAGE-SEALING_SPOUSE: (Metcalf) Endowment House Sealings of Couples, living & proxy; Book L 1878-1883; FHL film 183402; page 459. John Edward Metcalf born 13 July 1812 Hull, Yorkshire, England & Ann Dearing born 15 Oct 1813, Seaton, Yorkshire, England. Sealed 8 Oct 1883 by D.H. Wells at the Endowment House. Witnesses John Smith, John M. Stucki.

BIRTH-DEATH-PARENTS-BAPTISM-ENDOWMENT-SEALING_PARENTS: IGI

NAME: Her tombstone reads "Ann Dearing Metcalf." Her sealing record has Ann DEARING.  Her endowment entry in the IGI has her name Ann DEARING, but that entry gives her father as Francis BILLTON.  That entry is extracted from the temple record, where she would have used the name she was going by at the time.  DEARING was her first husband.  Also, the same IGI entry has her mother's name Mary LEE, but I wonder if her last name is actually LEACH.  In the late 1880's & early 1890's the Metcalfs did a lot of temple work in the Manti Temple for people with the last names of Bilton and Leach with the relationship always given as "Rel."  I've always wondered who they were.

CHRISTENING: IGI: source is the extracted christening record: Ann BILTON christened 26 Oct 1817 Sigglesthorn, Yorkshire, England, father Francis BILTON, mother Mary.  Sigglesthorne is a few miles from Seaton.

MARRIAGE_1: (Dearing) IGI; source is the extracted marriage record: Ann BILTON married William DEARING 8 Feb 1834 Leven, Yorkshire, England.  Leven is a few miles from Sigglesthorn and Seaton.

MARRIAGE_1: (Dearing) e-mail from 3rd great grand daughter Kristen Cowburn Moore:
Ann Bilton and William Dearing were married.  I am their ggg granddaughter.  Harriet Dearing her daughter was married to my gg grandpa Henry Thomas Cowburn.  Both of their 2 sons were married to my great grandma (Theresa marion Buller).  William Dearing Cowburn married her first and they had my grandpa and 2 other siblings.  Then william died when my grandpa was two.  Two years later his brother Henry Ridsdill Cowburn married Theresa so the children could keep the Cowburn name. I live in Orem, Utah.   Henry Thomas Cowburn and Harriet Dearing Cowburn immigrated here from Kingston Upon the Hull, Yorkshire England in about 1879.  Ann came with them and also her daughters, Jennette Dearing Gamen and Margaret Dearing Sexton along with their children, their husbands came later. 1880 census records show them living with Henry Thomas Cowburn and Harriet Dearing Cowburn. Henry as head of household.

Why am I confident that the Ann Dearing who married John Edward Metcalf (and whose father's last name was Bilton) is the same person as the Ann Bilton who married William Dearing?
**Proxy temple work her Dearing children did for her give the same birthdate & birthplace that she gave when she was sealed to John E Metcalf.
**One of her Dearing grandchildren (Janet's son) bears the middle name of Bilton
**Her daughter Harriet Dearing Cowburn's death certificate (died in Salt Lake City, Utah) lists her parents as William Dearing, born England and Ann Bilton, born England

So. Here is a timeline:
Her husband William Dearing died in England in 1876.
In 1879 she was baptized a member of the LDS Church.
I don't find Ann in the 1880 or 1900 census, but in the Salt Lake, Utah 1900 census, her daughter Harriet Dearing Cowburn and her husband Henry T state that they immigrated from England in 1878. Daughter Margaret Dearing Saxton (living in Idaho) states that she and her husband Thomas immigrated in 1880. One can see Ann's Dearing family and descendants at new.FamilySearch.org.

CHILD 1 - Mary Elizabeth DEARING

CHRISTENING: IGI; source is the extracted christening record

 

CHILD 2 – Hannah DEARING

CHRISTENING: IGI; source is the extracted christening record

 

CHILD 3 – Amelia DEARING

CHRISTENING: IGI; source is the extracted christening record. Has given name Pamela.

BIRTH: IGI; Patron submitted record. Has name Amelia West DEARING

SPOUSE: FamilySearch; patron submitted record with estimated marriage date. Has her name Amelia.

NAME: Extracted christening record in the IGI has Pamela. Civil Registration birth index (Sept 1843 quarter) has Pamelia. 1871 census has Amelia. Records descendants have submitted have Amelia.

   

CHILD 4 – Margaret DEARING

CHRISTENING: IGI; source is the extracted christening record.

BIRTH: IGI; Patron submitted record.

DEATH: Eastern Idaho Death Records; http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/famhist/Obit/searchDetail.cfm
Last Name:  Saxton
First Name:  Margaret
Cemetery:  Rigby, Idaho 
Birth Date:  1848
Birth Place:  Leeds,Yorks,England
Date Died:  28 NOV 1930
Death Place:  Rigby, Idaho
Father:    Mother:   Margaret Dearing 
Spouse:   
Sources:    Idaho Falls Post 3 p3, Rigby Star 4 p1 Beneficial Mort.
Remarks:   Age at Death: 83 yrs Upper Snake River Valley Pioneer

MARRIAGE-BURIAL: IGI; patron submitted record

    

CHILD 5 – Janet or Jennet DEARING

CHRISTENING: IGI; source is the extracted christening record.

BIRTH: IGI; Patron submitted record.

MARRIAGE_1: (Gowan) source is FamilySearch; patron submitted records.

MARRIAGE: (Watson) Western States Marriage Record Index; http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/
Groom Last Name: WATSON
Groom First Name: James B. (50)
Groom Residence: Salt Lake City
Bride Last Name: YOWAN
Bride First Name: Jennette (45)
Bride Residence: Salt Lake City
Place: Salt Lake City
Date: 16 Jan 1897
County of Record: Salt Lake
State: Utah
Volume: G
Page: 349

DEATH-BURIAL: Death certificate; seen at Utah State Archives; http://historyresearch.utah.gov/indexes/index.html
Name: Jeanette Gowan Watson. Died at home: 474 Coatsville Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah. Date of birth: March 16, 1849. Widow, husband: James B. Watson. Parents: William Dearing & Ann Bilton, born England.

    

CHILD 6 – Harriet DEARING

CHRISTENING: IGI; source is the extracted christening record.

BIRTH: IGI: Patron submitted record  

DEATH-BURIAL: Death certificate; seen at Utah State Archives; http://historyresearch.utah.gov/indexes/index.html

MARRIAGE: IGI; live sealing record

B IRTHPLACE: 1871 census gives place of birth.

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