Re: Kellington Family Info
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Re: Kellington Family Info
mark andrew 12/07/09
Interesting that you should mention Non-Conformism. It hadn't occured to me before but may well be the reason that baptisms were in surrounding villages. Marriages had to be in the Church of England, by law, until much later than baptisms.
The Welton Kellingtons were determined "Chapel Folk".
Welton Chapel, Weslyan Methodist, which was very small, was not built till the late 1800s so the dissenters would have had to go elsewhere before then. Brantingham and Swanland are more or less equidistant in opposite directions.(Rowley, one of the main seats of the American Migration, is also about the same distance away from Welton. Although it is now a very insignificant village, it was a much more important place in the 17th century. I find several of my lines lead back there also.)
The chapel at Elloughton, a mile away from Welton, was also fairly late on the scene, though larger and it lasted rather longer, until replaced by the "new Chapel" at Brough in the early 1960's. I'm not sure Welton itself was ever approved for baptisms, it certainly wasn't for marriages, which is why they are all in St Helen's Church if in the village.
Also many of the local Chapels shared Clergy so it was not unusual to travel to Sunday service in a different village, particularly on Special Dates, even as late as the 1950s.
My great great grandfather, Charles Kellington, owned one of the village grocers, in Cowgate, in the early 1800s. It was mainly run by his wife Mary and later his daughter-in-law Charlotte (nee Jewitt), wife of great grandfather William, until she got too old. It closed in the early 1900s, and the family moved to a brand new house in Brough.
One of the commonest mistakes made by genealogical researchers is to muddle the two Charles Kellingtons both of whom married a Mary. My Charles was very much older than his wife, he was born in 1776, and Mary in 1796. The age on the 1841 census is correct - I also have his death certificate from 1848 which confirms this. He and Mary Brown married late, in 1829, so she was widowed with young children when he died.
The other Charles is his nephew, born in 1797. It seems the boys were all called either William, Charles or John and each of Alice and John's children seemed to have the full set!!
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Re: Kellington Family Info
mark andrew 12/07/09