John Higton

  General Notes:

Liable to Statute Work and the Payment of Composition in lieuthereof for year 1832/3. Valuation £10 10 0, composition10/6. - List of names for the Parish of Alderwasley.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 22 Nov 1772, St. Mary The Virgin, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. Son of Paul Higton of Alderwasley - baptism PR.

• Residence, 1802, Strelley, Nottinghamshire. John appears to have lived in Strelley, Nottinghamshire after
his marriage, about 1802, and returned to Alderwasley about
1816/17 where his last child was baptised.

• Residence, Abt 1840, Occupied 8 Acre Farm, Alderwasley, Dby. Tithe Map Alderwasley Landowner Occupier
No. on plan Name & Description State of
Quantities in Payable to of Land & Premises
Cultivation Statute Measure a r p
_________________________________________________________________
________________________________ Hurt Francis Esq John
Higton 74 Loiver Longnor Meadow Pasture
1

• Census, 6 Jun 1841, Alderwasley Dby. Age 65, living at Alderwasley DBY,with wife Isabell (60) and
son Phineas (15).

• Census, 30 Mar 1851, Hillside, Alderwasley Dby. Age 78, living at Hillside, Alderwasley DBY,with wife Isabell
(73), son Phineas (28), his wife Ann (28) and children Mary (6),
Phillis (3) and Paul (2). Ann and the children were born at
Alderwasley.

• Occupation. Farmer and Book Keeper.

John married Isabella about 1802. (Isabella was born before 1777 in Colston Basset, Nottinghamshire, England and died on 26 Apr 1860 in Belper District, Derbyshire, England.)