Mentions


"I may here mention what I was not aware of when I wrote the earlier portion of this family history, that I have since discovered two large collateral branches of Barton descendants. The first are the children of Margaret Barton, reputed a beauty in her day, afterwards married to Mr Robert Faulder, and the second those of Isaac Barton, born at Carlisle in 1771, only two years before my great-grandfather Bernard’s death. With the help of Miss Kuper, now of The Laurels, Thames Ditton, I have been able to compile a genealogical chart of our family from 1760 onwards. Miss Kuper is herself a lineal descendant of this Margaret Barton and I have recently made the acquaintance of several other members of the family, Miss White and Mrs. Barker, daughters of Mr James White who married Margaret Faulder and a Mr. Henry Barker, all of whom were able to give a very good account of themselves. Of Isaac Barton’s descendants one son is still living (November 1889) at the age of 80, John Charles by name. I made his acquaintance and his wife’s last autumn, as well as of the widow of his brother Bernard and very pleasant has our mutual friendship been since. Most of his life has been spent abroad, in Canada, and he only returned to England two or three years since." (*Memoirs of John Barton)


"On 27th March 1787 (R.C.243) John wrote to William Roscoe from London that he had received the "Wrongs of Africa", a poem that Roscoe had written to help the anti-slave-trade cause, and that he wished him all possible success with it for such a good cause, saying that this was a new way of exciting and keeping alive the attention to the cause. He had taken it immediately to Faulder the bookseller of 42 New Bond Street. (Faulder had married his sister Margaret on 5th October 1755 [an error: Robert probably means 1775 or 1785])." (*Barton 1980s p20)


Although Margaret's husband Robert Faulder is said to have worked at 42 New Bond Street, London, it is quite possible that he met Margaret when they both lived in Carlisle, and that he may have been a member of the Faulder family of North Cumberland (see http://www.faulder.org.uk/).


Death


The Times, Friday 25 March 1836, p7, column E:

"Yesterday, in Fitzroy Square, in the house of her son-in-law, Richard Barker, Esq., relict of the late Robert Faulder, Esq., late of Gower Street, Bedford Square, in the 81st year of her age.”

I'm indebted to her descendant Simon Shearburn for providing this information.
  1. ^ This according to a footnote (by NJB?) on a transcript of a letter written by Maria Done to her husband John. Her baptism date, according to the registers, was 30 October 1755.