• Born ~29 May 1804, daughter of Thomas Irving (b.1780) and Elizabeth Dodgson (b.1782).
• Married, on 21 November 1822, William Barton (1785-1846)
• Lived at No. 1, The Crescent, Carlisle, as her daughter Elizabeth and son Robert did after her.

*Penfold's interview of her son Robert Barton (1828-1917) says: "his Mother an Irving of Middlemoor & a cousin of that old Bewcastle family the Dodgsons of Roanstree, Thomas being the most prominent."




An excellent history of the Dodgson family, written by Robert Dodgson in 1843, is online here, and mentions Mary and some of her Dodgson ancestry.


*Penfold later writes that her son Robert "was brought to Carlisle in swaddling clothes when 11 months old on the 11th of November 1829 - & lived in a house now the shop of Messrs Fairbairn[?] in English Street; the rental of which in those days was £70 per year. Owing to the close proximity of the gaol[?] - where culprits were hung in public, his mother insisted on their removal to the Crescent to the House now occupied by Mr. Kekwick[?] - on the failure of Forster-Bank in 1836 - Gale the owner & builder of the Crescent & who built & lived in the house so long occupied by Mr Barton - was forced to sell & William Barton Robert's father purchased the house & ground to Dents'[?] shop - of the large garden & extensive buildings ???? unto[?] Mary Sheil[?] - for between three & four thousand £s & where they have resided ever since 1837, the year of Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne a period of 80 years.
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His mother was born in Lowther Street in a house latterly occupied by Mr Bawson[?] V.S. & now demolished - she inheriting that property the Three Crowns Inn & the Three Crowns public house in English Street - also property in New Bank Lane [Bank Street?] where a theatre which was run by "Daddy baby[?]" & which she closed on the advice of Johnny[?] Fawcett[?] - from her uncle Robert Jame's "an old Carlisle landmark".

The location of the Three Crowns Inn, determined from this old map, is shown below. Note that the Dodgson family history claims that Mary's parents also kept (before or after this?) the Queens Head Inn at Wigton.

Children

With William Barton (1785-1846):

1. Elizabeth Barton (1822-1909)
2. Robert Barton (1827-1828)
3. Edward Barton (1828-1913)
4. Robert Barton (1828-1917)
5. Thomas Barton (1833-1893)
6. William Barton (1834-1856)
7. Mary Barton (1836-1837)
8. Mary Barton (~1838-1852)