Looking for ancestors of Lewis Flint (1700-1766)
pebbles1
Lewis Flint and wife Elizabeth had at least one child William born 1738. It is believed that Lewis's heritage goes back to the Shillington district of the UK.
William married Mary Bennet in 3 July 1736. Their nine children were William, Mary, Lewis, James, John Bennet, Jane, Melissa, Sarah, & Frances.
Lewis married Elizabeth Harvey 14 February 1797. They produced eight children - William, Lewis, Frances Elizabeth, Thomas, John, Ann, Elizabeth Harvey, and James.
William (1798-1871) married twice firstly to Mary Seaton producing six children - Seaton, Elizabeth, John, James, Joseph and Harvey. His second wife was Elizabeth Dring (Mary Seaton's bridesmaid). To Elizabeth he had four children William, Thomas, William and Lewis.
James (1830-1913)married three times the first to Henrietta . Their eight children were Edward Seaton, Henrietta, Emily Florence, Frank James, Frances Elizabeth, Lewis George, Ellen, and Olive Edith.
Edward Seaton (1858 - 1934)was my great grandfather migrating to Australia from Norwich UK in 1884. He married Ross Graham of Glasgow.
The trail back into the 17th Century is getting very cool and dry. The best that can be ascertained is that there is a probability that the family had come from Shillington.
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Pebbles, a third generation Australian born Flint, Queenslander by birth and heart, currently living in Victoria.
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pebbles1 on 2009-05-04 01:46:13Further information added to original: I have a letter written by John Flint of Stockport 1972 to my grandfather says "that with absolute certainty... has traced descent back to farmer William Flint of St Neots, died in 1803"
"Shillington has five generations of Flints dating back to 1647. A researcher found 30 wills of Flints dating back to 1521 coming from the counties of Huntingdon, Northampton, Bedford, Cambridge."
"Before this date (Shillington 1647) there were Flint's at Collyweston 1611 and Cambridge 1521. The Shillington Flints were yeoman, farmers, husbandmen and even gentlemen. They had an irritating habit of using the same Christian name several times in one generation of a family. It makes sorting them out very difficult."
niccihart on 2010-04-25 12:52:33I have traced as far back to John FLINT b. 1580 who married and Alice PAXE (not sure on the spelling could be PACE). He is my 11th Great Grandfather.
pebbles1 on 2010-05-15 09:08:12My apologies "niccihart" in not seeing your comments earlier. Some of the Christian/first names are well used - whether that is a popularity vote for the age, or particular in the family probably depends. There are 7 "Seaton's" that I have which derives from Mary Seaton, a Lady in waiting to the Mary Queen of Scots. This first name is more a family based first name. Similarly with Lewis & Frank/Francis/Francis/Fanny. Whereas there are also plenty of William's, John's, James's Mary's & Elizabeth's, which I believe are more society names.
My earliest Flint was born 1700 - my 6th GGrandfather Lewis d 1766 and buried in Eynesbury, UK a village within the town of St Neots in Cambridgeshire. (A link I have just come across while looking at Eynesbury is http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/l/i/Anthony-C-Flint/PDFGENE5.pdf - you might find it informative.)
Can we talk about names that might be common in our trees.
niccihart on 2010-05-18 22:53:41I think we have a lot of common names if your family comes from Shillington. The tree you have found is my dad's tree. It can get pretty confusing in the earlier years with all the same names. You can also take a look at my tree on rootsweb http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=n_hartland&id=I999 it has a lot of other information on as well.
hope this helps
Nicci