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Author: Hatton, James

Biography:

HATTON, James (fl 1830)

Hatton identifies himself on the title-page of the first edition of his only known publication as a native of (or at least resident in) Ombersley, a village in Worcestershire. Ombersley is celebrated several times in the collection of poems, notably in the comic ballad with which it opens, about an unhappy husband who goes to sea to escape his wife but misses Ombersley and is brought back by white magic, to live happily every after. The surname is not uncommon in that district, but he is most probably the James Hatton, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Hatton, who was baptised in Ombersley on 18 Feb. 1798. At the time of the 1841 Census he was still living in Ombersley, unmarried, and gave his occupation as Paymaster. Ten years later, however, he was in lodgings at Pensax, Martley, Worcs. working as a carpenter and joiner, and his situation remained the same in the Census records of 1861 and 1871. There is finally the civil (not parish) registration of the death in Mar. 1882 of James Hatton, aged 85, at Martley. (ancestry.com 3 Mar. 2022; findmypast.com 3 Mar. 2022)

 

Books written (2):

Worcester: printed for the author by Anne Hayes, 1830
Liverpool: printed for the author by Bradley, 1831