Author: Middleton, Marmaduke
Biography:
MIDDLETON, Marmaduke Middleton, formerly CARVER (1770-1848: findmypast.com)
He was born at Whiston, Yorkshire, on 17 Aug. 1770 and baptised there on 20 Sept. 1771, the son of the Rev. John Carver of Morthen, Yorkshire, Rector at Whiston, and his wife Sarah Allen, who had married at Eyam, Derbyshire, on 27 Aug. 1763. She inherited the Middleton estate of Leam Hall, Eyam, which passed to her husband and then, on his death in 1807, to their son who had adopted the surname Middleton when he came of age. His only known publication, the Poetical Sketches of a Tour in the West of England (1822), dated from Leam and dedicated to “the Misses Strutt, of Bridge-Hill, near Belper, Derbyshire,” was prompted by his quest for distraction following the death of his wife Mary Ann Athorpe (1775-1820). The couple had married in her parish of St. John’s, Laughton En Le Morthen, Yorkshire, on 12 Aug. 1801 and had baptised at least seven children at Eyam by 1816. She was buried at St. Mary Magdalene, Whiston, on 5 Oct. 1820. On 11 June 1822 at Brampton, Derbyshire, Middleton married again: his second wife was Martha Dawson and they do not appear to have had children. Middleton served as a magistrate and deputy Lieutenant for Derby, and was a high sheriff in 1808. He continued to give Leam as his place of residence but he died in Yorkshire and was buried at Whiston on 13 Nov. 1848. (John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry [1837], 634; findmypast.com 7 June 2023; ancestry.com 7 June 2023; CCEd 18 June 2023)