Genealogy

Middleton

The Middleton estates at Eyam were purchased from the Fitzherberts of Norbury in 1654. Through the failure of the male line the estates descended to Jonathan Oxley of Sheffield. On the death of his son in 1783 they passed to the Rev. John Carver, rector of Whiston, who inherited through his mother, a daughter of Thomas Allen of Chapletown and Elizabeth Middleton, whose second husband was William Longsdon, already referred to above. Carver's son Marmaduke Middleton Carver assumed the name of Middleton in accordance with the terms of Jonathan Oxley's will in 1795. He was High Sherriff of Derbyshire in 1808 and had claims to be considered a minor poet. He resided at Leam Hall and died in 1868.

John born Abt 1713 at Wales, Yorks. He married about 1747 to Mary born about 1718 at Wales. They ad at least 2 children:

• John Middleton c.24 Apr 1749 Wales
• Thomas Middleton c.12 Jan 1751 Wales, married Mary Rodgers 24 Jul 1778 at Aston Yorks.

John senior died 28 Dec 1801 at Wales, and Mary died 1 Jun 1801 was was buried the following day at Wales, Yorks.

Children of Thomas and Mary (Nee Rodgers):

• Mary c.23 Sep 1781 at TodwickYorkshire
• John c. 19 Sep 1784 Todwick
• Betty c. 9 Sep 1787 buried 13 Mar 1790 Todwick
• William c.18 Jul 1790 Todwick
• Nancy c.16 Dec 1792
• Hannah c. 22 Apr 1798

Marmaduke Middleton Middleton, esq. of Leam, Derbyshire and Morthen, Yorkshire, was born 17th August, 1771. He married twice:

• Mary-Ann, daughter of Robert Athorpe Athorpe, esq. of Dinnington on 12th August, 1801
• Martha, daughter of Anthony Dawson, esq. of Azerley, near Ripon on llth June, 1822

Marmaduke and Mary Ann had 3 children:

• John Carver, born 9th August, 1803, who, upon attaining his majority, assumed the surname of Athorpe, in place of Middleton, in pursuance of the will of his maternal uncle, Thomas Athorpe, esq. to whose estates at Dinnington and elsewhere in Yorkshire, he succeeded.
• Marmaduke d.15th May, 1810
• Mary-Ann Carver,died 15th February, 1817

John Carver Athorpe married 8th February, 1831, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Gibbon Fitzgibbon,of Ballyseeda, in the county of Limerick, and grand-daughter of Sir Henry Osborne.

Marmaduke Middleton whose patronymic was CARVER, assumed, upon coming of age the name and arms of Middleton, in pursuance of the testamentary injunction of Jonathan Oxley, of Leam. He succeeded his father in 1807. He was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county of Derby, and was a high sheriff in 1808.

The family of CARVER have long been settled in the county of York. In the south aisle of the choir of the cathedral church a monumental inscription records the death of Marmaduke Carver, who was chaplain to Sir Thomas Osborne (afterwards Duke of Leeds), when high sheriff for the county.

Another MARMADUKE CARVER, living in 1738, married Anne, daughter of the Rev. John Griffith, D. D. rector of Eckington, in Derbyshire, (and later Rector of Whiston) and had issue, two sons and two daughters:

• MARMADUKE, born in 1739 who died in 1743
• JOHN
• Anne, b. in 1742, died in 1790.
• Elizabeth, b. in 1745, m. the Rev. Robert Barker, vicar of Youlgreave, Derby, and had daughter Henrietta Elizabeth Barker.

The younger son, The Rev. JOHN CARVER, of Morthen, born in 1740, married 27th August, 1763, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Allen, esq. of Sheffield and Chapeltown, and by her, (who succeeded to the estates of the MIDDLETONS of Leam), had one son one daughter, and heir. Sarah.

Mr. Carver died in 1807, and was succeeded by his son, Marmaduke Middleton Carver, esq. who had previously assumed the surname MIDDLETON

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