John was the oldest child of William BARTON and Jane MCINTOSH, born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1840. A year later he and his parents were living in Warwick, Cumberland at a place called Warwick Hall. By the 1851 census he’s living in Botchergate, Carlisle. His mother has passed away .
Over the next couple of years he leaves home and makes his way to Scotland. He’s working as a cotton spinner in Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, about 20 miles from Carlisle.
There he met and married Margaret TELFER. She was born in Annan in 1841. In 1861 she was keeping house for her father James and brothers Robert, John and James. Her father and brother John were agricultural laborers and her other brother Robert was a tailors apprentice. The younger brother was still a child.
John married Margaret in 1862. By At some point between 1869 and 1871 he and Margaret and two daughters Nancy and Jane moved back to Carlisle and are living at 1 Freestone Place, St Mary’s. Nancy was born in 1867 and Jane 1869, both born in Annan, Scotland. Their other children were all born in Carlisle.
There was Helen 1872, James 1875, W. John (possibly William after his grandfather?) born 1878, Margaret 1880 and their youngest Jennet born in 1884.
The census of 1891 finds John and Margaret living at 20 Hope Street, Caldewgate with his father William aged 70 living with them. The working children are all cotton workers but for James who’s an apprentice Joiner.
W. John, James and Helen are no longer living at home. There’s a lot more research to be done to see what happened to the other children.
I believe John BARTON died at the beginning of 1918 followed by his wife Margaret one year later.