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From: "W. Campbell" <>
Subject: [LINFOOT] Linfoot: England -> Hamilton, Canada -> Iowa
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:03:16 -0800

This is my Linfoot family. Jane Richardson Linfoot b. abt 1777 with
her daughter Dinah Linfoot and son John Richardson Linfoot came to
America, Upper Canada, in the 1830's. Dinah Linfoot Kirton's first
children were born at Hamilton. Jane Richardson Linfoot and her two
children, Dinah Linfoot Kirton and John Richarson Linfoot, moved to
Iowa about 1843.

John Linfoot (parents unknown)
b. Abt 1770, England
d. unknown
m. Abt 1800, England
--SPOUSE--
Jane Richardson (parents unknown)
b. Abt 1777, England
d. Aft 1856, Marion co, IA
--CHILDREN--
1. Dinah Linfoot b. 26 Dec 1813 England; d. 7 Jun 1874 Marion co,
IA; m. Thomas Kirton Sr
2. John Richardson Linfoot Chr. 9 Sep 1819 Sockburn, Durham,
England; d. Abt 1856 Marion co, IA; m. 21 Feb 1846 Van Buren co, IA to
Rebecca Judd

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Dinah Linfoot (dau of John Linfoot and Jane Richardson)
b. 26 Dec 1813, England
m. Abt 1837 Hamilton, Canada??
d. 7 Jun 1874 Marion co, IA (Dallas cemetery)
--SPOUSE--
Thomas Kirton Sr. (parents unknown)
b. 6 Apr 1813 Yorkshire,England
d. 31 Mar 1889 Marion co, IA (Dallas cemetery)
--CHILDREN--
1. Thomas Kirton Jr. b. 17 Feb 1837 Upper Canada, Canada; d. 4 Jan
1916 Marion co, IA
2. John Kirton b. 22 Sep 1838 Hamilton, Upper Canada, Canada; d. 23
aug 1913 Solon Springs, WI
3. Robert Kirton b. 26 Sep 1843 Marion co, IA; d. 20 Jun 1923 Marion
co, IA
4. Jane Ann Kirton b. 16 Jun 1846 Marion co, IA; d. Jan 1849 Marion
co, IA
5. William Kirton b. 21 Aug 1848 Marion co, IA; d. 15 Aug 1849 Marion
co, IA
6. Jane Kirton b. 1 Aug 1852 Marion co, IA; d. unknown
7. Joseph Kirton b. 22 Sep 1854 Marion co, IA; d. 16 Mar 1855 Marion
co, IA
8. Susannah Kirton b. 21 Sep 1856; d. unknown

NOTES:

Thomas Kirton was born in Yorkshire, England, came to Canada, where he
resided five years, from thence to Illinois and from thence to Clay
township in Marion County, IA in 1843 and from there to Dallas
township in the same county in the spring of 1848. He purchased a
claim where he now lives in the north part of Dallas township, of an
individual named Geo. Leach, an adventurer of some notoriety in this
part of the country at that time, and suspected of being a horse
thief("Pioneers of Marion County, Iowa general history of the county",
1872, by Wm. M. Donnel, p.340).

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John Richardson Linfoot (son of John Linfoot and Jane Richardson)
Chr. 9 Sep 1819 Sockburn, Durham, England
m. 21 Feb 1846 Van Buren co, IA
d. Abt 1856 Marion co, IA
--SPOUSE--
Rebecca Judd (dau of Philo Judd and Nancy Eames)
b. 9 Jan 1818 near Cleveland, OH
d. 14 sep 1885 Stafford co, KS
--CHILDREN--
1. Nancy Jane or Jennie Linfoot b. 27 Nov 1846 Marion co, IA; d. 4
Mar 1915 Snohomish co, WA
2. Philo Richard Linfoot b. 3 mar 1848 Marion co, IA; d. 21 Nov 1913
Wood co, OK
3. Laura Ann or Annie Linfoot b. Jul 1851 Marion co, IA; d. unknown

NOTES: John Linfoot, was one of the early pioneers, being a boot and
shoemaker, from Liverpool, England. Among his early customers was the
first governor of Iowa, making him a pair of fancy boots, also other
footwear (Philo Richardson Linfoot obituary, Knoxville, Iowa Journal,
21 Apr 1915).

woody campbell
spokane, wa

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