John Moore WILTON

  General Notes:

Sourced from "Wilton Family Web Site"

http://www.jcwilton.com// (no longer exists)

Births Sep 1844
Wilton Dinah Liskeard 9 168 - daughter of Sampson Wilton and Mary Williams
Wilton John Moore Liskeard 9 168

1851 census
HO107/1902 F344 P11
Dranes Common, St Neot, Cornwall
Peter Wilton, Head, Mar, 34, Ag Lab, Cornwall St Neot
Susan do, Wife, Mar, 33, , Cornwall Pelynt
Mary J do, Daur, , 9, , Cornwall St Neot
Elizabeth A do, Daur, , 8, , Cornwall St Neot
John M do, Son, , 6, , Cornwall St Neot
Charles E do, Son, , 4, , Cornwall St Neot
Sophia E do, Daur, , 2, , Cornwall St Neot
Louisa E do, Daur, , 2mo, , Cornwall St Neot
Mary Milsome, Lodger, U, 26, , N K

1861 census
RG9/1530 F42 P8
Dranes Common Cottage, St Neot, Cornwall
Peter Wilton, Head, Mar, 45, Copper Miner, Cornwall St Neot
Susan do, Wife, Mar, 44, , Cornwall Plynt [sic]
William H do, Son, Un, 21, Copper Miner, Cornwall St Neot
John M do, Son, Un, 17, Copper Miner, Cornwall St Neot
Charles E do, Son, Un, 15, Copper Miner, Cornwall St Neot
Thomas J do, Son, , 8, Scholar, Cornwall St Neot
Albert E do, Son, , 6, , Cornwall St Neot
Frederick G do, Son, , 4, , Cornwall St Neot
Mary J do, Daur, Un, 19, House Servt, Cornwall St Neot
Sophia do, Daur, , 12, , Cornwall St Neot
Louisa E do, Daur, , 10, , Cornwall St Neot
Rosabella do, Daur, , 1, , Cornwall St Neot
Angelina do, Granddaught, , 7 mo, , Cornwall St Neot
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same page
Westerlake Gate, St Neot, Cornwall
David Wilton, Head, Mar, 36, Ag Lab, Cornwall St Neot
Mary do, Wife, Mar, 30, , On the Sea
F43 P9
Thomas Wilton, Son, , 7, , Cornwall St Neot
John do, Son, , 4, , Cornwall St Neot
Emma do, Daur, , 9, , Cornwall St Neot
Ellen do, Daur, , 2, , Cornwall St Neot

Extracted from http://wiltons.gen.nz/website_000002.htm

Tony's great-grandfather, John Moore Wilton, was born at St Neot, Cornwall, in the copper mining area on the south edge of Bodmin Moor, in September 1844. He arrived in New Zealand some time in the late 1860s or early 1870s and settled in Thames, the scene of a gold rush, and worked as a miner.

We are fortunate that John Moore Wilton is noted on a family tree in the monumental work The Wiltons of Cornwall (Phillimore, 1989) by Canadian kinsman Robert Wilton. This has saved us an enormous amount of research.
This effort has been carried on by an American kinsman, John C. Wilton, in the shape of The Wilton Family Website (the real one). Check it out at ... http://www.jcwilton.com/index.html

If you want to go straight to John Moore Wilton's page, try http:/www./jcwilton.com/html/fam00131.htm
[ NB this web site no longer exists]

By working up the tree you can follow the line right back to the 15th century. Enjoy!
John Moore Wilton was joined in Thames by his brother, Frederick George Wilton. Both married and had large families, which meant there were a lot of Wiltons in Thames until population mobility increased in the latter half of the 20th century.

John Moore married Elizabeth Jones, from Staffordshire, in 1874. They had eight children, Charles (Charlie), William ("Weary" Bill), Albert, John Edward (Ted), Francis (Frank), Maud, Ernest (Ernie) and Lavinia (Vin). John died in 1903 from miners' lung disease. Elizabeth survived him for years and died in . They are buried in an unmarked grave in Shortland Cemetery, Thames. (Current project: to prepare and place a plaque on the grave).

Ted Wilton, registered at birth as John Edward but always known as Edward John, was Tony's grandfather. Born in 1886, he also became a miner.

On the NZ historical records site
marriage 1874/13465 Elizabeth Jones and John Wilton - event on 4/11/1874
death 1903/6994 John Wilton (date of event 1/11/1903)

John married Elizabeth JONES on 4 Nov 1874 in New Zealand. (Elizabeth JONES was born in Staffordshire, England, died after 1903 in New Zealand and was buried in Thames, New Zealand.)