William Barlow and Sarah Bennett, were both born in Malpas Parish, Cheshire. Sarah was born and grew up in Tushingham, Cheshire, and William may have lived in Bradley, Cheshire.

Sarah Bennett was living with Joseph Bennett and Ann 'Edwards' in Tushingham, Cheshire during the census of 1841, 1851, and 1861. She was 10 in 1841 - 19 in 1851 - 29 in 1861 & 30 in 1863, when she married William Barlow

Joseph was born in Broxton, Cheshire, and Ann was born in Malpas, Cheshire
Sarah was born October 01, 1831, daughter of Joseph and Ann Bennett
Joseph Bennett married Ann Edwards 28 December ____ in Malpas, Cheshire

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These records from the IGI are in question..

I have written queries to the Bennett list without any success

William is listed as age 35, but probably was older
His father was John Barlow, who was a farmer

Sarah was 30, and her father was Joseph Bennett, also a farmer
Neither parent signed the certificate

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1871 census of Holt Preen, Shropshire

William and Sarah had three sons:

John Barlow, my grandfather, was born December 11, 1871 in Cardington, Shropshire and died January 30, 1959 in New York, burial February 02, 1959 in the Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, New York.

Grandfather studied at Didsbury College & became a Wesleyan minister, then a Congregational minister at Bristol and at London while in England. He starting preaching when he was still pre-teen or an early teen in Madeley, Shropshire while apprenticing for a dry goods owner. His father paid two years for the training and my grandfather didn't start earning money until that time was over. (I don't know why he left the farm in Wilderhope)

The 1891 census has him visiting in Madeley while he was attending Didsbury College.

John Barlow married Dora Askew Hoggarth April 03, 1899 while still in England. Dora was the daughter of John Mattinson Hoggarth and Jane Elizabeth Askew.

The marriage was attended by John Mattinson Hoggarth & Mary "Askew" Griffiths, a sister.

The marriage took place in the Wesleyan Chapel, Rawcliffe St., South Shore, County of Lancaster

John's father, William Barlow was listed as a retired farmer. (Does this mean that he was still alive?)

Reverend John Barlow came to the USA via Montreal, Canada and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in 1911. He moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1912 & was soon named pastor of the Park Slope Presbyterian Church.

Certificate of Arrival

Petition for Naturalization Dora died in 1947.

Reverend John Barlow lived in Brooklyn, New York until his death 1959

Reverend John Barlow and Dora Hoggarth had three children:

James Bennett Barlow born in Clifton Bristol December 31, 1900 & died May 04, 1959 buried in Nassau Knolls Cemetery, in Port Washington.

His second marriage occurred in 1938 to Joan Sanford Brewster

Their son, Francis Sanford Brewster was the executor of the will of the the Reverend John Barlow

Doris E. Barlow born in Clifton Bristol, April 09, 1902, death in 1947 with burial March 11, 1947 in the Roslyn Cemetery, Rosalyn, New York

She married Wesley Edwin Hawkins, and they had two sons

John Arnold Barlow born Sheatham Hill SW London October 15, 1904 and died in 1933 of acute appendicitis and was buried May 04, 1933 in the Roslyn Cemetery in Roslyn, New York.

He married my mother, Hazel Virginia Willis and had my sister, Virginia Lee Barlow and myself.

I, John W. Barlow married Juanita Grindstaff in Blount Co Tennessee and have two sons

In trying to locate the parents of William with dates that would be feasible, I find the following information; perhaps you can identify these families, and prove or disprove these as my family:

Remember that my William Barlow listed his age as 35 in 1863 at his wedding. In the census of 1871, William was listed as 42, but in the census of 1881 he was listed as 58. William was probably older than 35 because he aged 16 years between 1871 and 1881, and if he belonged to William & Elizabeth of Bradley, Cheshire, he reduced his age 7 years between 1861 & 1863

The Cheshire Records Office could not find the christening for a William Barlow with a father named John in the Malpas area, so I looked in the Cathedral in Manchester and found several christenings of William Barlow's that might fit.

Jane Elizabeth Askew Hoggarth stated that she arrived in September 1991 on the ship "Majestic." I looked at the Majestic's arrival on September 02, 1891 and October 01, 1891. She was on neither passenger list, but an Eliza and Jane Barlow were on the September 02, 1891 list. They were in their early twenties.

Note: My great grandfather, John Mattinson Hog(g)arth came to this side of the ocean some time between 1879 and 1888. His wife and daughter were living in England with his wife's brothers in the census of 1881. I don't know why he would leave his wife and daughter in England. In fact, when his wife Jane E. Hogarth came to America in 1890/1891, Dora was found in the census of 1891 in England with one of her two uncles. John M. Hogarth was the first Marshall of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and made a Declaration of Intention to become a citizen in 1888. He worked on the Lock in Canada before that. His obituary even said he came to New York when he was 17 to work on a farm with one of his brothers. He married his wife in England in 1871, so he must have traveled by and forth across the Atlantic Ocean quite a bit.

Is this George William Barlow the son of William and Sarah Bennett Barlow?

I received a birth certificate for George William Barlow, born in Tushingham, Cheshire March 28, 1863. The marriage certificate for William Barlow and Sarah Bennett have them marrying March 06, 1863, in the Cathedral of Manchester. English people tell me it is unlikely that William and Sarah traveled so far to get married, but I replied that their residences were 20 Spear Street and 22 Spear Street. They could have temporarily moved to establish residences in Lancaster, to avoid getting married in her pregnant state in Cheshire, or just wanted to do something special.

The IGI reported a George William Barlow marrying a Mary Marshall Ward in the Cathedral of Manchester 17 August 1885

I find a Mary M. Ward born 29 January 1861 in Southery, Norfolk; father A. Ward and mother, Rachel Porter.

The children of the George Barlow and Mary, as listed in the Eaton under Heywood, Shropshire 1891 census:

You might remember that Thomas, the second son of William and Sarah Barlow was born in Eaton under Heywood. Thomas disappeared with or without his parents in the census of 1891.

I am hoping that the George William Barlow is my grandfather's oldest brother, but I only have the IGI information making that possible.