Ann Sheldon was one of Ari’s 5x great-grandmothers. She was born in 1823, in Biggin-By-Wirksworth in Derbyshire. In the 1851 census, Ann was twenty-seven, living with her widowed father John at Pointon Cross, Hucklow, where he was a farmer. Shortly after that, on the 8th of June, she married John Frost Bunting, a blacksmith. John had previously been married to Ann’s aunt, Mary Ann Sheldon, who had died in May 1849, leaving him with a nine-year-old son, Jacob. (This marriage c

Jacob Sheldon was born in 1767, in Bonsall, Derbyshire. He was the fourth of six sons of Benjamin Sheldon and Elizabeth Haynes, and was baptised on 11th October 1767 at the church of St James. On 29th December 1795, he married Elizabeth (Betty) Rowbottom, also in this church, the banns having been read on the three preceding Sundays. Derbyshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1932, on Ancestry.co.uk By the time that Jacob and Betty’s eighth child, Esther