Ann Toynton and William Howard were my Gx4 grandparents. I do not have a death reg for Ann but the following is how I've summed up Ann's origins.
". . . Her age at burial and on the 1841 Census indicates that she was born abt 1777 and when she married at Benington in 1813 she was described as being ‘of Benington’.
There are indications that she could have been the daughter of Joseph Toynton (of Leverton) and Mary nee Clarke. This couple married on 25 May 1768 at Stickney and baptised two children at Leverton, Joseph in 1771 and Clarke in 1781, and appear to have buried a daughter Mary in 1783, but no baptism record has been found for Ann. (Leverton is roughly a mile NE from Benington)
When Ann married William Howard in 1813, one of the witnesses was Jane Clark who could have been a relative of Mary.
When Ann and William’s daughter Martha married William Atkinson in 1846, one of the witnesses was a Joseph Toynton who could have been Ann’s brother or his son, born abt 1798.
The only known baptism of an Ann Toynton around 1777 was in Leverton by Joseph and Alice Toynton on 9 May 1777. No marriage record or any further baptisms have been found for this couple. Did the clerk make a mistake on Ann’s baptism, getting Joseph and Mary confused with another couple, John and Alice Tointon, who were also baptising children at Leverton around the same time?
John Tointon and Alice Drawater had married in 1774 at Leverton and went on to baptise 4 children there. They baptised Joseph in 1776 and Ann in 1781. Ann died in 1782 so she cannot be our Ann and her baptism is evidence that John and Alice did not already have a child named Ann, appearing to rule this couple out as being Ann’s parents. . . "
Hope this is helpful.
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