HOUGHTON, Benjamin Oakes 1776-1843

Son of Charles Houghton.
Born in 1776 in Ashbourne he died in Belper, Derbyshire in 1843 aged 67. He became a Grocer/Draper in Belper, though some members of the Oakes family did buy property near Alfreton, Derbyshire (See under James Oakes, born 1788)
On 19 9 1802 when Benjamin Oakes was 26, he married Eleanor FROST, in Duffield. Born in 1781,she died in 1843 aged 62.
They had the following children:
25 i. Mary. She died about 1852.
26 ii Sarah.
27 iii. Helen.
28 iv. Ann.
29 v. Emma.
30 vi. Eliza Clara. On 13 12 Eliza Clara married James THURMAN, in Duffield. He was possibly born in Nottingham.
31 vii Agnes. In 1838 Agnes married William THURMAN, in Belper.
32 viii. Charles.
33 ix. Phoebe Frost (1821-1901). She married Edward Langford Hoyland (1819-1843) in Duffield in 1802.