Eds Adventures in Genealogy

The Shingleton family This page tells the story of one of my wife's paternal ancestral lines, the Shingletons. The surname Shingleton is probably an uncommon variation of Singleton. Singleton itself has two origins, both habitational (named for a location). The first is from the Old English scingel (give us the modern word shingle) and tun meaning enclosure or settlement. The second is from Old English sengel meaning a burnt clear and again tun. As the shingleton variant of the name sounds the same as modern day shingle is suggests the first origin is more likely. As a less common variant of a more common surname I will be looking at the name Shingleton specifically and at the occurence of the name Singleton to see if it provides more deeper habitational information. The family history to do Biography Pages Ellen Cartner née Shingleton (1902 - 1972)

Ellen's childhood My wife's great grandmother Ellen CARTNER nee SHINGLETON was born in 1902 in the village of Esh just outisde Durham in the North East of England. When she was born Ellen already had a n old er brother, 2 year old William Edward, who was also born in Esh. Ellen's father John SHINGLETON was 29 and from Roundsgreen in Worcestershire and her mother Ellen BROOKS, for whom she was named, was 28 and from neighbouring Smethwick, across the border in Staffordshire. Her parents had been married 3 years and had married in the district of Kings Norton (probably in her mothers home town of Smethwick which the district covers). It's not clear when or why her father moved to Esh , presumably for work. P icture to the left courtesy of Ordnance Survey Opendata on wikipedia. Esh was a small rural village 5 miles from Durham with strong links to the coal industry. The Esh Colliery specialised in coal mining and by the time Ellen lived in the village th...