My 5x great uncle Richard Kelsall Glenton, a customs clerk who lived 1794 - 1863, was featured in episode 1 of A House Through Time, first broadcast on BBC2 on 4 January 2018, being the first resident of 62 (58 at the time) Falkner Street Liverpool..
He was the son of Jonas Wilson Glenton Snr ( who incidentally died at his home on Falkner Street in 1844) and his wife Betty Becca Kelsall.
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| Source: BBC A House Through Time 4 January 2018 |
Born on 17 May 1794, he was christened 17 June the same year at St George's Church, Liverpool.
Richard never married, and worked as a HM Customs officer in the Port of Liverpool.
He died on 13 February 1863 at Mount Prospect, Beacon Lane, Everton. The Liverpool Mercury, dated 20 February 1863 gave the following notice:
"GLENTON, Feb13th, Mount Prospect, Beacon Lane, Everton, Richard Kelsall, aged 69, late of HM Customs and youngest surviving son of the late JW Glenton Esq, landing surveyor of HM Customs, this port."
I am related thus:
from me ... dad ... George Ernest Heywood.. Ellen Eliza Hindley .. Richard Henry Hindley ... Harriet Glenton ... Henry Glenton (brother of Richard Kelsall Glenton).
Documents I know of:
1794 Register of baptism:
1827 Electoral register:
1841 census:
1861 Census:
1863 Death register (note his sister Eliza two above him)
Wills for Eliza and Richard 1863
Death certificates:
The following are taken from the TV Documentary. Source: BBC A House Through Time 4 January 2018
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| Inventory for 58 Falkner Street at auction 1844 |
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| Style of carpet from inventory |
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| Liverpool 1830s |
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| Card table from 1840s. Glenton had 2 at Falkner Street |
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| Card playing bachelor gentlemen from the time |
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| Bachelor gentlemen at the time |
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| Drunken bachelor gentlemen from the time |
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| The style of settee Glenton used at Falkner Street |
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| Entertaining the ladies |
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| Last will and testament of Jonas Wilson Glenton |
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| Signature and seal of Jonas Wilson Glenton |
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| Customs clerks from the time |
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| Richard Kelsall Glenton mentioned 1832 as a customs clerk |
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| Old Customs House, Liverpool, where Glenton worked. Built 1839 |
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| Falkner Street 1840 |
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| 58 Falkner Street basement |
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| 58 Falkner Street ground floor |
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| 58 Falkner Street first floor |
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| 58 Falkner Street second floor |
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| Gores Directory 1841 - showing Richard and his father |
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| Street scene from Liverpool c1840s |
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| Gores Directory 1841 |
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| Falkner Street 1840s |
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| Moss Lake Fields, where Falkner Street was built |
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| Graphic of what Moss Lake Fields may have looked like |
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| 62 (formerly 58) Falkner Street today |
