Bathsheba Layton Denton

Found on Ancestry.com:

From the comments:  My mother is Lois Layton, daughter of Russell Bowler Layton, son of Timothy James Layton son of Charles Layton. Grandpa gave my the picture in 1983. He told me and it was written on the back, that it was a picture of Grandma Bathsheba Layton Denton and an unknown granddaughter. I don't know what year it was taken but I'm guessing @ 1861 before she died.

NOTE: Bathsheba signs her name as Sheba.

And letters written to Charles Layton and Elizabeth (hie first wife) by Bathsheba and Nathaniel Denton. Two letters, two pages each.

Millbrook, Bedfordshire, England

This is the village where Bathsheba Layton was born.

MILLBROOK[Transcribed and edited information from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868]

"MILLBROOK, a parish in the hundred of Redbornestoke, county Bedford, 2 miles west of Ampthill, its post town, and 7 south west of Bedford. The village, which is small, is chiefly agricultural. The women are employed in making pillow lace and plaiting straw. The land is principally arable. There was formerly a Benedictine cell to St. Alban's Abbey, which was removed to Beaulieu in Herts in 1119. A chain of hills intersects the parish nearly in the centre. The soil in the south part of the parish is of a light sandy nature, but in the north a strong clay. The tithes were commuted for land and corn-rents under an Enclosure Act in 1795. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Ely, value £343, in the patronage of the lord chancellor. The church, which is situated on rising ground about the centre of the village, is dedicated to St. Michael. It has a tower containing two bells. The interior of the church has a brass of a priest, and a marble monument by Westmacott to the Hon. Georgians Fox, youngest daughter of the late Lord Holland, who is also interred here. There is a charity of £6 6s. per annum, bequeathed by the late Dr. Allen for the instruction of 10 boys and the same number of girls. There is a National school."

Bathsheba Layton Denton