ref: John Irving Carlton of Ewanrigg, Sarah Isabella Birkett wife of Robert Birkett of Waterhouse in the County of Durham & William Carlton of No. 10 Gray Street Workington Below is a message posted on the Boulder, Colorado message board. What she is referring to is I have quite a lot of reference works on Boulder and like to post replies of help there. One of the people I helped said she lived there and if I needed anything she'd be more than happy to look. My foolish reply was "Thanks but I've got all my Boulder research done." HA ! Karen had just posted the County Clerks office site and when I checked it out I saw a record of a Power of Attorney for one name I knew, one I assumed died in infancy and one I had never heard of. Been at this over 25 years and my Carlton line is one of my best documented and here all of a sudden I'm finding 2 adult children I didn't know anything about. David, You've been so helpful to everyone here that you certainly deserve one of those "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness." I stopped by the recording department and had the document copied. All the good stuff is at the beginning, except for the names of some mayors and solicitors from England. Looks like William was another sibling that stayed in England. --- No. 2510 Power of Attorney John Irving Carlton Sarah Isabella Birkett to William Carlton Filed for record July 7th A. D. 1892 at 3:20 p.m. J. D. Moorhead Recorder To All to whome these presents shall come JohnIrving Carlton of Ewanrigg near Maryport in the County of Cumberland EnglandEngineman and Sarah Isabella Birkett wife of Robert Brickett of Waterhousein the County of Durham England Coal miner Send Greeting. Whereas ThomasCarlton late of Louisville in the County of Boulder and State of Coloradoin the United States of America Mine Manager deceased died on or about the20th day of January A. D. 1892 intestate as we believe and we the said JohnIrving Carlton and Sarah Isabella Birkett as two of the five children ofthe said Thomas Carlton deceased and of Jane Carlton his late wife are severallyand respectively entitled each to one fifth part or share or some other partshare or interest in the lands houses hereditaments chattels and real andpersonal estate of the said Thomas Carleton or of the said Jane Carlton orof the Said Thomas Carlton and Jane Carlton consisting of among other propertyLot number nine (9) in Block number five (5) in the Town of Louisville inthe said County of Boulder and certain personal property in or about thesame and one hundred and sixty five (165) shares of the capital stock ofthe Acme Coal Mining Company standing in the name of the said Thomas Carltonin the books of said Company Need know ye that we the said John Irving Carletonand Sarah Isabella Birkett do jointly and each of us severally and respectivelydoth by these presents make ordain constitute and appoint our brother WilliamCarlton of No. 10 Gray Street Workington in the County of Cumberland EnglandBlast Engineman (who is now about to proceed to Louisville) our true andlawful attorney and the true and lawful attorney of each of us severallyand respectively to sue for ask demand recover and receive of and from theadministrator or administratrix of the said Thomas Carlton or from his executoror executrix if he shall have left a will or from any other person or personsaccountable in respect of the property of the said Thomas Carlton all thedistributive share or shares or interests of and in the personal estate ofthe said Thomas Carlton which we are or each or either of us is by law entitledunto and all sum and sums of money goods chattels and personal estate whatsoeverwhich by our said Father's dying as aforesaid belong or by right ought tobelong to us or either of us out of his estate and upon receipt thereof acquittanceother discharges for us and each of us and in our several names to five tothe administrator or administratrix executor or executrix of our said Fatheror other the person or persons accountable as aforesaid for what our saidattorney shall receive and to make any agreement or composition for our saidshares or interests of and in our said fathers personal estate or for anyother matter or thing due to us respectively from his estate and also withfull power and authority for us and in our several names and for our useto sell and dispose of or to concur with any other person or persons in sellingor disposing of all or any of the OH HELP, THERE'S TWO MORE PAGES OF THIS STUFF!