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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 16 April 16 14:51 BST (UK) »
How would it provide information about James' parents?

Even cheaper would be to order and view the microfilm of Clapham parish register at your nearest LDS Family History Centre

David

Haha no that would be even more difficult from where I live. I bought the CD for Harrold and that had parents' information with the baptisms. I live in hope :-)

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 16 April 16 16:12 BST (UK) »
There are plenty of LDS Family History Centres in France. There's even one in Carcassonne where I live

If a baptism isn't on the IGI it won't be on a CD or transcript published by Beds FHS

David
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            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 16 April 16 17:41 BST (UK) »
From the Bedfordshire Surnames Index CD available from Beds FHS (being derived from each of their parish CDs) there is no James/Jas Lightfoot baptism that fits your timeframe - apart from what we've heard of already, ie. 1762 at Luton which I've dismissed as his burial in Clapham in 1841 aged 71 makes him born 1770.

Maybe he was born outside Bedfordshire

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 16 April 16 18:00 BST (UK) »
Have so far found in Clapham:
Mary Lightfoot (abt 1767) x Benjamin Noble (m 1788)

Benjamin Noble was of Oakley when he married Mary Lightfoot at Clapham in 1788.

I have it that wife Mary Noble was buried Oakley in 1791
Widower Benjamin Noble then married Elizabeth Boddington at Oakley in July 1792
Their first child named Mary baptised 23/9/1793.....
She married Richard Partridge on 3 June 1818 at Bletsoe......
He's my paternal great-great-grandfather.....

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 16 April 16 18:37 BST (UK) »
Have so far found in Clapham:
Mary Lightfoot (abt 1767) x Benjamin Noble (m 1788)

Benjamin Noble was of Oakley when he married Mary Lightfoot at Clapham in 1788.

I have it that wife Mary Noble was buried Oakley in 1792
Widower Benjamin Noble then married Elizabeth Boddington at Oakley in July 1792
Their first child named Mary baptised 23/9/1793.....
She married Richard Partridge on 3 June 1818 at Bletsoe......
He's my paternal great-great-grandfather.....

Small world!

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 17 April 16 09:56 BST (UK) »
Cracked it!

If you check the IGI, John and Elizabeth FOOT baptised a number of children in Clapham 1770-82. The names match up with the various LIGHTFOOT marriages in Clapham 1795 onwards.

It looks as though James FOOT baptised 28 Jan 1770 in Clapham is the one you're looking for. In fact I see that this James and Jenny actually baptised a son John FOOT on 5 Apr 1801 in Clapham, notwithstanding all their other children were LIGHTFOOT

David
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 17 April 16 11:05 BST (UK) »
Good find David.... The Beds FHS Surnames CD does not list the 1801 baptism of John under Lightfoot, but does list it under Foot. Wonder what the original marriage register says. 

The Foot baptisms at Clapham are William 1767, John 1768, James 1770, William 1772, Elizabeth 1775, John 1777, Jane 1778, Ann 1782 & John 1801. Without reference to Clapham PR (or the IGI) I don't know the parents. With multiple Johns & no burials I suspect different families.

There's also burial of William Foot of Clapham at Oakley in 1767

Also a marriage of John Foot of Clapham at Kempston in 1762

Plus baptism of Thomas Foot at Oakley in 1764

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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Bishop - Bedford; Hunts, Hemingford Grey
Allen - Hunts, Hemingford Abbotts
Clement - Croydon
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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 17 April 16 13:04 BST (UK) »
John and Elizabeth Foot may have come from Oakley, Beds. There's a baptism of a Thomas Foot in Oakley in Jan 1764, and BARS has a settlement Certificate from Oakley to Clapham for John and Elizabeth Foot dated 13 Jul 1763 (http://bedsarchivescat.bedford.gov.uk/Details/archive/110194720 )

David
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 17 April 16 21:00 BST (UK) »
Waaaaahhhhh how does that work then?! I now have to check out a whole different surname!

This IS a great find though, thanks a LOT for that, gentlemen!

I'd better have a look at the FOOT family instead then.

Could the 1801 John not be the son of James and Jenny, by the way?