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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 17 April 16 21:08 BST (UK) »
But just to add, so you have no doubts, this news makes me very, VERY happy!

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 17 April 16 21:22 BST (UK) »

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.


No Mary at all?

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #29 on: Monday 18 April 16 08:31 BST (UK) »
Could the 1801 John not be the son of James and Jenny, by the way?

??? That's what I said it was!

Hope you have more success finding the marriage of John Foot and Elizabeth than I've had!
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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 #30 on: Monday 18 April 16 08:49 BST (UK) »
Could the 1801 John not be the son of James and Jenny, by the way?

??? That's what I said it was!

Hope you have more success finding the marriage of John Foot and Elizabeth than I've had!

Sorry, didn't read properly  :( Was trying to figure things out from my phone instead of my computer, and a mini screen is so much less readable!


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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #31 on: Monday 18 April 16 08:53 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.....

You wouldn't happen to know any more about Mary, would you? Is she also one of the Foot-changed-to-Lightfoot children?

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #32 on: Monday 18 April 16 09:35 BST (UK) »
I suspect that Mary is another daughter of John and Elizabeth Foot, who seem to have married in 1763 or before. Without a baptism I can't prove it though. Who were the witnesses to her marriage?

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 #33 on: Monday 18 April 16 10:17 BST (UK) »
Now you've got me intrigued!

My best man was a Lightfoot, from Bromham, which is where JohnP and I lived as teenagers, next door to Oakley and Clapham.

Is he descended from this same Lightfoot/Foot family? Must take a look. Bizarre that his nickname was Foot when we worked together in Bedford.

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 #34 on: Monday 18 April 16 10:46 BST (UK) »
Now you've got me intrigued!

My best man was a Lightfoot, from Bromham, which is where JohnP and I lived as teenagers, next door to Oakley and Clapham.

Is he descended from this same Lightfoot/Foot family? Must take a look. Bizarre that his nickname was Foot when we worked together in Bedford.

David

A Thomas Lightfoot married in Bromham in 1784... Could be the Oakley son of John and Elizabeth? He many never have left and have become the ancestor of your friend?

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Re: Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)
« Reply #35 on: Monday 18 April 16 10:58 BST (UK) »
Hope you have more success finding the marriage for John Foot and Elizabeth than I've had!

The Beds FHS Surnames index has a marriage for John Foot of Clapham at Kempston in 1762.
I could not see it on the IGI (Family Search)

Just been to Kempston Library where they have PR transcript
11 May 1762 John Foot of Clapham married Elizabeth SMITH

It's the only Foot entry for Kempston & there are no Lightfoot names
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Partridge - North Beds; Northants & Peterborough
Bishop - Bedford; Hunts, Hemingford Grey
Allen - Hunts, Hemingford Abbotts
Clement - Croydon
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