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Dear all,

I am currently researching the Lightwood family from Biddenham, of which at a certain point one family ups and moves to Clapham. I'm now trying to find out what happened to them after Clapham. Did they die/marry there (can't find any proof yet)? Did they move back to Biddenham? Did the family just die out when none of the children married?

This is what I already know:
John Lightwood (labourer, later thatcher), baptised 31 Aug 1701, most likely the 6th of 9 children of John Lightwood and his wife Elizabeth (older siblings Richard, Mary, Judith, Jane, Sarah, younger brothers William, Francis, Edward).
John Jr was first married first to a lady called Sarah (maiden name unknown, no marriage found), who dies 2 March 1729. Their children were Richard (1724), Mary (1726-1730) and possibly William (+1737).
He then goes on to marry Sarah Johnson in 1735, and with her he has first child Mary (1735). These two families were both Biddenham.
Then the family up and move to Clapham, where another five children were born: Sarah (1737), Lucy (1738, who strangely enough is buried back in Biddenham in 1739), William (1740), John 1743 and Francis (1745, buried in Oakley later in 1745). William may have died in Clapham (buried Oakley) in 1761.

After that I find no trace of this family, so if there's anyone researching this family, could you please share your findings with me, or help me look at some records? I live on the continent so all I can research is online. I do have access to ancestry and familysearch, not findmypast.

There is another Lightwood family in Biddenham in the 1780s and 90s, when John and Judith Lightwood have their children baptised. But there seems to be a gap of at least a whole generation in between these families.

Any help is most welcome!
Thanks in advance 

Regards,
Lexi.

Hi all,
Is there anyone here that can help me find the children and possibly grandchildren for John Lightfoot (b 1777) and Elizabeth West (b abt 1779). They were both from Bedfordshire but seem to have moved to Huntingdonshire some time after their marriage (1803 in Bromham, Bedfordshire).
The 1841 census gives the couple aged about 60, living in Great Raveley. Two more Lightfoot families are living in that town: William Lightfoot and his wife Mary, with children John, Rachel and Sarah - and Thomas Lightfoot and his wife Mary, with children James and Frederick.
Could anyone provide me with the birth/baptism dates of William and Thomas, as well as possible siblings (so other children of John and Elizabeth), and those of the grandchildren?
Thanks very much in advance!
Regards,
Lexi.

Dear all,
I was hoping someone could help me find the origins of Thomas Craddock who marries Ann(e) Lightfoot in Clapham on 11 April 1803? I know who the parents (and siblings) are of Ann(e) Lightfoot, who was baptised in Clapham in 1782, but I have no idea who this Thomas Craddock is. And since I have a whole bunch of Craddocks from Bedfordshire/Northamptonshire in my family tree, wouldn't it be great to see if I can find his family somewhere too?
So if anyone can help me with the parents and/or baptism (date/location) of Thomas Craddock, I'd be very grateful!
Thank you very much in advance!
Regards, Lexi.

Dear all,
I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could help me find the parents for Ebenezer Hayles, who marries Maria/Mary/Merah Barnett/Bennet in Fowlmere on 23 Oct 1774. Their children are born/baptised in Whittlesford, so I'm guessing Ebenezer and Maria were from that area too? There is a possibility that they were baptists or something else non-conformist.
Any help is welcome!
Thanks!
Lexi.

Dear all,
I'm hoping someone can help me find information on my g-g-g-g-grandmother, Jane Jordan. I have found some information on her already, mainly from UK censuses (she married into an English family and lived in Middlesex), but I am now looking for her birth or baptism, as well as information on her parents. The sparse bits I have on her are somewhat confusing.

This is what I already found on her:
* 12 Jun 1853 she marries Walter Scott in St Giles without Cripplegate, London. On the marriage record it states that her father is called Edward Jordan.
* the 1861 census states that she was born in Ireland, and she is 30 years old then (the surname is mis-transcribed as Kot, not Scott).
* the 1871 census states that she was born in Ballingarry/Ballingany, Ireland and she is 41 years old.
* the 1881 census states that she was born in Ireland - Dublin, she is 53 years old.
* the 1891 census states that she was born in Ireland and she is 63 years old.

I have not yet found her (definite) death registration, but as neither she nor her husband Walter are to be found in the 1901 census I guess they both died between 1891 and 1901. Unless they went to South Africa, following their daughter Ellen and her husband.

Husband Walter Scott seems to have been quite young when he married, as he is about 8 to 10 years younger than his wife and was, based on the census info, probably about 18 when their first child was born.
I have so far found 4 children for them: Walter (abt 1855), Ellen (abt 1858), Clement (abt 1860) and Mary (abt 1862), though this knowledge is based on census information rather than actually having found their birth or baptism registrations. But they may have been non-conformists so that might explain this?
The names Walter and Clement definitely come from the Scott side of the family (both Walter's brother and grandfather were Clements, as were a great many of fathers before that), and Mary was probably named after Walter's mother - so maybe Jane's mother was called Ellen? In any case it is a name I have not found in the tree before then.

Any help to smash down this brick wall is most welcome!!!
Kindest regards,
Lexi.