Parents of James Lightfoot (Goldington/Oakley/Clapham)

[Lexi73]

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

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

Just been to Kempston Library where the 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

Wow, you just went there?! Good detective work and thank you!

[bedfordshire boy]

I could not see it on the IGI (Family Search)

It's not on the Indexed ie extracted part of the IGI but does show on the Contributed database as FOAT

[Lexi73]

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?

Sorry, I was wrong (was trying to do genealogy and work at the same time, bad combo): it was John Lightfoot and Elizabeth West from Bromham.

[Lexi73]

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

No idea, I only have access to ancestry and that's not telling me much...

[Lexi73]

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

Could we believe that Elizabeth Smith may be from Kempston?

[johnP-bedford]

Could we believe that Elizabeth Smith may be from Kempston?

I would suspect so - girls generally marry in their own parish..... but not always!

You need to check out a baptism for her at Kempston - around 1741 if she married age 21

[bedfordshire boy]

She was certainly resident in Kempston at the time of her marriage. Which is not necessarily the same thing as being born/baptised there.

[bedfordshire boy]

Who were the witnesses to her marriage?

No idea, I only have access to ancestry and that's not telling me much...

It was a rhetorical question; merely a suggestion as to where you could look for hints ie were any of her presumed siblings witnesses at her marriage.

[Lexi73]

Who were the witnesses to her marriage?

No idea, I only have access to ancestry and that's not telling me much...

It was a rhetorical question; merely a suggestion as to where you could look for hints ie were any of her presumed siblings witnesses at her marriage.

That'll have to wait until my Bedfordshire-Northamptonshire roadtrip, some day - I could drop in at lots of archives