John Lightfoot
c: 19 March 1758
m: Mary Artingstall, widow, age 30,
by licence on 2 January 1783 at St. Mary’s Parish, Chester (age 25)
lived: Newton by Chester (from Will)
o
: Victualer
o: 1829, stock of barley malt and hops (from Will)
d: 12 March 1832
b: 17 March 1832 at St. Oswald's [of Flookersbrook] (age 74)
m: Mary Artingstall
c:
thought to be as Mary Morgan on 2 February 1741 at St. Oswald’s Parish, Chester
Father: thought to be Thomas Morgan
m1: John Artingstall, b:abt. 1739, d: 1780 (age 41),
m:
20 Dec 1764, St. Oswald’s Parish, Chester
m2: John Lightfoot, 2 Jan 1783, St Mary's Church, Saltney, Chester
Daughter of John Lightfoot and Mary Artingstall
Catharine Lightfoot (Our Ancestor)
c: 7 Dec 1784
m: 16 Jul 1805 (age 20), of Flookersbrook
m: Thomas Walker
d: 8 Dec 1840 (age 56)
b: 15 Dec 1840, St. Oswald's Parish, Chester
Notes for Mary Artingstall and John Lightfoot
It is thought that Mary was the widow of John Artingstall (abt 1739-1780), who was licensee of the "Ermine" and a Malster in Flookersbrook until he died in 1780. It is thought that John Lightfoot married her after John Artingstall's death. John Lightfoot was licensee of the Ermine, Flookersbrook, from 1818 to 1820 (there is a Lightfoot Street just across the road from the pub today). The Ermine has been rebuilt several times and is very different today from the building of the 1780's.
Advertisement from Adams Weekly Courant 18 July 1780
“MARY ARTINGSTALL, of FLOOKERSBROOK, near this City, Begs leave to inform the Friends of her late Husband, John Artingstall, deceased,THAT she intends to continue the PUBLIC BUSINESS, as usual, at the Sign of the Ermine, in Flookersbrook aforesaid; and also to carry on the MAKING of MALT, under the Management of the Person employed by her late Husband, to whose Friends she returns her sincere Thanks; and assures them and the Public in general, that those who will please to favour her with their Commands, shall be served with the above Article upon the best and most reasonable Terms,
By their oblig’d and faithful Servant, MARY ARTINGSTALL”
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Notes from Last Will and Testament of John Lightfoot
Martha Lightfoot | 12 Oct 1740, Barrow, near Chester |
Mary Lightfoot | 14 Apr 1741, Barrow, near Chester |
Elizabeth Lightfoot | 27 Jul 1743, Barrow, near Chester |
Sarah Lightfoot | 13 or 19 Aug 1745, Barrow, near Chester |
Samuel Lightfoot | 21 Apr 1747, Barrow, near Chester |
John Lightfoot | 19 Mar 1858, Barrow, Near Chester |
Katherine Lightfoot | 22 Jun 1749, Barrow, Near Chester |
Ann Lightfoot | 8 Jul 1751, Barrow, Near Chester |
Thomas Lightfoot | 19 Mar 1753 or 1754, Barrow, Near Chester |
John Lightfoot | 6 Jan 1756 or 1757, Barrow, Near Chester |
John Lightfoot | 19 Mar 1758, Barrow, Near Chester |
This could be the right line - probably the 1st and 2nd Johns died. The birth of the last John born in 1758 would fit in with the age of our John Lightfoot, who was age 74 at his death in 1832.
Christening of Catherine Lightfoot, daughter of John Lightfoot, Victualer, 7 Dec 1784
Source:
Parish Records, St. Oswald, Chester
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