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[km1971]

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[Bejantine]

Hi Freda

Thanks for the reply!

My HAWORTH family came from Haslingden to Oswaldtwistle about 1810. They were some of the early methodists in the area and were involved at union St, Accrington to start with and then raised money to build Hippings at Oswaldtwistle.

I first came across JEL the mayor when he is the executor of my GGG grandfather Jonathan's Will in the 1860's.  Jonathan's brother Thomas was an Accrington council employee. 

JEL was invited to the wedding of Jonathan's granddaughter Edith in Filey, YKS in 1879. Both she and her husband Newton CLAYTON were born in Oswaldtwistle although he was now living in Selsey, Sussex.  Newton's father was an Ossy man and in fact , Newton's great-uncle Thomas had married the bride's great-aunt Jane in 1818.

Newton and Edith's 4th child was called Harold Lightfoot and Mrs Bunting died at Selsey so there was obviously a close relationship.

The only other link that there might be is that Edith's aunt Elizabeth married a William HUTCHINSON in Accrington in 1837. He was born in 1810.   unfortunately he died in 1848 so I don't know where he came from.
I wonder  if he was a relation of Mary HUTCHINSON, JEL's first wife?

Am happy to swap obits - will send you a pm with my email address

[Fredaml]

Interesting to see those connections.  It always surprises me what a small world it is.  JEL himself was very involved in the chapel, and very generous with his donations as Victorians were.  I lived in Ossy and went to Hippings Methodist Primary School, now demolished.  We didn't know that Emma Grace moved to Selsey.  I don't know any more of Mary Hutchinson's family, I'm afraid, and it's difficult to find them so far back.  I look forward to receiving the obit.
Best wishes,
Freda

[MARKLUCAS]

Dear Freda
My father-in-law Robert Dudley Lightfoot is the grandson of Thomas Edwin Ryder Lightfoot.  It was his great grandfather who invented aniline black.  Can you help with my research on the descendants of John and Ann Lightfoot?


Thanks
Mark

Did you know JEL and Sarah Hartley had an adopted daughter Mary Jane Taylor?

[sarah]

Hi Mark,

Welcome to Rootschat

I am very sorry but Freda's email address is no longer working, I have done a little search on the internet but there are no alternative contacts for Freda

All the Best

Sarah

[MARKLUCAS]

Hi Mark,

Welcome to Rootschat

I am very sorry but Freda's email address is no longer working, I have done a little search on the internet but there are no alternative contacts for Freda

All the Best

Sarah

Dear Sarah
Thanks for your help.  Do you know if Freda's surname is Lightfoot?
Mark

[Accringtonian]

I have a pal in Accrington who is descended from JEL and know another lady in Australia but she is difficult to contact.  I will try to contact both of them. Lightfoot's photo is top of the stairs in Accrington Library. He is perhaps the only prominent Victorian Accringtonian who does not have s street named after him. Bob

[clayton bradley]

There's a lady on Ancestry with JEL in her tree, if you have Ancestry access, claytonbradley