Alexander Lafone

[Bricklewood]

Could anyone do a look up for Alexander Lafon[e] born 1736 Liverpool he married 02 Apr 1766 at Saint Nicholas,Liverpool,Lancashire to Mary Marchant.
He died 13 Jul 1792 St Mary the Virgin, Prescot, Lancashire.

[rosie99]

Hi Bricklewood

Welcome to rootschat 

Do you have evidence that he was born Liverpool? 

I see there is a 'submitted' record for him on the IGI but submitted records (as opposed to extracted)are very often speculation without evidence.

Rosie

[Bricklewood]

No only from the IGI although the family moved to Liverpool from Marylebone London they were tanners,they appear in the 1767 Liverpool Directory living in Mount Pleasant.
Sue

[ainslie]

I have some information on Lafones in  Liverpool, but mostly for a later period.
'Liverpool Heroes', Book 2 [edited by Ann Clayton and sold locally] contains short biographies of 18 holders of the Victoria Cross with Liverpool links.  Alexander Malins Lafone is one of them - his VC was won at Beersheba in 1917.
The biog includes a little background about the family:  Samuel L.. established a hide and leather business.  He had four sons, Alexander, the earliest, probably born in 1808.
This may not help, but I may be able to get more for you.
A

[Bricklewood]

Hi,

We have been in contact ages ago I wrote the Lafone book I am chasing up missing links and Alexander born 1736 is one.

Sue

[garstonite]

Hiya ...on Lan-opc it has

Alexander Lafone BURIAL
13th July 1792 at St Mary The Virgin, Prescot
occupation - Gentleman

Mary Lafone BURIAL
7th March 1807 at same church...
Widow

so I would say it is safe to assume his wife was Mary...was Mary Marchant born in Liverpool ?...I presume they married in Marys family church....allan

ADDED....no record of their marriage on Lan-opc.....

[Bricklewood]

I don't know where Mary was born she was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Marchant of Waterford Liverpool but I can't find any details about them either.

Sue

[wjrobin64]

Mary's father was Samuel Marchant I found

[garstonite]

Mary's father was Samuel Marchant I found

this site may be of interest to you
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~frpayments/Mar.htm

the only male Marchant as a French Refugee that I can see is Charles Marchant in 1705 aged 5
it looks like his mother was Elizabeth ( wife of Isaac) from Varenne near Noyon in Picardy...
I am just wondering if Charles is the first male Marchant to come here in 1705 - if so - the odds are that Samuel is a descendant of his ?   - unless one of the widows who came over were pregnant when they arrived ....
3 Elizabeth Marchant
3 Susanne Marchant (one aged 62 ,so we can discount her )
1 Esther