Francis Bayes LIGHTLEY

Born:   1862, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire
 
Father: Thomas LIGHTLEY
Mother: Elizabeth Robson BAYES
 
Christened: 25th May 1862, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire
 
Married: Catherine Hannah RATCLIFF, 10th October 1887, Bridlington, Yorkshire
 
Children: William Ratcliffe LIGHTLEY, born c. 1888
Thomas Harold LIGHTLEY, born 1893
 
Died: 1941, Yorkshire
 

Francis Bayes Lightley was born in Bridlington Quay in 1862, the son of Thomas Lightley and Elizabeth Robson Bayes. In 1881 he was living with his parents in Bridlington, and was apprenticed to a joiner. In 1887 he married Catherine Hannah Ratcliff in Bridlington, by which time he recorded his occupation as a cabinet maker. He is listed as a joiner in Bulmer's directory of 1892 for Bridlington.

Sources:

  1. Marriage certificate for Francis Bayes Lightley and Catherine Hannah Ratcliff.
  2. 1871 census for Bridlington.
  3. 1881 census for Bridlington.
  4. 1891 census for Bridlington.
  5. 1901 census for Bridlington.
  6. FreeBMD.
  7. Bulmer's directory of 1892 for Bridlington.