Francis LIGHTLEY

Born:   12th August 1884, West Melton, Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
 
Father: Stephen Mercer LIGHTLEY
Mother: Betsey Helen WHITE
 
Married: Ellen Ann REDFERN, 20th May 1907, Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorkshire
 
Children: Beatrice Annie LIGHTLEY, born 1907
Hilda May LIGHTLEY, born 1910
Sarah Ellen LIGHTLEY, born 1912
Arnold LIGHTLEY, born 1915
Albert LIGHTLEY, born 1919
 
Died: 26th April 1967, Rotherham, Yorkshire
 

Francis (Frank) Lightley was born in West Melton in 1884, the son of Stephen Mercer Lightley and Betsey Helen White. He worked as a refractory bricklayer and in 1907 married Ellen Ann Redfern in the Wesleyan methodist church in Wath-upon-Dearne. They had five children, three of whom died young.

[Frank with his grandmother] [Frank with Ellen Ann and Arnold]
Frank with his grandmother, Elizabeth Robson, and sister Elizabeth Annie. Frank with Ellen Ann and their son Arnold.

Sources:

  1. Birth certificate for Francis Lightley.
  2. Marriage certificate for Francis Lightley and Ellen Ann Redfern.
  3. Death certificate for Francis Lightley.
  4. Parish records for Wath-upon-Dearne: Methodist Circuit and Trinity Methodist.