Stephen Mercer LIGHTLEY

Born:   18th July 1856, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire
 
Father: Thomas LIGHTLEY
Mother: Elizabeth Robson BAYES
 
Christened: 31st August 1856, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire
 
Married: Betsey Helen WHITE, 23rd August 1880, Barnsley, Yorkshire
 
Children: Walter LIGHTLEY, born c. 1881
Arthur LIGHTLEY, born c. 1883
Francis LIGHTLEY, born 1884
Elizabeth Annie LIGHTLEY, born 1886
Harry Mercer LIGHTLEY, born 1888
Albert LIGHTLEY, born 1890
Herbert LIGHTLEY, born 1892
Harry LIGHTLEY, born 1894
Esther LIGHTLEY, born 1895
 
Died: 1908
 

[Stephen Mercer Lightley] Stephen Mercer Lightley was born in Bridlington Quay in July 1856, the son of Thomas Lightley and Elizabeth Robson Bayes. In 1870 he was apprenticed for a period of seven years to Dowsland Wardill Junior of Bridlington Quay who was a joiner and carriage builder. In August 1880 he married Betsey Helen White in Barnsley and by the following year they had settled in the Wath-upon-Dearne area of Yorkshire, where Stephen worked as a colliery carpenter. They had at least nine children and also brought up their nephew Richard as their own son. Stephen died in 1908.

Sources:

  1. Birth certificate for Stephen Mercer Lightley.
  2. Marriage certificate for Stephen Mercer Lightley and Betsey Helen White.
  3. Apprenticeship indentures for Stephen Mercer Lightley.
  4. IGI.
  5. FreeBMD.
  6. 1881 census for Brampton Bierlow.
  7. 1891 census for Brampton Bierlow.
  8. 1901 census for Wath-upon-Dearne.
  9. Information from Dennis Lightley.