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Light/White family

 Thank you to the family of Audrey June Bibby for sharing this information.

 

Joseph Light of Skelmersdale

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Joseph Light (1829-1913) 

 

Born Wolverhampton 1829, son of Peter and Susannah Light.

Married Sarah White 1874, Parish of Hesketh with Becconsall.

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Sarah Light (nee White) d. 1883

1881 lived Liverpool Road, Skelmersdale.

Children, William (1876-1937), Mary Ann (1875-188), Joseph (1878-1879), Bessy (1881-1882), Susan (1882-1969)

Sarah Light died 1883

Joseph Light became a well respected and successful antique dealer with property in Liverpool Road, Skelmersdale.

Joseph married Nanny Wood of Sandy Lane, Skelmersdale, 1884.

Lived at 17 Liverpool Road, Skelmersdale, property included Ivydene, Liverpool Road.

Nanny Light died 1910

Joseph Light died 1913 

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William and Susan Light, surviving chidren of Joseph and Sarah Light

 

William Light

William Light married Lydia Ormesher of Westhead

Children; Gladys Peace, Joseph Edward, Norman, Sarah

 

Susan Light

married 1. Robert Webster d. 1915  2. Frank Walker d.1921

Son, John Walker died 1942, Thailand (POW) remembered on the Skelmersdale War Memorial.

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