Elizabeth Lightfoot ^{2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

The birth of Elizabeth is recorded in the church records of Saint James Parish Register, 1787-1815, page 22 and included on FTM CD#178. The record includes this brief history of the church:

SAINT JAMES PARISH (Located on the border between Baltimore and Hartford Counties in Maryland)

Today the church of Saint James of My Lady's Manor stands near the intersection of Monkton and Old York Roads, near modern real estate developments. When the church was first built, starting in 1752, it stood in the rolling country, barely settled, near what would become the border of Baltimore and Hartford Counties. Jennie E. Jeasop, writing in the December 1968 issue of History Trails, states that the church was first planned as a chapel of ease in 1750, designed to save same of the parishioners of Saint John's Parish a long ride to church. This chapel comprises the nave of the present day church.

As with many modern buildings, construction costs exceeded the original estimates and in 1754 and 1755 an additional £70,000 was levied on the taxables of the parish to complete construction. The original windows of bubble glass have been replaced by stained glass memorial windows. Twelve of the original pews, installed in the 1750s, still remain, and the appointments of the interior include a number of altar frontals made in England, a set of vestments from Canada, and an eighteenth century set of Nativity figures from Italy.

Until 1777 the chapel was a part of Saint John's parish, but in January of the latter year it became an independent parish. In March 1779 Reverend George Hughes Worsley was called to be the first rector. He was to divide his time between the parishes of Saint John's and Saint James. There are no vestry records or registers of birth, death, and marriage dating from his tenure but we know that in May 1780 the Vestry of Saint James wrote to the Vestry or Saint John's requesting that Reverend Worsley attend Saint James' services on the fourth Sunday of each month. He also gave one Sunday a month to Mr. Hunter's chapel in the Saint John's Parish, and the other two Sundays to preaching at Saint John's. According to the parish history, Saint James of My Lady's Manor, 1750-1950, the work of serving the three pulpits was so heavy that by the end of 1780 he left for Charles County where he served the Port Tobacco Parish.

The second rector was the Reverend John Andrews who served from 1782 to 1785. He was a member of the first graduating class from the College of Philadelphia (forerunner of the University of Pennsylvania), and later taught at an academy in York County, Pennsylvania. A distinguished classical scholar, he divided his time between Saint James and Saint Thomas Parishes. In April 1785 Reverend Andrews took his family back to Philadelphia where he devoted the remainder of his life to teaching.

For two years the church was again without a rector, and then in July 1787 Reverend John Coleman, a native of Virginia, was called as the third rector. He served until 1816, and at one time served three parishes (Saint James, Saint Thomas and one other) simultaneously. During his pastorate the registers of birth, death, and marriage were preserved, the first Vestry minutes have been recorded, and his personal diary contains a number of entries pertaining to the lives of his parishioners.

The original register containing marriages, 1787-1814, and births and christenings, 1783-1815, is now at the Maryland Historical Society in the Manuscript Division (MS.720). This register was recopied by Lucy H. Harrison, and placed in the Library of the Historical Society. In the back of this transcript are several pages of typed entries from Reverend Coleman's diary, noting the dates of death, names, and ages of a number of the people whose funerals he conducted. Some later records of a nineteenth century rector, Rev. John Reeder Keech, have been published In the Bulletin of the Maryland Genealogical Society, Vol. 19, no. 3, page. 158-161.

The church is surrounded on four sides by some of the oldest tombstones in the county. Many of these were copied and published in Ridgely's Historic Graves of Maryland and Delaware. More recently the older section of the graveyard was copied by members of the Historical and Genealogical Societies of Baltimore County.
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  Birth Notes:

Name: Elisabeth Lightfoot
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 19 Jul 1793
Event Place: Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Event Place (Original): Saint James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Gender: Female
Father's Name: John Lightfoot
Mother's Name: Alice

Citing this Record
"Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HYGK-FJMM : 12 February 2020), Alice in entry for Elisabeth Lightfoot, 1793.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1820 US Census in Washington Township, Wayne County, OH on August 1820. ⁸

Page 274, Roll 93
Washington Township, Wayne County, Ohio
Females 16-26: 1 - (Elizabeth Robison, 27)
(Living with husband.)
.

• She appeared on the 1830 US Census in Clinton Township, Wayne, OH on June 1830. ⁹

Page 28, Roll 142
Clinton Township, Wayne County, Ohio
Females 30-40: 1 - (Elizabeth Robinson, 37)
(Living with husband and 3 children.)
.

Elizabeth married Simon Robison on 11 July 1820 in , Wayne County, OH.^{1 2} (Simon Robison was born about 1790 and died after 1 June 1830.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Image: 11 July 1820, in , Wayne County, OH. ²

• They appeared on the 1820 US Census in Washington Township, Wayne County, OH on August 1820. ¹⁰

1820 US Census
Page 274, Roll 93
Washington Township, Wayne County, Ohio, United States

1 Male 26-45..Simon Robison..Head..(about 30)
1 Female 16-26..(probably Elizabeth Robison, 27)

1 person was engaged in manufacturing (probably Simon)

NOTE - Living next to Elizabeth's father, John Lightfoot.
.

• They appeared on the 1830 US Census in Clinton Township, Wayne, OH on June 1830. ⁹

1830 US Census
Page 28, Roll 142
Clinton Township, Wayne County, Ohio, United States

1 Male under 5..(unknown)
1 Male 5-10..(unknown)
1 Male 60-70..Simon Robison..Head..(about 40, should have been in the 30-40 category)

1 Female under 5..(unknown)
1 Female 30-40..(probably Elizabeth Robinson, 37)

5 Total in household

NOTE - Lived next to Elizabeth's father, John Lightfoot
.

  Marriage Notes:

I have little additional information about Simon Robinson and Elizabeth Lightfoot other than their marriage in Wayne County in 1820. If they stayed in Wayne County, then there are two listings in the Census of 1880, one in Franklin Township and the other in East Union Township. In either case, Elizabeth would be about 87 years old so it is somewhat doubtful that either of these entries are her.
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Name: Simon Robison
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 11 Jul 1820
Event Place: Wayne, Ohio, United States
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Lightfoot

Citing this Record
"Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZVP-MQS : 8 December 2017), Simon Robison and Elizabeth Lightfoot, 11 Jul 1820; citing Marriage, Wayne, Ohio, United States, p14, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
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