Richard Lancaster (1796 - 1837)

Born 11 Jun 1796 in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

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Died 1837 at about age 40 in Everton, Lancashire, England

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Biography

A prayer book transcribed by the family in Australia says he was born 11 June 1796 at Hebden Bridge near Halifax in Yorkshire, and christened there by Lnc Tanna.

It is suspected that Richard his father worked with his brother in law [Thomas Lonsdale who moved to Kemptville, Canada], a fell monger whose firm became reasonably important.

The Hebden Bridge Wesleyan register gives a date of 21 July 1795 for a baptism of Richard and Mary Lancaster. They seem to have been living in Wadsworth, which is right on the border with Colne, which is apparently where they were from.

The prayer book also says Richard died at Liverpool in February 1837, aged 41. This seems to match a "non conformist" burial 19 Feb. 1837 in Everton, for a Richard Lancaster aged 41, who was a resident of Copperas Hill.

There is a Richard Lancaster who continued to live in Colne during the early 1800s, but perhaps this Richard married Betty Foulds there 11 May 1809, which probably makes him a little too old to match this Richard.

Sources

• Website of relative Andrew Lancaster
• Correspondence and research reports to family of Richard Lonsdale Lancaster