Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Jones (1696 - 1747)

Born 11 Mar 1696 in Ballyheeran, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ancestors

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Biography

Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Jones was born in Ireland.

Elizabeth was a Friend (Quaker)

Elizabeth was born in Ireland in 1696. She was the daughter of Thomas LIGHTFOOT and his second wife Sarah WILEY.

She migrated to Pennsylvania with most of her family and married Arthur Jones. ^[1]

Elizabeth died in Pennsylvania in 1747.

Research Notes

For a desription of her family see Six Columbiana Ohio Families by William Brooke Fetters. ^[2]

Fetters, Meyers and other genealogies/histories do not give a date for Elizabeth's death. There does not appear to be a source supporting the date of 1747 given.

Sources

• Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMM1VM-1%2F0053&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FBIRTH%2F7950 : accessed 08 May 2021), birth of Elizabeth Lightfoot in Ballykeran co Westmeath on 11d 1mo (Mar) 1695 (1696), father: Thomas, mother: Sarah; citing Moate MM family lists 1660-1782 with testimonies and minutes, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
• Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682 - 1750.
• Source: S912890527 Repository: #R912890515 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=12954131&pid=-20949849
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1. ↑ Name: Elizabeth Lightfoot Residence Place: Chester, Pennsylvania Father: Thomas Lightfoot Spouse: Arthur Jones Event Type: Index Monthly Meeting: Kennett Monthly Meeting Historical Meeting Data: Search for this monthly meeting in the 'Quaker Monthly Meetings Index' Yearly Meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Meeting State: Pennsylvania Meeting County: Chester
2. ↑ Fetters, W. B., Six Columbiana County, Ohio, pioneer families, The author, Bowie, Maryland :, c1991-2003, v 5, pedigree chart image 4, Chapter VII 'The Lightfoot and Wiley Families' pp 264- 304 (notes pp 648-655) (https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/492279/?offset=0#page=4&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= : accessed 16 Feburary 2024)

Acknowledgments

Thank you to George Grazier for creating WikiTree profile Lightfoot-299 through the import of Grazier Family Tree.ged on Jan 24, 2013.

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