Born in Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Thomas Lightfoot
and Mary (Unknown) Lightfoot
Sister of
William Lightfoot, Michael Lightfoot, Abigail (Lightfoot) Wiley [half], Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Jones [half], Sarah Lightfoot [half], Samuel Lightfoot [half], Margaret (Lightfoot) Starr [half] and Jacob Lightfoot [half]
Wife of
James Miller
— married
13 Feb 1701 in Waterstown, County Westmeath, Ireland
Descendants 
Mother of
Sarah (Miller) Milhous, Elizabeth (Miller) Hiett, Samuel Miller, James Miller, Mary (Miller) Jackson, Katherine (Miller) Jackson, Ann (Miller) Farquhar and Hannah (Miller) Jackson
Died about
at about age 51
in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Biography
Katherine was a Friend (Quaker)
Katherine Lightfoot was a Quaker minister. She was born near Hillsborough, County Down in 1678[1] to parents Thomas Lightfoot and his first wife Mary whose maiden name is unknown.
Her parents were not Quakers when she was born. Her mother probably died some time not long after 1683, when her second brother was born, because in 1692 her father, by then a Quaker living in Lisburn (a few miles from Hillsborough), told the Quaker meeting of his intention to marry again. He did so, and in 1694 the family moved to county Westmeath. (See her father's profile.)
On 13 12m (February) 1700 (1701), Katherine Lightfoot of Ballykeeran, County Westmeath, married James Miller in a Quaker ceremony in Waterstown, Westmeath.[1][2] James Miller was a farmer. He was born in county Antrim (where the Lightfoots had recently lived) but gave his address as county Derry in his wedding certificate.
Their first child was born in county Derry in 10m (Dec) 1701, but following children were born in Timahoe, county Kildare, which fell within the compass of the Quaker's Dublin monthly meeting.[1] The family list produced by the Dublin meeting gives us the details of Katherine's parents and birth, confirms the details of her marriage, and lists the couple's children, who were
- Sarah b 16 10m (Dec) 1701
- Elizabeth b 27 12m (Feb) 1704/5
- Samuel b 13 2m (April) 1707, d 23 9m (November) 1711
- James b 16 11m (Jan) 1708/9
- Mary b 23 3m (May) 1711
- Katherine b 30 1m (March) 1713
- Anne b 19 4m (June) 1715.
There was plainly another child, Hannah, probably born in about 1717, who does not feature in the family list, but who is mentioned in her father's will. [3]
Katherine Miller started to feature in the records of the National Irish Quaker meetings in 1716 when she was one of 24 women signing an epistle addressed to the Dear and wellbeloved Sisters of the Quakers in Ireland. [4] In 1725 she appeared in a list of Friends in the Ministry, on the occasion of a visit to county Cork with Hannah (Peisley) Judd. they went as far as Castlesalem, return'd to our first day meetings, were at our third day meeting, and went hence to Youghall. [5] She continued to appear in records like these several times each year until 1729, although with gaps in 1718, 1726 and 1728. Perhaps one of these corresponded with the birth of her daughter Hannah.
Katherine's brother Michael Lightfoot and her step-brother John Wiley both emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1712. Her father, step mother, their unmarried children, their newly-married daughter Abigail and her husband Joseph Wiley all followed in 1716. Katherine, her husband and their family followed in 1729. [6] They travelled on the Sizar with Katherine's step sister Mary (Wiley) Jackson who had returned to Ireland on a visit. Mary died at sea during the voyage and Katherine's husband James witnessed the will that she wrote then. The family arrived at Philadelphia on 10 9m (November) 1729.[6]
Katherine Miller died in Pennsylvania on 19 10m (December) 1729 shortly after the family's arrival. [7][6]
Research Notes
Katherine's mother's maiden name was not Pulford; that was Thomas Lightfoot's third wife.
This family is described in a large number of articles, genealogies and histories, many of which are discussed in her father's profile. Unfortunately, many of these including the background note to The Lightfoot Papers are unreliable. Perhaps the most reliable are Myers' Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania[6] and Fetters' Six Columbiana County, Ohio, pioneer families. [8]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMM11M-11%2F0108&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FBIRTH%2F3096 : accessed 28 February 2024), Family list of Katherine Lightfoot and James Miller; citing Dublin MM Family Lists, also some burials 1617, 1669-1774, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
- ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FQM1M-2%2F0166&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMARR%2F6290G : accessed 28 February 2024), marriage of Katherine Lightfoot of Ballykeeran, co Westmeath and James Miller of Tirgarvel, co Derry in Waterstown, co Westmeath on 13d 12mo (Feb) 1700 (1701); citing Leinster QM births, marriages & burials 1650-99 (approx.), Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
- ↑ Will of James Miller who died, Lancaster County will book A, p 168, (Ancestry https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8802/images/005534200_00163?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=2132950 and FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-V866?i=87&wc=9PM8-4WY%3A268493801%2C268514701&cc=1999196 : both accessed 28 Feburary 2024)
- ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMB-2%2F0107&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1123467 : accessed 28 February 2024), Epistle from the Yearly Women's Meeting held in Dublin the 8th, 9th and 10th days of the 3rd month [May] 1716; citing YM Women’s Sundry records 1676-1776, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
- ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMMVO-1%2F0131&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F717527 : accessed 29 February 2024), Visit of ministers Katherine Miller and Hannah Judd to county Cork 31d 1m (Mar) 1725; Names of Friends in Ministry 1655-1781, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Myers, Albert Cook, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland, the author, Swarthmore, Pa., 1902. Section on Thomas Lightfoot ff p 338 (https://archive.org/details/immigrationofiri00myer/page/338/mode/1up?q=Lightfoot&view=theater : accessed 11 February 2024)
- ↑
"U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 2189 #1854079 (accessed 28 February 2024)
Katherine Miller death 19 Dec 1729 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. - ↑ 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-297 through the import of Grazier Family Tree.ged on Jan 24, 2013.
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- We should mention that Katherine was a Quaker minister
- Katherine's mother's maiden name was not Pulford; that was Thomas Lightfoot's third wife.
- Abigail was Katherine's half-sister, daughter of her father's second wife
- Her parents did not move to Ireland in 1692; Katherine was born there in 1678
- I think we can be more specific about which members of her family moved to Pennsylvania when; we can also state that she and her family travelled there in the ship on which her step-sister died
- We can be more certain about her death
- Some of the children attached to her and her husband are incorrect. There is a complete record of her children, in the Irish Quaker records, namely Sarah, Elizabeth, Samuel (who died young), James, Mary, Katherine and Anne. Hugh should simply be removed - I don't know where he belongs. The History of the Harlen Family (cited as a source on his profile) tells us that John was the son of Gayen Miller. He should be moved. Hannah is a little more confusing and needs a little more research.
William 1675 Catherine 1682 Michael 1683 Abigail 1693
Sarah Wiley children: Elizabeth Sarah Samuel 1701 Margaret Jacob.
Margaret Unknown children None
Husband: James Miller Born: 24 APR 1669 at: Timahoe, Kildare, Ireland Married: at: Died: 1749 at: Leacock Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa. Father:John Miller Mother:Ann Clibben Other Spouses: Ruth Seaton Wife: Katharine Lightfoot Born: 12 DEC 1682 at: Ballynalich, Co. Antrim, Ireland Died: 17 DEC 1729 at: Phildelphia, Pa. Father:Thomas Lightfoot Mother: Mary Other Spouses: CHILDREN Name: Mary Miller Born: at: Timahoe, Kildare, Ireland Married: 11 APR 1730 at: Chester Co., Pa. Died: at: Enos, Orange Co., North Carolina Spouses: Isaac Jackson Name: Hannah Mille
Miller-13189 sourced as child of John & Mary with conflicting dates Miller-13161 of Robert & Katherine, Bedford Miller-13180 of Abraham in Dorset all of those inadequately sourced That Katherine may have married in 1694/5 per the unsourced assertion in the duplicate profile.
Miller-13180 Miller-13161 Miller-13166 Miller-13189 do not appear to be children of Lightfoot-297 as there is no source indicating she married or bore children prior to age 18 or in a location other than Northern Ireland. Note she immigrated to America in the year of her death, 1729. Miller-13178 is a possibility in case the source for the year of immigration is wrong.