Susannah (Almy) Lightbourn (1765 - 1825)

Born 2 Jan 1765 in Newport, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Stiles Lightbourn — married 2 Dec 1796 in Nassau, Bahamas

Descendants

Died 21 Dec 1825 at age 60 in Nassau, Bahamas

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Susannah (Almy) Lightbourn is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Susannah Almy was born in 1765 in Newport, Rhode Island to Captain Benjamin Almy and Mary Gould Almy.

She married Benjamin Stiles Lightbourn, son of Joseph Lightbourn, 2 December 1796 at Christ Church, Nassau, Bahamas. Among their children: Benjamin Joseph Lightbourn and William Edmund Lightbourn.

Death Notice - Rhode Island Journal, 15 May 1826: " LIGHTBURN Susanna, wife of Capt. Benjamin S. and daughter of the late Capt. Benjamin ALMY of Newport, age 60 years, at Nassau, N.P."

Common Burial Ground, Newport R.I. [on same stone as Benjamin Almy ]: "Susanna LIGHTBORNE, dau of Capt. Benjamin ALMY d. at Nassau N[ew] Providence 21 Dec 1821 age 61"

Sources

LDS IGI lists Susanna ALMY born Newport, 2 Jan 1765 to Benjamin ALMY. Newport Town Records, RI Historical Magazine, V1, p 51.

"The Newport Mercury": 24 Jan 1797 - ALMY Susanna, of Capt. Benjamin, and Capt. Benjamin LIGHTBURN (sic), at Nassau, N.P.

Christ Church, Nassau, Bahamas Death and Burial Records.

Vital Records of Rhode Island, Journal, May 15, 1826.

The Royal Gazette and Bahama Advertiser for December 24 1825.

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