[johnfowles]

Originally Posted by charlene

Is Manchester in any of the places I listed? Yorkshire? London, middlesex? Boyton Parish,Cornwall? those are on the LIGHTFOOT side

Originally Posted by charlene

the basic answer to your question Char is that in fact Manchester is extremely close to Yorkshire. so if Gord was snooping around Manchester in 1981 he may well have information connecting his Yorkie forebears with Manchester
As I have previously seriously suggested you should add a suitable question to your tentative list that you would be putting to Gord in his next telephone call!
You could tell him that my sister lives on the Southern edge of Manchester so if there is any local enquiry he can think of I am sure that she would be happy to try then he can follow up when he is in Manchester himself in just over a year

　
I was pleased to find that image because I was unaware (or had forgotten) that the 1974 county boundary rationalisation had created the new county of Merseyside that it seems is a pseudo county comprising mainly Liverpool
More rewarding is finding out where the Lightfoot surname came from.
For example from:-
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Lightfoot

"This unusual surname is an interesting example of that sizeable group of early European surnames that were gradually created from the habitual use of nicknames. These nicknames were given with reference to variety of characteristics, such as physical attributes or peculiarities, mental and moral characteristics, or habits of dress and occupation. The derivation, in this instance, is from the Olde English pre 7th century "leoht", nimble, quick, with "fot", foot, originally denoting someone with a light, springy step; a speedy runner, or messenger. Early examples of the surname include; William Lightfote (Cambridgeshire, 1273), and Willelmus Lightfote (Yorkshire, 1379)."
Messenger of the Dawn anybody??
And the principle money grabbing website Ancestry.com says this:-
"Lightfoot Name Meaning
English (chiefly northern England, especially Liverpool): nickname for a messenger or for a fast runner, from Middle English lyght ‘light’, ‘nimble’, ‘quick’ (Old English lioht) + fote ‘foot’"


I have previously found and displayed another very similar Lightfoot heraldic shield



in a thread I started at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=17001
Talking of ancestry.com and native American Lightfoots no wonder there is confusion in Ontario
see these two postings on a Lightfoot surname message board at:-
http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.as...ames.lightfoot

"OK, am I one of the idiots that thinks "Lightfoot" is an Indian name? This is my married name and I just tell everyone it is Cherokee because that is what my husband's grandfather told us."
"My Lightfoot ancestors were slaves of the white Lightfoots of VA and KY. Three brothers who 'escaped' to Canada were James Louis, Thomas Jefferson, and Samuel. They were definately Black! They settled in Ontario, near Dundas, and Hamilton. Anyone else out there looking for info on them?"