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A Village, Parish and Township in the union and County
Court of York, in the North Riding, and 4 miles north of York; it has a
station on the York and Scarbro' railway. St. Mary's Church, built in
1570, rebuilt in 1878. The living is a vicarage held by the Rev. Richd.
Bradley, L.T.N., of Hatfield Hall, Durham. There are places of worship
for Primitive Methodists and Methodist Free Church.
Private
Commerical
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Mark Lightfoot was born in 1795 at South Otteringham ,the eldest son of William & Jane Lightfoot. At the age of 16 he was lodging in Haxby employed as Farm Labourer. In 1817 he married (At Haxby) Elizabeth Ann Dobson. They had total of eight children, The eldest of their children was George who married Martha Johnson. They had a total of nine children, Robert Lightfoot; one of them; being my Grandfather, who eventually married Mary Jane Stead at Aberford West Yorks. One of their children, a girl; Elizabeth Ann Lightfoot married a James Wray At Haxby |
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Compleynes lamentabllie to God Almyghti, and to yowre tendre compassion and pities under Hym our ordinarees here, the poure inhabitantes of the township of Haxby; wheroff the toone half er parisheyns unto the parishe chirche of Dreffeld uppon the Wold, xvj myle frome them, and the tother half er parisheyns to the parishe chirche of Strensale, ij myle frome them. That, where the saide inhabitantes er inhabit so unresonablie fer from ther saide parisch chirches that the substaunce of the said inhabitauntes for impotenscye and feblenes, farrenes of the long way, and also for grete aboundance of water and perlouse passages at small brigges for peple in age and unweldye, bethwix them and ther next parishe chirche, thei may not come with ease, ne in seasonable tyme, to there said parish chirches, as Cristen peple shuld, and as thei wold; wherefore the saide inhabitantes, of long tyme past, be a hole assent, at there awne coste, hath fone a prest to ministre unto them Divine services and other sacramentes, as thei er licened and indued wt, to there chapell there, uppon discrete considerations, of the reasonable lettyngs of there comynge to there parishe chirches afore said, witheoute any help socor or releve toward the fyndyng of the said prest of the prebendaries or of there vicars of the chirches afore said: and the saide prebendaries haith the rentes an fermes, tythe, corne, woule, and lame, and there vicares hath al maner of mortuaries, the tythes of cow, calf, and fole, hemp, lyne, pig, gose & bennes: and now the saide inhabitantes er so constreyned wt. grete poverte thei may noo lenger bere the charge of fyndynge of a prest, wt oute help, socor and releve of the prebendaries and vicares; wherefore we beseche lowly, for the love of God, and of youre devoute charitie, that we myght have a prest fonne at our chapelle, to ministre unto us divine services and other sacramentes, accordyng to our licence aforesaid, be the prebendaries and there vicares; so that we may have and be as Cristen men: and we to doo oure duetie largely to oure said parishe chirches, as we have doone, and we ever more to pray Almyghti Gode for the gude hele of body and soules of our saide prebendares, vicares, and of yowe.
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