Author: Lightfoot, Catherine Anne
Biography:
LIGHTFOOT, Catherine Anne (1806-91: ancestry.co.uk)
She was born on 19 Apr. 1806 and baptised on 20 May at St. James’s, Piccadilly, the eldest of six children of Thomas Lightfoot, a solicitor, and his wife Catherine Anne Streatfeild, who had married the previous year at St. Martin-in-the Fields. The family lived at 10 Old Burlington Street, London, and at Sevenoaks where her mother’s family had extensive property. She had begun The Battle of Trafalgar (1833) in Oct. 1825 and finished it at Chantry House, High Street, Sevenoaks in Feb. 1833. She does not appear to have published anything else. After her father’s death in 1858, his widow and daughters retired to Sevenoaks where they are recorded in the 1861 Census. He had left an estate of £35,000. After her mother’s death in Dec. 1862, she lived with her unmarried sisters Jane and Georgiana in Sevenoaks. The 1881 Census records her living with her sister Georgiana, a parlour maid, cook, and house maid. She died on 4 May 1891 at Sevenoaks and left an estate of just under £10,000 to be administered by her brother, Thomas Streatfeild Lightfoot. Her sister Georgiana survived her and died on 7 Apr. 1900. (ancestry.co.uk 28 Dec. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 28 Dec. 2021; Morning Post 23 Nov. 1858, 19 Dec. 1862; Sussex Agricultural Express 9 May 1891; Sevenoaks Chronicle 14 Dec. 1900) AA