History of the City of Chester from its foundation to the present time.
by Joseph Hemingway, 1831 pg. 346
Photo courtesy Janet Leece, 2013.
Connie Notes: This map is my first clue that the Pickering family must have lived very close to the Walker family. Further investigation might show which Pickering (perhaps William, father of CWHP?) lived there. Elizabeth Walker and CWHP met and married, but as yet I do not have records showing that he lived in Chester.
John Lightfoot
c: About 1755-56
o: Victualler
d: 12 March 1832
b: 17 March 1832 at St. Oswald's [of Flookersbrook] (age 76)
George Walker
c: About 1750's
o: Brewer, Chester (1799 Business Directory)
m: Mary Hoole, 1 Jan 1777, Chester (possible first marriage)
m: Margaret Salmon, Aug 1778 (George Walker, widower)
son: Thomas Walker
c: 19 Jan 1783, Chester
o: Tanner / Brewer (Lion Brewery, Chester)
m: Catherine Lightfoot
dau: Elizabeth Catherine Walker
c: 24 Jul 1819, Chester
m: Charles William Harrison Pickering
c: 1815, Liverpool
1758-9
Before Richard Richardson, Esq., CHESTER
Henry Hegg, druggist, was to be admitted to the freedom paying twenty pounds within a month.
William Evans, grocer, was to be similarly admitted.
James Pickering, sadler, was to be similarly admitted.
1805
• NOTICE: Provincial Occurrences. Cheshire. J. Hinton, , pg 180
"[Married] At Chester, Mr. T. Walker, son of Mr. W. brazier, to Miss Lightfoot, of Flookersbrooke."
1806
The first child of Thomas Walker and Catharine Lightfoot
was christened at St. Oswald's Parish
1829
The last child of Thomas Walker and Catharine Lightfoot was christened at Flookersbrook, Newton, Chester
1841
Foregate Street, St John The Baptist
Thomas Walker, Brewer was a widower living with his children: Alice, Charles William, Ann, and Emma. Also in the household was James Broadbent, Printer, who was to become the husband of Thomas' daughter, Alice. There is another family tie staying in this household at the time: Elizabeth Harrison (Independent) and Ann Hughes. These are important clues to be follow up in the near future.
1875
The London Gazette, Nov 19, 1875. pg. 5539
"... in other part by property belonging to the trustees of the will of the late John Lightfoot, in other part by property belonging to the trustees of the settlement made on the marriage of the late Maria Broadbent..."
[Ed. Maria Broadbent was the 2nd wife of James Broadbent, whose 1st wife was Alice Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker and Catherine Lightfoot.]
1876
• Flookersbrook Improvement Act, 1876.
Description of the Lands within the Limits of this Act.
"Such of the lands situate in the townships of Newton and Hoole and county of Chester, comprising in the whole two acres two roods and three perches or thereabouts, bounded as follows; ...and on the north-west in part by property belonging or reputed to belong to the said Earl of Kilmorey, on the other part by property belonging or reputed to belong to the trustees of the will of the late John Lightfoot, in other part by property belonging or reputed to belong to the trustees of the settlement made on the marriage of the late Maria Broadbent, in other part by a certain street or occupation road, ..."
1895
The London Gazette, July 23, 1895, pg. 4162
SCHEDULE: "A Place comprising Pickering and Nightingale’s Sale-yard at the Ermine Hotel, Flookersbrooke, near Chester."
[Click here for research notes on CHESTER CONNECTIONS, Pickering and Nightingale Auctioneers and
connection to Rigby of Chester]