Lofthouse Family

Lofthouse Family.

Last update July 2008.
The following information has been taken from Parish Registers, School and census records, Memorial Inscriptions (M.I.) in Grewelthorpe churchyard.

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ABRAHAM LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 23.2.1772 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of William of Kirkby Malzeard.
ADA LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1880 Manchester. Dau of Henry of Grewelthorpe. Butcher.
ALBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1848. Son of Andrew & Mary.
ALFRED LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1847 Laverton. Son of Willis & Jane.
ALFRED LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1857 Cheshire. Son of Francis & Margaret.
ALEXANDER LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1855 Laverton. Son of Willis & Jane.
AMELIA LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1861 Dallowgill. Wife of Peter the grocer.
ANDREW LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1804 Dallowgill. Buried 29.2.1876. Commercial carrier 1841. Farmer 1851. Cream cheese maker 1871. Husband of Mary.
ANN LOFTHOUSE nee GRAHAM. Born C. 1810 Dallowgill. Died 20.1.1889 M.I. Dau of Alice Graham of Burton. Wife of Henry.
ANNIE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1848. Grewelthorpe. Buried 20.1.1914. M.I. Wife of Charles the joiner.
ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1860 Kirkby Malzeard. Grand dau of Robert & Jane.
ANN ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1860 Laverton. Dau of Francis & Margaret.
ANN AMELIA LOFTHOUSE. Born 5.7.1890 Grewelthorpe.Dau of Peter & Amelia. Started Grewelthorpe school 12.8.1895. Left 1904.
CAROLINE LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1857. Laverton. Dau of Willis & Jane.
CATHERINE LOFTHOUSE. Born C 1828 Dallowgill. Dau of John & Elizabeth.
CHARLES LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 1.2.1774. Kirkby Malzeard.Died 5.10.1855. Buried 7.10.1855. M.I. Son of Christopher of Dallowgill. Husband of Sarah. Charles was a stonemason. Made his will 30.8.1851. Will proved 9.6.1856.
CHARLES LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1845 Grewelthorpe. Died 12.8.1924 M.I. Joiner.Son of Henry & Ann Graham. Husband of Ann. Living Elm Cottage Grewelthorpe 1881. Charles was overseer for lowside in 1898.
CHRISTOPHER LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1824 Dallowgill. Son of John & Elizabeth.
DOUGLAS ROBERT. Buried 4.8.1987. Son of George & Jane. Husband of Phyllis.
EDITH LOFTHOUSE. Born 30.4.1879. Dressmaker 1901. Dau of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 20.4.1885. Left 1894. Married George Thirkill. A Joiner of Grewelthorpe in 1904.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1756. Wife of Henry. Lived Masham.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 15.1.1771 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of Tristram of Galphay.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 18.2.1775.Kikrby Malzeard Dau of George of Dallowgill.
ELIZABETH LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1794 Grewelthorpe. Wife of John. Widow in 1861.
ELLEN LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 21.11.1767 Kirkby Malzeard. Dau of George of Dallowgill.
ERNEST ARTHUR LOFTHOUSE. Born 31.3.1872 Manchester. Died 29.4.1891. Buried 2.5.1891. M.I. Son of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 13.11.1876. Left 1884
EVA ALICE LOFTHOUSE. Born 6.11.1896. Grewelthorpe.Dau of Peter & Amelia. Started Grewelthorpe school 7.5.1900.
FRANCIS LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1826 Laverton. Ag. Labourer at Quarry House, Azerley in 1861. Husband of Margaret of Laverton.
FRED LOFTHOUSE. Born 26.10.1866. Son of Robert of Kirkby Malzeard. Came to Grewelthorpe schoolfrom Kirkby Malzeard 19.5.1879. Left 1880.
GEORGE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1836 Dallowgill. Son of John & Elizabeth.
GEORGE HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born 3.2.1893 Grewelthorpe. Son of Peter & Amelia. Started Grewelthorpe school 14.3.1898. A shopkeeper in Grewelthorpe. Kellys Directory 1936.
HANNAH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1850 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Jane.
HAROLD JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born 28.3.1882 Grewelthorpe. Son of Charles & Ann. Started Grewelthorpe school 16.1.1888. Left 1895. Joiners apprentice working for Samuel Learoyd of Staveley. 1901
HARRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1903. Buried 3.6.1906.M.I. Drowned, Son of Alfred & Annie of Biggin Hill.
HARRIET LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1851.Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Jane
HELEN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1799 Masham. Dau of Henry & Elizabeth. Wife of Thomas Hammond.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1756. Husband of Elizabeth. Lived Masham. Father of Helen.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1815 Grantley. Died 7.7.1901 M.I. Joiner, Master Carpenter, Cream cheese maker & grocer. Husband of Ann Graham. Widower in 1901.
Excerpt from newspaper [no date known].
In Grewelthorpe about 100 years ago Henry Lofthouse made the first cream cheese from cream he collected in Dallowgill,Galphay and Winksley. At 4a.m. in his light spring cart he would rattle through to catch the first train from Ripon for Leeds and London.
HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1855 Grewelthorpe. Son of Francis & Margaret. Living Manchester 1891. a widower and a Butcher. Had a dau. Ada in 1880.
JAMES LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1844. Died 1853. Son of Andrew & Mary.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1808 Dallowgill. Wife of Robert.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1820 Grewelthorpe. Wife of Willis.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1842.Buried 18.12.1865. Dau of Andrew & Mary.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1853. Laverton. Dau of Willis & Jane.
JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1854. Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Jane.
JAMES LOFTHOUSE. Born 1844. Buried 21.6.1853. M.I. Son of Matthew & Mary.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1792 Dallowgill. Died before 1861. Farmer at Lady Hill, Laverton in 1851. Husband of Elizabeth of Grewelthorpe.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1850. Son of Andrew & Mary.
JOHN LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1859 Laverton. Son of Francis & Margaret.
JOSEPH LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 9.8.1772. Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George of Dallowgill.
JOSEPH LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1845 Dallowgill. Grandson of John & Elizabeth.
JOSHUA LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1855 Laverton. Farm servant 1871 working for Robert & Ann Thackray.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1829 Laverton. Wife of Francis.
MARGARET LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1847. Dau of Andrew & Mary. Probably the wife of Henry Jackson of Lofthouse see 1881census.
MARIA LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1847 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Jane
MARIA LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1852 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Andrew & Mary. Sister of Margaret Jackson nee Lofthouse.1881 census
MARTHA LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1843. Grewelthorpe. Dau of Robert & Jane.
MARTHA LOFTHOUSE. Banns read [Grewelthorpe]for marriage to Thomas Rawson of Healey. November 1865.
MARY LOFTHOUSE. Born Dallowgill. Dau of John & Elizabeth.
MARY LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 6.1.1778 Kirkby Malzeard.Dau of Christopher of Dallowgill.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1812 Grewelthorpe. Buried 15.10.1878. Wife of Andrew.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1845 Grewelthorpe. Dau of Andrew & Mary.
MARY ANN LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1850. Grewelthorpe. Dau of Henry & Ann Graham.
MARY JANE LOFTHOUSE. Born 16,6,1874 Grewelthorpe. Died 26.12.1946.. Dau of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 22.7.1878. Servant in Ripon in 1891.
PETER LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1847. Grewelthorpe. Son of Henry & Ann Graham. Grocer living The Green Grewelthorpe 1901. Husband of Amelia of Dallowgill. Peter was a Grewelthorpe Parish Councillor from 1901 to 1904. He was an overseer for lowside until 1905.
RALPH LOFTHOUSE. Victualler at “Barrell” Dallowgill. 1822 directory.
REUBEN LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1850 Laverton. Son of Willis & Jane.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 7.11.1769. Kirkby Malzeard. Son of George of Dallowgill.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1813. Kirkby Malzeard. Farmer at Kexmoor 1851. Husband of Jane.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1838 Galphay. Son of Robert & Jane.
ROBERT LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1848. Buried 6.8.1858.
SARAH LOFTHOUSE. Born C.1775. Died 29.1.1863. M.I. Wife of Charles.
STANLEY LOFTHOUSE. Born 5.12.1915. Grandson of Peter. Started Grewelthorpe school 9.4.1923.Left 1929. Served in WW2. RAF.
THOMAS LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1840 Grewelthorpe. Buried 28.12.1869. Son of Andrew & Mary.
THOMAS LOFTOUSE. Born C.1845 Grewelthorpe. Died 3.5.1856. M.I. Carpenter in 1871.Son of Henry & Ann Graham.
THOMAS EDWIN LOFTHOUSE. Born 4.11.1877. Grewelthorpe. Died 16.5.1902. Son of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 9.4.1883. Left 1890. Re-admitted 1893.
WALTER HENRY LOFTHOUSE. Born 15.8.1869 Manchester. Son of Charles & Annie. Started Grewelthorpe school 13.11.1876. Left 1883.
WILLIAM LOFTHOUSE. Bap. 7.11.1767 Kirkby Malzeard. Son of William of K.Malzeard.
WILLIAM LOFTHOUSE. Born C. 1836. Galphay. Son of Robert & Jane.
WILLIS LOFTHOUSE. Born Laverton. Grocer & Farmer. Husband of Jane of Grewelthorpe.

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Graves of Mary Jane Lofthouse, and Charles & Sarah Lofthouse in Grewelthorpe Churchyard.
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