RICHARDC LAZENBY (DorothyB, WilliamA) was born at Hunton, Yorkshire, England, on 21 June 1784, and baptized at Patrick Brampton, Yorkshire, on 9 July 1784,[1] a son of Dorothy Lazenby and John Mudd. He was buried at Blackburn, Lincolnshire, on 9 November 1865.[2] He married at Blackburn on 17 February 1812 JANE SEED.[3] She was probably baptized at Samlesbury, Lancashire, on 24 December 1781, daughter of Ruth Seed and Jane Walmsley.[4] She was buried at Blackburn on 9 November 1865.[5]
Blackburn became a major textile center in the early part of the Industrial Revolution. This branch of the Lazenby family settled in Blackburn. Sometimes a person is described as from Blackburn in one record, and from one of the smaller towns around Blackburn in another record. Balderstone is a small village about 5 miles northwest of Blackburn. Darwen, today part of the same municipality as Blackburn, was 5 miles south. Samlesbury was 6 miles west of Blackburn.
As a young man, Richard Lazenby moved from his small rural village to join the Industrial Revolution at Blackburn. He practiced the trade of blacksmith. Here he married, here his children were born, and here he was reported in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses. The 1841 census reported this household as follows:[6]
| Name | Sex | Age |
| Richard Lazenby | M | 50 |
| Jane Lazenby | F | 55 |
| John Lazenby | M | 20 |
| Jane Lazenby | F | 20 |
| James Lazenby | M | 15 |
| Margaret Lazenby | F | 4 |
| Nancy Lazenby | F | 4 |
| James Cook | M | 20 |
Richard, Jane and John were listed as blacksmiths, James Cook as a weaver. When a census record lists all of the adults with an age divisible by five, I think we can assume the census taker was making rough estimates. Daughter Jane would marry James Cook in five years. What is the identity of the two smaller children, Margaret and Nancy? A Margaret Lazenby was baptized at Saint Mary-the-Virgin church at Blackburn on 11 October 1837; no father was indicated, her mother's name was Jane Lazenby.[7] So the Margaret in the census record is probably the granddaughter of Richard and Jane, whom their daughter Jane bore out of wedlock. A Nancy Lazenby was baptized at the same parish on 2 July 1837, child of William and Susanna Lazenby.[8] Perhaps this is the William Lazenby residing at the time of the 1841 census at the New Bailey House of Correction, Salford, Manchester, Lancashire, age 25, blacksmith. If Richard and Jane were raising their child, there was probably a relationship somewhere.
The 1851 Census reported this family at 1 Grayson Lane, Blackburn, as follows:[9]
| Name | relationship | marital status | Age | Sex | occupation | birthplace |
| Richard Lazenby | head | M | 68 | M | blacksmith | Hunton, Yorks. |
| Jane Lazenby | wife | M | 70 | F | Balderstone, Lancs. | |
| John Lazenby | son | M | 33 | M | blacksmith | Balderstone, Lancs. |
| Mary Jane Lazenby | daughter-in-law | M | 30 | F | Preston, Lancs. | |
| Louisa Lazenby | granddaughter | U | 3 | F | Blackburn, Lancs. | |
| Nancy Lazenby | granddaughter | U | 7 mos. | F | Blackburn, Lancs. |
The 1861 Census reported Richard Lazenby, widower, 72, blacksmith, born Hunton, residing in Blackburn with the family of John Fawcett, cordwainer, 49, and his wife Sarah, 48, and their four children.[10]
Richard and Jane Lazenby had eight children of record. Concening two, Faith and Dolly, I have found no record beyond their baptisms. Richard died at the age of eighteen. Cornelius went to America with his wife and young family. The other four children all married and had children, and remained in England. James, reported in the 1851 census with a wife and two daughters,[11] apparently died soon after, as did one of his daughters. His widow, Eliza, was reported in the 1871 census as a domestic servant in the home of William and Mary Ainsworth of Blackburn.[12] I have found no further record of the other daughter.
Richard Lazenby and his wife Jane Seed had the following children, all baptized at Saint-Mary-the-Virgin Parish, Blackburn:[8]
1"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 28 May 2018), Patrick Brampton, 1784; Richard Lazonby. "Yorkshire Baptisms," database, Find My Past (findmypast.com : accessed 26 June 2018), Richard Lazenby, 1784; Cleveland, North Yorkshire & South Durham Family History Society. The second record indicates the day (9th) and year (1784) of baptism, but omits the month.
2"England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," index, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 28 May 2018), Blackburn, Lancashire, Richard Lazenby, 1865.
3"England Marriages, 1538–1973," index, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 December 2011), Blackburn, Lancashire, Lazenby-Seed; 1812.
4"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Samlesbury, Lancashire, Jane Seed, 1781. Born 1785-6 based on her age in the 1841 Census, but 1780-1 based on her age in the 1861 Census. David Barnet, who has done much research on this family suggested in an e-mail on 7 December 2014 that she was born on 3 December 1786.
5"England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," Darwen, Lancashire; Jane Lazenby, 1854.
6Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841, Piece: 502; Book: 19; Enumeration District: 31; Folio: 18; Page: 30, Richard Lazenby family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 December 2011).
7"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," St. Mary, Blackburn, Lancashire, Margaret Lezenby, 1837.
8"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," St. Mary, Blackburn, Lancashire, Nancy Lezenby, 1837.
9Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851, Piece: 2258; Folio: 328; Page: 1, Richard Lezenby family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 December 2011).
10Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861, Class: RG 9; Piece: 3095; Folio: 57; Page: 21; GSU roll: 543077, Richard Lezenby and Fawcett family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK : Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England. Ancestry (ancestryr.com : accessed 27 June 2018).
111851 Census, Class: HO107; Piece: 2226; Folio: 831; Page: 43, James Lazenby family.
12Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871, Class: RG10; Piece: 4176; Folio: 52; Page: 3, William Ainsworth family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 July 2018).
13"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn, Lancashire, Faith Lazenby, 1813.
14"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn, Lancashire, Richard Lazenby, 1815.
15"England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," Blackburn, Lancashire, Richard Lazenby, 1833
16"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn, Lancashire, James Lazenby, 1824.
17General Register Office, Southport, England., "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, Find My Past (findmypast.com : accessed 4 July 2018), James Lazenby, 1851.
18"England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription," index, Find My Past (findmypast.com : accessed 4 July 2018), John Lazenby, Eliza Smith, 1845.
191851 Census, Class: HO107; Piece: 2226; Folio: 831; Page: 43, James Lazenby family.
20"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," Find My Past, Faith Lazenby, 1853.
21"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn, Lancashire, Dolly Lazenby, 1826.
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