Cornelius Lezenby and Eliza Wilson, Immigrants
and some of their Ancestors
and Descendants

JANED LAZENBY (RichardC, DorothyB, WilliamA) was baptized at Saint Mary Church, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, on 14 January 1818 a daughter of Richard Lazenby and his wife Jane Seed.[1] She was still living at the time of the 1881 Census. She married at Blackburn on 15 January 1846 JAMES COOK.[2] He was born at Mellor, Lancashire, sometime between 1802 and 1821, a son of Henry Cook. He died between the 1871 and 1881 censuses.

This family can be traced through census records from 1841 to 1881. The records give the ages of James and Jane Cook, and Jane's daughter Margaret, as follows.

Name 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881
James Cook 20 48 55 60
Jane 20 37 45 55 64
Margaret 4 15 25 34 45

Genealogists usually look upon the oldest record as the most reliable. However, as every adult in that household in the 1841 entry had an age divisible by 5, the census taker was probably estimating by sight. Jane's ages in the 1861, 1871, and 1881 censuses coordinate well with her baptismal record, as do Margaret's ages throughout. The age of James remains a puzzle. Perhaps we can just say that he was between 5 and 11 years older than Jane.

James' birth place was given as Mellor in 1851 and 1871, Blackburn in 1861. Jane was born at Samlesbury according to the 1851 and 1871 censuses, Balderstone in 1861 and 1881. Samlesbury and Balderstone are small towns, about 3 miles apart, a short distance northwest of Blackburn. Mellor is about 2 miles from Balderstone. So all these locations point to the same general area.

Jane Lazenby grew up in Blackburn, the fourth of eight children of a blacksmith. When Jane was a teenager, she had a child, Margaret. In 1841, Jane and her child Margaret still lived in the home of her parents. Also in the home was James Cook, perhaps a lodger, who worked as a weaver.[3] Jane Lazenby and James Cook married in 1846. James and Jane Cook never had children, but they raised Margaret in their home as their daughter.

The 1851 Census reported James Cook, laborer, as head of a household. Wife Jane and step-daughter Margaret both worked as weavers. The household included eight lodgers, seven of whom bore the surname of Thompson. All the adults worked in the textile mills.[4]

The 1861 census reported James Cook, head of household, cotton loomer, at 14 Hanson Street. Wife Jane was a laundress; daughter Margaret worked as a cotton winder. The household also included Margaret's daughter, Faith Lazenby, age 2.[5]

In 1871 the census reported James Cook as a "cotton weft twister," at 14 Hanson Street. Jane Cook had no occupation listed after her name. Daughter Margaret had married Henry Parkington, and both lived in the Cook household, along with Faith and another Parkington child. Margaret worked as a cotton winder, Henry as a cotton weaver.[6]

The 1881 Census reported Jane Cook, widow, at 14 Hanson Street. She worked as a "charwoman," which was a woman employed to clean houses or offices. With her was her brother John Lazenby, a blacksmith.[7]

MARGARET LAZENBY, daughter of Jane Lazenby, spent the first years of her life, with her mother, in the home of her grandparents. When Margaret was eight years old her mother married John Cook. During the rest of her growing up years Margaret lived with her mother and step-father, an only child. The 1851 census reported Margaret, age 15, working as a weaver in a cotton mill.

History repeated itself. Like her mother, Margaret had a child out of wedlock, and lived with her daughter in the home of her parents. Later, Margaret married, and her daughter grew up as a child in the new home.

When Margaret was twenty-one she gave birth to Faith Lazenby. The 1861 Census reported Margaret, a cotton winder, living in the home of her parents with her daughter. Sometime between the ages of 24 and 29 Margaret married HENRY PARKINGTON. He was baptized at Mellor, Lancashire, on 14 February 1836, a child of John and Alice Parkington.[8] Henry was described as a cotton weaver in censuses from 1871 to 1901, and a residet of Blackburn throughout. The 1881 census reported this family living next door to Margaret's mother, Jane Cook. The family included children Jane, 15, cotton winder, Martha, 10, scholar, Cornelius, 8, scholar, and Henry, 5 scholar. Faith had married in 1879.[9] There is no further record of a daughter Margaret, baptized in 1868, who probably had died before the 1871 census.

In 1891, the household included, besides Henry and Margaret Parkington, unmarried children Martha, 19, cotton weaver, Cornelius, 17, cotton weaver, and Henry, 14, cotton weaver. Also in the household was daughter Jane, now married and identified as Jane Cornthwaite, 27, cotton winder, and her two children, Elizabeth, 6, and Martha, 3. The household also included two lodgers, one of whom, Jane Baron, 17, cotton weaver, could perhaps be related in some way to Faith (Lazenby) Baron. Jane Cornthwaire is identified as a "step-daughter" to Henry Parkington.[10] This is not consistent with her baptismal record, which recorded her parents as Henry and Margaret Parkington.

In 1901 Henry and Margaret Parkington were living next door to son Cornelius and his young family. Living with Henry and Margeret were their youngest son, Henry, 24, loom jobber (cotton weaver), and two granddaughters, Elizabeth Cornwaithe, 17, cotton weaver, and Martha Cornthwaithe, 13, cotton weaver.[11] Daughter Jane Cornthwaite, 34, cotton winder, and her youngest child, Mary Ann, 6, were boarding in another home in Blackburn.[12]

FAITH LAZENBY, born in 1859 to Margaret Lazenby, was living in 1861 with her mother and her grandparents, Jane and James Cook. When Faith was somewhere between the ages of two and seven, her mother married Henry Parkington. In 1871, Faith, age twelve, was living with her mother and step-father in the home of her grandparents, James and Jane Cook, also with her four-year-old half-sister Jane.

Faith Lazenby married at Blackburn on 17 May 1879 THOMAS BARON.[13] He was born at Billington, near Whalley, about seven miles northeast of Blackburn. In 1881 Thomas and Faith Baron appeared in the census in Blackburn in the household of Thomas' father William.[14] Their first child, baptized in 1880, did not appear in that or any other census, indication he probably died in infancy. The 1891 census reported Thomas and Faith Baron, and their nine-year-old daughter Faith, living at Hapton, Lancashire, about eleven miles east of Blackburn.[15]

Concerning Cornelius Parkington, son of Henry and Margaret (Lazenby) Parkington, his baptismal reecord indicates birth on 31 August 1863 and baptism on 24 January 1864.[16] However, he was only 8 in the 1881 census, 17 in 1891, 28 in 1901, and 39 in 1911. I will conjecture that the baptismal record has been transcribed incorrectly, and that he was born on 31 August 1873 and baptized on 24 January 1874.

Jane Lazenby had the following child:

  1. MARGARETE LAZENBY bp. at Blackburn on 11 October 1837;[17] d. there on April-June 1901;[18] m. before 1866 HENRY PARKINGTON, bp. at Mellor, Lancashire, on 14 February 1836, child of John and Alice Parkington.[19] Child of Margaret Lazenby:
    1. Faith Lazenby b. at Blackburn on 11 April 1859, bp. there on 12 June 1859,[20] m. there on 17 May 1879 Thomas Baron b. at Billington about 1856-7.[21] Children of Faith and Thomas Baron:
      1. Thomas Baron bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 19 January 1880,[22] no further record.
      2. Faith Lazenby Baron b. at Blackburn on 30 January 1882, bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 18 February 1882,[23] living 1891.
    Children of Margaret and Henry Parkington:
    1. Jane Parkington bp. at St. Mary, Blackburn on 9 July 1866,[24] m. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 6 November 1884 James Cornthwaite b. about 1862-3.[25] Children of Jane and James Cornthwaite:[26]
      1. Elizabeth Cornthwaite b. at Blackburn about 1884-5, living 1901.
      2. Martha Cornthwaite b. at Blackburn about 1887-8, living 1901.
      3. Mary Ann Cornthwaite b. at Blackburn about 1894-5, living 1901.
    2. Margaret Parkington bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 31 January 1869;[27] no further record.
    3. Martha Parkington b. at Blackburn on 21 May 1871, bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 18 June 1871;[28] living 1891.
    4. Cornelius Parkington b. at Blackburn on 31 August 1873, bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 24 January 1874,[29] living 1911; m. about 1894-5 Ann ________ b. at Blackburn about 1873-4.[30] Children of Cornelius and Ann Parkington:
      1. Lily Parkington b. at Blackburn about 1894-5,[31] living 1911.
      2. Annie Parkington b. at Blackburn on 13 January 1898, bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 23 January 1898,[32] living 1911.
      3. Betty Parkington b. at Blackburn on 9 November 1899, bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 24 December 1899,[33] living 1911.
      4. Cornelius Parkington b. at Blackburn about 1903-4, living 1911.
      5. Herbert Parkington b. at Blackburn about 1907-8,[34] living 1911.
    5. Henry Parkington b. at Blackburn on 4 June 1876, bp. at St. Paul, Blackburn, on 16 July 1876,[35] living 1911; m. abt 1903-4 Annie ________ b. at Blackburn about 1875-6. Child of Henry and Annie Parkington:
      1. James Parkington b. at Blackburn about 1904-5, living 1911.[36]

NOTES

1"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 27 June 2018), Jane Lazenby, 1818
2"England Marriages, 1538–1973," index, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 December 2011), Blackburn, Lancashire, Cook-Lezenby, 1846
3Census 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).
4Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851, Class: HO107; Piece: 2258; Folio: 303; Page: 11, James Cook family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 6 July 2018).
5Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861, Class: RG 9; Piece: 3095; Folio: 27; Page: 7; GSU roll: 543077, John Cook family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK, Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestryr.com : accessed 27 June 2018).
6Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871, Class: RG10; Piece: 4180; Folio: 42; Page: 24; GSU roll: 846939, James Cook family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 June 2018).
7Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881, Class: RG11; Piece: 4194; Folio: 16; Page: 26; GSU roll: 1342005, Jane Cook family; digital image, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 June 2018).
8"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Henry Parkington, 1836.
91881 Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 4194; Folio: 16; Page: 26; GSU roll: 1342005, Henry Parkinton family.
10Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891, Class: RG12; Piece: 3399; Folio: 67; Page: 28, Henry Parkington household; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office. Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 28 June 2018).
11Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901, Class: RG13; Piece: 3907; Folio: 73; Page: 33, Henry Parkington family; digital images, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 29 June 2018).
121901 Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 3907; Folio: 71; Page: 29, Mary Stephenson family.
13"England Marriages, 1538–1973," Baron-Lazenby, 1879.
141881 Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 4183; Folio: 54; Page: 50, William Baron family.
151891 Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 3375; Folio: 13; Page: 19, Thomas Baron family.
16"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Cornelius Parkington, 1864.
17"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," St. Mary, Blackburn, Lancashire, Margaret Lezenby, 1837.
18General Register Office, Southport, England., "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, Find My Past (findmypast.com : accessed 2 July 2018), Margaret Parkinson, 1901.
19"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Henry Parkington, 1836.
20"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Faith Lazenby, 1859.
21"England Marriages, 1538–1973," Baron-Lazenby, 1879.
22"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Thomas Baron, 1880
23"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Faith Baron, 1882.
24"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Jane Parkington, 1866.
25"England Marriages, 1538–1973," Cornthwaite-Parkington, 1884.
261891 Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 3399; Folio: 67; Page: 28, Henry Parkington household. 1901 Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 3907; Folio: 73; Page: 33, Henry Parkington family.
27"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Margaret Parkington, 1869.
28"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Martha Parkington, 1871.
29"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Cornelius Parkington, 1864.
301901 Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 3907; Folio: 73; Page: 33, Cornelius Parkington family.
31Ibid.
32"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Annie Parkington, 1898.
33"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Betty Parkington, 1899.
34Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, Class: RG14; Piece: 25069, Dist 474, no. 227, Cornelious Parkington family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 July 2018).
35"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Henry Parkington, 1876.
361911 Census, Class: RG14; Piece: 25035, Dist 474, no. 150, Henry Parkington family.

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