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

THOMAS^D LAZENBY (Richard^C, Dorothy^B, William^A) was baptized at St. Mary the Virgin Church, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, on 12 July 1820, a son of Richard Lazenby and his wife Jane Seed.^[1] He was living in 1871, and is perhaps the Thomas Lazenby who died at Blackburn January-March 1876.^[2] He married at Saint Mary Church, Blackburm, on 20 October 1839 MARY BROUGHTON.^[3] She was born at Blackburn on 27 July 1818, and baptized at Saint Paul's Church, Blackburn, on 14 April 1819, a daughter of William and Jenny Broughton.^[4] She was living in 1871.

Thomas Lazenby's birthplace is reported as Blackburn, or as Balderstone, a small town near Blackburn. He grew up in Blackburn, and like his father, was a blacksmith.

Thomas and Mary Broughton, and their four-month-old son Isaac, were reported in the 1841 census living with Mary's parents, Willian and Jane Broughton, along with six of Mary's younger siblings. William Broughton was a gardener.^[5]

The Thomas Lazenby family must have moved several times in their early years of marriage. Son Isaac was born at Burnley, Lancashire, about 12 miles east of Blackburn, in January or February of 1841. By the time of the census, in June of 1841, they were in Blackburn. Daughter Dorothy was born about 1843-4 at Bury, a town about 19 miles south of Blackburn, closer to Manchester. All of these places were cotton textile manufacturing centers. The 1851 census reported Mary Lazenby and her two children lodged in a home in Blackburn; I have not found Thomas in that census. In 1861 Thomas, Mary and Dorothy had their own home in Blackburn; By 1871 Thomas and Mary were an "empty nest" couple in Blackburn.

Everyone worked in this Lazenby family. The 1851 Census reported Mary Lazenby, 32, a power loom cotton weaver; Isaac, 11, apprenticed to an iron foundry; and Dorothy, 7, a nurse.^[6] In 1861, Thomas Lesenby worked as a blacksmith, Mary and Dorothy as cotton weavers.^[7]

I have not found son Isaac in either the 1861 or 1871 census. The 1881 Census reported Isaac Lazenby, 40, blacksmith, and Jane Lazenby, 32 cotton weaver, lodging with John and Bridget Crosby in Blackburn.^[8] The 1891 Census described Isaac Lazenby, 45, in his own home in Blackburn, as a widower and a "stockbroker."^[9] The 1901 Census found Thomas Lazenby an inmate at the Blackburn Union Workhouse, where his occupation was reported as a journeyman blacksmith, and he was described as a lunatic.^[10]

The 1881 Census raises some questions as yet unanswered. Henry Beardwood, 37, cotton mill overlooker (=overseer), lived at 52 Clifton Street, Blackburn, with his wife, Dorothy (Lazenby) Beardwood, 37, their daughter, Mary Ann Beardwood, 14, cotton weaver, and a niece, Minnie Lazenby, 10, scholar, born in America.^[11] If the word "niece" is taken precisely, Minnie would be a child of Dorothy's brother Isaac. I can find no record of an Isaac Lazenby or Minnie Lazenby in America or coming or going between England and America, in this period. If the term "niece" is taken roughly, the only relative of Dorothy known to have gone to America was her uncle Cornelius, and he did not have a daughter or granddaughter Minnie in this period. I cannot identify this Minnie Lazenby.

Dorothy Lazenby, born at Bury, grew up and lived her early married years at Blackburn. She and her family can be traced through census records as follows:

• 1851. Dorothy Lazenby, age 7, nurse, was living with her mother and brother as lodgers in Blackburn.^[12]
• 1861. Dorothy Lesenby, 17, cotton weaver, was living with her parents in Blackburn.^[13]
• 1871. Dorothy and her husband Henry Beardwood, both 28 and cotton weavers, were living at Blackburn with their daughter, Mary Ann, 4.^[14]
• 1881. The family lived in Blackburn, where Henry worked as a cotton mill overlooker, and Mary Ann, 14, worked as a cotton weaver. Also in the family was a niece, Minnie Lazenby, born in America. Dorothy, age 37, did not have an occupation listed.^[15]
• 1891. Henry and Dorothy Beardwood had moved to Preston, another center of textile production, about 10 miles west of Blackburn. Henry was overlooker in a cotton mill, both were age 47. Henry and Dorothy lived at 44 Chester Road.^[16] Nearby, at 47 Chester Road, lived their daughter, Mary Ann, who had married Thomas Bruerton in 1889, and their ten month old daughter Dorothy. Thomas and Mary Ann both worked as cotton weavers.^[17]
• 1901. Henry and Dorothy Beardwood, ages 57 and 58, lived at 17 Chester Road, Preston, with a niece, Ann Beardwood, 27. Henry was a cotton mill overlooker, Ann a cotton weaver.^[18] Mary Ann and her husband, Thomas Bruerton, ages 40 and 34, lived at 18 Chester Road, with their daughter Lydia, 5, and two cousins, William Beardwood, 22, and John Beardwood, 20. Thomas ws a cotton weaver.^[19] Their first child, Dorothy, died earlier in 1901.
• 1911. Widow Dorothy Beardwood, 67, lived at 16 Chester Road, Preston, with a nephew, John Beardwood, 30, cotton weaver.^[20] Henry Beardwood died in 1909. Thomas, Mary Ann and Lydia Bruerton, ages 51, 44, and 15, lived at 230 Fletcher Road, Preston. All three worked as cotton weavers.^[21]

Thomas Lazenby and his wife Mary Broughton had the following children:

1. ISAAC^E lAZENBY b. at Burnley about January-February 1841;^[22] d. at Blackburn on July-September 1903;^[23] m. before 1881 JANE ________, b. at Darwen, Lancashire, about 1848-9,^[24] d. before 1891.
2. DOROTHY^E LAZENBY b. at Bury, Lancashire, about 1843-4;^[25] d. at Preston on January-March 1926;^[26] m. at St. Paul's Church, Blackburn on 28 September 1862 HENRY BEARDWOOD, b. at Withnell, Lancashire, about 1841-2,^[27] d. at Preston on October-December 1909,^[28] child of John Beardwood. Child of Dorothy and Henry Beardwood:
   1. Mary Ann Beardwood b. at Blackburn about 1866-7,^[29] living 1911; m. at Preston on April-June 1889 Thomas Bruerton^[30] b. at Blakesley, Northamptonshire, about 1859-69,^[31] living 1911. Children of Mary Ann and Thomas Bruerton:
      1. Dorothy E. Bruerton b. at Preston about May-June 1890,^[32] d. there January-March 1901.^[33]
      2. Lydia Bruerton b. at Preston about 1895-6.^[34]

¹"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 December 2011), St Mary the Virgin, Blackburn, Lancashire, Thomas Lazenby, 1820
²General Register Office, Southport, England, "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, Find My Past (findmypast.com : accessed 11 July 2018), Thomas Lazenby, 1876.
³"England Marriages, 1538–1973," index, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 18 December 2011), Blackburn, Lancashire, Lazenby-Broughton, 1839
⁴"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," Mary Broughton, 1819.
⁵Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841, Class: HO107; Piece: 502; Book: 19; Civil Parish: Blackburn; County: Lancashire; Enumeration District: 32; Page: 48, Thomas Lezenby family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 July 2018).
⁶Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851, Class: HO107; Piece: 2258; Folio: 329; Page: 2, John Pickup family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 July 2018).
⁷Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861, Class: RG 9; Piece: 3095; Folio: 54; Page: 16; GSU roll: 543077, Thomas Lazenby family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK, Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England:, Ancestry (ancestryr.com : accessed 27 June 2018).
⁸Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881, Class: RG11; Piece: 4195; Folio: 69; Page: 8, John Crosby family; digital image, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 July 2018).
⁹Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891, Class: RG12; Piece: 3395; Folio: 15; Page: 24, Isaac Lazenby family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office. Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 July 2018).
¹⁰Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901, Class: RG13; Piece: 3916; Folio: 126; Page: 24, Blackburn Union Workhouse; digital images, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 10 July 2018).
¹¹1881 Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 4181; Folio: 123; Page: 32; GSU roll: 1342002, Henry Beardwood family.
¹²1851 Census, Class: HO107; Piece: 2258; Folio: 329; Page: 2, John Pickup family.
¹³1861 Census, Class: RG 9; Piece: 3095; Folio: 54; Page: 16; GSU roll: 543077, Thomas Lazenby family.
¹⁴Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871, Class: RG10; Piece: 4180; Folio: 32; Page: 4; GSU roll: 846939, Henry Beardwood family; digital images, The National Archives of the UK: Public Record Office, Kew, Surrey, England:, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 1 July 2018).
¹⁵1881 Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 4181; Folio: 123; Page: 32; GSU roll: 1342002, Henry Beardwood family.
¹⁶1891 Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 3433; Folio: 11; Page: 15, Henry Beardwood family.
¹⁷1891 Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 3433; Folio: 11; Page: 15, Thomas Bruerton family.
¹⁸1901 Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 3947; Folio: 79; Page: 13, Henry Beardwood family.
¹⁹1901 Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 3947; Folio: 79; Page: 13, Thomas Breuerton family.
²⁰Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911, Class: RG14; Piece: 25299, dist 476, no. 220, Dorothy Beardwood; digital images, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 July 2018).
²¹1911 Census, Class: RG14; Piece: 25298, dist. 476, no. 53, Thomas Bruerton family.
²²1841 Census, Class: HO107; Piece: 502; Book: 19; Civil Parish: Blackburn; County: Lancashire; Enumeration District: 32; Page: 48, Thomas Lezenby family.
²³"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, Find My Past, Isaac Lazenby, 1903.
²⁴1881 Census, Class: RG11; Piece: 4195; Folio: 69; Page: 8, John Crosby family.
²⁵1851 Census, Class: HO107; Piece: 2258; Folio: 329; Page: 2, John Pickup family.
²⁶"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, Find My Past, Dorothy Beardwood, 1926.
²⁷"England Marriages, 1538–1973," Beardwood-Lazenby, 1862.
²⁸"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, Find My Past, Henry Beardwood, 1909.
²⁹1871 Census, Class: RG10; Piece: 4180; Folio: 32; Page: 4; GSU roll: 846939, Henry Beardwood family.
³⁰"England & Wales marriages 1837-2005 Transcription," index, Find My Past (findmypast.com : accessed 11 July 2018), Bruerton-Beardwood, 1889.
³¹1901 Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 3947; Folio: 79; Page: 13, Thomas Breuerton family.
³²1891 Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 3433; Folio: 11; Page: 15, Thomas Bruerton family.
³³"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, Find My Past, Dorothy Bruerton, 1901.
³⁴1901 Census, Class: RG13; Piece: 3947; Folio: 79; Page: 13, Thomas Breuerton family.

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