Jane Waterston & William Patrick
The Lightbody family of Hamilton
Jane Waterston was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1824. She was working as a domestic servant when she married local weaver William Patrick at the Parish Church in Hamilton on the 16th of November 1842. William's parents were William Patrick, a handloom weaver and Christian Smellie both of Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
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Jane and William had six children and spent most of their lives living at 41 Quarry Road, Hamilton:
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1. Jane Patrick born in 1845 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She married Alexander McCowan in Quarry Street, Hamilton on the 1st of January 1866. Alex was a shoemaker from the old town in Hamilton. Previously living with his parents James McCowan and Martha McCowan (nee Smith) at 8 Chapel Street, Hamilton.
Jane and Alexander lived on Quarry Street, Hamilton in the mid 1800's and had two sons. In 1871 the four of them immigrated to the United States. Living first in Washington and then later in El Monte, Los Angeles, California. Their sons were:
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- James Alexander McCowan born on the 10th of October 1866 at 41 Quarry Road, Hamilton. He married Maria Ann Bello in Seattle, King, Washington in 1908. They had one daughter Mildred Marie McCowan born in Yakima, Washington on the 9th of August 1909. James died in Los Angeles on the 13th of December 1946. He was 80 years old. Maria died in Los Angeles on the 19th of February 1957. It appears that Mildred never married. She's listed living with her parents on the 1940 Census at El Monte, Los Angeles, California. She died in Los Angeles on the 19th of October 1992 aged 83.
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- William McCowan born on the 29th of August 1868 at 41 Quarry Road, Hamilton. He moved to Seattle, King, Washington with the rest of his family. No further history recorded.
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2. Christina Patrick born in 1848 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She died aged 18 at 41 Quarry Road, Hamilton from consumption on the 14th of December 1866.
3. William Patrick born in 1851 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He died aged 21 at 41 Quarry Road, Hamilton from consumption on the 9th of July 1872.
4. Mary Patrick born in 1854 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She married Robert Smith Lightbody at 22 Union Street, Hamilton on the 23rd of May 1877. Robert was the son of Thomas Lightbody and Mary Smith. He was born in Hamilton on the 6th of February 1853. At the time of the marriage he was living with his parents at 58 Cadzow Street, Hamilton. He was a baker.
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Mary and Robert Lightbody had eight children:
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- Jane Waterson (Jeannie) Lightbody born on the 24th of October 1877 at 66 Cadzow Street, Hamilton. She married John Hannah Rennie Nelson At Hillside, Union Street on the 31st of July 1907. They had one son Robert Patrick Nelson born in 1914.
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- Thomas Lightbody born 1880 at 66 Cadzow Street, Hamilton. He married Elizabeth Muir Simmons in 1910 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire.
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- Mary Smith Lightbody born on the 31st of August 1881 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She married Robert McNeil McDavid on the 27th of September 1922 at 58 Cadzow Street, Hamilton (Her uncle's tea room)
They set up home at 15 Houston Street, Hamilton.
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- William Patrick Lightbody born in 1883 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.He never married. He also lived in Houston Street, Hamilton. He died at Hartwood Hospital on the 25th of November 1957.
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- Agnes Patrick Lightbody born on the 19th of September 1887 at 6 Ann Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She died at the same addressaged 1 year old in 1888.
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- Robert Smith Lightbody born 1890 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He married Margaret Brakenridge Hamilton on the 11th of March 1913 at St James Manse, Auchingramont Road, Hamilton. They had one known daughter Dorothy Mary Lightbody born on the 29th of June 1917 at Gavin Bank, Park Road, Hamilton. She married Andrew Hutchison Duff in Hamilton in 1942.
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- Agnes Patrick Lightbody born on the 25th of August 1892 at 18 Ann Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
She married William McCall on the 29th of September 1920 at St James Congregational Church, Hamilton. He was a locomotive engine driver and she was a post girl. They had one son Robert Lightbody McCall born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1921. He married Christina S Parkes in Dalziel, Lanarkshire on the 19th of August 1949. They later divorced.
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- Christina Smellie Lightbody born on the 16th of December 1894 at 18 Ann Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
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Robert Smith Lightbody died at 10 Ann Street, Hamilton on the 15th of December 1904. He was 51 years old and a master baker, He had Leukemia. His wife, Mary Lightbody (nee Patrick) died on the 23rd of August 1913 at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow aged 60 years. She succumbed to tuberculosis.
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5. Agnes Patrick born in 1856 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She married John Lightbody on the 4th of October 1877 at 66 Cadzow Street, Hamilton. John was the brother of Robert Smith Lightbody. Two sisters married two brothers in the same year! John, like his brother, was a baker. He set up a bakery business in 1871 and rented premises in Hamilton in 1885 and this would eventually evolve into a bakery/tea room situated at 58 Cadzow Street in Hamilton. To say the business was a success would be an understatement and eventually they would operate 20 branches across Lanarkshire. The branches were still popular in the 1990's before the family decided in 1995 to sell off the company's retail outlets and concentrate on making specialist celebration cakes. They had suffered a sharp decline in sales as supermarkets took an increasing share of the bread market, and were in no position to slug it out with them in a price war. The company’s sales plummeted from £3m a year to almost zero while it built a new cake factory on Bothwell Road, Hamilton. In 2007 the family sold out to Finsbury Food Group for £37 million.Today, Lightbody produces some 150,000 cakes a week, which it sells to former competitors The firm now enjoys annual sales of £50m and has licences to make official Harry Potter, Superman, and Spongebob Squarepants birthday cakes. The group will have a combined turnover of more than £140m, employ 2500 people, and produce half a billion cakes a year. John and Agnes would have been so proud!!
Their children:
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- Jane Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1878. Jane never married and very little is known about her life. She appears on the 1901 census living at Hillside, 66 Union Street, Hamilton with the rest of her family. She died aged 73 at 7 Park Circus Place, Glasgow from heart failure on the 14th of December 1951.
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- John Lightbody born in Hamilton , Lanarkshire in 1884. John was only 11 weeks old when he died of congestion of the lungs at 66 Cadzow Street, Hamilton on the 20th of January 1885.
- Thomas Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1886. He appears on the 1901 census living at Hillside, 66 Union Street, Hamilton with the rest of his family. He married Mary Lawson Dunn at the Auchingramont Established Church, Hamilton on the 25th of April 1923. Mary was his neighbour on Union Street. Her family lived at the house called Glenview, her father James Dunn was a schoolmaster and her mother was Jeanie Dunn (nee Finlayson)
They had two children:
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- Joyce Finlayson Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1924. She married Alexander Dowie in Townhead, Glasgow in 1950 and had one son Tom Dowie born in 1954 in Kelvingrove, Glasgow.
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- Thomas Derek Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1929. He married Esther Benzie in Johnstone, Renfrewshire in 1961.
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- Agnes Patrick Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in October 1887. She died on the 6th of August 1888 at 6 Ann Street, Hamilton from bronchitis.
- John Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1893. He died at the family home - Hillside, 66 Union Street, Hamilton, aged 20 years, on the 6th of October 1913. He slipped into a diabetic coma.
- William Patrick Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 23rd of June 1895. He grew up at Hillside, 66 Union Street, Hamilton before going to London and training to be a dentist. He met and married his wife there, Margarette Evelyn Martin. He served his country in both World Wars and then established a dental practice for many years in Dunfermline. He retired from dentistry in 1964 and moved to The Spinney, Tullibardine Crescent, Auchterarder, Perth. He collapsed and died while curling at Perth Ice Rink on the 21st of December 1968. He was pronounced dead in the ambulance between the Ice Rink and Royal Infirmary Hospital, Perth.
- Robert Smith Lightbody born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1900. As yet, nothing is known about Robert's life. He died in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1972.
Agnes Lightbody (nee Patrick) died at Hillside, Hamilton on the 2nd of June 1908 from Kidney Failure. She was 52 years old. John Lightbody died on the 14th of August 1926 at 4 Park Gardens, Hillhead, Glasgow after complications from a strangulated hernia operation. His usual address was Hillside, Hamilton. He was 79 years old.
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6. James Waterston Patrick born in 1858 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. At the time of this writing nothing is known about James' life.
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Jane Partick (nee Waterston) died on the 9th of February 1865 at 5/5 Quarry Road Hamilton. She was another victim of consumption. She died aged 41 years and never got to see the results of the hard work her children and grandchildren put into the family bakery. William Patrick died on 21st of January 1876 at 41 Quarry Street, Hamilton. He had a stroke.
