BOAT FAMILIES

of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and connected waterways

1771 - 1866 (95 years)

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Name	Betty Wignall
Born	1771	Tarleton [1]
Gender	Female
Died	1866	Hesketh with Becconsall [2]
Buried	21 Nov 1866	All Saints, Hesketh with Becconsall [1]
Person ID	I06668	Canal Family 1
Last Modified	22 Mar 2026

Family Robert Edmondson, b. 1768, Tarleton , d. 1821, Tarleton (Age 53 years)

Married 19 Sep 1791 St Michael and All Angels, Croston [1]

Children

	1. Betty Edmondson, b. 1792, Tarleton
	2. Thomas Edmondson, b. 1794, Tarleton , d. 1795, Tarleton (Age 1 years)
	3. Thomas Edmondson, b. 1796, Tarleton , d. 1882, Tarleton (Age 86 years)
	4. Robert Edmondson, b. 1798, Tarleton
	5. Henry Edmondson, b. 1801, Tarleton
	6. Hugh Edmondson, b. 1804, Tarleton
	7. Jane Edmondson, b. 1807, Tarleton
	8. Alice Edmondson, b. 1809, Tarleton , d. 1848, Tarleton (Age 39 years)
	9. Margaret Edmondson, b. 1811, Tarleton
	10. Mary Edmondson, b. 1814, Tarleton

Last Modified 22 Mar 2026

Family ID F00671 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Two possible baptisms at St Mary, Tarleton: 8.12.1769 to Thomas; or (at age 3) 29.5.1774 to Thomas and Anne.
Apparently listed twice in 1841 census: as Betty, 65, in Gorse Lane, Tarleton, with daughter Alice next door to daughter-in-law Mary, wife of Henry; and as Elizabeth, 65, with daughter Mary, wife of Richard Iddon.
Age 95 in 1866 death and burial records, giving lilely birth year as 1771, though age given as 79 in Tarleton Lane in 1851 census, and 87 in Shoreside, Hesketh with Becconsall, with son Hugh and family in 1861.