St Chad's Poulton-le-Fylde
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St James Stalmine
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St Marys Hambleton
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Holy Trinity
Freckleton
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St Michael's
Kirkham
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St John Out Rawcliffe
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GEORGE LEWTAS OF STAINING
Woodplumpton Parish registers record a George Lewtas baptised
on March 1st 1698 the son of Matthew Lewtas of Out Rawcliffe.
George Lewtas of Out Rawcliffe married Ellen Singleton in St Michael's
church on 1st February 1720 aged 22. George and Ellen
are recorded as living Over Wyre on various dates from 1720 onwards when
their children were baptised at Stalmine church. Their children's
baptisms then appear in St Chad's registers, marking their move from Over
Wyre to the Poulton area sometime in the late 1730s.
Of their several children, four sons and two
daughters survived to adulthood: Richard baptised
1725, Jennet baptised 1729, Margaret baptised
1731, George baptised 1734, John baptised c. 1738
and Thomas baptised 1743. Both
John in his twenties and Richard aged 34 predeceased their father.
Thomas married Elizabeth
Biggins at Bispham parish church on 11th June 1763 and went on to
be the landlord of the Lane Ends Hotel Blackpool, dying aged
45 in 1789. Their third son was George who, by 1772, was
the tennant of Halls House estate in Staining, part of the Grimbaldeston
Charity which funded Kirkham grammar school Of the four
sons only George reached old age, dying aged 78 in 1812.
Their two daughters were Margaret who married Robert Parkinson
of Weeton husbandman and Jennet who married Alexander Hutchinson of
Singleton shoemaker.
In his
will dated 1766 George Lewtas ‘late of Out Rawcliffe’ had two tenements
- Whiteside’s and Margery Layfield’s still to
be seen in New Lane Carleton - and five closes
of land, the Ackers, the Tween Mills, the New hey, the Woefield and
the Hey Nook - now under Carleton Crematorium. These parcels
of land can be identified on an estate map drawn up for the Weld family
in 1774. The land in New Lane is also found on the Carleton
tythe map drawn up in 1839.
George Lewtas was a farmer with land in Staining
and Carleton. Below is the inventory of his 'goods, cattle and chattells'
.
Thomas Lewtas and John Lewtas prepared the
inventory (probably son
and nephew respectively) - Thomas made
his mark, John signed.
