LITE OF ST WINNOW
The surname of this family
takes various forms, including Litt, Lite and Light. Sometimes there is
confusion in transcriptions between spellings such as Lyte and the surname
Lyle.
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LITE
1 JOSEPH LITE was buried on 13 March
1719/20 at St Nectan, Cornwall.[1] He
married GRACE,[2]
who was buried on 24 June 1721 at St Nectan.[3]
Children of Joseph and Grace Lite:
i ANN LITE, bap 8 Dec 1673, St
Winnow,[4]
bur 24 Dec 1709, St Nectan.[5]
ii PHILLIP LITE, bap 11 Oct 1676, St
Winnow.[6]
iii ELIZABETH LITE, bap 16 Jun 1679, St
Winnow.[7]
2 iv JOHN LITE (1682-1717); m ANN MARTEN.
v MARY LITE, bap 13 Jun 1686, St
Winnow,[8]
bur Dec 1687, St Winnow.[9]
vi MARTHA LITE, bap 13 Jun 1686, St
Winnow,[10]
bur 20 May 1688, St Nectan.[11]
vii ELIZABETH LITE, bap 13 Jun 1686, St
Winnow,[12]
bur 22 Jan 1687/88, St Nectan.[13]
2 JOHN LITE was baptised on 2 September
1682 at St Winnow[14]
and buried on 28 July 1717 at St Nectan.[15]
He married on 28 January 1714/15 at St Winnow, ANN MARTEN.[16]
Ann was buried on 1 May 1754 at St Pinnock.[17]
After the death of John Lite, she married, on 19 April 1730 at Braddock, James
Hockin.[18]
Child of John and Ann (Marten) Lite:
i ANN LITE, bap 21 May 1717, St
Winnow;[19] m
26 Dec 1742, St Pinnock, WILLIAM RUNDELL[20]
(see here).
[1] St Winnow parish registers. St Nectan, or St Nighton, is a chapel in the parish of St Winnow.
[2] Grace is noted as the mother in the baptism entries for the last three children of Joseph Lite. The earlier entries do not name the mother.
[3] St Winnow parish registers.
[5] St Winnow parish registers.
[11] St Winnow parish registers.
[13] St Winnow parish registers.
[15] St Winnow parish registers.
[16] W.P.W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs J.H. Glencross, eds, Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, vol. 10 (London, 1906), 81. There is a possibility that Ann was a widow, as a John Marten and Ann Treleaven were married at St Winnow on 10 Jun 1711.
[17] St Pinnock bishop’s transcripts.
[18] Braddock parish register abstracts by Robert Jago. James is stated to be of St Pinnock and Ann of St Winnow.
[19] St Winnow parish register abstracts by Reginald M. Glencross. She may be the Anne Rundle, widow, who was buried at Tywardreath on 29 Apr 1796. However, there was also an Ann Rundle buried at St Pinnock on 28 May 1760.
[20] St Pinnock bishop’s transcripts.