Lightbowns Toffees

stanleybabe · 23-02-2007, 19:10

Does anyone on AccyWeb have any info on the Lightbown Family in Accrington? The family business was Lightbowns Sweets, I think they made Grip Pastilles. I'm researching my family tree and my great great grandad was a Lightbown.
Thanks
Kate

Doug · 23-02-2007, 19:22

All the best Kate, Can't help with your request but someone must be able to help with a family background like yours. I've been doing mine for the last year are so and seem to have run out of steam. I don't seem able to get beyond the 1880s in Blackburn of all places.

Ernie · 23-02-2007, 21:37

Lightbown's toffee factory used to be at the back of Adelaide Street in Accrington until the early 60s when a Scottish firm took them over and they sold the building a few years later to Brown and Catlow which was a local firm making tiled fireplace surrounds. My Mother used to work for Lightbowns before she retired, we used to live in Adelaide Street and lightbowns was just accross the back alley.

stanleybabe · 24-02-2007, 10:42

Thanks for the info Ernie. I don't suppose you can remember the names of any of the family? My GG Grandad was called Henry and I think it was his brother John William that started the firm. He's variously described in the censuses as a baker, confectioner and sugar confectioner. He had 6 children - Nancy Ellen, William, Richard, Ernest Wilfred, Gertrude and John Emile. In the 1901 Census, Nancy's occupation is given as a milliner and Gertrude as an artist. Richard is a tailor's assistant, William and Ernest are confectioner's travellers and John Emile is a clerk at an ironworks.

Kate

Ernie · 24-02-2007, 12:50

Sorry Kate, its all very vague because when my Mum left McGowans,(that was the firm that Lightbowns sold out to) I was only in my early teens and I dont remember her talking much about management although she actually worked for Lightbowns for 26 years.

thindle · 23-09-2007, 18:56

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Originally Posted by stanleybabe

Does anyone on AccyWeb have any info on the Lightbown Family in Accrington? The family business was Lightbowns Sweets, I think they made Grip Pastilles. I'm researching my family tree and my great great grandad was a Lightbown.
Thanks
Kate

Hi Kate, my husband's gtgrandad's daughter married a Lightbown, but, they came from Ossy and before that Darwen I think so not sure about the toffee side. Take a look on Genes reunited or Family search.

stanleybabe · 24-09-2007, 08:41

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Originally Posted by thindle

Hi Kate, my husband's gtgrandad's daughter married a Lightbown, but, they came from Ossy and before that Darwen I think so not sure about the toffee side. Take a look on Genes reunited or Family search.

Hello,
my side of the Lightbowns were from Ossie, it was my gg grandad's brother who was in Accy and started the toffee firm. Do you have any more info on your Ossie Lightbowns?

Thanks
Kate

lindsay ormerod · 25-09-2007, 21:34

kate, my dad went to Peel Park and/ or the Grammar School with 2 Lightbowns; Geoff and Tony . He thinks were not related to each other.

ChrisMG · 26-09-2007, 18:55

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Originally Posted by stanleybabe

Hello,
my side of the Lightbowns were from Ossie, it was my gg grandad's brother who was in Accy and started the toffee firm. Do you have any more info on your Ossie Lightbowns?

Thanks
Kate

Kate,

There are loads of Lightbowns of Oswaldtwistle on the Genes reunited site, going all the way back to 1848.

Ancestry . Family history . Genes Reunited

Do a search, its free. You just have to pay if you need to contact anyone. I'm a member, i've found 3 other peoples family trees that link to my tree so far containing over 6000 names!

Chris