Lightfoot Family History
Lightfoot Name Meaning
English (chiefly northern England, especially Liverpool): nickname
for a messenger or for a fast runner, from Middle English lyght
‘light’, ‘nimble’, ‘quick’ (Old English lioht) + fote
‘foot’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
422,137
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lightfoot
Name Distribution of Lightfoot Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lightfoot families
 390 - 778  131 - 389 |
 1 - 130  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lightfoot families
|
13 - 24 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lightfoot census records
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Lightfoot Family Origin
Lightfoot Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lightfoot Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lightfoot census records
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Military Service by Lightfoot
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