Lucas Family


The Lucas family outside their house Rusketts (long since demolished) in Lower Haysden in about 1900. John Lucas, a farm worker and gamekeeper, is on the left (b. 13 April 1851 in Leigh), his wife Elizabeth and another older lady are next to him.The others, their surviving children, include Susan (b. 1879), Lucy (b. 1880), John (b. 1881), Henry (b. 1882), Joseph (b. 1886), Simeon (b. 1888) and Victoria (b. 1889). In the 1901 census all the boys were recorded as "farm labourers" and all the girls "servants". John Lucas was said to have been killed when struck by lightening. For further information click here

The Lucas family outside their house Rusketts (long since demolished) in Lower Haysden in about 1900. John Lucas, a farm worker and gamekeeper, is on the left (b. 13 April 1851 in Leigh), his wife Elizabeth and another older lady are next to him.The others, their surviving children, include Susan (b. 1879), Lucy (b. 1880), John (b. 1881), Henry (b. 1882), Joseph (b. 1886), Simeon (b. 1888) and Victoria (b. 1889). In the 1901 census all the boys were recorded as "farm labourers" and all the girls "servants". John Lucas was said to have been killed when struck by lightening. For further information click here