Peter Lucas

Milkseller, Allostock, Cheshire

After marriage to Hannah Henshaw in 1827, Peter lived as a tenant farmer at Brook House Farm, Adlington, Cheshire, until 1833. See https://doc.cheshireeast.gov.uk/NorthgatePublicDocs/07871066.pdf for more information about the farmhouse.

Peter's first marriage to Hannah Henshaw ended when she died in 1832, leaving two young daughters and a son.

Second marriage to Hannah Broadhurst, in Salford, in 1836. Hannah Broadhurst gave birth to a daughter, Ellen Broadhurst Lucas in late 1837, and died in early 1839. In the 1841 Census, 3-year-old Ellen Lucas is noted as living with her widowed grandmother Ellen Broadhurst and aunt Ann Broadhurst in Prestbury, Cheshire.

Marriage allegation for third marriage to Emily Malbon (see Sources) in June 1839 shows that Peter Lucas was then a widower.

From: Staffordshire Gazette and County Standard - Saturday 01 June 1839

Marriages: May 26, at Astbury, by the Rev. John Hughes, M.A., Mr. Peter Lucas, of Salford, Manchester, to Emilia, fourth daughter of John Malbon, Esq., Dane Bank, Congleton.

In 1851 the Lucases were living in Hulme, Manchester in a street that no longer exists. In 1855 there was a case at the Court of Chancery in which several of the Congleton Malbon family were involved. In the 1861 census Peter Lucas appears as a "Farmer". Could the Lucas family have reached some prosperity through this court case?

From: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7950550

Catalogue description Cause number: 1855 M91. Short title: Malbon v Bullock. Documents: Bill, interrogatories...

Reference: C 15/219/M91 Description:

Cause number: 1855 M91.

Short title: Malbon v Bullock.

Documents: Bill, interrogatories and answer.

Plaintiffs: William Malbon, Joseph Frederick Malbon, Millicent Caroline Malbon, Emily Lucas wife of defendant Peter Lucas, Charlotte Maria Haslam wife of defendant Prosper Haslam, Ann Lucetia Cox wife of Richard Cox by the said William Malbon their next friend.

Defendants: Joseph Bullock, Eliza Malbon spinster, Hannah Louisa Malbon spinster, Peter Lucas, Prosper Haslam and Richard Cox (abroad).

Provincial solicitor employed in Cheshire Note: Details have been added from C32/227, which also gives information about further process Date: 1855 Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

From: London Gazette Issue 20332 published on the 5 April 1844. www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/20332/pages/1186/page.pdf

WHEREAS a Petition of Peter Lucas, at present, and for three months past, residing in Lodgings in Kinsey- street, Congleton, in the county of Chester, and being a Commission Agent for the Sale of Bones, and for upwards of nine months previous thereto residing at Holme's Chapel, in the said county, and being a Coal Dealer, and for about three years previous thereto residing at Allostock, near Holme's Chapel aforesaid, and being a Brick and Tile Manufacturer, and part of the time out of business, and for one year previous thereto residing in Adelphi-street, Salford, in the county of Lancaster, and being a Collector of Rents, and for three years previous thereto residing in Corporationstreet, Salford aforesaid, and being a Milk Seller, and for three years previous thereto residing in Springfield-lane, Salford aforesaid, and being a Provision Dealer and Bread Baker, and for three years previous thereto residing at Brookhouse Farm, Adlington, near Bullocksmithy, in the said county of Chester, and being a Farmer, having been filed in the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy, and the interim order for protection from process having been given to the said Peter Lucas, under the provisions of an Act of Parliament, passed in the Parliament holden in • the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors," the said Peter Lucas is hereby required to appear in Court before Walker Skirrow, Esq. the Commissioner acting in the matter of 'the said Petition, on the 9th day of April instant, at twelve o'clock at noon precisely, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy, at Manchester, for the purpose of being then and there examined touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provisions of the said Act. All persons indebted t'o the said Peter Lucas, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. Richard Powdrell Hobson, George-street, Manchester, the Official Assignee, nominated in that behalf by the Commissioner acting in the matter of the said Petition.

Several of Peter and Emily Lucas's children (Caroline, Harriet, Charlotte) are noted as baptised in Lower Peover, Cheshire. This is two miles north of Allostock. Peter is never recorded as living in Lower Peover in any relevant census, or in the above biographical sketch. There was a farm owned by William Lucas at Allostock in 1851.

By the time of the 1861 census, Peter and Emily Lucas were established in Congleton, living in the lane leading into Priesty Fields. Peter is listed as a farmer. By 1871, the Lucases had moved to Boundary Road, Congleton, and Peter Lucas is described as a farmer with 10 acres.

From: Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial & General Advertiser - Saturday 16 June 1877

On the 13th inst., at Boundary-road, Congleton, Mr Peter Lucas, aged 77 years.

1841 census:

Household Information Address Mill Gate Parish Budworth, Great District Northwich, Northwich Administrative County Cheshire

Householder 1 Name Peter Lucas Age 40 Estimated Year of Birth 1801 Relationship to Head of Household Occupation Dealer in bricks Birth Place Cheshire Birth County Cheshire

Householder 2 Name Emily Lucas Age 30 Estimated Year of Birth 1811 Relationship to Head of Household Occupation Birth Place Cheshire Birth County Cheshire

Householder 3 Name Ann Mary Lucas Age 13 Estimated Year of Birth 1828 Relationship to Head of Household Occupation Juvenile Birth Place Cheshire Birth County Cheshire

Householder 4 Name Elizabeth Lucas Age 12 Estimated Year of Birth 1829 Relationship to Head of Household Occupation Juvenile Birth Place Cheshire Birth County Cheshire

Householder 5 Name Louisa Lucas Age 1 Estimated Year of Birth 1840 Relationship to Head of Household Occupation Juvenile Birth Place Cheshire Birth County Cheshire

Householder 6 Name Harriet Lucas Age 0 Estimated Year of Birth 1841 Relationship to Head of Household Occupation Juvenile Birth Place Cheshire Birth County Cheshire

1861 Census:

Name: Peter Lucas

Event: Census

Event Date: 1861

Gender: Male

Age: 61

Relationship to Head of Household: Head

Birthplace: ..., Cheshire

Record Type: Household

Registration District: Congleton

Sub-district: 2 Congleton

Ecclesiastical Parish: St Peters

Civil Parish: Congleton

County: Cheshire

1861 Census: Household Information

Address Priesty Fields

Parish Congleton

District Congleton, Congleton

Administrative County Cheshire

Householder 1

Name Peter Lucas

Age 61 Estimated Year of Birth 1800

Relationship to Head of Household Head

Occupation Farmer

Birth Place ...

Birth County Cheshire

Householder 2 Name Emily Lucas

Age 49

Estimated Year of Birth 1812

Relationship to Head of Household Wife

Occupation

Birth Place

Birth County Nottinghamshire

Householder 3

Name Ellen B Lucas

Age 23

Estimated Year of Birth 1838

Relationship to Head of Household Daughter

Occupation Silk Worker

Birth Place Manchester

Birth County Lancashire

Householder 4

Name Charlotte E M Lucas

Age 18

Estimated Year of Birth 1843

Relationship to Head of Household Daughter

Occupation Silk Worker

Birth Place
Birth County Cheshire

Householder 5

Name Peter John Lucas

Age 10

Estimated Year of Birth 1851

Relationship to Head of Household Son

Occupation Scholar

Birth Place Manchester

Birth County Lancashire