Family of Thomas THOMPSON and Jane FULLER

Husband:	Thomas THOMPSON (1830-1901)
Wife:	Jane FULLER (1845-1921)
Children:	John Vickers THOMPSON (1866-1935)
	Alfred Fuller THOMPSON (1868-1905)
	Emily Marion THOMPSON (1870-1927)
	Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (1871-1963)
	Ellen Edith THOMPSON (1873-1966)
	Thomas Percy THOMPSON (1875-1940)
	Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON (1878-1970)
	Margaret Jane THOMPSON (1882-1966)
	Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON (1888-aft1977)
Marriage	9 Aug 1865	Up Clatford, Andover¹

Husband: Thomas THOMPSON

Reverend Thomas Thompson and his wife Jane Fuller in a photograph taken in Asburton.

The last Methodist Chapel at which Thomas Thompson was placed before he retired to London (Willesden)

Name:	Thomas THOMPSON²
Sex:	Male
Name Prefix:	Reverend
Father:	Isaac THOMPSON (1807-bef1834)
Mother:	Elizabeth VICKERS (1807-1849)
Birth	3 Apr 1830	St Johns Chapel, Stanhope, Durham³
Residence	1841 (age 10-11)	Chapel House, Forest Quarter, Stanhope Parish.⁴
Residence	1848 (age 17-18)	Bridport⁵
Residence	1851 (age 20-21)	Wearhead, Forest Quarter, Stanhope parish⁶
Occupation	1851 (age 20-21)	Leadminer⁶
Residence	1861 (age 30-31)	Swan Yard, Market Street, Atherstone, Warwickshire (Lodger)⁷
Residence	1865 (age 34-35)	4 Edwards, Salisbury, wiltshire⁸
Occupation	1865 (age 34-35)	-⁸
Residence	1871 (age 40-41)	14 Lambrook Street, Glastonbury, Somerset⁹
Occupation	1880 (age 49-50)	Minister of Froyle Methodist Church
	www.froyle.com/download.htm
Residence	1881 (age 50-51)	32 High Street, Alton, Hampshire¹⁰
Residence	1891 (age 60-61)	33 Park Street, Newcastle Lower, Bridgend¹¹
Retirement	Aug 1900 (age 70)	Ashburton, Devon
Residence	1901 (age 70-71)	38 St Johns Avenue,Willesden, Hendon¹²
Death	5 May 1901 (age 71)	Manor Park Road, Willesden, London - Rupture of right Auricle of Heart¹³
Burial	9 May 1901	The quiet God's acre of Kingsbury cum Neasden Churchyard¹⁴

Wife: Jane FULLER

Jane Fuller in family group taken between 1906 and 1913

Taken in the back garden of "Rosia" Bellair road, Havant, between 1918 and 1921

Gravestone in St Andrews Church, Ashburton, Devon taken in 1922.

Jane Fuller's grave in St Andrew's Church Ashburton - taken in 2007

Name:	Jane FULLER¹²
Sex:	Female
Father:	Richard FULLER (1805- )
Mother:	JANE (1809- )
Birth	1845	East Ilsley, Berkshire¹⁵
Residence	1861 (age 15-16)	18 Abingdon road, East Ilsley, Berkshire (next to Wesleyan Chapel)⁷
Residence	1911 (age 65-66)	32 RODENHURST RD CLAPHAM, London
	Living with daughter Emily Marion
Occupation		Housewife
Death	1 Dec 1921 (age 75-76)	Roselands, Ashburton. Gangrene of Toes and Cardiac failure¹³
Burial	1921	St Andrews Church, Ashburton, Devon
Probate	30 Mar 1922	Winchester, Hampshire
	Probate: Thompson, Jane of Rosia Bellair Havant Hampshire widow died 1 December 1921 at Roseland Ashburton Devonshire Probate Winchester 30 March to Margaret Jane Thompson Spinster. Effects £249 1s 5d

Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON

schoolmaster

Taken at Ashburton at time of their mother's (Jane Fuller) funeral in 1921. John Vickers Thompson on far right

A family occasion somewhere around 1903-1913 - John Vickers Thompson in second row 3rd from right

John Vickers THOMPSON, thompson family group

Spouse: Clara Taylor SMITH, Thompson family group photos

Name:	John Vickers THOMPSON⁹
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Clara Taylor SMITH (1871-1936)
Birth	22 May 1866	Salisbury, Wiltshire, England^16,17
Residence	1871 (age 4-5)	St John the Baptist⁹
Residence	1881 (age 14-15)	"Wesleyan College For Wesleyan Ministers Sons" L²
Residence	1891 (age 24-25)	Cheshire, England¹⁶
Occupation	1901 (age 34-35)	Tutor at School (Eton?)¹⁸
	John Bevis Thompson is of the opinion that he was a tutor at Eton.
Residence	6 Aug 1902 (age 36)	9 Church Walk, Hendon
	9 Church Walk, Hendon
Occupation	1902 (age 36)	Schoolmaster
Residence	1911 (age 44-45)	Roslyn, Rowsley Avenue, Hendon, Middlesex
Occupation	1911 (age 44-45)	Assistant Secondary Schoolmaster
Residence	1935 (age 68-69)	21 Mowbray road, Croydon, Surrey
	21 Mowbray road, Croydon, Surrey from National Probate
Residence	1935 (age 68-69)
	27 Sion Court, Twickenham, Middlsex
Death	19 Dec 1935 (age 69)	Croydon, Surrey¹⁹
Probate	31 Mar 1936	London, England
	21 Mowbray road, Croydon, Surrey Thompson John Vickers of 21 Mowbray road Croydon Surrey died 19 December 1935 Probate Lonodn 31 January to Clara Taylor Thompson Widow. Effects £464 6s 1d

Child 2: Alfred Fuller THOMPSON

Name:	Alfred Fuller THOMPSON²⁰
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Alice Mary COLEMAN (1867-1949)
Birth	1868	Shaftesbury, Dorset²¹
Residence	1871 (age 2-3)	14 Lambrook Street, Glastonbury, Somerset⁹
Occupation	1891 (age 22-23)	Bank Clerk²⁰
Residence	1891 (age 22-23)	186 Cheltenham road, Bristol, Gloucestershire²⁰
Residence	9 Aug 1898 (age 30)	"Moormead", Leigh road, Street, Somerset
	"Moormead", Leigh road, Street, Somerset
Occupation	1901 (age 32-33)	Bank Cashier²¹
Residence	1901 (age 32-33)	12 Springfield Road, Swindon, Wiltshire²¹
Residence	1905 (age 38 (!))	Froyle, Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth
	Froyle, Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth
Child Count		0
Death	28 Oct 1905 (age 38 (!))	Bournemouth, Dorset
	Froyle, Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth
Probate	20 Nov 1905	London, England
	Thompson Alfred Fuller of Froyle Richmond Park road Bournemouth died 28 October 1905 Probate London 20 November to Alice Mary Thompson widow Effects £652 9s. 11d

Child 3: Emily Marion THOMPSON

Emily Marion Thompson

Walter Clarke and Emily Marion Thompson before 1913

Emily Marion THOMPSON, Thompson family group photos

Emily Marion THOMPSON, thompson family group

Spouse: Walter William CLARKE, Walter Clarke and Emily Marion Thompson

Spouse: Walter William CLARKE, Thompson family group photos

Spouse: Walter William CLARKE, thompson family group

Name:	Emily Marion THOMPSON⁹
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Walter William CLARKE (1865-1913)
Birth	1870	Keinton, Somerset
Residence	1871 (age 0-1)	St John the Baptist⁹
Residence	1911 (age 40-41)	32 RODENHURST ROAD CLAPHAM SW²²
Residence	1927 (age 56-57)	32 Rodenhurst Road Clapham London²³
	Died in Southen on sea but this was given as her address - possible daughter(inlaw) in Southend on Sea
Death	27 Nov 1927 (age 56-57)	Gisburn Trinity Road Southend on Sea Essex²³
Probate	17 Mar 1928	Chichester, Sussex
	Gisburn Trinity Road Southend on Sea Essex Clarke Emily marion of 32 Rodenhurst road Clapham park Surrey (Wife of Walter William clarke) died 27 November 1927 at Gisburn Trinity Road Southend on Sea Essex Probate Chichester 17 March to Arthur Wilfrid Thompson Officer of Customs & Excise and Owen Montague Clarke farm bailiff Effects£ 2270

Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON

The oldest "old boy" - Edgar Wesley Thompson at Kingswood school in Bath in 1962 aged 91 -

The Manor at Aston Tirrold, Berkshire Home of Edgar Wesley Thompson in 1910

Spouse: Ruth Barbara BRIGHOUSE, 1894, age 23, 1894--Ruth at Glascow-L (2)

Spouse: Ruth Barbara BRIGHOUSE, 1894, age 23, Mary, Phebe & Ruth Brighouse at Glasgow 1894

Spouse: Ruth Barbara BRIGHOUSE, 1902, age 31, 1902--Aunt Ruth & Averill Thompson

Name:	Edgar Wesley THOMPSON^24,25,26
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Ruth Barbara BRIGHOUSE (1871-1947?)
Birth	Jun 1871	Glastonbury, Somerset²⁶
Residence	1881 (age 9-10)	High Street Alton Hampshire²⁷
Residence	1891 (age 19)	Newcastle Lower, Nr Bridgend, Wales²⁵
Occupation		Methodist Missionary
Death	28 Jan 1963 (age 91)	64 Cromwell Avenue,Highgate, Middlesex¹³

Child 5: Ellen Edith THOMPSON

Name:	Ellen Edith THOMPSON²⁵
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Herbert Frederick BRAN (1871-1968)
Birth	Jan 1873	Helmsley, Yorkshire²⁸
	Ellen Edith Thompson Year of Registration: 1873 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Helmsley County: Yorkshire - North Riding Volume: 9d Page: 411
Residence	1881 (age 7-8)	High Street²
Residence	1891 (age 17-18)	Bridgend, Glamorgan²⁵
Residence	1911 (age 37-38)	The Manse, Retford, Nottinghamshire²⁹
Death	Jun 1966 (age 93)	Nottingham, Nottinghamshire³⁰

Child 6: Thomas Percy THOMPSON

Thomas Percy THOMPSON, 1921, age 46, Thompson family group photo 3 WEB

Name:	Thomas Percy THOMPSON²⁰
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Catherine Louisa MUNDAY (1881- )
Birth	25 Jul 1875	Callington, Cornwall³¹
Baptism	23 Nov 1875 (age 0)	Callington, Cornwall³¹
Residence	1881 (age 5-6)	Alton, Hampshire, England³²
Residence	1891 (age 15-16)	Charlcombe, Somerset²⁰
Residence	1901 (age 25-26)	38 St Johns Avenue,Willesden, London¹²
	38, St Johns Avenue, Willesden, London
Occupation	1901 (age 25-26)	Actuarial Clerk
Residence	1911 (age 35-36)	76 Mildred Avenue, Watford, Hertfordshire²²
Occupation	1911 (age 35-36)	Insurance Clerk²²
Death	22 Mar 1940 (age 64)	13 Stratford way, Watford, Hertfordshire
Probate	2 May 1940	London, England
	Callington, 13 Stratford way, Watford, Hertfordshire Thompson Thomas Percy of Callington 13 Stratford Way Watford hertfordshire died wwmarch 194- at Mardale Nursing Home Watford Probate London 2 May to Catherine Louisa Thompson widow and Thomas geoffrey Thompson assurance clerk Effects $5549 17s 8d.

Child 7: Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON

Athrur Wilfrid Thompson

Athur Wilfrid Thompson, 4th from left - Rugby team at Kingswood School, Bath

A drawing of Arthur Wilfrid Thompson by S Roelands on the 8th of October 1914

A letter from Mother, Jane Fuller to AWT on the occasion of his marriage to Alice

Spouse: Alice Eliza Emma BEVIS, 1914, age 34, Alice Eliza Emma Bevis

Spouse: Alice Eliza Emma BEVIS, 1898?, age 18, Alice Eliza Emma Bevis

Spouse: Alice Eliza Emma BEVIS, 1972, age 92, Joan thompson violet Bevis AEET-90 sheila Theobald Joan bevis 150872

Spouse: Alice Eliza Emma BEVIS, 1969, age 89, Alice Eliza Emma Thompson (nee Bevis)

Name:	Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON³³
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Alice Eliza Emma BEVIS (1880-1972)
Birth	27 Jun 1878	Ewhurst, Sussex³³
Residence	1891 (age 12-13)	Charlcombe, Somerset²⁰
Residence	31 Mar 1901 (age 22)	Temperance Hotel, 4 Irish Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria³⁴
	Officer of Inland Revenue visitor RG!£/4891/4/2
Occupation	1901 (age 22-23)	-³⁵
Occupation	1921 (age 42-43)	-¹⁸
Death	Q2 1970 (age 91-92)	Havant, Hampshire

Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON

Margaret Jane THOMPSON, 1921, age 39, Thompson family group photo 3 WEB

Name:	Margaret Jane THOMPSON¹³
Sex:	Female
Birth	1882	Alton, Hampshire¹²
Occupation	1901 (age 18-19)	Bank Clerk²²
Residence	1911 (age 28-29)	111 ELMS ROAD CLAPHAM SW
	listed as Boarder
Occupation	1911 (age 28-29)	CLERK POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK
Residential	1920 (age 37-38)	Spring Gardens, Asburton, Devon¹⁸
Residence	aft 1921 (age 38-39)	18 Glanville Road, Tavistock, Devon.¹⁸
Residence	1966 (age 83-84)	15 Glanville road, Tavistock, Devon
	15 Glanville road, Tavistock, Devon
Child Count		0
Death	30 Apr 1966 (age 83-84)	Tavistock, Devon¹³

Child 9: Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON

A very young Hilda featherstone Thompson

Hilda featherstone Thompson sat down front row left

Name:	Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON^12,25
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Robert Noel ROSS ( -bef1968)
Birth	1888	Shepton Mallet, Somerset^12,25
Residence	1891 (age 2-3)	33 Park Street, Newcastle Lower, Bridgend²⁵
Residence	1901 (age 12-13)	38 St Johns Avenue,Willesden, Hendon¹²
Occupation	1911 (age 22-23)	School Teacher
Residence	1911 (age 22-23)	The Lindens, Midland road, Wellingborough
Emigration	1914 (age 25-26)	from United Kingdom to Queensland, Australia³⁶
	Mentioned in letter which she wrote to Miss Jean Thompson of Stratford Road, Watford in 1962
Residence	1925 (age 36-37)	Namoli, Montville, Widebay, Nambour, Queensland
	Home Duties
Residence	1936 (age 47-48)	Elmherd, Mt Perry, Widebay, Queensland
	Teacher
Residence	1937 (age 48-49)	Namoli, Montville, Widebay Queensland
	Home Dutries
Residence	1943 (age 54-55)	Namoli Montville, Wide Bay Queensland.
	Home duties
Residence	1947 (age 58-59)	Presbyterian Girl's College, McPherson, Warwick, Queensland.
	House Keeper
Residence	1949 (age 60-61)	Presbyterian Girls College, McPherson, Warwick, Queensland
	Possibly house keeper? ???
Residence	1954 (age 65-66)	45 Waterworks road, Ashgrove, Ithaca, Ryan, Queensland³⁷
	Home Duties
Residence	1963 (age 74-75)	45 Waterworks road, Ashgrove, Ithaca, Ryan, Queensland³⁸
	also robert listed as clerk?
Residence	1968 (age 79-80)	7 Winifred Street, Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensalnd, Australia
	7 Winifred Street, Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensalnd, Australia
Residence	1972 (age 83-84)	495 Vulture Street, Brisbane EB 4169, Australia³⁸
Residence	1977 (age 88-89)	495 Vulture Street, Brisbane EB 4169, Australia³⁸
	495 Vulture Street, Brisbane EB 4169, Australia
Residence	1977 (age 88-89)	21 Miles Street, Clayfield, Brisbane 4011, Australia³⁸
	21 Miles Street, Clayfield, Brisbane 4011, Australia
Death	aft 1977 (age 88-89)	Queensland, Australia

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (1)

Methodists circuits where Thomas Thompson was stationed:

THOMPSON, THOMAS.

1856 Wigton, &c. 1

1857 Arbroath, &c. 1

1858 Clitheroe 1

1859 Ludlow 1

1860 Hinckley 1

1861 Bramley 1

1862 Andover 2

1864 Salisbury 2

1866 Shaftesbury 2

1868 Glastonbury 3

1871 Helmsley 2

1873 Callington 3

1876 Colchester 1

1877 Staplecross 3

1880 Alton 3

1883 Dunster 2

1885 Shepton-Mallet 3

1888 Bridgend 3

1891 Wantage 3

1894 Bourne 3

(1897 Ashburton, Devon)

TT superannuated from Ashburton in or around 1899 - the above list is incomplete as it was only made up to 1896 - it is described as follows

An alphabetical arrangement of all the Wesleyan Methodist ministers and preachers on trail in connexion with the British and Irish Conferences. also, a list of the presidents of the Conference from 1791 to 1892; and an alphabetical list of the ministers who have died in the work (1896)

The total mileage from start (Ireshopeburn) to finish (Willesden) is 3177.4 miles on today's roads - I am sure it fas far longer on the old roads! plus the amount of travelling around the various Circuits..... I bet he travelled a fair few thousand miles more.... Allowing for the fact there were very few trains about in the early part of his life I would estimate an average speed of around five miles an hour for all of his travelling as alot of it will be by foot and horse. allowing 8 hours travelling a day it would seem that it would have taken him the best part of three months just to travel between his postings... alot of the time with a large family in tow!

http://www.archive.org/stream/alphabeticalarra00hilliala/alphabeticalarra00hilliala_djvu.txt

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (2)

The Coming of Methodism to Weardale

By H.K. (1898)

[original liberally illustrated with black-and-white photographs -- see below]

[visual emphasis added e.g. Watson]

The first Methodist preacher who visited Weardale was Christopher Hopper. Wesley says that in 1749 Mr. Hopper and John Brown came and preached among them. He adds that Mr. Hopper, though meeting with no encouragement at his first appearance in the dale, made several visits in the ensuing spring and summer. It was not, however, until the autumn of that same year that the great work of conversion began. Four then found peace with God and agreed to meet together. At the Christmas following there was another incursion of Methodist preachers. Hopper had crossed over the mountains from Allendale, and it was from the same quarter that the two exhorters set out. Their coming was quite dramatic, and the tradition of it has perhaps for that reason been cherished. Before entering the dale they knelt down in the snow and earnestly besought the Lord that He would incline some person, who was worthy, to receive them into his house. At the first house where they called they were bidden welcome, and they stayed there four days. Wesley adds, "Their word was with power, so that many were convinced, and some converted to God. One of these exhorters was Jacob Rowell. They continued their visits, at intervals, all winter. In the beginning of summer about twenty lively, steady people were joined together. From that time they gradually increased to thirty-five, and continued about that number for ten years. There was then a remarkable revival among them, by means of Samuel Meggot, so that they increased to eighty; but, four years since (this was written in 1772) they were reduced to sixty-three. From that time they increased again, and were, in August, 1772, an hundred and twenty."

It was rough work travelling up and down the dales and across the mountains in those days. Mr. George Story, who was Samuel Meggot's colleague in the circuit, says, "I exerted myself much above my strength both in preaching and travelling, often venturing in tempestuous weather over those dreary fells when even the mountaineers themselves durst not. I was frequently in danger of being swallowed up in the bogs, or carried away by the torrents. Sometimes I have rode over valleys where the snow was eight or ten feet deep, for two or three furlongs together." And then he adds, "When the danger was most imminent, I not only found a calm resignation, but a solid rejoicing in the God of my salvation."

These early Methodist preachers had a great many discouragements, as we may gather from the old records. There were dull times then, as now, and long periods when the people did not get converted, and sometimes disaster in the societies, and quarrelling and the outbreak of wild fanaticism that would not be controlled, and dry-rot in the classes. But then, ever and anon, there came a time of refreshing, when the Divine power descended on the assembly, and people dropped down one after the other, crying for mercy, and the work revived, and spread through the dale, and the society was doubled, and God made His servants to understand that they were not forsaken and that their work was not a failure.

Mr. Christopher Hopper's account differs in certain material respects from Wesley's. It seems certain that there was a still earlier visit in 1748, and that this was really the beginning of Methodism in Weardale. Mr. Thompson, who, judging from the notes he has given me, has tested everything by most careful inquiry up and down the dale, where traditions are consistent and likely to be reliable,, because the people have intermarried and the facts of local history have come down from father to son - Mr. Thompson says that Christopher Hopper was the first Methodist preacher who visited the dale, that he came in 1748, and that he crossed over from Allendale.

This Christopher Hopper was the apostle of Methodism through a large section of the North country. We meet the abiding fruits of his work far and near around Newcastle, in co. Durham, and in Lancashire, Cheshire, and elsewhere, as far as Bristol. He was a Durham man, born at Low Coalburne, in the parish of Ryton, in 1722. A farmer's son, through the years of his early youth he lived a wild, rollicking life. It was through the coming of John Wesley to Newcastle-upon-Tyne that he became converted. He was one of the earliest of the Methodist preachers, making his own "round," without stipend or steward, going forth at his own charges, enduring hardness, passing not infrequently through tornadoes of persecution, and not strange to fightings within. Here is a glimpse - and it refers to the very year (1748) with which we are concerned - of the sorrows through which these heroic pioneers of Methodism passed. "My little substance," he writes, "soon failed, and I saw nothing before me but beggary and great afflictions. Sometimes I was carried above all earthly objects, and had a comfortable view of the heavenly country. At other times I was much depressed, and I could see nothing but poverty and distress." It must be remembered that he was a married man, and that in the interests of the preaching, at a time when there was no income for any preacher, he had given up his school and come to the dales - led by the good hand of God as surely as was St. Paul when he went forth into the mountains of Asia Minor.

"I well remember," he adds, "once, on the top of a cold mountain, in a violent storm of snow, when the congealed flakes covered me with a white mantle, Satan assaulted me, and pushed me hard to return to my school, or some other business to secure bread. I staggered through unbelief, and almost yielded to the tempter. But as the attack was sudden, so the battle was soon over. The Lord sent these words to my heart, like lightning. 'When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye anything ? And they said, Nothing, Lord.' I answered with a loud voice, 'Nothing, Lord ! Nothing, Lord !' All my doubts and fears vanished in a moment, and I went on my way rejoicing !

" 'Constrain'd to cry by love Divine,

My God, Thou art for ever mine.' "

As I have followed in the footsteps of Christopher Hopper, and stood on the very spot where he opened the Methodist commission in Weardale, I have wondered at the story of the heroic life work of these pioneer preachers - literally without purse or scrip, absolutely cast on the fidelity of their God. If any village Methodist should be harassed by an empty-headed Ritualistic curate with the taunt that Methodism is a schism and no part of the true Church of Jesus Christ, let him take a dose of Christopher Hopper's Journal. He will find it in the "Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers." And then let him ask himself, and the devil, and the curate, and anybody and everybody who tries to stand between him and his God, "Was not this Methodist preaching of God ?" If ever a Church could trace up the history of its founding to the right hand of the Most High, to the Spirit of God who shapes all human ends to Divine purposes, it is the Church of the Wesleys and Christopher Hopper and the heroes of the great Dales in the North Country. The young Methodists of to-day in all the Dales, from Wharfedale to Weardale, have reason to be proud of their ancestry.

In 1748 Christopher Hopper pitched his preaching tent in Allendale, forming, straight out of hand, four societies. "In the latter end of this year," he says, "I visited Weardale. Some of the brethren attended me from Allendale.

"It was in a storm of snow that we crossed the quagmires and enormous mountains. When we came into the dale we met with a very cold reception. The enemy had barricaded the place, and made his bulwarks strong. But the Lord made way for His troops. He opened the heart of a poor Scotch shepherd to receive us into his little thatched cabin, where we lodged all night.

"The next day I preached under the walls of an old castle. A few children and two or three old women attended, who looked hard at us. When I had done we followed them into their houses, and talked freely to them in their own language, about the kingdom of God. They heard and obeyed the Gospel. The next evening I had a large congregation, who heard with much attention, and received the Word gladly. Some time after I preached in private houses, alehouses, cockpits, or wherever I could find a door open. The fire then spread from heart to heart, and God was glorified.

On this account I may make two remarks. The latter portion refers, as it seems to us, to the work done by Christopher Hopper, which Wesley describes in his Journals and which all lay within the year 1749. For he says distinctly it was at "the latter end of the year 1749 I left the Dales and the dear children God had given me." Secondly, we can identify the place at which the preaching first began. It was "under the walls of an old castle." This locates it at Westgate - the village on the railway before you reach "St. John's Chapel." The old castle has vanished, leaving only mounds behind. But, by diligent inquiry on the spot, Mr. Hunter (the superintendent minister) and Mr. Thompson enabled me to discover the very spot on which Christopher Hopper must have stood - the spot that fulfils all the conditions, and the only one that does so. A fragment of the wall remains, overgrown now by a hedgerow, and immediately opposite there is an alley of very old cottage houses, at the end of which I set up the camera, and whilst my friends stood where they could command the houses - looking, by a curious coincidence, into the faces of "a few children and two or three old women," I took an excellent photograph, which was developed quite successfully one night in our Conference home at Hull. And then, alas, two accidents befell the negative, and it was smashed beyond recovery. However, we now know the very place where Weardale Methodism was born, and fortunately, in the landscape photograph of Westgate, taken by the side of the mill stream that rushes down to the Wear, the old houses in front of which Christopher Hopper preached are included.

The story of Methodism in Westgate would itself make a chapter in WINTER NUMBER, a chapter which my friend, the Rev. J. Conder Nattrass, who is proud to think of Westgate as his ancestral home, ought some day to write. There is a tradition in Weardale, so Mr. Thompson informs me, that Mr. Hopper was so pleased with the kind reception he met with from the people of the dale on his first visits, that subsequently when coming over from Cumberland, as soon as he reached the boundary between the counties, he commenced singing: -

"The promised land from Killhope top,

I now exult to see;

My hope is full ! (O Glorious Hope),

Of good spice cake and tea."

Wesley, who always had an eye for the beautiful, thus described the view from Pike Law when he came over from Teesdale: "From the top of the next enormous mountain we had a view of Weardale. It is a lovely prospect. The green gently rising meadows and fields, on both sides of the little river clear as crystal, were sprinkled over with innumerable little houses, three in four of which (if not nine in ten) are sprung up since the Methodists came hither. Since that time the beasts are turned into men, and the wilderness into a fruitful field."

And this is what the good man says about the people, especially the young people. He had been preaching at High House, and there was so great a multitude that they could not get into the chapel. So he preached again the next day, and then adds, "On Thursday at five o'clock I took my leave of this blessed people. I was a little surprised, in looking attentively upon them, to observe so many beautiful faces as I never saw before in one congregation, many of the children in particular, twelve or fourteen of whom (chiefly boys) sat full in my view. But I allow, much more might be owing to grace than nature, to the heaven within, that shone outwards."

At Eastgate, which is the next station beyond Westgate travelling from St. John's Chapel, there is a remarkably fine specimen of an old Weardale farmhouse. It is rich in Methodist associations. The late Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, father of Mr. T. H. Bainbridge, of Newcastle, was born there. I was told by the circuit steward, who now lives in the house, that the room in which Mr. Bainbridge, sen., was born is the little bedroom on the ground floor behind the black oak panelling in the great house-place, a photograph of which I was kindly permitted to take. The camera stood by the door of the little bedroom. That house-place is one of the sacred spots in the history of Methodism. It was one of the farm kitchens of the olden time to which the neighbours used to come for the Methodist preaching, precisely as the early Christians of Colosse used to come to the house-place of Philemon, in which Luke the evangelist and most of the famous preachers of that day proclaimed the evangel of Jesus Christ. When you stand inside that glorious farm kitchen you feel as though you would like to make it your home to the end of your days. As I took the photograph the place was filled with the delicious aroma of the bread-baking. The young daughter of the house, as I was told by her mother, had just distinguished herself by taking the first prize offered by the County Council for butter-making. You may see father and mother and daughter standing on the little islet above the waterfall, which is close to the farmhouse. The Bainbridge Memorial Chapel, in the same village, was erected by the generosity of the Bainbridge family, in memory of their grand-father, Mr. Cuthbert Bainbridge, whose name is fragrant in the Methodism of all this country side.

The number of ministers and laymen of note who have been raised in the dales is simply bewildering. I stood one day close to the manse of St. John's Chapel. Behind me at Hilltop, nestling among the sheltering fir trees, was the farmhouse in which the late Rev. William Gibson's father was born, who, like his son, was also a Wesleyan minister. In Pryse House, now the manse, died Joshua Dawson, the father-in-law of the Rev. Thomas Cook. Across the valley on the hillside of High House I could see the birthplace of the Rev. Joseph Race, who died in China. At the Hermitage across the river the Philipsons lived, and below, at the foot of the hill, the brother of the Rev. Thomas Nattrass was harvesting the hay. At Middle-Rigg, below Ling Riggs, not far away, the Rev. Featherstone Kellett was born; at Burnhope, the Rev. Thomas Thompson; at Ling Riggs, the Revs. Joseph and George Watson and Dr. John Watson; at Westhall, beyond Wear Head, the Rev. Jonathan Hewitson; at Stanhope, the Rev. William Wallace; and in the neighbourhood at Eastgate, the Rev. George Golightly. I do not suppose that this by any means exhausts the list. The dale literally teems with Methodist associations.

I have a few notes with reference to two of the names mentioned above.

John Kellett was born a year before the death of Wesley. He was a prominent member of the High House Society for upwards of seventy years, for nearly sixty years a local preacher, and for fifty years a class-leader. Left an orphan at twelve years of age, his advantages in early life must have been meagre. He married early, and not long after was led to think upon his ways. Under deep conviction he sought out a little band of Methodists who met in a class at Lowburn. They heartily welcomed him to their meetings and led him to Christ. He united himself to the people, and for seventy years continued a firmly attached member of the Methodist Society. The dalesmen remember with pride to this day that John Kellett was a zealous servant of the Divine Master, never whiling away time, never triflingly employed. He was a reader, and according to his opportunity, I am told, a great reader. The little cottage in which he lived, now in ruins, I looked upon with reverence, and thought of the good man living sparely, and, in the leisure hours of a busy life, studying Wesley, Fletcher, Benson, and Clarke - his great authorities on Christian doctrine - the men who taught him how to teach the people on all that country side, and how to teach the boy who was destined to go forth into a wider sphere preaching the Gospel in the greatest chapels of Methodism, and, in his turn, training sons who were destined to teach in one of the greatest schools of English learning and, one of them, the sons of Brahmins in the University of Madras. No wonder that Featherstone Kellett and his sons love Weardale and are proud of the memory of brave old John Kellett.

I may add that the Hill House [1] minister's house of the olden time still survives. It adjoins the chapel at the back. In this tiny house lived the Rev. W. Hirst, and, later, the Rev. W. Rodwell Jones. The little daughter of the latter, at that time one of two, is still remembered in the Dale. She has since become famous in literature as "Dora M. Jones." In those days there was a little shop under the minister's house. The shop window - a very tiny window - may be seen in the photograph.

John Kellett was a practical preacher, and always more anxious to lead his hearers to repentance and rectitude of life than to please their fancy. He preached in the dialect of his native valley. As he was wont to say, his aim was to be understood in speaking for his Lord rather to employ fine words, or to round his periods. He was a sturdy Methodist of the olden type, a firm believer in Methodist doctrine and polity - a Methodist by intelligent choice. Upon Christ he based all his hope of everlasting life with God in heaven. He was not always what could have been desired in word and temper, and sometimes unfortunate expressions would occasion feelings not of the pleasantest among his brethren. But when the breeze subsided no one was more ready to accept, or to give, the reconciling word. He was conscious of weakness, and therefore, though a thorough believer in the higher life, he never felt that he could venture to profess it. He was a diligent attendant at prayer-meetings and week-night services in his own locality, and often walked miles from home to preach in cottages. Throughout a large circle he visited the sick and dying and anyone who might be under conviction of sin. His manner was to impress people by relating striking instances which had come under his own observation. He had a quaint way of introducing incidents met with during his visits. He once caused a smile in a great public meeting at High House by commencing his speech thus: "I sometimes think that in some respects Satan and I are not unlike each other. Satan went to and fro and up and down the earth, and so do I - but to undo what Satan has done." And then he narrated remarkable facts he had met with in his travels. John Kellett has an honoured place amongst the planters of Methodism in Weardale and the adjacent dales. He rests from his labours and his works do follow him.

Joshua Dawson belonged to a later generation of Weardale Methodists. He was born in 1821. His parents were connected with High House, and gave their children training according to the manner of the Methodists. Nevertheless, Joshua, in his youth, fell among evil companions and drank and fought. In a quarrel his leg was broken. Obliged to stay at home he began to improve himself in the rudiments of knowledge. His brother, who was a fair scholar, helped him. By the time he had recovered from his accident he thought himself competent to take charge of a school at Ireshopeburn. He married Miss Frances Tinniswood. She disliked his habits, but had boundless faith in his father's example and prayer. In 1844, just after their marriage, Scotch missionaries visited Weardale, and one night, under a sermon by Mr. Robertson, a Morrisonian Presbyterian, in High House Chapel, on the word "Eternity," the two young people gave their hearts to God. In this revival Featherstone Kellett, Thomas Nattrass (both of whom afterwards entered the ministry), with Mr. Thomas Hodgson, who became a useful local preacher and leader, and many others were converted. Joshua Dawson passed through terrible spiritual experiences at this time. "As he was coming the devil threw him down." But he was desperately in earnest for salvation, so earnest that he afterwards said to a friend, "I loved my wife as much as any man could love his wife, yet I could have left her, and home and friends, and could have gone to the uttermost parts of the earth and there dragged out a miserable existence alone, if only I might have been satisfied that God would save my soul." It occurred to him one day that some time before he had said to an employer of labour that which was not true about a man who had tried to injure him. It was only a trivial matter, yet he set off at once to Nent Head, a village about seven and a-half miles away over the mountains, that he might confess his sin and make restitution of character. "Now all this time," says Bunyan, and so also Joshua Dawson through these days and weeks of distress never ceased saying, "If I perish it will be crying out for God."

His life, of course, became entirely changed. But while reading the Word of God, Wesley's Sermons, and Christian Perfection, the Lives of John Smith, William Bramwell, Carvosso, and other Methodist biographies, he saw there was a higher state of grace, and rested not till he had obtained full redemption. Then he gave himself to the Word of God, and, along with Thomas Hodgson, Thomas Watson, and others, commenced prayer-meetings and cottage services. The result was a revival in which many were brought to God. He obtained permission from the minister to commence a new class-meeting, which became so large that it had to be held in the chapel. He spent much time in prayer, praying regularly with his scholars and even on the highway as he went to and from the school. On one occasion he had been home to dinner at Pryse. Starting for the school, which was about a mile distant, he began to pray aloud. When he reached Pryse Hill a tramp, sitting under the hedge, heard him, and had the wit to explain, "That's right, brother, I'm fasting and you're praying, so we'll both get to heaven."

Joshua Dawson's father was a local preacher, useful in his day, but by this time old and infirm. He asked Joshua to take an appointment for him at Burnhope. The son obeyed, and had a fairly good time. His first was his father's last appointment. Until his seventieth year, as a preacher he was in labours more abundant. From the first he was very successful in winning souls, both in his own and in adjoining circuits. After several years he extended the circle of his labours. For a while with Mr. John Clarke, of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, and afterwards for several years with Mr. Jabez Woolley, of Leeds, he laboured in towns and villages in various parts of the country. Few men have been more useful in bringing souls to Christ.

From the time of his conversion Joshua Dawson acknowledged God in all his ways, making every matter a subject of prayer. Soon after his marriage he was obliged to give up teaching at Ireshopeburn, a large school being built in the locality. He determined to commence business as a grocer. But he had no money. It occurred to him that if he only had five pounds he would be satisfied. One day he went into a room adjoining the post office and laid the matter before the Lord. While on his knees he received an impression that a letter had come for him. He rose, went into the post office, and found it was so. The letter contained a five-pound note from an unknown friend. Another friend called shortly after and offered to lend him £5 more. From that time God prospered him in all his undertakings, so that he was in a position to go forth preaching Christ at his own charges.

He was a generous man, and systematic in his generosity, giving a tenth of his income. He bought the house in which he lived, and carried on his business, adding a third storey, so that in the event of objection being taken to their preaching in the chapel, women might preach there. His house was the home of the preachers.

When sixty years of age he told his friends that he had an impression that he would live ten years more to go on with his beloved work. In 1883, however, he was suddenly seized with severe illness. He suffered much, and it seemed as though his end was near. One of his most intimate friends, after praying earnestly for his recovery, opened the Bible, as some of the early Methodist preachers used to do, and his eye fell upon the passage, "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord." The message was fulfilled. Mr. Dawson's last mission was at Ormskirk. While there he attained his seventieth year. On the last Sunday he had a glorious time. Writing to his daughter, the widow of the late Rev. Joseph Race, he said, "Yesterday was the crowning day of my life." The next day there came a paralytic seizure, which ended his labours as an evangelist. Once he said to Mrs. Race, "If I had not had this extreme suffering it could hardly have been said I had gone up through much tribulation." Just before his death his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tinniswood Dawson, asked "Is Jesus precious?" He answered "Yes." It was his last word. He passed peacefully away December 31, 1892, in the seventy-second year of his age.

Accompanying illustrations

~ Wapping Cottage, Westgate

~ Westgate Chapel

~ Mr. Emerson Bainbridge's Birthplace

~ The Linns, Eastgate

~ Kitchen of the Bainbridge Ancestral Home

~ The Cuthbert Bainbridge Memorial Chapel

~ The Minister's House behind High House Chapel

~ The Parish Church, St. John's Chapel

~ Mr. Joshua Dawson's Shop at St. John's Chapel

~ Hilltop, the Home of the Gibsons

~ Pryse House

Source: The Methodist Recorder, No. 2044, 1898

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Footnote

(1) This may be a mistake: the author probably meant "High House". ³⁹

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (3)

Froyle Methodist Church

This booklet has been produced for the

Thanksgiving Service on Sunday 17th May 1998

to commemorate the end of 136 years of

worship in Froyle Methodist Church

MINISTERS

1862 William Sanders

1864 William Priest Peck

1867 John Dawson

1869 James Aldis

1872 Samuel Atkinson

1874 James Portrey

1877 Joseph Payne

1880 Thomas Thompson

1883 Alexander Borrowman

1886 Samuel Green

1889 Richard Fletcher

1892 George Reid

1895 James G. Lawrence

1897 George Gibson

1900 Henry Cotton

1903 David Hinchcliffe

1908 W. Sinclair Smith

1911 John Willian Almond

1915 Arthur Eustace Southon, D.Lit.

1919 Ernest S. Welch

1923 Arthur Clay Lywood

1926 Stanley Derham Robinson

1929 William D. Knight

1931 W. Routley Bailey (died Oct. 1932)

1932 E. Geoffrey Parrinder, M.A., D.D., Ph.D., Hon.D.Lit.

1933 George W. Demaine

1937 Thomas Hooper Johnston

1939 (Dec) Edgar P. Blamires

1940 Edwin de Ville

1943 Peter A. Kerridge

1944 Frank Woodward Ross

1948 William Albert Parrott

1951 Hillier J. Herivel

1954 T. Hooper Johnston

1958 John J. Mahoney

1961 William D. Robinson, Ph.D.

1967 (April) Bryan W Imbush

1967 David G. Thorpe

1969 Arthur W. Banks, M.A., B.Sc.

1971 Dennis Bussey

1972 David Porter

1977 Ivan B.U. Wilson, B.A.

1982 Robert C. Schnase

1983 Neil R. Bartlett

1989 Ian D. Bowley

1997 Jean Simmonds

It is with real sadness that we have reached the decision that the small

Methodist Chapel here in Froyle must close. The building has come to the

end of its life and we know that we should invest our resources in the growing

work of our much larger church in the town centre at Alton. However, as is

so often the case, there is so much that is good in the midst of the sadness.

Let me share with you two particular causes for thanksgiving.

When our chapel was built in 1862 I expect the relationships with the vicar

and worshippers at the parish church were non-existent! Sadly, it has taken

a long time for different expressions of our faith to accept and appreciate

each other. Now we are able to say with sincerity that it is better for a small

community like Froyle to have one church, a single focus for the spiritual

life of the village. We rejoice in the fact that our small Methodist congregation

will be a welcome part of the life of the church with thoughts and experiences

to contribute from our tradition.

Secondly, we give thanks that we can look back to so much that has been

achieved. There are good memories of times when the Sunday School was

large and busy, of times when the church was filled for services and when

the support and care that was offered from the chapel to the life of the

village were important. There is gratitude to God for people who have

shared their gifts, time and faith among us and for the fact that their love

and faith contributed much to individual lives. Because of their service the

church does not die with the closure of the building. The church is not the

building, it is the people, so the work of God will always continue among

the people of Froyle. My prayer is that God will richly bless you all.

Rev. Jean Simmonds.

Superintendent Minister,

Farnham and Alton Methodist Circuit

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (4)

According to note number 11 in the reminiscences from Edgar Wesley Thompson to Thom as Geoffrey Thompson, Edgar recalls:

"The sermons of my father which I have are written with a quill pen. I can remember the scratching noise."

Delightful!

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (5)

There was a record made of all the graves in the churchyard in the 1960s but there is no record for Thomas Thompson’s Grave. There is an archive of Burial Records for St Andrew, Kingsbury at London Mtropolitan Archives under the reference GB 0074 DRO/028

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

Archon Code : 74

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Tel: 020 7332 3820

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Email: ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Website: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma

Online map: streetmap

Head Archivist : Dr Deborah Jenkins

Access information

Open : Mon, Wed, Fri 9.30-4.45; Tue, Thur 9.30-7.30; limited Saturday openings (see website)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (6)

According to the John Rylands institute there have only ever been three Wesleyan ministers with the name Thomas Thompson.

Our Thomas is shown as follows:

Thompson, Thomas 1856 1901

The others are:

Thompson, Thomas 1809 1838

Thompson, Thos. M.A. 1833 1891

Thos Thompson MA is the only other possibility to be stationed at Bridport in 1848 and Gravesend in 1863. AM may stanfd for apprentice minister or it maybe MA round the wrong way? The dates above are from the time they have been ordained, not started training - so maybe it isn't our Thomas... unless they had on the job training for a longer period???

http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/methodist/using/indexofministers/

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (7) - shared note

The report of thomas at Bridport as an AM may not be our Thomas.... Age is right if AM means Apprentice/Assistant Minister.

Definitely entered ministry in 1856 but according to the list of appointments he was also in Wigton in 1856... as this is in the "An index of Mnisters and Probationers who have died in the work (from commencement of Ministry to year of death)" Interestingly thee is also a John S Vickers who entered the ministry in 1849-1887 who perhaps inspired TT????

The road up through Weardale to Alston is the highest road in England - over two thousand feet high

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (8)

Welcome to Gravesend Methodist Church

History of our church

The Early Days

There have been Methodists in Gravesend since the early days of Methodism, indeed, as far back as I77I a room was rented by the twenty or so members of the Society and John Wesley himself preached at the opening service to a crowded congregation.

This first enthusiasm was short-lived however and, although one or two members still met as often as possible, it was considered by the authorities at Rochester, that “Gravesend was too wicked a town for much good to be done” and an application for a regular preacher was refused.

In 1807 a further application was made, this time it was approved and regular services began to be held.

These were so successful that the need was soon felt for a permanent building.

The First Wesleyan Chapel in Gravesend

Early in I8I2 a meeting was held to consider the matter. From then on events moved swiftly; in spite of the uncertainties brought about by the Napoleonic War.

The new church was completed and the opening services held just six months after the decision to build had been taken.

In the years that followed the church went from strength to strength. So much so, in fact, that by the end of the century the premises had become quite inadequate for its needs.

After much thought it was decided to rebuild the church and to include Sunday School Class Rooms and all other necessary accommodation on one site.

The cost of this was estimated to be £9000, but there was no hesitation, and by I906 the Church and adjoining premises, as we know them today, had been built.

At the time of the opening some £5000 had already been collected - a wonderful effort in three years - but the debt was not finally extinguished until I920.

In 2006 we celebrated the centenary of our present building.

History of Wesleyan Methodism in Gravesend :

Its Rise and Progress. By Mr. F.A.Mansfield

It has been thought appropriate to relate, as far as possible, the circumstances in which Methodism originated in Gravesend . Recorded facts date back as far as 1771, when there was a society of 16 or 20 members and the probability is that the first Methodist minister to visit the town was either Rev. Alex Mather or Rev. Joseph Benson, the commentator. In that year the little Society engaged a room capable of accommodating 200 people. On Monday, December 2nd 1771, John Wesley himself attended to open the room, and the interesting event is thus alluded to in his journal: ‘Monday, Dec. 2nd, I went down with several of our friends to Gravesend , when a building, designed for an assembly room, was used for a better purpose. It was quite crowded, yet abundance could not get in. After reading prayers, I preached on part of the second lesson, Hebrews 8 v.9-11. The room was pretty well filled at five in the morning. Fair blossoms! But what fruit will there be?’

The following year witnessed a second visit from John Wesley, who further says in his journal:- ‘I read prayers and preached to a crowded congregation at Gravesend . The stream here spreads wide, but it is not deep. Many are drawn, but none converted, or even awakened. Such is the general method of God’s providence! Where all approve few profit.’

Our venerable founder’s estimate of this beginning proved to be correct, for the room was held only a little more than three years, when it had to be abandoned for want of support. Among the members of Society, however, was a Mr Jessup, whose steadfastness and faith more than once saved the little flock from becoming scattered. Ever on the alert, his attention was directed to another room, which, although he was by no means in affluent circumstances, he forthwith engaged, becoming personally responsible for the rent. Preaching was then resumed and the regular means of grace observed. But this was not for long. Serious difficulties arose, which culminated in the temporary overthrow of the Methodist cause in the town, and some 35 years elapsed before it was heard of again. During this period of darkness it was commonly said; ‘The Sabbath never enters Gravesend ; it comes no further than the turnpike gate at Chalk.’ Still Mr Jessup remained true to God and eventually he came to learn that there were others of his own persuasion resident in Gravesend . These were two females from the West of England; Thomas Lockwood, a river pilot from Deptford; and Mr J Nash from Sittingbourne. They met for prayer and devised liberal things. A room in West Street was hired and application made to Rochester for a preacher. The reply was certainly not encouraging; it intimated that ‘ Gravesend was too wicked a place for much good to be done.’ In 1807 however, the town was Methodistically recognised and placed on the Rochester plan. Much good resulted from the services; but a further trial came when the little room was taken from the members. Once again the small Society was without a home. A meeting place was then found in Princes Street , this also being secured by Mr Jessup who himself paid a year’s rent in advance. Thenceforward the Society would seem to have grown steadily. In 1812 it was felt to be a great importance to the settlement and perpetuation of the work that a Chapel should be erected. But how to accomplish this was the question. The number of members was small and their financial resources limited. ‘Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity’ and so it proved in this as in many another case. Friends were raised up in Gravesend and Rochester ; a substantial sum was subscribed and the balance needed for building was borrowed by the trustees.

From an old minute book we gather some most interesting particulars concerning this period. The original trustees of the ‘Methodist Chapel to be built at Gravesend’ were appointed at a meeting held in the Vestry of the Chapel at Rochester , on February 6th, 1812, the travelling preachers present being Revs. Robert Johnson, Robert Martin and William Palmer. The fifteen trustees were for the most part residents of Rochester , Chatham and Brompton, Mr John Nash, coachmaker of Chalk, being also one of the number. Tenders for building the Chapel were then opened and were as follows:-

Mr Wm. Curd of Gravesend for the bricklayers, £ s. d

masons, plasterers, and slaters work 622. 8. 7

Messrs Lot & Carley, bricklayers of Gravesend 572. 0. 0

Mr Anthony Peck of Gravesend , carpenters and

joiners work, the painters, plumbers, glaziers

and smiths ironwork 1,350. 0. 0

Messrs Pemble & Whitehead, carpenters of

Chatham 1,260. 0. 0

Mr Wm. Ashenden, carpenter of Chatham 1,110. 0. 0

It was unanimously agreed to accept the tender of Mr Wm. Ashenden for carpenters work, and that of Messrs Lot & Carley for bricklayers work. It was also agreed that the front of the Chapel should be set back 22 feet from the boundary of the site. Mr Morson, attorney was directed to prepare the contracts and also to get the Trust Deeds ready for signing. Mr John Nash was authorised to give Mr Curd of Gravesend , the sum of ten guineas for surveying the bricklayers work, and that Mr Flashman be asked for his account for drawing plans, the sum being afterwards stated as £14. At a meeting of the Trustees held on May 22nd, 1812, Mr Ashenden was requested to furnish an estimate for an oak fence for the front enclosure and it was also decided that the seats in front of the gallery be let at 4s. in the second row 3s, and the rest at 2s.6d. per quarter, and that those in the body of the Chapel be let at 2s.6d. and 2s. per quarter; and that the chandeliers of Rochester Old Chapel be purchased for use in the Gravesend Chapel. In April 1835 the Trustees agreed to the introduction of gas-light to supersede candles. Many interesting extracts might be made from these early minutes if space would permit.

The appended obituary notice, however, shows the names of some of those on whom the burden of establishing our beloved Church in Gravesend chiefly rested:- Mr Robert Starbuck, died 1st February, 1831; Mr John Nash, Senior, died 23rd February 1833; Mr John Starbuck, died 27th August, 1834; Mr. Wm. Bouniwell, died August 1835; Mr George Osborn, Senior, died 5th May 1835; Mr John Bumstead, died 22nd January, 1837; Mr Robert Jessup, died 24th April, 1838; Mr. James Hulett LL.D. died 24th April, 1838.

A present member of the Church, Mrs. Ford (to whom we are indebted for much information) dates her membership back to 1845, and she well recollects a former member rejoicing in the fact of his rowing John Wesley from Gravesend to Tilbury.

Mention might also be made of Dr. Armstrong, Mr John Emery, Mr J.R.May, Dr. Hawkins, Messrs. Hadler, Taylor , Knee, Emery, Moore , Shorter, C.Hooper Smith, Hammond , Broom, W.Carpenter, James Dean, John Rose and others, who helped to carry on the work so well begun, and who have gone to their reward.

The Chapel has several times been altered and improved. The pulpit formerly stood against the wall at the northern end of the Chapel, but it was brought forward to allow for the erection of the gallery for the organ. The instrument previously in use was located in the southern gallery. Referring to the organ it is fitting to remember Miss Broom, Mrs Nicholson and Mr. C.Hooper Smith, who in turn for many years led the psalmody of the services.

The Gravesend Circuit was formed in 1819, the first superintendent appointed being the Rev. Thomas Rowland. At one time a large slice of Essex was included in this Circuit, but that arrangement ceased in 1895, when the Rev. G.H. Pickering then on the Gravesend plan, became superintendent of Grays.

The record would be incomplete were it not stated that when the Chapel was first opened the Sunday School was conducted in a room in Manor Road , the superintendent being Mr. Richardson, a grocer of High Street. The School was subsequently removed to Peacock Street .

It may well be expected that the knowledge of past achievements, so manifestly guided and controlled by the hand of God, will stimulate the Church of the present day to increased activity in order that our glorious heritage may be passed on for the spiritual good of those who are yet to follow in the train of our forefathers.

WESLEYAN/METHODIST PRIESTS OR PREACHERS

OF MILTON NEXT GRAVESEND AND GRAVESEND , KENT

1771 Rev. Alexander Mather and Rev. Joseph Benson

1771/72/73 Rev. John Wesley – Founder of Methodism.

Opening of the Ebenezer Chapel, Milton Road , Gravesend .

This after the town was Methodistically recognised (1807)

Chapel 1812

Travelling Preachers Revs. Robert Johnson, Robert Martin and William Palmer

1819 Gravesend Circuit formed, with a large part of Essex included.

First Superintendent was to be Rev. Thomas Rowland.

Unable to find records until 1837/1838

Found list of services:- Sunday 7 a.m. 10.30 a.m. 2 p.m. 5 p.m. & 6 p.m.

Sunday School, Manor Road , Milton next, Gravesend

Tuesday Lectures 7 p.m.

Prayer Meeting Friday 7 p.m.

1841 Chapel enlarged to hold 700 persons.

1842-1845 Rev. George Scott. Sunday School, Manor Road . Mr John Richardson – Treasurer

1845-1847 Rev. Robert Maxwell ( 7 Milton Road )

1846 School erected Peacock Street , with wings to School to house Priest and School Master.

1847-1851 Rev. John Hobkirk

1851-1854 Rev. M.Jubb No.2 Peacock Street “ Milton British Day School ”

1854-1857 Rev. J.Hearnshaw

1857-1860 Rev. T.A.Rayner

1860-1863 Rev. Richard Ray

1863-1866 Rev. Thomas Thompson (Three year appointment would indicate a more senior minister as TT was only doing 1 year posts at this time RT)

1867-1868 Rev. Stephen P.Harvard

1868-1870 Rev. George Turner Not to live in Church House

Resident 38 Windmill Street , Milton next Gravesend

1870-1873 Rev. Joseph Little Home 38 Windmill Street

1873-1876 Rev. Samuel Wesley “ “

1876-1879 Rev. George Butcher “ “

1879-1882 Rev. G.S.Hutton “ “

1882-1885 Rev. Thomas Wenn “ “ 1883

“ 42 Windmill Street 1884

1885-1888 Rev. W.H.Milward “ “

1888-1891 Rev. S.R.Williams “ “

1891-1894 Rev. John Jefferys “ “

1894-1897 Rev. S.J.Silcox “ 14 The Grove

1897-1900 Rev. John Pratt Elton “ “

(1895 Essex ceased to be on Gravesend Circuit)

Wesleyan/Methodist Ministers, Milton Road

1900-1904 Rev. E.R.Eslick Home 14 The Grove

1904 Contemplating Building New Church with School

1904-1907 Rev. W.H.Jackson Picken Home 14 The Grove

1905 Made Chaplain of local Barracks

1907-1910 Rev. George Neal Willis Home 14 The Grove

1910-1913 Rev. J. Edward Harlow Home “Madeley”, 39 The Avenue

1913-1916 Rev. George Lunn

1916-1920 Rev. G.Lang

1920-1926/27 Rev. William Looken

1926/29 Rev. Thomas Hamilton Groves

1929-1931 Rev. G.H.McCormick M.A. B.D.

1931 Named Methodist Chapel/Church

1931-1935 Rev. A.G.Lloyd

1935-1944 Rev. Horace Colley Died 1944

1944-1949 Rev. George Gregory (Mrs Colley was to remain with Rev. Gregory Family to 1949)

1949-1956 Rev. Dennis Robson

1956-1963 Rev. John Leonard Waddy

1963-1969 Rev. Albert Parkin

1969-1974 Rev. Leslie Lazenby

1974-1977 Rev. Roy Freeman

1977-1989 Rev. Roger Cresswell

1989-1997 Rev. Brian Snellgrove

1997- 2010 Rev. K.Andrew Lindley

2010 - Vacant -No Minister ⁴⁰

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (9)

According to the 1841 census, Thomas, his mother elizabeth, His sister Ann and his Brother Isaac are living in Chapel house with another Fatherless family Sarah Emmerson and her sons Thomas and Archibald. Sarah is listed as a Dressmaker but oddly Thomas her son does not have an occupation which would indicate that he is still at school.

Oddly though our Thomas Thompson at the age of 11 has leadminer as an occupation against his name which has then been crossed out. Is this because he shouldn't have been working or is it because the Census person wrote the occupation under the wrong Thomas?

Chapel House appears after High Earnwell and before Hotts Lane house - I have looked through the 1851 Census to see who is living in the Chapel House for that period but it does not appear to be listed. The census page is Durham > Stanhope Forest Quarter > District 1c > page 31 - I have been all the way through and can't find it. Check to see if this was amalgamated into the chapel at the time of rebuilding?

High house now appears between Hotts lane house and High earnwell as do a few other houses. in High house is a weleyan Minister Henry Needle.⁴¹

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (1) - shared note

Ellen Fuller born Blewbury Berkshire was visitor in Thompson house on night of 1881census.

In 1871 Ellen Fuller was living with Sister Sarah Seymour (born 1829, East Hagbourne, Berkshire) at 56 Winchester Street, Andover who is listed as head of household. In the house there is also Richard Fuller aged 34, (born 1837 East Hagborne, Berkshire) and also a John Wilson, boarder(occupation reporter), (born 1849 at Carluke in Cumberland). Richard's occupation is Carpenter and Sarahs is Grocer and Baker.

There was/(is) a Wesleyan Chapel between 58 and 59 Winchester Street, Andover. Consider the possiblity that Ellen Richard, (Lucy) and Jane are brothers and sisters living together after father had died. Interestingly, Sarah is a widow and Richard also a Widower. with the absence of a father or mother was there a plague or sothething similar which possibly took alot of people about that time?

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (2)

According to Margaret Joan Thompson in research by Thomas Geoffrey Thompson, "John Vickers died on voyage to Australia. Aunt Margaret has the Prayer Book which he gave to mother when he left: he was then engaged to her. It has the inscription, to Miss J Fuller ... 15th July 1864 Andover.³⁶

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (3)

According to research by Thomas Geoffrey Thompson and attributed to Edgar Wesley Thompson "My mother must have been living at Andover with her elder sister, Mrs Shackler, the wife of the manager of the foundry.

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (4)

Probate: Thompson, Jane of Rosia Bellair Havant Hampshire widow died 1 December 1921 at Roseland Ashburton Devonshire Probate Winchester 30 March to Margaret Jane Thompson Spinster. Effects £249 1s 5d

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (1) - shared note

Tutor, possibly at Eton.

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (2)

New Junior Latin Course by John Vickers Thompson and Llewellyn Mayson Penn (Unknown Binding - 1912)

Currently unavailable

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (3)

Probate: Thompson, John Vickers or 21 Mowbray road, Croydon, Surrey died 19 December 1935 Probate London 6 March to Clara Taylor Thompson widow. Effects £464 6s 1d.

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (4)

Graduated Wadham College 11 October 1884 aged 18⁴²

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (5)

Probate: Thompson Clara Taylor of 27 Sion Court, Twickenham, Middlesex widow died 2 October 1936 Probate London 27 September to Frederick Smith Thompson Commercial Clerk

Note on Child 2: Alfred Fuller THOMPSON

In 1898 he was a bank cashier in Street, somerset.

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (1) - shared note

Edgar Wesley Thompson(1871-1963) was born in Glastonbury, the son of a Wesleyan minister. He was educated at Woodhouse Grove, Kingswood, Aberystwyth and London University.

Thompson trained for the ministry at Richmond and served as a missionary in India for twenty-five years from 1894. He proved an able and well-known protagonist of Christianity and his public debates with the Theosophist Annie Beasant attracted a great deal of attention. He also acted as the editor of the weekly Christian newspaper Vrittanta Patrike. During the Conference of 1911, while on furlough, he made representations that led to changes in the constitution and administration of the Missionary Society.

Thompson returned to England in 1919 and was appointed General Secretary of the Missionary Society, in which post he displayed considerable administrative ability. The 1950 Conference Declaration of Racial Policy was largely his work. Thompson superannuated in 1934.

While serving in India, Thompson wrote a two-volume history of the sub-continent that remained in wide use for many years. He also wrote acclaimed biographies of John Wesley and Nicholas Gilbert.

Source: Minutes of Conference 1963 and Methodist Recorder7 Feb.1963 and Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury papers (MARC)

5470) Thompson, Edgar W; THE METHODIST DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH; Epworth; 1939; 48pp; Hardback in chipped dustjacket; () £5.00

5471) Thompson, Edgar W; THE METHODIST DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH; Epworth; 1939; 48pp; Hardback, insc.; () £4.00

5644) Thompson, Edgar W; WESLEY: APOSTOLIC MAN - SOME REFLECTIONS ON WESLEY'S CONSECRATION OF DR. THOMAS COKE; Epworth; 1957; 84pp; Hardback in dustjacket; () £6.00

5645) Thompson, Edgar W; WESLEY; APOSTOLIC MAN - SOME REFLECTIONS ON WESLEY'S CONSECRATION OF DR. THOMAS COKE; Epworth; 1957; 84pp; Hardback in dustjacket, sl. foxing; () £8.00

Author Thompson, Edgar W. (Edgar Wesley), 1871-1963 Other titles by Author(s)

Title The church, catholic and free : Reflections of a Methodist upon the south Indian scheme

Publisher London : Epworth Press, (1944)

Control Number m398619x

Subject India

Copies:Location Shelfmark Loan Type Availability Copies Loans

Deansgate Meth.Arch. /MAB,CO191

REFERENCE Available 1 0

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (2)

Name: Rev Edgar W Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1871

Age: 59

Port of Departure: Port Limón, Costa Rica

Arrival Date: 26 May 1930

Port of Arrival: Plymouth, England

Ports of Voyage: Port Colombia, Curacao, La Guaira, Trinidad, Port of Spain, Bridgetown

Ship Name: Stuyvesant

Search Ship Database: View the 'Stuyvesant' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database

Shipping Line: Royal Netherlands Steamship Company

Official Number: 1174

address given as 24 Bishopsgate, London EC2. Country of last permanent residence British Guiana ???

Also on the same boat was "His Lordship Bishop parry of 21 Westbourne Square, London W" also from British Guiana ???

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (3)

Name: Edgar Wesley Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1871

Age: 57

Port of Departure: Africa

Arrival Date: 8 Apr 1928

Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England

Ports of Voyage: Lagos, Sekondi, Monrovia, Las Palmas, Seirra Leone, Takoradi, Bathurst, Accra, Plymouth

Ship Name: Aba

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Shipping Line: British and African Steam Navigation Company Ltd

Official Number: 141887

Travelled alone and First Class - image of travel record in family history folder - gave address as 24 Bishopsgate, London

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (4)

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Actual text: Name: Edgar Wesley Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1871

Birth Place: England,Glastenbury

Origin Date:

Origin Place: England

Arrival Date: 26 Mar 1929

Arrival Place: New Orleans, Louisiana

Departure Date:

Departure Place: Belize, Belize

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Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (5)

Year: 1928; Arrival: , ; Microfilm serial: T715; Microfilm roll: T715_4396; Line: ; List number: .

Date:

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Actual text: Name: Edgar Wesley Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1871

Birth Place: England

Arrival Date: 9 Dec 1928

Arrival Place: New York, New York

Departure Date:

Departure Place: Liverpool, England

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Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (6)

in 1911 Edgar Wesley was a visitor at 1 College Road, Ripon in the house of Georgiana Senior

SENIOR, GEORGIANA WIFE MARRIED 35 F 58 YORKSHIRE GOOLE

SENIOR, FLORENCE EMILY DAUGHTER SINGLE F 31 YORKSHIRE BURLEY IN WHDALE

SENIOR, WILLIAM ERNEST SON SINGLE M 29 CHEMIST BURLEY - IN - WHDALE

THOMPSON, EDGAR WESLEY VISITOR MARRIED M 39 WESLEYAN MINISTER SOMERSET: GLASTONBURY

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (7)

Title: Special Series

Biographical Papers

West Africa

Level Sub-Sub-Series

Requisition MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/FBN 8 (fiche 327-328)

RefNo MMS/17/02/03/21

Title Rev Edgar Wesley Thompson

Date c1921

Extent 1 volume

AdminHistory Thompson was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, to Wesleyan Methodist parents (the Rev & Mrs Thomas Thompson) on 8th May 1871. After being educated at Woodhouse Grove and Kingswood he graduated from Aberystwyth. He attended Richmond in 1893 but his training was cut sort in 1894 due to an urgent need for missionaries in India. For the next 25 years he worked in the Mysore District developing a reputation as an evangelist, debater and effective administrator as well as cultivating a keen interest in Indian history and Hinduism. He was superintendent of the Mysore Press for a number of years as well as editing 'The Harvest Field' (c1900-1904) and Dr Haigh's weekly newspaper, 'Vrittanta Patrike' (contributing regularly to both of these in addition to other mainly missionary publications). Knowledgeable in both Canarese and Sanskrit his evangelical work included being involved with the mass movements in Hyderabad and Trichinopoly as well as a period of residency at the United Theological College in Bangalore. He was also an ardent opponent of Theosophy and in particular the form espoused by Mrs Annie Besant.

In 1911, whilst on furlough in England, he suggested changes to the constitution and administration of the missionary society which were accepted and remained in place up to and beyond Methodist Union. In 1919 he became one of the general secretaries of the WMMS, initially having responsibility for Home Organisation but later being responsible for India, West Africa and the West Indies districts. Whilst at the Mission House he served for four years as Chairman of the Officers' meetings. In 1934 Thompson became a supernumerary but remained active in Church affairs, most notably playing a key part in the creation of the Methodist Church's conference declaration on racial policy in 1950. He died in London on 28th January 1963.

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (8)

Was acreditted in 1962 with being the oldest "old boy" at Kingswood School!

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (9)

Rev Edgar W Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1871

Age: 59

Port of Departure: Port Limón, Costa Rica

Arrival Date: 26 May 1930

Port of Arrival: Plymouth, England

Ship Name: Stuyvesant

Returned from British Guyana on 26 May 1930 on Royal Netherlands ship Stuyvesant - embarked at Bridgetown. Port of Departure gvien as Port Limón, Costa Rica. Arrivied in Plymouth.

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (10)

Edgar Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1871

Age: 58

Port of Departure: Liverpool, England

Arrival Date: 29 Mar 1929

Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England

Ports of Voyage: Montevideo

[Iquique]

[Callao]

[Plymouth]

Ship Name: Orduna

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (11)

24/02/1919 Edgar Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1872

Age: 47

Port of Departure: Bombay, India

Arrival Date: 24 Feb 1919

Port of Arrival: London, England

Ports of Voyage: Plymouth

Ship Name: Mandala - British Steamship company

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (12)

Edgar Wesley Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1871

Age: 52

Port of Departure: Africa

Arrival Date: 16 Apr 1923

Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England

Ports of Voyage: Lagos

[Accra]

[Freetown]

[Plymouth]

Ship Name: Abinsi

address given as 23 Mornington road, Woodford.

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (13)

Edgar Wesley Thompson

Birth Date: abt 1872

Age: 50

Port of Departure: Africa

Arrival Date: 17 Apr 1922

Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England

Ports of Voyage: Lagos

[Accra]

[Monrovia]

[Palmas]

[Plymouth]

Ship Name: Aba

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (14)

Information about the Rev. Thomas Thompson

Source

1. Born April 3, 1830 Aunt Margaret

2. at Burnhope (in the parish of Heatherycleugh, Co.Durham. Methodist Recorder, Xmas no.1898

3. an orphan, who was brought up by and uncle Family tradition

4. related to the Rev. Featherstone Chairman of the Halifax and Bradford District, who visited us at Bridgend about 1890. I was at home at the time, and I thought they were first cousins. (If so, it must have been that my grandfather married a Featherstone, or the ' adopting' uncle was a Featherstone and married a Thompson, or my grandfather Thompson, Thompson and Featherstone married two sisters. E.W.T

5. had a younger brother John Vickers who died on the voyage to Australia. Aunt Margaret has the Prayer book which he' gave to mother when he left: he was then engaged to her. It has the inscription ,To Miss J. Fuller ... 15th July 1864 -Andover - Source Aunt Margaret

6.My mother must have been living at. Andover with her elder sister, Mrs Shackler wife of the manager of the Foundry - source E.W.T

He entered the Ministry in 1856, appointed 'Minutes of Conference in 1862 to Andover

1864 to Salisbury

1866 to Shaftesbury

1368 to Glastonbury (E.W.T.. born 8.5,71)

1871 to Helmsley

1873 to Callington

8. The eldest born son of my father and mother was John Vickers Thompson, obviously named after my father's younger brother. He was born 22.5-1866 Source E.W.T.

9. The adopting uncle is reputed to have been a Farmer not a miner. Source Aunt Nell

10 MY father had a sister who married in Australia, whom I met when they visited us Source EWT

11. The sermons of MY father which I have are written with a quill pen. I can remember the scratching - Source E.W.T

noise

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (15)

Title (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society

Special Series Biographical Papers

West Africa

Level Sub-Sub-Series

Requisition

MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/FBN 8 (fiche 327-328)

Ref No MMS/17/02/03/21

Title Rev Edgar Wesley Thompson

Date c1921

Extent 1 volume

Admin History

Thompson was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, to Wesleyan Methodist parents (the Rev & Mrs Thomas Thompson) on 8th May 1871. After being educated at Woodhouse Grove and Kingswood he graduated from Aberystwyth. He attended Richmond College in 1893 but his training was cut sort in 1894 due to an urgent need for missionaries in India. For the next 25 years he worked in the Mysore District developing a reputation as an evangelist, debater and effective administrator as well as cultivating a keen interest in Indian history and Hinduism. He was superintendent of the Mysore Press for a number of years as well as editing 'The Harvest Field' (c1900-1904) and Dr Haigh's weekly newspaper, 'Vrittanta Patrike' (contributing regularly to both of these in addition to other mainly missionary publications). Knowledgeable in both Canarese and Sanskrit his evangelical work included being involved with the mass movements in Hyderabad and Trichinopoly as well as a period of residency at the United Theological College in Bangalore [Bengaluru]. He was also an ardent opponent of Theosophy and in particular the form espoused by Mrs Annie Besant.

Note on Child 5: Ellen Edith THOMPSON (1) - shared note

Ellen born in Helmsley in 1873 Unsure why TT would have gone all the way back up to East Yorkshire.... Too early for Edgar Wesley Thompson to start his education in Woodhouse?

Note on Child 5: Ellen Edith THOMPSON (2)

Name: Ellen E Bean

Birth Date: abt 1873

Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1953

Age at Death: 80

Registration district: Brighton

Inferred County: Sussex

Volume: 5h Page: 61

Source Information Record URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?h=33164050&db=ONSDeath93&indiv=try

Source Information: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005 [database on-line].

Note on Child 6: Thomas Percy THOMPSON - shared note

Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 Record

about THOMAS PERCY THOMPSON

Name: THOMAS PERCY THOMPSON

College: CHRIST'S

Entered: Michs. 1894

Born: July 25, 1875

Died: Mar. 22, 1940

More Information: Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Jan. 15, 1894. S. of Thomas. B. [July 25, 1875], at Callington, Cornwall. School, Kingswood, Bath. Matric. Michs. 1894; Scholar; B.A. (8th Wrangler) 1897. F.I.A. Entered the Phoenix Assurance Company, 1899; British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Co., 1906. Tutor, Institute of Actuaries, 1909. Married, 1909, Catherine Louisa, dau. of A. Munday, of Hendon. Died Mar. 22, 1940, at 13, Stratford Way, Watford, Herts. (Kingswood Sch. Reg.; Peile, II. 788; The Times, Mar. 25, 1940.)

The Institute of Actuaries' text-book on compound interest and annuities-certain

by Ralph Todhunter; Reginald Claud Simmonds; Thomas Percy Thompson

Type: English : Book

Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] Published for the Institute of Actuaries, at the University Press, 1931

Note on Child 7: Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON

AWT was staioned in Kirkwall, Orkney in 1916, in 1918/19 he developed pleurosy and was invadided down to warmer climes in Campbelltown (Nairn or Argyle & Bute?) before finally coming down to Havant, Hampshire.^18,45

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (1)

Name: Relationship to head: Marital Status: Years married: Sex: Age in 1911: Occupation: Where born:

UNDERHILL, THOMAS HEAD MARRIED M 57 SALESMAN FRUIT ETC LONDON ST PANCRAS

UNDERHILL, EMMA WIFE 34 F 60 DEVONSHIRE TAVISTOCK

UNDERHILL, ANNIE E DAUGHTER SINGLE F 31 SURREY BERMONDSEY

THOMPSON, MARGARET BOARDER SINGLE F 29 CLERK POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK HANTS ALTON

THOMPSON MARGARET (RG14PN2273 RG78PN77 RD26 SD4 ED23 SN202)

Address 111 ELMS RD CLAPHAM SW County London

District Wandsworth Subdistrict Clapham

Enumeration District 23 Parish Wandsworth Borough²²

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (2)

Note that in 1911 when living with the Underhills in Clapham (see note above) Mrs Emma Underhill was born in tavistock in Devon and that is where Margaret eventually died - see 1911 census²²

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (3)

Death index, subject to verification - Margaret Thompson 2nd Qtr 1956 7 a 475 OR Tavistock 7A 745 in 1966 second Qtr

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (4)

ACTION TO DO -- - check local Tavistock paper for death notice. and whether Margaret Jane or Joan

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (5)

In the probate of jane Thompson Margaret is listed as Margaret Jane Thompson rather than Margaret Joan Thompson

Note on Child 9: Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON (1)

THOMPSON HILDA FEATHERSTONE (RG14PN8532 RD166 SD1 ED24 SN397)

Address THE LINDENS MIDLAND ROAD WELLINGBOROUGH County Northamptonshire

District Wellingborough Subdistrict Wellingborough

Enumeration District 24 Parish

Now a residential care home.

The School was opened on January 17th 1907 as 'The Wellingborough Grammar School for Girls' with Miss Anne Rayne Tinkler as headmistress. There were 28 girls and 7 staff in the large Victorian house formerly known as 'The Lindens' and now 'Linden Manor'.

It was the governors of Wellingborough School who were responsible for the founding of the new school, one of many 'secondary' schools established through the great Education Act of 1902.

The Lindens 1907-1912

Although the early curriculum was narrow compared with later developments this was a very liberal and advanced education for girls. Girls from ordinary backgrounds whose lives would have been limited by the domestic sphere would now have had a chance of studying foreign languages, science and more academic approaches to history, geography and mathematics. These new 'secondary schools' were distinguished from the 'senior elementary schools' , where pupils left at 14 or younger, by the ability to prepare girls for entry into training colleges or universities.Until 1944, the year of the Butler Education Act which abolished fee-paying in state secondary schools, fees werre paid by all pupils except those who had won free places through theri own abilities or those who intended to train as teachers. School fees ranged from £4 10s.0d per term for those 12 or over adn £4 5s.0d for those under 12 and £3 15s.0d for those resident outside Wellingborough. Those from the outlying villages were boarded in Park Road and Midland Road.

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Note on Child 9: Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON (2)

TINKLER, ANNE RAYNE HEAD SINGLE F 37 SCHOOL MISTRESS HEAD CHESHIRE CHESTER

MILLS, ETHEL BOARDER SINGLE F 30 SCHOOL MISTRESS - ASSISTANT LANCASHIRE MANCHESTER

DE REYES, INEZ MAGDALENA BOARDER SINGLE F 27 SCHOOL MISTRESS - ASSISTANT BELGIUM RESIDENT

LOSELEY, EFFIE MARY BOARDER SINGLE F 22 SCHOOL MISTRESS - ASSISTANT LEICESTERSHIRE MARKET BOSWORTH

THOMPSON, HILDA FEATERSTONE BOARDER SINGLE F 23 SCHOOL MISTRESS ASSISTANT SOMERSET SHEPTON MALLET

KENYON, ALICE BOARDER SINGLE F 24 SCHOOL MISTRESS ASSISTANT CHESHIRE BOLLINGTON MACCLESFIELD

LEATHER, ETHEL ELIZABETH BOARDER SINGLE F 25 SCHOOL MISTRESS ASSISTANT LANCASHIRE COLNE

HUTCHINGS, DORIS MARY STOKES BOARDER F 13 SCHOOL SURREY BLACKHEAT

JONES, GLADYS ESTHER BOARDER F 14 SCHOOL RUTLAND LYDDINGTON

WALKER, ELSIE JANET BOARDER F 13 SCHOOL NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WALGRAVE

WALKER, OLIVE KATE BOARDER SINGLE F 16 SCHOOL NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WALGRAVE

WEBB, NORA KATHLEEN BOARDER SINGLE F 15 SCHOOL WORCESTERSHIRE REDDITCH

WIGHT, OLIVE BOARDER SINGLE F 15 SCHOOL NORTHAMPTONSHIRE KETTERING

RICHARDS, ROBINA SERVANT SINGLE F 58 HOUSEKEEPER MATRON DOMESTIC YORKSHIRE WORTLEY

WISBY, ELIZA JANE SERVANT WIDOW F 44 COOK DOMESTIC NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ISLIP

MILLER, MATILDA RUTH SERVANT SINGLE F 27 PARLOUR MAID DOMESTIC CAMBRIDGESHIRE CAMBRIDGE

WALLACE, EDITH SERVANT SINGLE F 18 HOUSEMAID DOMESTIC NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ISLIP

GROOME, ALICE JANE SERVANT SINGLE F 23 HOUSEMAID DOMESTIC NORTHAMPTONSHIRE DENFORD

THOMPSON HILDA FEATERSTONE (RG14PN8532 RD166 SD1 ED24 SN397)

Address THE LINDENS MIDLAND ROAD WELLINGBOROUGH County Northamptonshire

District Wellingborough Subdistrict Wellingborough

Enumeration District 24

Sources

1	"Marriage Certificate". Thomas Thompson - Jane Fuller. Text From Source: Marriage witnessed by Henry Shackler and Lucy Fuller. Rector Thomas Child

2	"1881 England Census".

3	Geoff Nicholson, "Geoff Nicholson". Text From Source: St John's Chapel register. 1830 Apr 10 - Thomas Son of Isaac & elizabeth Thompson, Middle Black Dean, Miner, Born 3rd April Geoff Nicholson, St John's Chapel register. 1830 Apr 10 - Thomas Son of Isaac & elizabeth Thompson, Middle Black Dean, Miner, Born 3rd April.

Geoff Nicholson, "Geoff Nicholson". Text From Source: St John's Chapel register. 1830 Apr 10 - Thomas Son of Isaac & elizabeth Thompson, Middle Black Dean, Miner, Born 3rd April
Geoff Nicholson, St John's Chapel register. 1830 Apr 10 - Thomas Son of Isaac & elizabeth Thompson, Middle Black Dean, Miner, Born 3rd April.

4	"1841 Census".

5	"My Documents/my family tree/Thompson/thompson bridport 1848 batten". Text From Source: The Stations of the Wesleyan- Methodist Ministers, and Preachers on Trial, for 1848-49 Great Britian. 142) BRIDPORT, Thomas Thompson, A.M., Henry Hayman. N.B. Brother Hayman shall reside at Lyme Regis

6	"1851 Census".

7	"1861 census".

8	"Marriage Certificate". Thomas Thompson - Jane Fuller.

9	"1871 census".

10	"1881 England Census". RG11 Folio 1245 / 64 Page 7. Text From Source: Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability Thomas THOMPSON Head M Male 51 Weardale, Durham, England Wesleyan Minister Jane THOMPSON Wife M Female 36 East Illsey, Berkshire, England Emily M. THOMPSON Daur U Female 11 Keinton, Somerset, England Scholar Edgar W. THOMPSON Son Male 9 Glastonbury, Somerset, England Scholar Ellen E. THOMPSON Daur Female 8 Helmsley, York, England Scholar Thomas P. THOMPSON Son U Male 5 Callington, Cornwall, England Scholar Authur W. THOMPSON Son Male 2 Staplecross, Sussex, England Ellen FULLER Visitor U Female 51 Blewbury, Berkshire, England -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information: Dwelling High Street Census Place Alton, Hampshire, England Family History Library Film 1341304 Public Records Office Reference RG11 Folio 1245 / 64 Page 7

"1881 England Census". RG11 Folio 1245 / 64 Page 7.
Text From Source: Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability
Thomas THOMPSON Head M Male 51 Weardale, Durham, England Wesleyan Minister
Jane THOMPSON Wife M Female 36 East Illsey, Berkshire, England
Emily M. THOMPSON Daur U Female 11 Keinton, Somerset, England Scholar
Edgar W. THOMPSON Son Male 9 Glastonbury, Somerset, England Scholar
Ellen E. THOMPSON Daur Female 8 Helmsley, York, England Scholar
Thomas P. THOMPSON Son U Male 5 Callington, Cornwall, England Scholar
Authur W. THOMPSON Son Male 2 Staplecross, Sussex, England
Ellen FULLER Visitor U Female 51 Blewbury, Berkshire, England

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Source Information:
Dwelling High Street
Census Place Alton, Hampshire, England
Family History Library Film 1341304
Public Records Office Reference RG11 Folio 1245 / 64 Page 7

11	"1891 Wales Census". RG12/4455 District 8 page 9.

12	"1901 England Census".

13	"Death Certificate".

14	"The Observer". Friday May the 17th, 1901.

15	"Roger Thompson". http://www.ashburton.org/churches.htm. Text From Source: See both Methodist church and St Andrews

16	"1891 England Census". Text From Source: Ancestry.com. 1891 England Census. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Indexed by MyFamily.com, Inc. from microfilmed schedules of the England 1891 Census. Data imaged from The National Archives, London, England. 2,131 rolls. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.

"1891 England Census". Text From Source: Ancestry.com. 1891 England Census. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Indexed by MyFamily.com, Inc. from microfilmed schedules of the England 1891 Census. Data imaged from The National Archives, London, England. 2,131 rolls. The National Archives gives no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.

17	"Edgar Wesley Thompson". Cit. Date: 26 January 2012. Assessment: Secondary evidence. from the notes which EWT made on the research into his father's history

18	"John Bevis Thompson".

19	"National Probate Calendar 1861 - 1941 (1933)". 1936 page 94.

20	"1891 England Census".

21	"1901 England Census". RG13/1910 District 48 page 32.

22	"1911 Census".

23	"National Probate Calendar 1861 - 1941 (1933)".

24	"Nancy Gordy".

25	"1891 Wales Census".

26	"England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983". Text From Source: FreeBMD. England & Wales, Free BMD Index: 1837-1983 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003 Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall.

"England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983". Text From Source: FreeBMD. England & Wales, Free BMD Index: 1837-1983 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.

© Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003 Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall.

27	"1881 England Census". RG11 Folio 1245 / 64 Page Number 7.

28	Ibid. Ellen Edith Thompson Year of Registration: 1873 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Helmsley County: Yorkshire - North Riding Volume: 9d Page: 411

29	"1911 Census". Nottinghamshire > West Retford > 06 > 258. Cit. Date: 28 March 2012. Assessment: Primary evidence. census saved as PDF

30	"BMD". Name: BRAN, Ellen E Registration district: [?] Nottingham County: Nottinghamshire Year of registration: 1966 Quarter of registration: Apr-May-Jun Age at death:93 Volume no: 3C Page no: 346

31	"Cornwall Record Office". CRO MR CA 489 Callington Wesleyan Circuit.

32	"1881 England Census". Text From Source: 1881 British Isles Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Appreciation is expressed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for providing the 1881 England and Wales Census Index. Images © Crown copyright. Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to <a href= http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ >The National Archives Image Library</a>, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, Tel: 020 8392 5225 Fax: 020 8392 5266. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.

"1881 England Census". Text From Source: 1881 British Isles Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Appreciation is expressed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for providing the 1881 England and Wales Census Index.

Images © Crown copyright. Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England.

The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided.

Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to <a href= http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ >The National Archives Image Library</a>, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU, Tel: 020 8392 5225 Fax: 020 8392 5266. Infringement of the above condition may result in legal action.

33	"Birth Certificate".

34	"1901 England Census". RG13/4891 District 4 page 2.

35	Ibid. RG13/4891.

36	"Margaret Thompson".

37	"Australian Electoral Rolls". Queensland > 1954 > Ryan > Ithaca > R > 5.

38	Ibid.

Ibid.

39	"http://afinitas.org/Watson/WearMeth/MR1898c.html". Cit. Date: 16 October 2010.

40	"http://www.gravesendmethodistchurch.org.uk/history.htm". Cit. Date: 16 October 2010.

41	"1841 Census". Durham > Stanhope > St Johns > District 5 > 9.

42	"Oxford University Alumni".

43	"http://squirrel.soas.ac.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=360&dsqSearch=(RefNo='MMS')".

"http://squirrel.soas.ac.uk/". Text From Source: 'MMS/17/02/03/21'
Title (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
Special Series Biographical Papers
West Africa
Level Sub-Sub-Series
Requisition

MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/FBN 8 (fiche 327-328)
Ref No MMS/17/02/03/21
Title Rev Edgar Wesley Thompson
Date c1921
Extent 1 volume
Admin History

Thompson was born in Glastonbury, Somerset, to Wesleyan Methodist parents (the Rev & Mrs Thomas Thompson) on 8th May 1871. After being educated at Woodhouse Grove and Kingswood he graduated from Aberystwyth. He attended Richmond College in 1893 but his training was cut sort in 1894 due to an urgent need for missionaries in India. For the next 25 years he worked in the Mysore District developing a reputation as an evangelist, debater and effective administrator as well as cultivating a keen interest in Indian history and Hinduism. He was superintendent of the Mysore Press for a number of years as well as editing 'The Harvest Field' (c1900-1904) and Dr Haigh's weekly newspaper, 'Vrittanta Patrike' (contributing regularly to both of these in addition to other mainly missionary publications). Knowledgeable in both Canarese and Sanskrit his evangelical work included being involved with the mass movements in Hyderabad and Trichinopoly as well as a period of residency at the United Theological College in Bangalore [Bengaluru]. He was also an ardent opponent of Theosophy and in particular the form espoused by Mrs Annie Besant.

In 1911, whilst on furlough in England, he suggested changes to the constitution and administration of the missionary society which were accepted and remained in place up to and beyond Methodist Union. In 1919 he became one of the general secretaries of the WMMS, initially having responsibility for Home Organisation but later being responsible for India, West Africa and the West Indies districts. Whilst at the Mission House he served for four years as Chairman of the Officers' meetings. In 1934 Thompson became a supernumerary but remained active in Church affairs, most notably playing a key part in the creation of the Methodist Church's conference declaration on racial policy in 1950. He died in London on 28th January 1963.

Further Reading (selective):
Thompson, E W, The Methodist Mission House: its history and its treasures
Thompson, E W, A history of India for high schools and colleges (1908);
Thompson, E W, The call of India: a study in conditions, methods and opportunities of missionary work among Hindus (1912);
Thompson, E W, The theosophy of Mrs. Besant: being a statement upon the teaching of Mrs. Besant and Mr. Leadbeater with an account of the recent law-suits and a foreword by the Bishop of Madras and others (1913);
Thompson, E W, The word of the Cross to Hindus (1933);
Thompson, E W, The Methodist doctrine of the Church (1939).

Description

Notebook recording a deputation tour to West Africa and specifically Sierra Leone.

Language

English

Access Status

Unrestricted

Access Conditions

Only to be viewed on microfiche.

Copyright

Probably MMS. Apply to Keeper of Archives and Special Collections in first instance

Related Material

A few of Rev Edgar Thompson's deputation or visitation reports were published including a 'Report of West African Visitation by Rev. Edgar W. Thompson, and Dr A.W. Hooker. January 18th to April 7th 1928' (MMSL AF-WE1425) & 'The West Indies, 1929-1930: the report of two tours by the Rev. E.W. Thompson' (MMSL AM-CR19). Further works by him can be found within the Methodist Missionary Society Library.
Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for Edgar Wesley Thompson whilst stationed in India (MMS/India/Correspondence/Mysore/FBN 34-36). Furthermore, the synod minutes will detail his work, and that of his colleagues, in the Mysore District (MMS/India/Synod Minutes/FBN 4-8 & MMS/India/Synod Minutes/South India/FBN 12-13). Correspondence written by Thompson whilst a General Secretary of the WMMS can be found within outgoing correspondence.
Finally, there is also an article on Governor MacLean and Thomas Birch Freeman by Thompson available (MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts/FBN 1, item 22) and a memorandum on the name 'Methodist Missionary Society' (MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts/FBN 5, item 51).

45	"England & Wales Death Index 1916-2005". Q2 1970 Gosport, Hampshire, Volume 6b page 975

Ancestors, Descendants and Relatives of Roger Paul Thompson

Family of Thomas THOMPSON and Jane FULLER

Husband: Thomas THOMPSON

Wife: Jane FULLER

Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON

Child 2: Alfred Fuller THOMPSON

Child 3: Emily Marion THOMPSON

Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON

Child 5: Ellen Edith THOMPSON

Child 6: Thomas Percy THOMPSON

Child 7: Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON

Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON

Child 9: Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (1)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (2)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (3)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (4)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (5)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (6)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (7) - shared note

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (8)

Note on Husband: Thomas THOMPSON (9)

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (1) - shared note

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (2)

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (3)

Note on Wife: Jane FULLER (4)

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (1) - shared note

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (2)

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (3)

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (4)

Note on Child 1: John Vickers THOMPSON (5)

Note on Child 2: Alfred Fuller THOMPSON

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (1) - shared note

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (2)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (3)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (4)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (5)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (6)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (7)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (8)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (9)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (10)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (11)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (12)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (13)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (14)

Note on Child 4: Edgar Wesley THOMPSON (15)

Note on Child 5: Ellen Edith THOMPSON (1) - shared note

Note on Child 5: Ellen Edith THOMPSON (2)

Note on Child 6: Thomas Percy THOMPSON - shared note

Note on Child 7: Arthur Wilfrid THOMPSON

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (1)

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (2)

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (3)

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (4)

Note on Child 8: Margaret Jane THOMPSON (5)

Note on Child 9: Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON (1)

Note on Child 9: Hilda Featherstone THOMPSON (2)

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