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Re: Mary Thomas
« Reply #27 on: Friday 03 August 18 14:16 BST (UK) »
Thank you to all who have assisted.

The death of Mary Lee Thomas has now been located.

Death Certificate
Mary Lee Thomas died on 20 Dec 1848 at Church Lane, Wycombe. She was 15 years old and died of typhus. Her fther was recorded as James Hide [incorrect Hughes] Thomas Baptist Minister. The informant was Jesse Hobson in attendance Church Lane, Wycombe. He was the principal of the school and Baptist Minister of the church.

Newspaper article:The Principality  29 Dec 1848
On the 20th. Inst., at High Wycombe, Bucks. aged 15 years, Mary Lee, youngest daughter of the Rev. J.H. Thomas Baptist Minister, Milford Haven.
Rees: innkeeper/farmer/solicitor, Haverfordwest, Wales; Menzies: innkeeper, Glen Lyon, Scotland;
Tomkins: merchants, London;  Lee:  farmers, Watford Village, Northamptonshire; Pocock, teachers, Bristol; Grace: doctors, cricketers, Gloucestershire; Day: lithographers, London; Clark:  teachers, Folkstone.
Banks: farmer/curriers/shoemakers, East Ham, Bermondsey, East End

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Re: Mary Thomas
« Reply #28 on: Friday 03 August 18 14:21 BST (UK) »
The death of her brother Manning Lee Thomas has also been located. Persistent pays off, thanks to Ginny.
15 Aug 1854  Cincinnati, Ohio

Also Welsh newspaper; however, sorry, I don't have the reference. Father named as Rev. J.H. Thomas

There is one record of Manning L. Thomas, aged 18 years, a grocer Country to which he belonged: England leaving Newport, Wales aboard the ship "Probey", on the 20 Apr 1852 bound for New Orleans, Louisianna, USA. His name is with a Thomas Phillips, 18 year old farmer.
Rees: innkeeper/farmer/solicitor, Haverfordwest, Wales; Menzies: innkeeper, Glen Lyon, Scotland;
Tomkins: merchants, London;  Lee:  farmers, Watford Village, Northamptonshire; Pocock, teachers, Bristol; Grace: doctors, cricketers, Gloucestershire; Day: lithographers, London; Clark:  teachers, Folkstone.
Banks: farmer/curriers/shoemakers, East Ham, Bermondsey, East End