I'm wondering where the 2nd name for Thomas came from? Would it be from trees on Ancestry?
He married as plain Thomas, is plain Thomas on the baptisms of his children who, apart from the eldest son Thomas, were baptised at St. Mary Le Tower, Ipswich.
In 1841 his wife is still living in that parish and I would have thought husband Thomas Theobald was the one bc.1795, bur.1/3/1839 St. Mary Le Tower, Ipswich (he would appear to be 10 years younger than her, and was no doubt the Thomas Theobald bp.3/3/1796 Barking, son of Thomas and Ann).
The Ancestry trees show him to be a Thomas Henry bp.1784 St Marylebone BUT this person didn't die until 1862 and buried at St. Pancras on 6/2/1862!! Also, the trees state said Thomas died Marylebone in Mar.qtr.1841 BUT this person was a plain Thomas who was aged 10!
Whoever compiled these trees seems to have just latched on to a Thomas born around the same time as Elizabeth Warner albeit in London and have him dying in the same place in 1841 when the person who did die then was just 10 years old. Sometimes when I look at the trees on Ancestry they are beyond belief and those who've submitted them have just haven't checked 'the facts'!
I would say the plain Thomas who married Elizabeth Warner in 1816 was the one baptised 3/3/1796 Barking, son of Thomas and Ann, who died in 1839 and was buried 1/3/1839 St. Mary Le Tower, where the family were living.
So, whilst I can't come up with any other details regarding the original marriage which doesn't seem to be available online (original records at Ipswich Record Office) I feel absolutely sure the Thomas Theobald she married was not the Thomas Henry born in Marylebone, London 1784 who a) did not die in London in 1841 as trees state and b) didn't actually die until 1862.
Annette
