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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Huntingdonshire => Topic started by: Kate B on Saturday 28 December 13 16:33 GMT (UK)
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Found him on FreeReg:
John died on 23 Dec 1840, at 40yo, at Little Paxton, buried at St James church. The record says:
"Notes: These words written in name column "Killed by falling into a well at Southoe ** the top of it's*"
Can anyone help by completing/translating/filling in the blanks? :)
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John died pre the 1841 census so I think the family had moved back to Bishop's Cleeve
HOBBS, William 55 Farmer Gloucestershire
HOBBS, Catherine F 60 Gloucestershire
HOBBS, William 11 Gloucestershire
THOMPSON, Ann 35 Gloucestershire
THOMPSON, Mary 10
THOMPSON, Izzabella 8
THOMPSON, James 5
THOMPSON, William 9 months
BAYLIS, Sarah 25 FS
HOPKINS, James 20 MS
TOMBS, William 65 Ag Lab
Kay
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Of course he did - how stupid am I?!! I've been looking at this family all day and I think my brain has frazzled! So I won't know where John was born.
Thank you for your very quick reply....
Yours embarrassed-ly...
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Don't worry -I do it all the time :) Did they marry in Glos or Huntingdonshire?
Kay
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Don't know - can't find a marriage on FreeReg, Family Search etc..
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If no-one else finds it in the meantime I'll have look in Hunts Marriage Index when I get home on the 31st. Hunts isn't well covered online.
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Thank you so much! Have a great New Year.
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The family trees don't have his father's name or birth place either
They suggest a marriage in 1824 which I think is this one on Family Search - 17 June 1824 St. Bride Fleet Street, London https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NJZX-7QC But is seems too remote from where they lived
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I've got that one on the "back boiler" but - I agree - it seems too far for an AgLabr to elope to London to marry in a famous church! I'm assuming he was an AgLab - I'd love to find out how he managed to fall down a well!
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Too much ale :) or was he a stone mason and repairing it
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Strange that you should mention that .... maybe he'd been down the pub celebrating early!
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There's no record of a marriage between John Thompson and Ann Hobbs on Hunts Marriage Index. As they started baptising children in Lt Paxton in Nov 1827 the marriage in London can't be ruled out. Have you checked the baptisms of any of the six children in Lt Paxton to see if John's occupation is given?* Alternatively the birth certs of the later children should show it - William George's birth at least was registered.
In the 1824 marriage both were otp and both signed with confident signatures, perhaps unusual if John was an ag lab, and the witnesses were John Lee and Sarah Lambeth
David
* Like the burial that you found, Lt Paxton baptisms are on Freereg. John was a carpenter.
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Hi all,
A long time since I've been on here.
I've got a bit of an interest in this chap.
It's a bit of a long story so bear with me.
I live in a former pub in Southoe, the village where John Thompson died.
We have a friend who is a medium so a few weeks ago we had a gathering here.
I'm quite sceptical about these things but gave it a go.
Twice, separately, a well was mentioned.
Then at the weekend, some friends came for dinner, not associated with the previous gathering, and the chap had the name Thompson pop into his head.
So I googled and found this thread.
My wife rang the council who listed only 3 wells, although I'm sure there were more, but one was at our house.
I spoke to our vicar who also is the vicar of the church where John is buried, and she had that day received back the old church records!
She told us he died while repairing the well top.
I've tried to find a newspaper report but the local library and the online archives don't have any newspaper archives for that time.
I'd love to find out more about him, and if it was my well....
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Found he was a carpenter, repairing the well top, but didn't die in the well, but later, of his injuries.
The well was at the residence of a Mr Wagstaff, Southoe.