Thompson Ballymena

[Blackadder]

Thanks for all folks ... I reckon I need someone who goes to Kew .. and who is mad enough to research a name like Thompson!!!

[liverpool annie]

Try themonstar Des !

He's mad enough !! ask Andy Pay also !!

Can't find anything so far on the pensions but I'll keep diggin' !! 

Annie 

[scotmum]

Just in case it helps anyone researching Thompson in Ballymena, the 1903 map of the town notes the following people:

A Thompson, Draper & Clothier, Ballymoney Street

R Thompson, coachbuilder, High Street

Jas. Thompson, barony surveyor, Corbally Cottage, Galgorm

John Thompson, whitesmith, Henry Street

Miss Thompson, Galgorm

W Thompson, coachbuilder, Hill Street

[Blackadder]

Bleedin' Thompsons.
Far too many of 'em. That's what I say.

Henry Thompson's son (Whitesmith guy) lost a leg at Neuve Chapelle. He was forever known as 'Stick' afterwards. For obvious reasons!

[liverpool annie]

 

Des ! ... you're awful !! .......... ( but I like you !!  )

So did you ask Roy and Andy ??

Annie 

[Blackadder]

Have to get Andy back on the ball. He was over with me last year. He would walk the legs off you.

[liverpool annie]

 

Is that when he found out you could sing ?? 

he gets all that training at the battlefields .... did he wear you out then ?? !!

[scotmum]

Bleedin' Thompsons.
Far too many of 'em. That's what I say.

And dear love each and every one of them, as they are probably relatives of someone out there...

[liverpool annie]

You tell 'im scotmum !!