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Re: John Thompson 1833-1910
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 22 July 12 11:48 BST (UK) »
Yep, bit of a problem not helped by John Thompson not being an unusual name I Birmingham at the time.

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Re: John Thompson 1833-1910
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 22 July 12 12:05 BST (UK) »
Right I have found Eliza Leeson age 24 born Harpole Northamptonshire in the 1851 census.
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She is a laundry maid in the household of Earl Fitzwilliam - Peer. Mortimer House Halkin Street, St George, hanover Square, Westminster

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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 22 July 12 12:38 BST (UK) »
OK, looking at the Ancestry.com data it's obvious there's something wrong and it does look like Eliza may have been the first wife. Only problem is that that would leave me with two sons called John, one born 1865 and another born 1886. The joys of a common surname!

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Re: John Thompson 1833-1910
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 22 July 12 12:54 BST (UK) »
However this may explain why my grandfather John was known as Jack!

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« Reply #13 on: Sunday 22 July 12 22:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Althom on Sunday 22 July 12 12:38 BST (UK)
OK, looking at the Ancestry.com data it's obvious there's something wrong and it does look like Eliza may have been the first wife. Only problem is that that would leave me with two sons called John, one born 1865 and another born 1886. The joys of a common surname!

I have come across a few instances when a bloke remarried one of the children of the second marriage was given the same name as a child from the first marriage.  An ego trip if ever there was one. :)

I do think this is the first marriage to Eliza Leeson BUT I can't find a marriage record. Their first child was born Yorkshire so it could have been there but Eliza was from Northamptonshire so it could have been there, however she was working in London so it could have been there. Wherever it was, and they may not have married, I can't find it.

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Re: John Thompson 1833-1910
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 31 August 21 00:11 BST (UK) »
Came back to this after a long long time!
The first John died young and that's why there was a second John from the second marriage.
The first John did however father a child before he died and that child ended up in Canada with a massive family all of who I'm now in contact with and DNA matched to!
Eliza Leeson was the first wife and Elizabeth Edginton was the second.

Thanks, once again, for all your help.

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Re: John Thompson 1833-1910
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 31 August 21 00:20 BST (UK) »
Hi and thank you for coming back to let us know about the happy results of your research.
It has put a smile on my face too. :)
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