marriage and birth

[lizdb]

That is the question! We havent found John on any censuses.

As avm said, the Gravesend family may be a red herring, but worth pursuing to see.
Censuses suggest there is also a Henry Thompson, a few years younger than George, also born Aylesford, maybe he is a brother to the George. Married to Roseanna/Susanna, a barge builder.


(Sorry, avm has already replied but I'll post anyway)

[treehunter]

I am going to TNA at Kew next week as their have the records there. I have the number i have to get them. So hoping it tell me bit more.

John may have died over seas or at sea

[avm228]

Another thought to throw into the mix.

Given the "Hamilton" middle name for John, could this be another child for him & Mary Ann, preceding Frederick?

Ethel Mary THOMSON, born 22 Oct 1881 & baptised St Peter, Plymouth 10 Nov 1881

Parents: Hamilton (a sailor) & Mary Anne, of 6 Cambridge Lane W (Christ Church parish).

[rosie99]

Frederick birth cert 13th Feb 1887 dad John Hamilton William Minker Thomson Mum Mary Ann Mills
Address 44 Morley Place Plymouth

On Mary Ann death its Mary Ann Thomson died 11th May 1887  John Hamilton William Minker Thomson registered it. address  44 Morley Place Plymouth

44 Morley Place is where Frederick was in 1891 with Henry Briggs Dennis and his wife Phoebe (nee King), have you investigated this couple who in the next census have adopted him 

[treehunter]

 avm228 Thank you worth a look familyseach are still at TNA at Kew so will see if they have film for it.

[treehunter]

 rosie99 I will see if lady has looked into it. Thank you

[lizdb]

This might be Mary Ann in 1881 - though pushing it a bit for her to have had another child in October 1881

RG11 2195 129  34

46 Wolsden Street, Plymouth St Andrew
Mary Thompson 28 wife of seaman bn Plymouth
Mary A  2mths

(She is indexed as "wife of hawker" on Ancestry, but on the image ot is the household above that has the hawker, and the image for her is wife of seaman)

[avm228]

Ethel Mary THOMSON, born 22 Oct 1881 & baptised St Peter, Plymouth 10 Nov 1881

Parents: Hamilton (a sailor) & Mary Anne, of 6 Cambridge Lane W (Christ Church parish).

Encouragingly she appears to marry as Ethel Mary Mills Thomson, 25 (to William John Crute, also aged 25) on 10 Apr 1906 at St Paul, Stonehouse.

Her father: John William Thomson, merchant sailor.

Her residence at time of marriage: 1 Strand St, Stonehouse.

Witnesses: J.W. Thomson, F. Smith.

[treehunter]

 avm228 thank you thats looks good.