Thomas Charles Lenton to Australia

[wivenhoe]

Something here might be useful.

National Archives Australia  WW1 enlistment  (KIA Poziere 1916)

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4734713
LENTON Thomas Samuel : Service Number - 2673 : Place of Birth - London England : Place of Enlistment - Blackboy Hill WA : Next of Kin - (Wife) LENTON Eliza Kate

Roll of Honour Australian War Memorial   (K.I.A  Poziers  5 Aug 1916   age 34 years)
https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068878/document/5577124.PDF
(arrived Australia age 5 years educated Paddington Sydney, informant is his widow)

https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1558/
baptism 10 Oct 1881   St Pancras Camden
LENTON Samuel Wiilliam   b.  21 Sep 1881  bapt.
parents Thomas Charles LENTON,  marble mason, Ellen    14 Drummond St


https://www.freebmd.org.uk/search
FreeBDM   JunQ 1879  Bethnal Green  Vol  1c  page 646
LENTON Thomas Charles     CREED  Ellen Cole

Ancestry Sands Directory NSW    https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1164/
1890  LENTON Thomas C   marble mason  3 Caledonia Street Paddington

[garstonite]

I don't know if this is him - top one - but if it is it says b 1857 - so looks like - it is a pay per view record - but might have his actual date of arrival in Queensland

https://en.geneanet.org/fonds/individus/?country__0__=AUS&country__1__=&country__2__=&country__3__=&country__4__=&exact_day=&exact_month=&exact_year=&from=&go=1&ignore_each_patronyme=&ignore_each_prenom=&nom=lenton&page=5&place__0__=&place__1__=&place__2__=&place__3__=&place__4__=&prenom=thomas+charles&prenom_operateur=or&region__0__=&region__1__=&region__2__=&region__3__=&region__4__=&sexe=&size=10&subregion__0__=&subregion__1__=&subregion__2__=&subregion__3__=&subregion__4__=&to=&type_periode=between&zonegeo__0__=Australia&zonegeo__1__=&zonegeo__2__=&zonegeo__3__=&zonegeo__4__=

[wivenhoe]

Queensland State Archives

   file:///C:/Users/still/Downloads/DR38231%20(3).pdf


 Duke of Argyll   London 9 Sep 1884            Brisbane 11 Nov 1884
 images of pages. Pages are numbered. See page 275 for Thomas C LENTON.

[Nevthedigger]

Thanks all. My reason for wanting to know his departure year is that I am researching and writing a local book, and Thomas Charles Lenton was a lodger in one of the village pubs in 1891. He was a conjuror and ventriloquist and seemed to be travelling around England with his trade in the 1880s. He made an appearance in 1893, and then my next contact with him was his wife's death in Kalgoorie in 1897. So I guess they emigrated between those years. I thought his stay in the local pub would add a bit of colour to the village's history.

[shume]

Am glad so many generous people spent time on this post: it would have been more helpful if you had disclosed the information you had ( ? conjuror etc) in your initial post.

Still think he came in 1884 as in 1886, living in Sydney, he pays a deposit for his wife, child and nephew to travel to Australia. Certainly wouldn't have been in England then.

[Kiltaglassan]

https://en.geneanet.org/fonds/individus/?country__0__=AUS&country__1__=&country__2__=&country__3__=&country__4__=&exact_day=&exact_month=&exact_year=&from=&go=1&ignore_each_patronyme=&ignore_each_prenom=&nom=lenton&page=5&place__0__=&place__1__=&place__2__=&place__3__=&place__4__=&prenom=thomas+charles&prenom_operateur=or&region__0__=&region__1__=&region__2__=&region__3__=&region__4__=&sexe=&size=10&subregion__0__=&subregion__1__=&subregion__2__=&subregion__3__=&subregion__4__=&to=&type_periode=between&zonegeo__0__=Australia&zonegeo__1__=&zonegeo__2__=&zonegeo__3__=&zonegeo__4__=

Good idea for a very long link is to use ShrinkLink.

https://www.rootschat.com/links/

[Nevthedigger]

Am glad so many generous people spent time on this post: it would have been more helpful if you had disclosed the information you had ( ? conjuror etc) in your initial post.

Sorry to say I'm still learning the finer points of how to use Ancestry and other research resources (we've all been there at some point). I didn't realise that knowing TL's trade of ventriloquism would be of such importance in finding him on a passenger list. Cheer up 

Thanks all for your help. If he did emigrate to Australia in the 1880s I wonder why he found himself lodging in a village pub in Yorkshire in 1891.

[shume]

Its a big stretch from ventriloquist in Yorkshire to marble miner in Kalgoorlie ( Ref Letters of administration 1897 wife's death)!

[maddys52]

Do you think it more likely that the Thomas LENTON (34, married, ventriloquist and conjurer, born Spitalfields) in the 1891 lodging at Shillington is this Thomas LENTON in 1911 at 30 Whymark Ave, Wood Green:

Thomas LENTON   54   Spitalfields (manager cinemagraph)
Elizabeth                 44  Clerkenwell
Frank Thomas         22  Islington
Jessie Mabel            19  Paddington
Arthur John              16  Islington

In 1891 Elizabeth and son Frank are at 210 Whitehall Rd, Paddington
Elizabeth LENTON   24   Clerkenwell  (married)
Frank T                      2    Islington
Emma LEACOCK     23   Clerkenwell  (sister)
Maud LEACOCK      9   Clerkenwell (sister)
RG12/8/32 pg 55