Son
of W.P. 'Bill' Richardson's Great Great Uncle,
Jacob Turnbull
Thomas Hemsley
Turnbull was born in the first quarter of 1876 and his
birth was registered in the Alnwick Registration
District. His parents were Jacob Turnbull and his wife
Mary (nee Craghild). The 1881 census
recorded Thomas as age 5, living with his family at
Swarland, Northumberland. He had a sister, Isabella (8)
and two brothers, George (11) and Jacob (2). Their Mam,
Mary, was 29 and their Dad, Jacob, was 40.
By the time of the 1891 census Thomas was 15, he was
living and working at Shawdon Woodhouse, where his Aunt
Jane was the famer's wife. In 1901 Thomas
was living wih his father, Jacob, at Ulgham. They both
worked as coal miners. His sister, Isabella, also lived
with them her husband , Robert Nicholson, was a coal
miner too. In the second quarter of 1902,
Thomas married Margaret Jane Abercrombie. Thomas was 26
and Margaret was 25 and their marriage was registered in
the Morpeth Registration District. The
1911 census recorded Thoms and Margaret at 93, Myrth
St., Hirst, Ashington, Northumberland. Thomas was 35
years old and worked as a coal miner. Margaret was 34 and
the census form stated that they had been married for
eight years and had no children. I do not
yet know when Thomas died. |
