1799: Manuscript pedigree compiled about 1895, dating back to the birth of Robert Vaughan Wynne Williams in 1799, son of William Williams of Peniarth, Merionethshire, by his wife Gaynor Thomas. Robert married, 1stly, Marianne Aked (born 1803) daughter of Nathaniel Aked of Bradford by Mary Holmes his wife; 2ndly, Rebecca C. Dalgleish. Spouses to his descendants are Bessie Lambert, Charles Turner Simpson, Betty Rawson, – Berry, Clement Stone-Wigg, J. Arthur Barratt, Claude Baggallay, Lewis Wilkin, and John Henry Helpman
12 January 1854: A Correct List of the Poll, at the Election of a Knight of the Shire, for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucester. Campden Polling District: Hamlet of Admington in the parish of Quinton: Abode: Admington: James Thomas. Cheltenham Polling District: Parish of Cheltenham: Abode: High Street, Evesham: John Thomas; Abode: Pitville Vills, Cheltenham: Joseph Middlemore Thomas.
6 October 1838: List of Passengers by the Honble Companys Steam Vessel Hugh Lindsay from Bombay to Suez: ‘Recd from the Ship Columbo 200 miles to Northd of Juddah: H Thomas Esqr Be.C.S.’
6 October 1839: List of Passengers on board the H. C. Steam Vessel Berenice to Suez: Captain C H Thomas
15 September 1845: English brig Richmond, captain Thomas, at Antwerp, from Maçeio;
16 October 1845: English barque Richmond, captain Thomas, at Antwerp, on a venture, with ballast
12 September 1848: Barbados: Arrival of the ship Thomas Watson, captain Thomas, from Philadelphia, 16 days out
28 January 1851: ships entered outwards from the port of London: bound for Mauritius, Oriental Queen, [commander:] Thomas, British, 645 tons, at West India Docks, [shipper:] Blyth
12 January 1854: A Correct List of the Poll, at the Election of a Knight of the Shire, for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucester. Avening Polling District: Parish of Avening. Abode: Avening: Sampson Thomas. Parish of Weston Birt ad Lasborough: Abode: Lasborough: George Thomas
27 October 1866: The Register of Electors to Vote in the Choice of a Member or Members to Serve in Parliament, for the City of Gloucester, for 1866-7. The List of Freemen entitled to vote in the election of members to serve in Parliament for the City of Gloucester: Isaiah John Thomas, Worcester Parade. Occupiers of property in the parish of St Aldate: James Thomas, houses and shops, Northgate Street. Occupiers of the parish of St Mary de Crypt: William Thomas of Barbican Road for a workshop in Commercial Road. Occupiers of property in the parish of St Michael: Charles Heald Thomas of Whitfield Street for houses in Eastgate Street, Russell Street and Whitfield Street; William Thomas for a house in 82 Barton Street; William Thomas, for a house in Northgate Street. Occupiers of houses in the parish of St Nicholas: John Thomas, for a house 39 Westgate Street; William Thomas of Barbican Road, for workshops, &c., Upper Quay Street.
7 April 1879: Deserter from the Flint Militia — absent from training: John Thomas alias James Manning, [Reg. No:] 2472, Flint Militia; [born:] Overton, Flint; [trade] labourer; [age] 24; [size:] 5[ft] 10¼[in]; [hair:] dark brown; [eyes:] grey; [face:] fresh; [coat & trousers:] —; [date of desertion:] 24 March 1879 [at] Mold; [marks & remarks: blank]
18 March 1880: Bill of sale by Robert Thomas, 430 New Chester Road and 28 and 30 Bedford Road, Rock Ferry, car proprietor and manager, in favour of Cheshire Loan, &c., Co.
25 March 1880: Bill of sale by John Thomas, Stills Court, Church Street, Falmouth, fish dealer, in favour of Leon Fisher; and a bill of sale by Edwin Thomas, Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire, in favour of John Green, settlement in trust for wife; and a bill of sale by Wyndham Thomas, 117 Beresford Road, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, general mason, &c., in favour of Robert Jude; and a bill of sale by Lewis Morgan, Rogers Well, Llansadwrnen, Carmarthen, farmer, in favour of Griffith Thomas; and a bill of sale by John Thomas senior, Water Street, Aberavon, Glamorgan, haulier, in favour of Louis Cohen; and a bill of sale by Roderick Thomas, Mardy, near Ferndale, Glamorgan, grocer, in favour of Solomon Blaiberg; and a bill of sale by Thomas Thomas, Rallt, Llanfynydd, Carmarthen, farmer, in favour of Henry M. Davies; and a bill of sale by John Thomas, 81 Peel Street, Spring Bank, Hull, surgeon dentist, in favour of National Loan Office
28 August 1891: What cash offers for 19 Jubilee sixpences, first issue, mint preservation; also £5 and £2 pieces? Thomas, chemist, Boston;
For sale: Pretty small gold keyless watch, white face, quite new, 35/6. Thomas, 137 Finborough Road, South Kensington;
Collie. A grand brood bitch, black and tan, by Ormskirk Amazement, dam by Matchley Wonder, splendid pedigree, 18 months old. Price 42/-, or exchange. Approval. Joseph Thomas, Stonefield, Garstang.
29 January 1904: Report of Datchet Parish Meeting, attended by Mr J. Heaton (chairman of the Parish Council), Major Good, Captain Folson, Dr Osborn, Messrs P. J. de Paravicini, W. Styles, W. H. Widcombe, R. Thomas, T. P. Sterry, C. B. Tubbs, Monkland, A. Tindal-Atkinson, Stanley, A. Widcombe, J. Kinross, Tapson, E. W. Page, Ward, C. Young, Cleversley, Wass, Robinson, Bird, Hunt, Bignell, Norman, Hawes, G. Ivey, A. Talbot, Sumner, Lewin, &c., with Mr F. W. Keer (clerk to the Parish Council). The main topics were ‘The Scavenging and Electioneering Dodges’ and ‘Vandalism in the Avenue’ [the mangling or wanton destruction of the trees in the Avenue]. Mr Lewin, in charge of emptying cesspools, was mentioned.
10 July 1905: Postcard to Miss Mary Grace, 127 Park Road, Crouch End: ‘c/o Mrs Walter Thomas, Walkford nr. Highcliffe, Hinton Admiral, Christchurch. Monday dinner time. Dear Mary, Thought you would like one for your col. this is Sir Geo. Meyricks’ House, where I was at work. Its raining torrents at present’
12 October 1905: Miss Mabel Love, photographed by R. W. Thomas. Rotary Photo 209 O
15 April 1906: Edna May, photographed by R. W. Thomas. Philco Series 3056 F
15 June 1907: Postcard to Miss G. Thomas, 6 Edith Street, Lower Broughton: ‘With Best Wishes’
8 February 1908: St Augustine’s Petty Sessions: Saturday – Saturday – Herne: Frederick George Gray, the licensee of the Lower Red Lion, Herne, was summoned with selling drink to one Frederick Cox, while in a drunken condition on January 24. – Mr R. M. Mercer represented the defendant, who pleaded ‘Not Guilty’. – P. C. Barham stated that on the 24th of last month he was on duty in Herne Street about 9 p.m., when he saw a man named Fred Cox come from the direction of Herne Common. When passing witness in Herne Street witness noticed he was the worse for drink. Witness allowed him to go on as he was quiet, but when he came to the Lower Red Lion he entered. Witness then went after him and followed him inside, when he heard prisoner calling for two-penny worth of whiskey. He did not see Cox served, and Cox went through into the tap room as soon as he saw witness enter the house. Witness followed him into the tap room where he saw the landlord and a number of others, and he drew the landlord’s attention to Cox and told him not to serve him as the man had had enough to drink. Witness then left the house and stayed in the street until 10 p.m. when he saw a number of men leave the house. About 10.5 p.m. Cox came staggering through the doorway carrying two quart bottles of ale. He started going up the street and had not gone far before he commenced using bad language. Witness went after him, and caught him up about eighty yards from the public-house. He took Cox into custody for being drunk and disorderly. Cox stood the two bottles down in the street and became very violent. Witness closed with him, and they both fell to the ground. . He subsequently got Cox to Herne Bay and he was brought before the magistrates the next day. On Sunday evening, the 26th, at 7.30 p.m., he went with Sergeant Thomas to see Gray and told him Cox had made a statement to him, and he read the statement to him. It was made by Cox on the way to the Canterbury Police Court. Cox said “I am sorry. I know I had too much to drink. I was not served with any whisky, but I said to the landlord ‘As I cannot have any drink myself give that man a pint (meaning Carswell), whom I treated. I only had two bottles of ale to take home.” In reply to this Mr Gray said “I served Cox with two bottles of beer to take home for supper. He did not treat anyone or have any drink in my house.” – Sergeant Thomas corroborated as to the interview with Gray – Mr Mercer said he only wished to make one observation before calling his evidence, which he thought would conclusively prove the defendant’s innocence, and that was to ask their Worships to disabuse their minds entirely of the fact that Cox pleaded ‘Guilty’ to being drunk and disorderly. When he appeared before the Magistrates Cox was wishing to join his ship, which sailed almost at once, and had he asked for adjournment to establish his innocence of the charge he must have lost his ship and voyage. Therefore he pleaded guilty to avoid the inconvenience of delay – Defendant in the witness box stated that he had been the licensee of the house in question for twelve months. Cox came into his house on the night in question about five minutes to ten. Witness was in the tap-room with eight or ten customers. Cox was well-known to him, and had been bred and born in Herne Street. They said “Good evening” to each other, Carswell offering Cox his glass of beer. The constable entered the house and said “Don’t give that man a drink; he has had enough.” Cox turned to P.C. Barham and said “I am not drunk,” and he appealed to those present, who said that if Cox was drunk they were all drunk. The constable then went out and round to the back, where he saw witness’s wife and sister. The sister called witness through, and there he found Barham, who said “I should not have followed him in here only he has been insulting people up the street.” When the constable and the sargeant came on the subsequent date he told them Cox’s statement was incorrect in regard to Cox’s treating Carswell. – Emily Cobbett, licensee of the First and Last, said that on the evening in question Cox was at her house. He came in at 9.30 and asked for a quart of beer, with which she served him. He shared the drink with others, and was perfectly sober. – Several other witnesses were called, who stated that Cox was sober. The Chairman (Mr F. H. Wilbee), after the Bench had briefly consulted on the case, said: I should like to say that for any trouble or expense that the defendant has been put to in this case he has only himself to thank. It was entirely his own fault, and his conduct was very unwise. The majority of the Bench consider he is ‘Not Guilty’, however, and the case is dismissed.
15 September 1908: Postcard to Miss W. Thomas, Godophin Road, Helston: ‘Dear Winnie How do you like this style L. P.’
September 1909: Advertisement: Alfred J. Thomas, Proprietor of Best Red Ash House, Gas, and Steam Coals. Peat, miss, litter, and fodder merchant. Agent for Stevenson’s Firelighters. 3, St Aldate Street, Gloucester. National Telephone No 807. Wharf – G.W.R. New Station
January 1915: Clay Thomas, baritone, 31 Sandringham Court, Maida Vale (Tel: 170 Paddington); David Thomas, baritone, 26 Victoria Mansions, Willesden Green (Tel: 1472 Willesden); Alfred Thomas, humorous sketches, 10 Palmers Green Villas, Palmers Green (Tel: 274 Palmers Green); Arthur Thomas, humorist, instrumentalist and musical clown, 111 Silvermere Road, Catford (Tel:445 Lee Green); Mr Alfred Thomas member of the general and entertainment committees.
26 February 1920: Margaret May Thomas, Mabel Constance Thomas, Leslie Hugh Thomas, and John Victor Thomas, all of 53 Middlewood Street, Harpurhey, baptised
17 August 1922: Marriage at Morpeth: Robert Dudley Thomas and Margaret Thistle Todd
1922: Leaving Certificates: Lorna Harrison, Nora S. Thomas;
November 1923: News of Old Girls: Nora Thomas (1923) has begun a two year course at the Day Training College in Princess Street. After this is completed she hopes to become a teacher in an elementary school
Old Girls’ Society. Committee. President – Miss Field. Ordinary Members – [*Elected 1923] Miss Burns, Miss Gorsuch, Edith Church, Gertrude Clayton, *Kathleen Percival, *Zillah Taylor, Doris Brown, Marcelle Sugden, *Marian Raw, *Norah Thomas. Secretary and Treasurer – Miss Grace Blaikie, 16 Blair Road, Alexandra Park. Sub-Secretaries – [*New Sub-Secretaries] 1909. Sybil Walshaw, 157 Withington Road, Whalley Range; 1910. Olive Pearson, 29 Queen’s Road, West Didsbury; 1911. Miss Gladwell (née Alice Appleton), Isca, Wilmslow; 1912. Elsie Watts, Abbotsford, St Werburgh’s Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy; 1913. Edith Church, 3 Filey Avenue, Whalley Range; 1914. Marjorie Ashley, 53 Nicholas Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy; 1915. Winifred Davies, 32 Mauldeth Road, Withington; 1916. Mrs Sephton (née Florence Hallam), Deane, Chester Road, Poynton; *1917. Mamie Wald, 32 Warwick Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy; *1918. Kathleen Percival, Edgecumbe Mount, Edge Lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy; 1919. Francis Bowden, 16 Burford Road, Whalley Range; 1920. Doris Brown, 9 Talbot Road, Old Trafford; 1921. Winifred Jones, Eastleigh, Ryebank Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy; 1922. Marcelle Sugden, 71 Sloane Street, Brooks’s Bar; *1923. Zillah Taylor, 113 Wilmslow Road, Withington.
April 1925: Advanced Primary Department A: Mr Thomas leader
January 1927: Candidate for membership of the Cyclists’ Touring Club: R. Thomas, 28 Carlton Hill, Dingle, Liverpool.
25 July 1928: Flossie Thomas, 5 Cobwell Road, aged 13, enrolled in the 1st Retford Company of Girl Guides. Proficiency badges: Athlete (1932); Child Nurse (1938); Domestic Science (1931); Friend to Animals (1940); Health (1931); Homemaker (1932); Knitter (1939); Swimmer (1931); War Service (1939)
July 1930: Bootham School, Summer Term 1930: List of Boys: Anthony D. Thomas, Wrexham: Lower Senior, bedroom 13, Watson House; David S. Thomas, Sanderstead: Middle Schoolroom, bedroom 5, Fox House
July 1933: Advertisement: W. E. Thomas, confectioner and tobacconist, 12 Voltaire Road, Clapham S.W.4
July 1934: Annotated group photograph of the staff of Mundella Secondary School, Nottingham. Sitting: Misses Blagg, Howell, Lawrance, Miller; Messrs Wight, Winfield; Misses Jones, Morris, Wallis, Mosley. 2nd Row: Misses Plunkett, Barlow, Sainter, Trigg (school secretary); Messrs Heath, Cowdell, Chamberlain, Reid, Stace, Austin, Bird, Roberts, Adamson, 3rd Row: Messrs Thomas, Holbrook, Kendall, Broadburn, Thorpe, Page, Broomfield, Jackson, Clarke, Baynes-Smith, Hill, Storey
Report (with group photograph) on the Mundella Old Boys’ dinner held at the Reform Club on 23 March. There were present: Mr R. B. Wight; Dr Cecil Roberts (guest of honour, ‘as usual, in sparkling mood. His speech, though provocative in parts was a piece of sheer virtuosity in after-dinner speaking’); L. J. Levin (councillor, chairman of the Finance Committee); C. A. Ross; A. D. Smith; R. G. Vernon; C. Goldsworth; L. G. Gibson; P. T. Distin; D. Smith; J. Bartlett; B. Smith; B. E. Dean; H. B. Bishop; J. Westmoreland; K. Woollatt; Mr H. W. Jones; Mr L. Brettle (Headmaster of the Queen Elizabeth School, Mansfield); H. B. Holbrook; J. Robinson; Mr Stace; Mr Kendall; W. C. Thomson; Mr Winfield; Mr Baynes-Smith; R. Burton; A. A. Shipside; P. G. Strouther; Bagguley; J. Daykin; A. R. Stone; C. D. Dickenson; Mr Austin; L. J. Widdowson; Ron Hadrill and Noel England (providing musical entertainment); Mr Thomas; T. E. Hall; A. J. Bates; A. C. A. Chisholm; H. B. Briggs; P. E. Hall; J. G. Hall; R. Lipman; Mr Jackson; Mr Broadburn; F. Hopewell; J. C. Steward; J. W. Perkins; F. Bee; K. Stocker; Mr Broomfield; Mr Storey; J. W. Adkin; J. Mackay; G. Atkinson; F. H. Anthony; F. G. Cox; S. A. Coleman.
July 1939: Church Union: The Annual Festival of the diocesan branch of the Church Union was held at Woodbridge on Whit Monday, and was attended by many who came from far distances in the diocese as well as by some of our own people. The service in church was most appealing and devotional, the Reverend J. Band, rector of Bawdsey, being the celebrant, Canon Powell, vicar of St Bartholomew’s, Ipswich, being deacon, while the sub-deacon was the Reverend G. L. Manson, rector of Shipmeadow. The sermon was preached by the Reverend H. Dobson, rector of Huntingfield, and the organist was the Reverend W. Thomas, of Needham Market. We are hoping more members will join our own Woodbridge branch, of which Mr John Postle is secretary.
1940 to 1943: Register of the 1st Retford Company of Girl Guides, based at West Retford Hall. Captain Miss S. Huntsman; Lieutenant Miss F. Thomas.
[1941]: Flossee Thomas, enrolled in the 1st Retford Company of Girl Guides.
17 May 1945: Next Week’s Calls. Moss Empires: Sunderland Empire (R.11) – The Waldorf Trio, Scott and Foster, Billy Cotton and his Band, Eddie Julian and Eve, Gray, Austin and Worth, Jones and Thomas, Ken Swan and McGhee. (5.30 and 7.45). Fred Collins’ Agency. Edinburgh, Theatre Royal (R. 11) – Rennie Munro and his Band, Four Sensationalists, Jo Kerr, Taylor and Thomas, Graham and Scott, Bijou and Freda, Alpha Trio.
December 1945: Candidates for family membership of the Cyclists’ Touring Club: Mr & Mrs E. Thomas, 696 Oldham Road, Bardsley, Ashton-under-Lyne; D. J. M. Thomas, 8 Reabrook Place, Shrewsbury; Miss I. R. Thomas, 33 Church Road, S.W.13
12 June 1951: D. Owen Thomas, tenor, and S. G. Thomas, bass, The Alexandra Choir
8 December 1951: Thomas, footballer, Fulham, in a match against Huddersfield Town, recalled in programme notes 25 years later, 18 December 1976
15 April 1953: County court judgments against R. G. Thomas, 21 Rock Lane Estate, Bodmin; and against Mr R. Thomas, 70 Dymchurch Road, Hythe; and against Anne Thomas widow, 178 Bedford Road South, Liverpool; and against James Kavanagh and Thomas R. Thomas, 288 Camden Road, N. 7, piano finisher; and against Mr W. Thomas, Mill Farm, Michaelstone-y-Vedw farmer; and against Mr R. Thomas, New House Farm, Hodnet; and against Mr W. E. Thomas, Bank Farm, Tedsmore, West Felton, Oswestry, farmer; and against David Charles Thomas, 17 Maydwell Street, Camberwell; and against Mrs Thomas (widow), administratrix of John Thomas deceased, Tudor House, Whitting Street, Glynneath; and against Brynley Thomas, 38 Vivian Square, Port Talbot, labourer; and against Mr D. Thomas, 36 Brynmelin Street, Waunwen, Swansea, jobbing builder; and against Trevor Purvis Thomas, 43 Porth-y-Castell, Barry, traveller
4 October 1963: Eileen Thomas, contralto, Covent Garden Opera Chorus; and Glynne Thomas, bass
9 December 1964. Notice of marriage between between Raymond White, 19 [born 21 May 1945], bachelor, newsagent’s assistant, 8 Thomas Street, Nelson, and Jennifer Thomas, 19 [born 29 August 1945], spinster, assembler (light metals), 9 Bryncelyn, Nelson: intended to be solemnized at East Glamorgan Register Office.
10 December 1964. Notice of marriage between Melvyn Owen Thomas, 26, bachelor, electrician, of Pantgwynlais, Tongwynlais, and Eileen Frances Daly, 25, spinster, sales assistant (drapery), 158 Corporation Road, Cardiff [resident there more than a month]: intended to be solemnized at Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St David, Charles Street, Cardiff.
15 December 1964: Notice of marriage between Gerald Ronald Sansome, 19, bachelor, general labourer, 10 Hunter Street, Barry, and Jacqueline Mary Thomas, 22, spinster, 23 Holland Way, Barry: intended to be solemnized at East Glamorgan Register Office.
12 April 1971: R. F. Thomas, linesman
20 February 1976: H. B. Thomas, Esq., vice-chairman, Tranmere Rovers.
15 December 1964: Notice of marriage between Gerald Ronald Sansome, 19, bachelor, general labourer, 10 Hunter Street, Barry, and Jacqueline Mary Thomas, 22, spinster, 23 Holland Way, Barry: intended to be solemnized at East Glamorgan Register Office.
15 December 1964: Notice of marriage between Trevor Elvin Thomas, 21 [born 6 March 1943], bachelor, agricultural worker, 116 Ilan Road, Abertridwr [resident there for more than a month], and Shirley Ann Skrine, 25, spinster, 123 Ilan Road, Abertridwr: intended to be solemnized at East Glamorgan Register Office.
1994: Mrs J. T. Thomas: donor to the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain