Thomas EARNSHAW

  General Notes:

Year of death from accounts of death of Edith.

Birth Dec 1905
West Ham 4a p61 Thomas Earnshaw (reg 30 Oct)
Address is given as 50 Durban Road, West Ham (Plaistow)

Lived in Bethnal Green until about 1970, then moved to Torquay. But I believe they then moved to Kent.

Marriage Jun 1930 Bethnal Green 1c 320 - to Beatrice A Cox
Married at St Matthew's Church in Bethnal Green on 7 June 1930
Thomas Earnshaw, 24, Bachelor, Warehouse Assistant, 42 Tweedmouth Road Plaistow. Father Heman Earnshaw, Wharf Foreman
Beatrice Annie Cox, 26, Spinster, , 46 Abbey Street. Father Emmanuel Woolf Cox (deceased), Carman
Witnesses were E Earnshaw and George Edward Earnshaw - sister and brother

Death Sep 1975 Thanet 16 1521 - dob 18 Sep 1905 in Plaistow Newham
Thomas Earnshaw on 26 June 1975 in Isle of Thanet District Hospital, Margate Wing, Margate
Retired Checker / Warehouseman (Provision Merchants) of 23 Grand Mansions, Broadstairs
The informant was B Earnshaw (wife) on 3 July 1975

1911 census (indexed as Herman)
RG14PN9466 RG78PN507B RD188 SD3 ED56 SN124
25 Springfield Road, Canning Town, West Ham, Essex (3 rooms)
Heman Earnshaw, Head, 43, Married, Whark Clerk, Yorks Midgley
Janey Earnshaw, Wife, 42, Married, , Yorks Midgley
Verdi Lindley Earnshaw, Son, 18, Single, Machine Minder (Printers), Yorks Elland
George Edward Earnshaw, Son, 15, Single, Telephone Operator, Yorks Elland
Florrie Earnshaw, Daughter, 11, Single, , Essex Plaistow
Edith Earnshaw, Daughter, 4 months, Single, , Essex West Ham
Thomas Earnshaw, Son, 5, , , Essex West Ham
- against Janey it states - married 20 years, 6 children born alive, 5 living, 1 dead
- another household at same address (also 3 rooms) was occupied by Albert Marmon and his children
- no infirmities shown in the final column of the form

Address in pre-war (1930s) address book of my father has Mr & Mrs T Earnshaw, 78 Wilmot Street, Bethnal Green, London E2. This was crossed out and replaced by 20 Stansfield Avenue, Paignton, Devon. This in turn was crossed out.
Further on in the book were
96e Rochester Way, Sidcup, Kent
44 Swinburne Avenue, Broadstairs, Kent
23 Grand Mansions, Victoria Parade, Broadstairs, Kent
and then for just Beattie
42 Cedar Close, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent
4 Leicester Court, Leicester Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent

Thomas married Beatrice Annie "Beattie" COX, daughter of Emmanuel Woolf COX and Mary Ann FORT, on 7 Jun 1930 in Bethnal Green, London, England.¹ (Beatrice Annie "Beattie" COX was born on 19 Apr 1904 in Bethnal Green, London, England ² and died in Nov 1992 in Thanet, Kent, England.)