Thomas EARNSHAW

  General Notes:

My Godfather

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)

Member entry on Family Search
Name:Thomas Earnshaw
Event Type:Christening
Event Date:13 Oct 1905
Event Place:Holy Trinity, Canning Town, Essex, England
Father's Name: Herman Earnshaw
Mother's Name: Jane Earnshaw
GS Film Number: 001471967 , Digital Folder Number: 004298475 , Image Number: 00221


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

Electoral Roll on Ancestry.co.uk
1931 78 Wilmot Street
3209 Earnshaw Thomas (R O) (residence and occupation)
3208 Earnshaw Beatrice Annie (Rw Dw) (residence as a wife, ? as a wife)
1932 78 Wilmot Street
3228 Earnshaw Thomas R O
3227 Earnshaw Beatrice Annie Rw Dw
1934 78 Wilmot Street
3178 Earnshaw Thomas (R O)
3177 Earnshaw Beatrice Annie (Rw Dw)
1936 78 Wilmot Street
2863 Earnshaw Thomas (R O)
2862 Earnshaw Beatrice Annie (Rw Dw)
1939 78 Wilmot Street
2640 Earnshaw Thomas (R O)
2639 Earnshaw Beatrice Annie (Rw Dw)
1945 78 Wilmot Street
1885 Earnshaw Thomas
1886 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1946 78 Wilmot Street
2209 Earnshaw Thomas
2210 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1949 78 Wilmot Street
2250 Earnshaw Thomas
2251 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1953 78 Wilmot Street
2112 Earnshaw Thomas
2113 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1954 78 Wilmot Street
2084 Earnshaw Thomas
2085 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1956 78 Wilmot Street
2049 Earnshaw Thomas
2050 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1957 78 Wilmot Street
2051 Earnshaw Thomas
2052 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1959 78 Wilmot Street
1881 Earnshaw Thomas
1882 Earnshaw Beatrice A
1961 78 Wilmot Street
1837 Earnshaw Thomas
1838 Earnshaw Beatrice A
- most other years found with the same address and details

1939 Register
Ref: RG101/0063B/004/24 Letter Code:
78 Wilmot Street , Bethnal Green, London, England
Thomas Earnshaw 18 Sep 1905 Male Grocery Dispatch Checker Married 77 1
Beatrice A Earnshaw 19 Apr 1904 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 77 2

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.)