Birth: 23 November 1872 351 Cable Street, Saint George in the East, Middlesex, UK
Father: Francis John Sanderson 1849-1930
Mother: Elizabeth Couch 1850-1943
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 28 August 1897 All Hallows East India Dock Road, Poplar, London, UK
Wife: Emma Free 1873-1955/61
Death: 26 August 1966 14 Melstock Avenue, Upminster, Greater London, UK
Charles Edward Sanderson 1898-1899
Thomas John Sanderson 1898-1899
Ethel Belmont Sanderson 1900-1995
Thomas Edward Francis Sanderson 1903-1993
Herrick Arnold Sanderson 1910-1991
Birth of Thomas John Sanderson in FreeBMD in October-December 1872 in St Geo East (1c 477).
In the 1881 census as Thomas J Sanderson aged 8, born in St Georges East, Middlesex, and living with his parents (Francis J and Elizabeth), brother (Edward F) and two sisters (Ada E and Mary A E) at 38 Tapley St, Bromley St Leonard, London.
In the 1891 census as Thomas Sanderson aged 18, born in St Georges, London, single, a railway porter, and living with his parents (Frances and Elizabeth), two brothers (Edward and Ben), and four sisters (Ada, Alice, Mary and Sarah) in four rooms at 71 Ida Street, Bromley St Leonard, London
Marriage of Thomas John Sanderson and Emma Free in FreeBMD in July-September 1897 in Poplar (1c 939).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Thomas John Sanderson, aged 25, father Frank Sanderson, and Emma Free on 28 August 1897 at Poplar All Hallows. "Entry 97 in 1897 at All Hallows E I [East India] Docks in the Parish of Bromley in the County of London on 28 August 1897 for John Sanderson aged 25, a bachelor employed as a station assistant of 71 Ida Road, Poplar, father Frank Sanderson, a stevedore, and Emma Free aged 24, a spinster of 13 Bright Street, father John Free, an engine driver, by banns witnessed by Edward Francis Sanderson and Mary Ann Sanderson."
In the entries for the christenings of his twin sons on 1 January 1899 he is stated to be a stationer's assistant living at 10 Cobden Street, South Bromley. Both sons died soon afterwards.
In the 1901 census as Thomas J Sanderson aged 28, born in St George in the East, a stationers shop assistant and living with his wife (Emma) and daughter (Ethel B) in three rooms at 66 Tudor Road, East Ham, Essex. Another family shared this address.
In the 1911 census as Thomas Sanderson aged 32 (sic - in the index, 38 on the original), born in St George in the East, Essex, a stationers assistant and living with his wife (Emma), two sons (Herrick Arnold and Thomas Edward), and daughter (Ethel Belerant) in four rooms at 29 Grosvenor Gardens, East Ham, Essex.
His wife died at 14 Melstock Avenue, Upminster, Essex on 26 April 1961.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Thomas J Sanderson in July-September 1966 aged 93 in Havering (5c 21).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Thomas John Sanderson died on 26 August 1966 in Essex, probate 22 November 1966 Ipswich. "Sanderson Thomas John of 14 Melstock Avenue Upminster Essex died 26 August 1966 Probate Ipswich 22 November to Ethel Belmont Sanderson spinster. Effects £7503."
Cheryl Whiteford and Paula Baker have entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Thomas John Sanderson born on 23 November 1872 in St Georges East, Middlesex, parents Francis John Sanderson and Elizabeth Couch. Paula Baker gives the place of birth as St George in the East, London. V Garth gives the birth address as 351 Cable Street, Saint George in the East. Two other entries add his marriage to Emma Free on 28 August 1897, and his three children.
Thomas John Sanderson was the husband of Emma Free, my eighth cousin three times removed.
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