Birth: 9 April 1886 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, UK
Father: John Abbey (Abbay) 1845-1915
Mother: Sarah King 1850-1913
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 7 August 1920 St Peter, Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Margaret Ann Wood [Hobson] 1884-1972
Death: July-September 1958 Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Richard Abbey 1921-a1978
Olive Abbey [Abraham] 1923-a1946
Birth of Tom Richard Abbey in FreeBMD in April-June 1886 in Knaresborough (9a 97).
In the 1891 census as Tom R Abbey aged 5, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and living with his parents (John and Sara), brother (James H), (half)brother (John), and three sisters (Harriet, Margaret M and Mary A) in four rooms in Windsor Lane, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
In the 1901 census as Tom R Abbey aged 15, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, a market gardener, and living with his parents (John and Sara), brother (James)), and sister (Margaret M) in Gracious Street, Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
In the 1911 census as Thomas Abbey aged 24, born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, single, a plumber working on his own account at home and living with his parents (John and Sarah), and brother (James) in six rooms in Chapel Street, Knaresborough, Yorkshire West Riding.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Royal Air Force Airmen Records, 1918-1940 for Thomas Richard Abbey aged 28 entered service 9 November 1914 number 139414, next of kin Ellen Whitehead his sister (sic - actually his first cousin).
Entry in Ancestry UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 for Thomas Richard Abbey living in Kirkstall, no. 139414, Aha605 in B A Ni R.a.f., W Y. R, Other Ranks Survived.
In the 1921 census as as Tom Richard Abbey born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire in 1886 and living in Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Marriage of Tom R Abbey and Margaret A Hobson in FreeBMD in July-September 1920 in Leeds (9b 1068).
Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for the marriage of Tom Richard Abbey aged 34, father John Abbey, and Margaret Ann Hobson on 7 August 1920 at Leeds St Peter. "Page 244 [...] 1920 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Leeds in the County of York. [No.] 488 Seventh August 1920 Tom Richard Abbey [aged] 34 years, [a] Bachelor [and] Platelayer [of] Kirkgate Leeds [father] John Abbey (deceased) [a] Shoemaker, [and] Margaret Ann Hobson [aged] 36 years [a] Widow [of] Kirkgate Leeds [father] Thomas John Wood (deceased) [a] Coachman. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns [...] in the Presence of us John William Whitehead [and] Sarah Ellen Whitehead".
His son and daughter were born in Leeds in 1921 and 1923.In the 1939 census as Tom R Abbey born 9 April 1886, married, a Railway Platelayer (Heavy Worker), and living with Margaret A Abbey (wife?), Richard Abbey (son?), Mary Hobson (step-daughter?), Hannah M Wood (mother-in-law?), and one other (daughter?) at 6 Vicarage View, Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).
Death of Tom R Abbey in FreeBMD in July-September 1958 aged 72 in Leeds (2c 276).
There are seventeen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Tom Richard Abbey.
Tom Richard Abbey was the first cousin of Thomas Abbey, husband of Ruth Cross, first cousin once removed of Albert Alfred Cross, husband of Florence Violet Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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