Birth: 31 March 1867 Carlisle, Cumberland, UK
Father: David Irving Read 1840-1917
Mother: Elizabeth Balmer 1838-1918
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 18 September 1897 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Minnie Maria Fullock (Fullick) 1872-1911
Marriage: April-June 1916 Alton, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Edith Prior [Newell] 1861-1952
Death: October-December 1951 Carlisle, Cumberland, UK
By Minnie
Alice Dorothy Read [McGough] 1903-1988
Elizabeth Ann Read [Hayes] 1904-1965
Frederick Read 1906-1936
Birth of Thomas Balmer Read in FreeBMD in April-June 1867 in Carlisle (19B 461).
In the 1871 census as Thomas B Reed (sic - on the original) aged 4, born in Carlisle Cumberland, and living with his parents (David and Elizabeth), brother (Roger), and three sisters (Elizabeth, Jane and Susanna) at 72 Milburn, Caldewgate, Cumberland.
In the 1881 census as Thomas B Read aged 14, born in Carlisle, Cumberland, and living with his parents (David and Elizabeth), two brothers (David and Roger), four sisters (Elizabeth A, Jane, Ruth and Susannah) at 13 Norfolk St (Butcher Shop), Caldewgate, Cumberland.
In the 1891 census as Thomas B Read aged 23, born in Carlisle, Cumberland, single, and a private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and living in a hut (Soldiers Quarters) at Browndown Camp, Titchfield, Hampshire.
Marriage of Thomas Balmer Read and Minnie Maria Fullick in FreeBMD in July-September 1897 in Alton (2C 360).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for Thomas Balmer Read aged 31, father David Read, and Minnie Maria Fullick on 12 (sic) September 1897 at Headley, All Saints. "Page 5 [...] 1897 Marriage solemnized at the parish church in the parish of Headley in the County of Southampton. [No.] 10 September 18 1897 Thomas Balmer Read [aged] 31, [a] Bachelor [and a member of] R.M.L.I .[Royal Marines Light Infantry] [of] Gosport, [father] David Read [a] Farmer, [and] Minie Maria Fullick, [a] Spinster] [of] Headley Park, [father] Frederick Fullick, [a] Farmer & Keeper. Married in the parish church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the established church after banns [...] in the Presence of us Herbert Fullick, Alice Fullick, Annie Bartnett and Edwin Fullick".
His first daughter was born 10 April 1903 and baptised 31 May 1903 and second daughter was born 6 April 1904 and baptised 30 October 1904, both births registered in Gosport with baptisms at All Saints, Headley when he was a private in the R.M.L.I. and living in Gosport, and his son was born 10 February 1907 and registered in Gosport.
In the 1911 census as Thomas Balmer Read, aged 45, born in Carlisle, Cumberland, a domestic gardener, and living with his wife (Minnie Maria), son (Frederick), and two daughters (Alice Dorothy and Elizabeth Ann) in five rooms at 30 Anstey Terrace, Anstey Road, Alton, Hampshire.
His wife died in Alton just after the 1911 census (before July).
His son was baptised 31 December 1911 at Upper Clatford, Hampshire when he was a gardener living in Alton.
Marriage of Thomas B Read and Edith Newell in FreeBMD in April-June 1916 in Alton (2C 401).
In the 1921 census as Thomas Read born in Carlisle, Cumberland in 1868 and living with Edith Read (wife?), and Alice and Elizabeth A Read (daughters?) in Grinsdale, Cummersdale, Carlisle, Cumberland.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Thomas B Read born 31 March 1867, a pensioner, married, and living with Edith Read (wife?) at The Home Stead, Exton, Droxford, Hampshire
Death of Thomas B Read in FreeBMD in October-December 1951 aged 84 in Carlisle (1A 26).
Entry in The Pastoral Notebooks of Wallis Hay Laverty, rector of Headley 1872–1928 "p.258 Fullick Fred (born 29.2.1846) & Anne (Deadman, née 23.5.1849 - as Charlie D said 1917) & 3 children [...] - Minnie Maria 1872, married 18.9.1897 marine Thomas Balmer Read of Gosport (profession 'RNLI [sic - should be RMLI.')". RMLI - Royal Marines Light Infantry.
There are twenty eight entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Thomas Balmer Read.
Thomas Balmer Read was the husband of Minnie Maria Fullick, my second cousin twice removed.
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