Birth: 10 May 1853
Father: William Snelling 1825-1900
Mother: Esther Whittington 1825-1891
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 29 August 1874 Christ Church, West Croydon, Surrey, UK
Wife: Elizabeth (Lizzie) Whitbread Dickens [Boniface] 1855-1907
Death: July-September 1882 Croydon, Surrey, UK
Esther Florence Snelling [Luff, Morrison] 1875-1958
Christopher Thomas Snelling 1877-1946
Lily Snelling 1878-1878
Lucy Snelling [Child] 1881-1971
Thomas Snelling 1883-a1891
Birth of Thomas Snelling in FreeBMD in April-June 1853 in Croydon (2A 133).
In the 1861 census as Thomas Snelling aged 7, born Croydon, Surrey, and living with his parents (William and Esther), two brothers (Charles J and William) and sister (Martha A) in Lambeth Road, Croydon, Surrey.
In the 1871 census as Thomas Snelling aged 17, born in Croydon, Surrey, single, a plasterer, and living with his parents (William and Esther), two brothers (Frederick, John and William) and sister (Martha A) at 6 Stanley Road, Croydon, Surrey.
Marriage of Thomas Snelling and Lizzie Whitbread in FreeBMD in July-September 1874 in Croydon (2A 314).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 for Thomas Snelling aged 21, father William Snelling, and Lizzie Whithead on 29 August 1874 at Christ Church, Croydon, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 for the marriage of Thomas Snelling aged 21, father William Snelling and Lizzie Whitbread on 29 August 1874 at West Croydon, Christ Church. "Page 153 [...] 1874 Marriage solemnized at Christ Church in the Parish of Croydon in the County of Surrey. [No.] 306 29th August Thomas Snelling [aged] 21 [a] Bachelor & Plasterer [of] Stanley Road [father] William Snelling [a] Plasterer, [and] Lizzie Whitbread [aged] 19 [a] Spinster [of] Stanley Road [father] George Whitbread [a] Shoemaker. Married in Christ Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...]".
His daughter was baptised on 19 December 1875 at Christ Church, Croydon. His son was born in South Norwood on 2 December 1876, registered in January-March 1877 in Croydon, and baptised on 28 January 1877 at St John the Evangelist, Norwood when he was a capenter living at Clifton Cottages.
His daughter was born on 20 January 1879 and baptised on 13 April 1879 at St John the Evangelist, Norwood Upper, St John when he was a plasterer living at 21 Clifton Cottage, Clifton Road, South Norwood.
In the 1881 census as Thomas Snelling aged 27, born in Croydon, Surrey, a plasterer, and living with his wife (Lizzie), son (Christopher T), three daughters (Esther, Lizzie and Lucy), and sister-in-law (Esther Whitbread) at 21 Clifton Cottages, Clifton Road, South Norwood, Croydon, Surrey.
Death of Thomas Snelling in FreeBMD in July-September 1882 aged 29 in Croydon (2A 104)
There are seventy three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Thomas Snelling adding his birth on 10 May 1853.
Thomas Snelling was the father of Esther Florence Snelling, wife of James John Luff, and of Christopher Thomas Snelling, husband of Harriet Annie Luff, sister and brother and my half second cousins once removed.
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