Birth: April-June 1877 Sunderland, Durham, UK
Father: Christopher Thompson 1853-1908
Mother: Esther Logan 1854-1925
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 14 September 1903 Register Office, West Hartlepool, Durham, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Ann Lamb 1876-1957
Death: April-June 1928 Hartlepool, Durham, UK
Wilfred Lamb Thompson 1902-1989
Evelyn Wilfred May Thompson 1904
Sydney Thompson 1907
Birth of James Thompson in FreeBMD in April-June 1877 in Sunderland (10a 740).
In the 1881 census as James Thompson aged 4, born in Sunderland, Durham, and living with his parents (Christopher and Esther) and two brothers John W and Robert) at 102 Victor Street, Monkwearmouth Shore, Sunderland, Durham.
In the 1891 census as James Thompson aged 13, born in Sunderland, a plater, and living with his parents (Christopher and Ester), four brothers (Christopher, Henry, John W and Robert) and sister (Esther Jane) in two roomsin Liborne? Street, Monk Wearmouth Shore, Durham.
In the 1901 census as James Thompson aged 23, born in Sunderland, Durham, single, and a general labourer at a shipyard, and living with his parents (Christopher and Ester), five brothers (Christopher, Henry, Joseph, Robert and Thomas L) and sister (Ester) in three rooms at 27 Hardwick Street, Monkswearmouth, Sunderland, Durham. Another two families lived at the same address.
His son was born in Muton, Durham in 1902.
Marriage of James Thompson and Elizabeth Lamb in FreeBMD in July-September 1903 in Hartlepool (10a 260).
His daughter and son were born in West Hartlepool in 1904 and 1907.
In the 1911 census as James Thompson aged 34, born in Sunderland, Durham, a labourer at a steel works, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (Sydney) and daughter (May) at 17 Northumberland Street, West Hartlepool, Durham.
Entry in Ancestry UK, British Army World War I Pension Records 1914-1920 for James Thompson aged 35 years 2 months, born in West Hartlepool, address 17 Northumberland Street, West Hartlepool, a shipyard labourer, height 5 ft 5.25 in, chest 37.5 - 3 in, enlisted 13 January 1918 in West Hartlepool as No. 23263 Durham Light Infantry, wife and next of kin Elizabeth Lamb, a spinster married at the Register Office, West Hartlepool on 14 September 1903, son Sydney born 18 April 1907 and daughter Evelyn Wilfred May born 24 May 1904 both in West Hartlepool, and discharged 27 January 1915 as medically unfit due to disordered action of his heart.
Death of James Thompson in FreeBMD in April-June 1928 aged 49 in Hartlepool (10a 109).
There are nine entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Thompson.
James Thompson was the father of Wilfred Lamb Thompson, husband of Amelia Thompson, first cousin once removed of Stoddart Thompson, husband of Lily Alice Botell, mother of Eric Francis Botell, my brother-in-law.
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