Birth: 19 December 1881 Greatham, Durham, UK
Father: William Thompson 1853-1883
Mother: Barbara Ann Barton [Raw] 1855-1935
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1900 Hartlepool, Durham, UK
Wife: Harriet (Harriett) Vincent 1882-1929
Death: October-December 1958 Cleveland, North Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Vincent Thompson 1902-a1925
James Henry Thompson 1905-1906
John Henry Thompson 1907-1907
Richard Henry Thompson 1908-1985
Robert Henry Thompson 1909-1909
Amelia Thompson [Thompson] 1911-1985
Ethel Thompson 1914-1914
John Robert Thompson 1920-1982
Birth of Richard Henry Thompson in FreeBMD in October-December 1881 in Hartlepool (10a 158) which included Greatham.
His father died in Hartlepool in 1883 about the same time as the birth of his sister and his mother married George Raw in Hartlepool in January-March 1891.
In the 1891 census as Richard H Raw (sic - in the index, Thompson on the original) aged 9, born in Greatham, Durham, and living with his mother (Barbara A), step-father (George), brother (John R), sister (Margery) and (half)brother (John R Raw) in Greatham, Durham.
Marriage of Richard Henry Thompson and Harriett Vincent in FreeBMD in October-December 1900 in Hartlepool (10a 253).
In the 1901 census as Richard Fay (sic) Thompson aged 19, born in Greatham, Durham, a gas and water meter inspector,and boarding with his wife (Harriett), with his parents-in-law (James and Harriet Vincentt), brother (Ernest), sister (Sophia), a visitor (Mary Eliz Kingston aged 19, born in West Hartlepool, Durham, single and no stated employment), and three boarders (Harry Pinnegar aged 34 and born in North Lambeth, London, Melbourne Wigglesworth aged 25 and born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and Herbert Fawcett aged 23 and born in Harogate, Yorkshire, all single and stone masons) in York Road South, West Hartlepool, Durham.
In the 1911 census as Richard Henry Thompson aged 29, born in Greatham, Durham, had a Fruit & Confectionery (shop) working on his own account at home, and living with his wife (Harriett), and two sons (Richard Henry and Vincent) in three rooms at 53 Lister St West Hartlepool. Another entry gives his birth in Greatham, Durham in December 1881, parents William Thompson and Barbara Ann Barton, his marriage to Harriett Vincent in West Hartlepool, Durham in December 1990 and five children.
His wife died in Hartlepool in 1929.
Death of Richard H Thompson in FreeBMD in October-December 1958 aged 76 in Cleveland (1b 612).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Richard Henry Thompson born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1882, mother Harriett Brydon, married to Harriett, and five children Amelia, John Robert, Vincent. Richard Henry and Ethel. Another two add his date of birth as 19 December 1881 and his death in Durham Western, Durham in March 1958 (note this is the wrong entry).
Richard Henry Thompson was the first cousin of Stoddart Thompson, husband of Lily Alice Botell, mother of Eric Botell, my brother-in-law.
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