Birth: 25 March 1897 Bexley, Kent, UK
Father: Robert Thomas Thompson 1870-1904
Mother: Louisa Fanny Salmon [Holland] 1870-1941
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1936 Woolwich, London, UK
Wife: Lily Alice Botell 1902-1990
Death: April-June 1982 Greenwich, Greater London, UK
Arthur Thompson b1939
Cyril Thompson b1939-a1968
Robert Thompson a1936-b1939
Geoffery Thompson 1943
Birth of Stoddart Thompson in FreeBMD in April-June 1897 in Dartford (2a 159). Named after his grandmother's maiden name.
In the 1901 census as Stoddart Thompson aged 4, born in Bexley, Kent, and living with his parents (Robert and Louisa), sister (Johanna), widowed grandmother (Johanna), a visitor (Pency West aged 21, born in Newport, Monmouthshire, single and a plasterer), and two lodgers (Edward Cuffley aged 33, born in Banstead, Surrey, single and a painter, and Harry Kelsey aged 16, born in Bexley, Kent, single and a brewer's clerk) at 2 Bath Villas, Albert Road, Bexley, Kent.
His father died in Dartford in 1904 and his mother married Walter Holland in Dartford in 1905.
In the 1911 census as Staddart (sic - in the index, Stoddart on the original) Thompson aged 14, born in Bexley, Kent, at home assisting in the buiness, and living with his stepfather (Walter Holland), mother (Louisa Holland), sister (Johanna), two half-brothers (Douglas and Sidney), two half sisters (Constance and Dorothy), and three step-sisters (Beryl, Florence and Gladys), grandmother (Louisa Salmon), and three servants (Alice Wicks aged 46, born in Terling, Essex, widowed, and a manageress, Emily Covill aged 22, born in Ingham, Kent, single and a barmaid, and Henry Haxell aged 24, born in Poplar, Essex, single and a barman potman) in ten rooms atat The Beehive Hotel, Footscray Road, New Eltham, London.
Marriage of Stoddart Thompson and Lily A Botell in FreeBMD in January-March 1936 in Woolwich (1d 1376).
He worked for the Commonwealth War Graves Commision in France where three sons were born before 1939 and one, Robert, died, and the fourth in Woolwich in 1943.
There are 12 entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1847-1965 for Stoddart Thompson in Newham, Woolwich in 1919 and in 1945 to 1960.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Stoddart Thompson, born on 25 March 1897, in April-June 1982 in Greenwich (12 1266).
Iris Needham has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Syoddart Thompson born in Bexley, Kent in 1897, parents Robert Thompson and Louisa Fanny Salmon. Giles Thompson adds his birth on 25 March 1897, his marriage in Wolwich in January 1936, four sons, and death in April 1982.
Stoddart Thompson was the father of Geoffery Thompson, half brother of Eric Botell, my brother-in-law.
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