Birth: October-December 1868 Southborough, Kent, UK
Father: Thomas Thorne 1842-1878
Mother: Mary Gillett 1846-a1881
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: October-December 1895 Thanet, Kent, UK
Wife: Florence Ann Smith 1870-1940
Death: 1 December 1925 6 Railway Terrace, Margate, Kent, UK
Winifred Kate Thorne [Draker] 1896-a1921
Florence May Ann Thorne [Morris] 1897-1971
Arthur Cyril James Thorne 1898-1940
Thomas Stanley Thorne 1900-1900
Maud Beatrice Thorne 1901
Dorothy Lilian Thorne [Akhurst] 1904-1934
Lilian Mary Thorne 1907
Violet Nellie May Thorne [Dunkling] 1911-1967
Birth of Thomas Thorne in FreeBMD in October-December 1868 in Tonbridge (2a 563).
His brother was born in Bidborough in 1871.
In the 1871 census as Thomas Thorne aged 2, born in Tunbridge, Kent, and living with his parents (Thomas and Mary), brother (Harry) and a kept child (Jane Diplock aged 8 and born in Bidborough) in Southborough, Tunbridge, Kent.
His father died in Tonbridge in 1878.
In the 1881 census as Thomas Thorn aged 12, born in Tonbridge, Kent and living with his grandfather (William Gillett aged 60, born in Ashurst, Kent and a farmer), mother (Mary), brother (Harry), three sisters (Annie, Kate, and Mary Jane), uncle (James Gillett aged 60, born in Seldhurst , Kent and a farmer), his wife (Mary Gillett aged 58 and born in Bidborough, Kent), and two visitors (George Gillett aged 62, born in Ashurst, Kent, single, and no stated occupation, and Mary Ann Bonham aged 69, born in Bidborough, Kent, widowed, and no stated occupation) in Bidborough, Kent.
In the 1891 census as Thomas Thome (sic - in the index, Thorne on the original) aged 22, born in Southborough, Kent, single, a cowman, and living with his uncle William Gillett (aged 70, born in Ashurst, Kent and a farmer), his wife (Jane Gillett aged 71 and born in Bidborough, Kent), two uncles (George Gillett aged 72, born in Ashurst, Kent, and single, and James Gillett aged 68, born in Ashurst, Kent and married, both farmer's sons), his wife (Mary Gillett aged 70 and born in Bidborough, Kent), brother (Harry Thome), three sisters (Annie, Kate and Mary Jane Thome) and a boarder (James Dennis aged 56, born in Bulkington, Sussex) at Church Farm, Bidborough, Kent.
Marriage of Florence Ann Smith and Thomas Thorne in FreeBMD in October-December 1895 in Thanet (2a 1817 in the index, 1847 on the typed original).
His four children were born in Ramsgate in 1896 to 1900.
In the 1901 census as Thomas Thorne aged 32, born in Southampton (sic - in the index, Southborough on the original), Kent, a telephone labourer/elect. app., and living with his wife ( Florence C), son (Arthur A J) and two daughters (Florence M A and Winifred K) at 9 Woodland Avenue, St Lawrence Intra, Kent.
In the 1911 census as Thomas Thorne aged 42, born in Southborough, a lineman for national telephone company, and living with his wife (Florence Ann), son (Arthur Cyril James), and four daughters (Dorothy Lilian, Florence May Ann, Lillian Mary, and Winifred Kate) in three rooms at 6 Love Lane, Margate, Kent.
Death of Thomas Thorne in FreeBMD in October-December 1925 aged 57 in Thanet (2a 1327).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Thomas Thorne died 1 December 1925 in Margate, Kent, Probate 17 February 1926 in Canterbury. "Thorne Thomas of 6 Railway-terrace Margate died 1 December 1925 Administration Canterbury 17 February to Florence Ann Thorne widow. Effects £216 6s."
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Thomas Thorne born on 11 November 1868 in Tonbridge, Kent, parents Thomas Thorne and Mary Gillett, his marriage to Florence Ann Smith in 1895, five children, and his death in Margate, Kent on 1 December 1925. Another entry gives his birth in Tunbridge, Kent in 1869.
Thomas Thorne was the father of Dorothy Lilian Thorne, wife of William John Akhurst, grandnephew of Sarah Jane Gill, second wife of my great grandfather George William Payne.
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