THOMPSON, Peter (b. 20 APR 1916, d. JUN 1998)

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Ancestry.

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0308/THOMPSON 0200

Reference: 00886

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Ancestry.com

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0308/BURROWS 0200

Reference: 00888

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Ancestry.

Source: (Birth)
Title: FreeBMD web site

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0308/LINTON 0200

Reference: 00890

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: FreeBMD web site

Source: (Death)
Title: Ancestry.

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0308/CLARK 0200

Reference: 00892

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: John D WHEATON 8/2/2002

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0302/WHEATON 0205

Reference: 00577

Note: James A CHAPMAN born June quarter 1964 Wandsworth District, Greater London

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: John D WHEATON 8/2/2002

Source: (Birth)
Title: Ancestry.

Source: (Birth)
Title: FreeBMD web site

Source: (Death)
Title: John D WHEATON 14/2/2004

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0205/CHAPMAN 0100

Occupation: Place: Metropolitan Police

Reference: 00579

Cause: Stomach Cancer

Note: Addresses
1903 47 Herbert Street, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire
1911 21 Etna Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire
Living with them was grandmother Sarah FEAKES (66) widow born Stapleford, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Birth Certificate

Source: (Death)
Title: Will information from Michael BROWNING

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Findmypast web site

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0408/WHEATON 0316

Reference: 01258

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Anthony WHEATON 26/8/2001

Source: (Birth)
Title: John Adrian WHEATON 19/3/2002

Source: (Death)
Title: Will information from Michael BROWNING

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0408/WHEATON 0316

Reference: 01259

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Will information from Michael BROWNING

Source: (Individual)
Title: St Catherine's House Death information from Michael BROWNING

Event: Type: Administration
Date: 6 SEP 1982
Place: Winchester, Hampshire

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0311

Reference: 00612

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Ancestry.

Source: (Death)
Title: Malcolm Daniells 31/1/2007

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON/MOUAT 0416/SALMON 0301

Reference: 01230

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON/MOUAT 0416

Reference: 01232

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Irene TROUSE 16/4/2001

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0202

Reference: 00567

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Will information from Michael BROWNING

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0306/WHEATON/OCLEE 209

Will: Place: Executor Sally Alexander WHEATON, widow

Reference: 00941

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: St Catherine's House Death information from Michael BROWNING

Source: (Death)
Title: Will information from Michael BROWNING

Event: Type: Administration
Date: 9 DEC 1981
Place: London. £46,972

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0316

Reference: 01268

Note: Addresses
1891 2 Mawson Road, St Andrew the Less, Cambridgem Cambridgeshire
(RG12/1285 folio 50 p 8)
1901 25 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1910 22 Brandon Place, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1911 9 Adam and Eve Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Name)
Title: 1891 St Andre the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Name)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: Birth Certificate

Source: (Death)
Title: Commonwealth War Graves Web Site

Source: (Death)
Title: Commonwealth War Graves web site

Source:
Title: Commonwealth War Graves Site?

Source: (Burial)
Title: War Graves Website

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0409

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1901 Schoolboy; 1910, 1911 Printer's Labourer

Reference: 01282

Note: Addresses
1910 15 East Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1911 9 Adam and Eve Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
After 1919 18 Graham Street, Swindon Wiltshire
(Information from War Graves site for first husband)

Maud WHEATON née COLLINS remarried to Arthur W SKINGSLY September quarter 1919 Swindon District, Wiltshire
There are SLINGSBY births where the mother's maiden name is COLLINS but they are in West Ashford, Kent, rather than Gloucestershire so have not been included here.

Source: (Name)
Title: Marriage Certificate

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1911 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Birth)
Title: FreeBMD web site

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0409

Reference: 01283

Note: Addresses
1841 34 New Square, St Andrew the Less, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire
Living with them was Henry POWELL (16) Butcher's Apprentice
(HO10785; Book: 12; Enumeration District: 7; Folio: 11; Page: 16)
1851 1 Fair Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Age 47 (HO107/1760 folio 701 pg 4)
Living with them was a Samuel POWELL (21) Unmarried a Book Binder born London,
Middlesex. He is described as "son".
If he was the son of Jonathan GUNTON surely his surname would be GUNTON?
So, perhaps he is the son of Mary GUNTON née WHEATON
However, she married as Mary WHEATON, not as Mary POWELL
She married Jonathan GUNTON in 1828 and Samuel POWELL was born in 1830, after
her marriage, so why, if a son, was he called POWELL?
No marriage or death has been found for a Samuel POWELL.
(This is doubly intriguing as my mother was a POWELL before her marriage!)
Lodging with them was Peter PICTON (45) Married, Book Binder born Lancashire. No wife
was living with him.
1861 Village Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire Age 56 (RG9/1033 folio 81 pg 25)
1871 Longs Farm, Harston(?(, Cambridgeshire RG10/1583 folio 23 pg 36
1881 High Street, Haslingfield, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire Age 80 (RG11/1662 folio 78 pg 9)

DESCENDANTS
No children have been found on any of the census returns, and there were no GUNTON children born before 1851 in the Cambridge District, so at present it would appear that Jonathan and Mary had no descendants.

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1881 Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Death)
Title: Free BMD web site

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1841, 1851, 1861 Butcher; 1871 Foreman; 1881 Retired Butcher Pauper

Reference: 00949

Note: Addresses
1891 5 Southampton Street, Camberwell St George, Surrey (RG12/488 folio 27 page 3)
1891 15 Southampton Street, Camberwell, Surrey (baptism of Ida)

Source: (Name)
Title: Birth Certificate

Source: (Death)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Ancestry.com

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0404

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Reference: 00848

Note: No obvious marriage or death in the English Civil Registration Indexes

On trawling through web sites for other information I came across details of a Thomas WHEATON in the 1901 Census of Canada.
He shows his birth date as 8 October 1862, and birth place as London, England.
There was no Thomas WHEATON birth registered at this time in England
However, a Thomas WHEATON was born on the 18 October 1863 at 5 Guildford Place, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, the Thomas to whom this record belongs, and who was a member of my husband's family.

The Canadian Thomas says he emigrated in 1874 when he would have been 12, which is rather young.
However, the Thomas WHEATON in Den's family had rather a dysfunctional family which could be the reason for such an emigration. (However, I have since found information which suggests he went to America in 1888 - see below)

Thomas's parents were Robert and Margaret Scott PARKER. They had two children, Philip born 20 February 1855 and John born 8 September 1857 both in Somersham, Huntingdonshire. They then married on the 30 January 1860 at St John the Baptist Church in Somersham before moving to London where in 1860 a son, William WHEATON was born in Drury Lane, Middlesex (no Civil Registration record). In 1861 they were living at 1 Crawford Place, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, but without son Philip who was living with an aunt, Elizabeth CASTLE at Parberry's Row, Enfield, Middlesex.

A daughter, Mary Ann, was born in 1862 at 5 Guildford Place, Clerkenwell, Middlesex but she died within weeks of her birth. Thomas was then born on the 18th October 1863 also at 5 Guildford Place, Clerkenwell, Middlesex.

Robert WHEATON, Thomas's father died 28 February 1867 at the Small Pox Hospital, Upper Holloway, Middlesex Age 55. The Death certificate showed "Small pox 12 days complaint unmodified & accd in difft circ certified" which has not yet been investigated. Robert's address was given as 16 William Street, Newington, Surrey where we assume the family were living at this time; Thomas would have been 4 years 4 months.

Just over a year later Robert's widow, Margaret WHEATON, née PARKER, gave birth to a daughter, Frances WHEATON on the 30 July 1868 at 20 Brandon Street, Walworth, Surrey, she only survived a few months, and was followed by Alice Maude WHEATON born at 55 Beckway Street, Walworth, Surrey in 1872, who also soon died.

At the time of the census in 1871 Margaret WHEATON was working as a nurse at St Guy's Hospital, but Thomas, now 8 years old could not be found. His oldest brother, Philip, was at Windmill Hill, Enfield, Middlesex (RG10/1344 folio 6 page 3), again living with Elizabeth CASTLE, Head, Widow, Age 60, Annuitant born Enfield, Middlesex, Aunt to Philip WHEATON. Neither John nor William have been found on this census either.

In 1881 Margaret WHEATON was a dressmaker lodging with a George WEST in Newington Surrey, and in the June quarter of 1882 at St Saviour District, London Margaret WHEATON married George WEST. However, at the 1877 and 1881 marriages of Philip, Margaret's eldest son, the witnesses were George and Margaret WEST.

Of Thomas's surviving siblings, Philip married twice, was a Blacksmith, lived in Enfield, Middlesex and had a total of thirteen children. John, the next brother never married and was moved from the Wandsworth Asylum to the Three Counties Lunatic Asylum, Stotfold, Bedfordshire where he was living in 1881 and 1891; he died there on the 10 March 1892, aged 35 years. He could have been a shoemaker, he could have been blind but he was also described as a "Sailor from Somersham". Records for brother William have not been found in the UK.

So, with his father's death in 1867, followed by the birth and death of two half sisters, as he was not living with his mother in 1871, perhaps he was with relatives using their name at the time, and travelled to Canada with them.

Given the information in the foregoing it has been decided to include details about the Thomas found on the 1901 Canadian Census until it is proved that he is not the same man. Subsequently more information has been found on the 1891 and 1911 census returns, also details of a marriage. Further details about Thomas's arrival in Canada suggest he did arrive in 1874 age 10 with a William WHEATON age 14. This would suggest we have the right information as we have been unable to find details for Thomas's brother William in the English records.

Addresses
1864 12 Easton Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex (baptism of William and Thomas)
1871 Not found
1881 Not found
1891 St Antoine Ward, Montréal Centre, Quebec, Canada giving age as 25
Living as "Dom" with the FEATHERSTONE family
1901 Maisonneuve, Saint-Denis Ward, Montreal, Quebec, Canada giving birth date as 8 October
1862, Birth Place, London, England
1907 Montreal, Quebec, Canada (marriage)
1911 578 Wellington, St Anne Ward, Montreal, Quebec, Canada giving birth date as October 1865

Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Arrived 6 September 1874 on the "Ontario" in Quebec, Canada from Belfast, Ireland; Liverpool, England
Listed Age 10, as well as a William WHEATON age 14 Labourer
Could have travelled as a "Child" with a George HARRIS (40) Labourer and his wife Sarah (34)

Voyages That Brought the Home Children
27/08/1874 Liverpool 06/09/1874 Quebec Ontario C-4529

The above information seems more likely.
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Thomas WHEATON
Name: Thomas WHEATON (shown as a Labourer on the Passenger List and had 1 piece of baggage)
Arrival Date: 7 Jun 1888
Estimated birth year: abt 1862
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: United States of America
Place of Origin: England
Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: English
Ship Name: City of Rome
Search Ship Database: View the City of Rome in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York
Line: 27
Microfilm Serial: M237
Microfilm Roll: M237_521
List Number: 766
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States

Source: (Name)
Title: Birth Certificate

Source: (Death)
Title: Attestation papers for Cecil William WHEATON

Source: (Individual)
Title: 1901 Maidonneuve, Saint-Denis Ward, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Source: (Individual)
Title: 1911 St Anne Ward, Montreal, Quebec

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Ancestry.com

Nationality: Place: Canadian

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0501/WHEATON 0431

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Emigration: Date: 1874
Place: or 1881 (see emigration information in notes)

Occupation: Place: 1891 Stableman; 1901 Storeman; 1911 Caretaker

Religion: Place: 1891, 1901, 1911 Methodist

Reference: 00616

Source: (Name)
Title: Birth Certificate

Source: (Death)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: National Burial Index from Findfmypast web site

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0419

Reference: 00723