Thomas Hampson (author) explained

Thomas Hampson
Birth Date:1839
Birth Place:Horwich, Lancashire, England
Death Date:25 November 1918 (aged 79)
Death Place:Bolton, Lancashire, England
Nationality:English

Thomas Hampson (1839 – 25 November 1918) was an English author and local historian.

Life

He was born in Horwich in 1839, the youngest child of Henry and Mary Hampson.[1] [2] He was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Horwich on 10 November 1839.[3] His father died in May 1842,[4] leaving his mother to bring up the children on her own.[5] [6] He started work at Wallsuches bleach works in Horwich when he was seven-years-old. He married Sarah Jane Aldred at Holy Trinity Church, Horwich on 2 April 1866.[7] They had three sons: John Henry, John Fox, and Benjamin, and three daughters: Clara, Mary Ann, and Eleanor.[8] After his marriage, he continued to be employed at the bleach works as a finisher,[9] but between 1877 and 1881 he lost a number of fingers on his left hand in a works accident which seems to have forced him into a clerical career.[10] He was a secretary at the short-lived Red Moss Ironworks, Horwich. Then employed as a cashier, first at Scot Lane Colliery, Blackrod, then at Fourgates Colliery, Wingates, Westhoughton.

It was around this period of his life he wrote a number of notable local history books. He published History of Blackrod in 1882, Horwich: Its History, Legends, and Church in 1883, and History of Rivington in 1893.

After Horwich Works were built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) in 1886, he was employed as a labourer in the iron foundry,[11] then as a locomotive stores keeper.[12]

His wife, Sarah Jane, died in April 1907, aged 64,[8] and eleven years later Thomas died at Bolton Royal Infirmary on 25 November 1918, aged 79. They are both buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Horwich.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1841 Census: Horwich. OnLine Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire. 14 July 2016.
  2. Web site: Public Record Office. England and Wales Census, 1841. registration. FamilySearch. 14 July 2016.
  3. Web site: Baptisms at Holy Trinity, Horwich, 1833–1841. OnLine Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire. 14 July 2016.
  4. Web site: Burials at Holy Trinity, Horwich, 1838–1845. OnLine Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire. 14 July 2016.
  5. Web site: Public Record Office. England and Wales Census, 1851. registration. FamilySearch. 14 July 2016.
  6. Web site: Public Record Office. England and Wales Census, 1861. registration. FamilySearch. 14 July 2016.
  7. Web site: Marriages at Holy Trinity, Horwich, 1854–1881. OnLine Parish Clerks for the County of Lancashire. 14 July 2016.
  8. The Parish Records of Holy Trinity Horwich From 1860. Horwich Heritage. The CD contains transcriptions, in PDF file format, of baptism, marriage and burial records..
  9. Web site: Public Record Office. England and Wales Census, 1871. registration. FamilySearch. 14 July 2016.
  10. Web site: Public Record Office. England and Wales Census, 1881. registration. FamilySearch. 14 July 2016.
  11. Web site: Public Record Office. England and Wales Census, 1891. registration. FamilySearch. 14 July 2016.
  12. Web site: Public Record Office. England and Wales Census, 1901. registration. FamilySearch. 14 July 2016.

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