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By the time of the 1871 census, John Thomas had moved with his father John Cole to Walthamstow to what was later to become the Pettit Potteries. There he must have met his future wife Louisa whose father was a brickmaker at Walthamstow. John Thomas married Louisa Hill on 29 April 1872 at Walthamstow and the couple went on to have six children: Annie, Louisa, Daniel James, Mary Ann, Martha Maria (known as Pat) and Elizabeth. One of the witnesses at the marriage of John Thomas and Louisa was Charlotte Catherine Cole. She went on to marry George Colley in Walthamstow on 30 Sep 1872 and to have children: Alfred, born Islington, Alice, born Stoke Newington [area of the Tile Kilns] (these two presumably from an earlier marriage of George), Cecil [female] [presumably Charlotte's own daughter] born Tottenham, Thomas G, born Tottenham and Ethel M, born Tottenham. All were living at 142 Church Street, London, Middlesex in 1881. The ancestry of Charlotte, who was born in the early years of central registration could hold the key to research into our of our Cole ancestry before Daniel Cole. Early on John Thomas and Louisa lived at Walthamstow, presumably where John Thomas was working at the potteries there. By 1881 the couple had moved to Tottenham, where John Thomas worked at his brother's Tottenham potteries. They lived first at Queen Street, Tottenham and then at 3 Trafalgar Cottages. All reports from that time suggest that John Thomas was very well liked by customers and family. We are in touch with descendants of Annie and understand that the John Thomas's other daughters left no surviving children. We would very much like to make contact with descendants of John Thomas' son, Daniel, i.e. Doris Cole and Alva Cole.
John Thomas died age 77 of liver cancer on 4 July 1921 at 27 Hertford Road, Enfield Highway. The informant was his daughter Louisa Butler (nee Cole), then living at no.35. |
John Thomas Cole was born
on 25 Jun 1844 at the
