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Thomas Cole was a tile maker whose son's family worked alongside my Cole ancestors at the Tile Kilns. He was almost certainly the son of Daniel Cole. This page gives known genealogical data for Thomas and his immediate descendants in the hope that today's descendants may know more and get in touch. There is an additional section on his son Daniel Thomas Cole who went on to work at the Tottenham Tile Kilns. |
Thomas Cole son of Daniel ColeThomas Cole was almost certainly the son of our earliest confirmed Cole ancestor, Daniel Cole (1770 - 1840). We do not know Thomas's date of birth but it looks likely from other records to have been around 1793. This would also fit well with his having been conceived in the period between Daniel's marriage and his departure for the navy. My first 'introduction' to Thomas came from the parish records of St Mary, Lewisham for 4 March 1821 when he and his wife Sarah, born Sarah Lear Maggison, baptised their son Daniel Thomas Cole. Fortunately the parish record noted that Thomas was a tile maker living at Loam Pit Hill, Lewisham which is how his son can be linked to the Thomas at the Tile Kilns. The record is:
Knowing the existence of this Thomas and the name of his wife, it was possible to piece together that the couple had been married on 3 Jan 1814 at the Old Church, St Pancras, the local church at that time for the Cole potters and brickmakers of Islington. The IGI shows various children born to a Thomas and Sarah baptised at St Pancras, but the names are so common that there is no guarantee that they belong to this particular Thomas and Sarah. The St Pancras baptisms were:
After Lewisham, Thomas and Sarah must have moved to Tottenham to the Tile Kilns because there are the following records of their children there:
Thomas and Sarah do not seem to appear in any census, and since they would have been still only in their 40s, they either both died tragically or emigrated. I suspect emigration along with Thomas's younger brother Daniel (1809 -?) whose records similarly disappear before 1841. Neither has not been possible to trace any of Thomas and Sarah's descendants, other than the Daniel Thomas (see below). They seem to be missing from all the censuses, although they may be in later ones under married names. It is always possible that they emigrated, along with their parents for whom no obvious records exist after the birth of Caroline. |
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