Thomas Burley
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Ann Watts
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Thomas Burley of Sittingbourne
(1796-1872)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Frances Akhurst

Thomas Burley of Sittingbourne

  • Born: 1796, Sittingbourne, Kent, England
  • Christened: 26 Jun 1796, St. Michael, Sittingbourne, Kent, England 1
  • Married: 30 Jan 1827, St. Peter & St. Paul, Bromley, Kent, England 2
  • Died: 1 Jun 1872, Sittingbourne, Kent, England
  • Buried: 9 Jun 1872, St. Michael, Sittingbourne, Kent, England 3

  Research Notes:

At the time of the 1841 England Census Thomas Burley, aged about 45, tailor, and wife Frances Burley, aged about 40, were living in High Street, Sittingbourne Kent. Present were children Thos. (13), Benjn. (11), Chas. (8), Fanny (6), Saml. (3), Maria (6m), and [Thomas Burley's brother] John Burley (35), labourer.

At the time of the 1851 England Census Thomas Burley, age 54, born in Sittingbourne, master tailor [employing] 1 man & 1 app[prentice], and wife Frances Burley, age 49, born in Bredgar Kent, were living in East End, Sittingbourne. With them were children (born in Sittingbourne): Thomas (23), tailor, Benjamin (21), grocer, Charles (17), shipbuilder (apprentice), Frances (15), dressmaker (apprentice), Samuel (12), scholar, and Maria (10), scholar.

At the time of the 1861 England Census Thomas Burley, age 64, born in Sittingbourne, tailor, and wife Frances Burley, age 60, born in Bredgar Kent, were living in High Street Sittingbourne. With them was son Charles (27) of Sittingbourne, shipwright. Son Thomas and his family were living nextdoor.

At the time of the 1871 England Census Thomas Burley, age 74, born in Sittingbourne, tailor, and wife Frances Burley, age 70, born in Bredgar Kent, were living at 7 East St., Sittingbourne Kent. With them were son Thomas (43) of Sittingbourne, widower, tailor, and grandson Edward Burley (12) of Sittingbourne, scholar.

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Thomas Burley of Sittingbourne died aged 77 years (burial record).

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BURLEY.—June 1, at Sittingbourne, Mr. Thomas Burley, aged 77 years.

East Kent Gazette, 8 June 1872, p. 5

  Marriage Information:

Thomas married Frances Akhurst, daughter of James Akhurst and Elizabeth Piper, on 30 Jan 1827 in St. Peter & St. Paul, Bromley, Kent, England. (Frances Akhurst was born in 1801 in Bredgar, Kent, England, christened on 10 May 1801 in St. John the Baptist, Bredgar, Kent, England, and died in 1873 in the Gravesend District, Kent, England, aged 73 years.)

  Marriage Notes:

Thomas Burley, bachelor, and Frances Akhurst, spinster

Married by Banns

Witnesses: Elizabeth Hall, James Teadrey

Sources


1 Sittingbourne St. Michael Parish Registers, Baptisms.

2 Bromley SS Peter & Paul Kent Parish Registers, Marriages, no. 172 (FreeReg transcription).

3 Sittingbourne St. Michael Parish Registers, Burials, p. 147, no. 1171.


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