Thomas Burgham (General)

by RER , Thursday, March 25, 2010, 15:56 (5437 days ago) @ brian.burgham

Thank you - I'll go and see gravestone....by Newland Church?

Thomas (Evans) Hopkins' 1878 marriage to Sarah Ann Burgum (Burgham) is under the Newland Parishes on website.
He is certainly the Thomas Evans Hopkins on the Census returns, though he doesn't always use Evans....I can be certain because of siblings etc.

Sarah Ann's father was William Cole. Her mother Sarah married Moses Hawkins...by tracing siblings it is clear that the younger Sarah Ann was living with her grandparents and then moved to her mother's family with her widowed grandfather Thomas Burgham (1881).
It is also clear that this is the same Thomas Burgham who was the Iron foundry employer up to 1871 but was a Retired Grocer in 1881. Interestingly it is the 1861 Census that says he employed 7 labourers....the 1871 census just says he is an Iron Founder...so perhaps his fortunes were declining and he turned to having a grocery business instead.
How interesting to see TB's letter - would the content be applicable to the scenario above perhaps?
Do you want to know about Sarah Ann & Thomas Evans Hopkins' children?
None stayed long in the Forest that I can see.
Hope this helps. RER