Biography:
Thomas King
1871 –14/07/1936
Thomas King
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Plot 723 Thomas King (1871-1946)
Thomas was born in Meppershall, Bedfordshire, in 1871, the son of agricultural labourer Joseph King and his wife Elizabeth. He was their oldest son and the second of their six children.
Thomas moved to Rushden, Northants, to become a brickyard labourer. The 1891 census records him lodging, with three other Bedfordshire-born brickyard labourers, in the home of a brick maker from Shelford, Beds. It seems that they had all moved from one of the biggest brickmaking areas in the country to work at the newly-expanding Rushden Brick and Tile Company.
Thomas became a gas stoker and in 1897 married Lizzie Hodby, born in Yelden in Bedfordshire, in Wellingborough. The couple lived at 6, Park Road, Rushden. John Thomas was born in 1899, followed by Mabel Mary (1900), Arthur William (1905) and Ernest Frederick in 1908, by which time the family had moved to Berkhamsted.
By the 1911 census the family was living at Gas Works Cottage, Billet Lane, Gossoms End. Thomas was foreman of the gasworks.
In 1921 he was still the gas works foreman, with his son Arthur, assisting him.
Lizzie died in 1933.
Mabel, who had married just before war broke out, died in 1940, aged 39. She is buried here with Thomas and Lizzie.
Thomas died 14 July 1946.
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Plot 723 Thomas King (1871-1946)
Thomas was born in Meppershall, Bedfordshire, in 1871, the son of agricultural labourer Joseph King and his wife Elizabeth. He was their oldest son and the second of their six children.
Thomas moved to Rushden, Northants, to become a brickyard labourer. The 1891 census records him lodging, with three other Bedfordshire-born brickyard labourers, in the home of a brick maker from Shelford, Beds. It seems that they had all moved from one of the biggest brickmaking areas in the country to work at the newly-expanding Rushden Brick and Tile Company.
Thomas became a gas stoker and in 1897 married Lizzie Hodby, born in Yelden in Bedfordshire, in Wellingborough. The couple lived at 6, Park Road, Rushden. John Thomas was born in 1899, followed by Mabel Mary (1900), Arthur William (1905) and Ernest Frederick in 1908, by which time the family had moved to Berkhamsted.
By the 1911 census the family was living at Gas Works Cottage, Billet Lane, Gossoms End. Thomas was foreman of the gasworks.
In 1921 he was still the gas works foreman, with his son Arthur, assisting him.
Lizzie died in 1933.
Mabel, who had married just before war broke out, died in 1940, aged 39. She is buried here with Thomas and Lizzie.
Thomas died 14 July 1946.
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