Biography:
Thomas Phillips
1840 –1913
Thomas Phillips
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Unmarked grave Thomas Phillips (1840-1913)
Thomas was born in 1840 Amersham, the first child of chair maker William Phillips and his wife Harriet (née Crockett).
Thomas became a labourer and never married. His family moved to Berkhamsted in around 1852, by which time Thomas appears to have left home. His appearance in the census records after that is spasmodic. He may have been moving about the district or he may have been in lodgings and simply missed the enumerators.
In 1881 he was living in household of Emma Duncombe and her five children at Canal Side, Berkhamsted. She was unmarried and their relationship is not given in the census return, so he may have been a lodger, or they might have been a couple.
In September 1883 he was charged with another man with chasing rabbits in a field belonging to a Mr Dwight (probably of Dwight’s Pheasantries). He was fined £1 4s 4d (over £100 in 2024).
In 1891 he was employed as a wood turner and was a lodger in Mill Street.
Thomas died in April 1913, aged 73, in the Union Infirmary. His mother and sister Sarah are both buried in this cemetery.
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Unmarked grave Thomas Phillips (1840-1913)
Thomas was born in 1840 Amersham, the first child of chair maker William Phillips and his wife Harriet (née Crockett).
Thomas became a labourer and never married. His family moved to Berkhamsted in around 1852, by which time Thomas appears to have left home. His appearance in the census records after that is spasmodic. He may have been moving about the district or he may have been in lodgings and simply missed the enumerators.
In 1881 he was living in household of Emma Duncombe and her five children at Canal Side, Berkhamsted. She was unmarried and their relationship is not given in the census return, so he may have been a lodger, or they might have been a couple.
In September 1883 he was charged with another man with chasing rabbits in a field belonging to a Mr Dwight (probably of Dwight’s Pheasantries). He was fined £1 4s 4d (over £100 in 2024).
In 1891 he was employed as a wood turner and was a lodger in Mill Street.
Thomas died in April 1913, aged 73, in the Union Infirmary. His mother and sister Sarah are both buried in this cemetery.
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