Thomas Ward | Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Biography:
Thomas Ward
1862 –1913

Plot 540 Thomas Jasper Ward (1862-1913)

Thomas was born in 1862 in Northchurch, the fourth of Jesse and Eliza Ward’s six children. His father was a labourer.

In 1871 Thomas was living with his family in Holliday Street, Berkhamsted.

Nothing more has been discovered about him until his death in November 1913 in Hill End County Asylum, St Albans, aged 50. At this time mental hospitals housed patients who were suffering from mental illness, had learning disabilities and also some who were severely epileptic, so it is not known why Thomas was there.

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Plot 540 Thomas Jasper Ward (1862-1913)

Thomas was born in 1862 in Northchurch, the fourth of Jesse and Eliza Ward’s six children. His father was a labourer.

In 1871 Thomas was living with his family in Holliday Street, Berkhamsted.

Nothing more has been discovered about him until his death in November 1913 in Hill End County Asylum, St Albans, aged 50. At this time mental hospitals housed patients who were suffering from mental illness, had learning disabilities and also some who were severely epileptic, so it is not known why Thomas was there.

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