5-Eglingham Churchyard Section A- Row 1-5- Thompson

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In Loving Memory of ELEANOR HENRY, wife of SAMUEL THOMPSON, of Beanley, who died July 8. 1914, aged 81 years  Also of  ANN ELEANOR their daughter, who died May 10. 1898, aged 32 years. Also of the above SAMUEL THOMPSON, who died at Wandylaw Dec. 6 1923, aged 82 years

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FAMILY HISTORY

THE SHEPHERDING FAMILY

SAMUEL was born in 1842 in Beanley. He was one of the ten surviving children of Samuel Thompson and Elizabeth Forster (A1-3) and their fifth boy. His father was for “over 50 years faithful shepherd to the Messrs Storey, Beanley” (B2–3 and B4-1).

In 1865, Samuel married ELEANOR HENRY (born in1833, Fenton Hill, Northumberland), at St Maurice’s. Samuel, like his father, worked all his life as a shepherd at Beanley.  Samuel and Eleanor had 4 children who were all born in Beanley: Ann Eleanor (1866), Elizabeth (1870), Samuel (1871), and John (1875).

Sometime after Samuel’s mother Elizabeth died in 1875, his father moved from his cottage in Beanley to live with his daughter Eleanor, her husband William Dunn and their children (A4-5). They also lived in Beanley village next door to Samuel and Eleanor.

When Samuel’s father died in 1889, Samuel and his brother Andrew (D4-4) were the nominated executors of his will which left each of his children a tenth of his personal estate which was valued at £203.2s.11d. Samuel and Eleanor’s eldest daughter ANN ELEANOR died on the 10^th May 1898 aged 32 years, and she is memorialised on her parent’s gravestone. Their daughter, Elizabeth, had left home by 1901.

Son Samuel, like his father and grandfather, worked all his life as a shepherd. Son John worked as a shepherd, agricultural hind and farm labourer. Nephew, George Henry (born in 1884, Alnwick) who also worked as an agricultural hind was living with the family in 1891 and 1901.

The 1911 census records that both their single sons Samuel, aged 39, and John aged 36, were still living with their parents. But later in 1911, Samuel married Elizabeth Hutchinson in Alnwick (born Alnwick 1882), and on 27^th April 1912 John married Elizabeth Robinson at St Maurices (B26-10).

Samuel’s wife Eleanor died in 1914, aged 81 years, and sometime after he moved in to live with his son Samuel’s family. Around 1920, they all moved from Beanley to Wandylaw, Chathill, where Samuel had a new job working as a shepherd for Arthur Ryott. In 1921, Samuel is recorded as living with son Samuel, his wife Elizabeth and their 3 young children:  Samuel Henry, Eleanor Margaret and James William. A few years later in 1923, Samuel died at Wandylaw, aged 82 years.

Six of Samuel’s siblings are buried in St Maurice’s churchyard. ANDREW (married Elizabeth Scott) D 4-4, MARY (married Thomas Woodcock) B19-5, ROBERT (married Elizabeth Wilkinson) A1-4, SAMUEL (married Eleanor Henry) A1-5, ELEANOR (married William Dunn) A4-5, GEORGE (married Mary Dunn) A1-3 and A3-3, ELIZABETH A1-3.

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Reference: Ancestry

1911 CENSUS – BEANLEY

Samuel Thompson, Head, Married, aged 68, Shepherd, born Beanley

Ellen Thompson, Wife, Married ,aged 78, born Fenton Hill

Samuel Thompson, Son, Single, aged 39, Shepherd, born Beanley

John Thompson, Son, Single, aged 36, Farm Labour, born Beanley

Elizabeth Hutchinson, Single, aged 28, General Servant, born Alnwick

Note : Samuel and Ellen ( Eleanor) had been married for 45 years. During that time they had 5 children, 3 of whom were still alive in 1911