THOMPSON STORY Frk Hnry 1853

Elizabeth Rose (née HARMSTON) THOMPSON died on 12 January 1912. A photograph of her, taken a few months before her death, with daughter-in-law, Bessie (née TAYLOR) and granddaughter, Margaret Rose THOMPSON certainly did not prepare one for the surprise of discovering that Elizabeth Rose died in Withington Workhouse, Manchester. Unfortunately, all the patients’ records at this Workhouse were destroyed during the Second World War.

Frederick Henry THOMPSON died in 1919 at Denmark Road, Manchester, aged 66 years.

Children:

1. Laura THOMPSON born 1879 at Easthorpe, Mirfield, Yorkshire.
2. Alfred Henry THOMPSON born 1881 at Easthorpe, Mirfield, Yorkshire.
3. George Edward THOMPSON born 1881 at Easthorpe, Mirfield, Yorkshire.
4. Edward Harmston THOMPSON 1883-1954. My direct line and grandfather.

Frederick Henry, son of George and Ellen (née DYSON) THOMPSON, was born 12 September 1853 in Back Lane, Liversedge, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire. He later followed his father's trade of tailoring and in 1879, twenty-six years old Frederick Henry married Elizabeth Rose HARMSTON at the parish church of Mirfield in Yorkshire.

By 1912, Frederick Henry and Elizabeth Rose were living at 192 Denmark Road, Moss Side, (near Whitworth Park) Manchester.

Elizabeth Rose HARMSTON was born on 28 February 1853, the daughter of John Edward HARMSTON, Freeman of the City of Lincoln, and Elizabeth (née SINGLETON), in the small village of Thorpe on the Hill, in the rural south west fringes of the city of Lincoln. Her direct line of HARMSTON forebears were mostly farmers who owned varying amounts of acreage near this city. Elizabeth Rose married her first husband, James BAMBER in 1872 at Mirfield; they were both 19 and she travelled back to Lincoln where their daughter, Alice M BAMBER was born in 1875. James BAMBER died in June 1876 at Mirfield.