Person:Thomas Binns (8)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends.

DISOWNMENT: “Thomas Binns, late of Halifax, but now residing at Bradford, was born and educated a Member of our Society; but having through unwatchfulness and yielding to temptations of the Enemy and the allurements of evil company, widely departed from the path of rectitude, and become guilty of the disgraceful practice of visiting public houses unneccessarliy and houses of ill fame, this Meeting after extending to him such labour and advice as the case seemed to require, feels itself called upon to testify against conduct so reproachful to himself and our religious Society, and hereby disunites him from membership with us. In tender compassion for his comparitive youth, and earnest solicitude for his present and everlasting welfare, we nevertheless sincerely desire that by carefully attending to the convictions of the Holy Spirit in the secret of his own heart, he may be brought to a right sense of the sinfulness of his past conduct in the sight of the Creator, and experience that thorough repentance towards Him and and faith in Christ, by which he may be favoured to obtain forgiveness, reconncileation and peace, and be strengthened for the future to lead a life of righteousness.’ Knaresborough MM Minutes

MARRIAGE: 1844 - Register of St. James, Gorton(m432/1/3/1) confirmed in David Binns' diary and autobiography [copy deposited in Tyne and Wear Record Office]

DEATH: 1858 - from 'galloping consumption', i.e. T.B. There is a legend in thefamily that he lost much of his money because he let people have things without paying for them in a time of depression. The worry of this brought on the illness.

BURIAL: Buried in the same grave number as Jarvis Brady and Rebecca Brady, in the Quaker portion of Undercliffe Cemetery (entry 3 plot 186D). Note that these numbers housed groups of five often related people.

EDUCATION: Ackworth School 1827-1829. Enrolment No. 5112.

OCCUPATION: 1844 - At marriage - Draper 1851 - Census - Draper's assistant.

RESIDENCES: 1815 - At birth - Crawshawbooth, Lancashire, England. 1845 - Katharine Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England. 1851 - Census - 45, Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England.

MISCELLANEOUS_NOTES: By 1851 his own business had apparently failed and both he and his wife were working.

INITIAL_SOURCE: Leicester.

1. ↑ ? Arthur Chamney Leicester. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Leicester Document). (Unpublished Family Tree).
2. ↑ Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers)
   Fifth line, p22.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Joan Margaret Page. Descendants of Thomas Binns and Frances Mills.. (Unpublished family tree.).
4. ↑ Various. Collected items - Joan Margaret Page. (Most items in photocopy form or direct transcript).
5. ↑ Benjmin Seebohm. Society of Friends. (Knaresborough Monthly Meeting Minutes)
   Knaresborough MM Minutes Ref. R6 Page 222 8 May 1835.
6.   Public Records Office. 1851 British Census.
7.   Kenneth Wilson. Lothersdale Chart. (unpublished chart of Binns families derived from Lothersdale records).