Person:Thomas Dean (34)

Thomas Dean was born on 10th June 1804 and baptised the following month at Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, son of a straw plaiter called Elizabeth Dean, formerly Hobbs, and her husband James Dean, a labourer. Thomas was the eldest of their eleven children.

On 20th December 1829, aged 25, Thomas married Mary Davis at Great Gaddesden. They went on to have three children at Great Gaddesden between 1830 and 1835. Each of the children's baptisms record that Thomas was a labourer and the family lived at Gaddesden Row.

Thomas died when he was only 33 years old, being buried at Great Gaddesden on 3rd September 1837. Both his parents outlived him. The 1841 census finds two of his children being looked after by Mary's relatives, whilst Mary herself appears to have been working as a servant at a nearby farm. However, she died later in 1841 when she was only 31 years old, having only survived Thomas by four years.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Church of England. Great Gaddesden Parish Registers. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   1804 Baptisms
   July 22 Bap[tized] Tho[ma]s Son of James & Eliz[abeth] Dean Born June the 10

2.   Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Thomas DEAN, September Quarter 1837, Hemel Hempstead Registration District, Volume 6, page 320, aged 34 [1802/3]

3. ↑ Burials register, in Church of England. Great Gaddesden Parish Registers. (Hertford: Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies).

   BURIALS in the Parish of G[rea]t Gaddesden in the County of Hertford in the Year 1837
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   574	Thomas Dean	Gaddesden Row	Sept[ember] 3d	34	J.B. Bingham