Person:Thomas Mason (53)

Thomas Mason was baptised on 28th December 1783 at Exton in Rutland, son of Ann Mason, formerly Webster, and her husband Joseph Mason.

On 5th August 1804, aged 20, Thomas was married at Barnack in Northamptonshire to Sarah Gamble. Thomas's brother William had married Sarah's sister Elizabeth a few years earlier, and Sarah had been running her late parents' business with Thomas's brother William for a few years.

After their marriage, Thomas and Sarah returned to Exton, where they went on to have six children baptised between 1804 and 1813, although it would appear two of these children died young. Thomas's mother died in 1813 and his father died three months later, early in 1814.

Thomas and Sarah left Exton some time between 1813 and 1815. For a few years between 1815 and 1822 they seem to have moved around a bit, appearing in Glinton, Newborough and Northborough in Northamptonshire and Thurlby by Bourne in Lincolnshire. During this time they had three further children, all of whom were baptised at the Barn Hill Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Stamford.

Thomas had worked as a gardener in the early days of their marriage, but from the baptism of their youngest son in 1822 he described himself as a teacher of music. The family seems to have settled in Thurlby by 1822.

Thomas died at Thurlby on 29th January 1841, aged 57, described as a "music-master, highly respected". Sarah survived him by ten years.

1. ↑ Exton, Rutland, England. Parish Registers (Leicestershire & Rutland Record Office, Wigston).

   Baptisms 1783 / Decemb[e]r 28th Tho[ma]s Son of Joseph & Anne Mason

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

   d. Thomas MASON, March Quarter 1841, Bourne Registration District, Volume 14, page 219, aged 57 [1783/4]

3. ↑ Burials register, in Thurlby by Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. Parish Registers (Lincolnshire Record Office, Lincoln).

   BURIALS in the Parish of Thurlby in the County of Lincoln in the Year 1841
   No.	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   374	Thomas Mason	Thurlby	Feb[ruar]y 1	57 [1783/4]	C.P. Worsley

4. ↑ Stamford Mercury, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 3, 5 Feb 1841.

   DIED.
   At Thurlby, near Bourn, on the 29th ult., aged 57, Mr. Thos. Mason, music-master, highly respected.