Person:Thomas Palmer (83)

Thomas Palmer was born on 11th May 1836 and baptised the following month in the parish of St John Horsleydown in Southwark, Surrey, on the opposite bank of the River Thames to the city of London. He was the son of a corn merchant also called Thomas Palmer, and his wife Hannah. The family lived on Thomas Street in Southwark, and Thomas's parents appear there in the 1841 census, although Thomas does not appear to have been listed with them on census night.

By 1851 the family had moved to 23 Glengall Grove off the Old Kent Road in the parish of Camberwell, where Thomas appears in the census as a scholar living with his parents, a sister and a servant.

On 19th July 1859, aged 23, Thomas married Jane Timothy at the church of St Giles in Camberwell. They had one child, a boy called Thomas Cassanet Palmer (Cassanet being Jane's mother's maiden name), born in Camberwell in 1860.

The 1861 census finds Thomas, Jane, their baby son and two servants living at 2 Gotha Place on Queen's Road, Peckham in the parish of Camberwell. Thomas described himself as a corn merchant, having gone into the same occupation as his father.

By 1864 the family had moved to the northern suburbs of London, living at 12 Penn Road Villas in the Holloway area of the parish of Islington. Thomas died there on 19th January 1864, aged 27. Jane survived him, and remarried just under two years after his death.

1. ↑ Baptisms register, in Southwark, Surrey, England. Parish Registers of St John Horsleydown (London Metropolitan Archives).

   BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of SAINT JOHN, Horsleydown, in the County of Surrey, in the Year 1836
   No.	When Baptized	Child's Christian Name	Parents' Name		Abode	Quality, Trade, or Profession	By whom the Sacrament was performed
   			Christian	Surname
   45	June 26 born 11 May 1836	Thomas	Thomas & Hannah	Palmer	Thomas Street	Corn Merchant	Rector

2. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1582; Folio 409; Page 26, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: 23 Glengall Grove, Old Kent Road, Camberwell, Surrey
   Thomas Palmer, head, married, male, 49 [1801/2], Corn Merchant, b. City of Westminster, Middlesex
   Hannah Palmer, wife, married, female, 58 [1792/3], b. Shearsby, Leicestershire
   Hannah Jane Palmer, daughter, unmarried, female, 20 [1830/1], at Home, b. Horsleydown, Surrey
   Tho[ma]s Palmer, son, male, 14 [1836/7], Scholar, b. Horsleydown, Surrey
   Lydia Hill, servant, unmarried, female, 26 [1824/5], House Servant, b. Horsleydown, Surrey

3. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 384; Folio 56; Page 11, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: 2 Gotha Place, Queen's Road, Peckham, Camberwell, Surrey
   Thomas Palmer, head, married, male, 24 [1836/7], Merchant (Corn), b. St Johns Southwark
   Jane Palmer, wife, married, female, 19 [1841/2], b. City of London
   Julia Luckett, servant, unmarried, female, 23 [1837/8], General Servant, b. Lynsted, Kent
   Harriett Park, servant, unmarried, female, 17 [1843/4], Nurse Maid, b. Southwark Bridge
   Tho[ma]s Cassanett Palmer, son, male, 7mo [1860], b. Peckham, Surrey

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

   d. Thomas PALMER, March Quarter 1864, Islington Registration District, Volume 1b, page 190, aged 27 [1836/7]

5. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

   1864
   PALMER Thomas.
   Effects under £300.
   6 February. The Will of Thomas Palmer the Younger late of 12 Penn-road-villas Camden-road Holloway in the County of Middlesex Corn Merchant deceased who died 19 January 1864 at 12 Penn-road-villas aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of Jane Palmer of 12 Penn-road-villas aforesaid Widow the Relict the sole Executrix.

6. ↑ Nunhead Cemetery Registers (London Metropolitan Archives).

   BURIALS in the London Cemetery Company's South London CEMETERY of ALL SAINTS', Nunhead, in the Parish of SAINT GILES', CAMBERWELL, in the County of SURREY, in the Year 1864
   No	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   18090	Thomas Palmer	12 Penn Road Villas Islington	Jan[uar]y 27	27 years [1836/7]	H. Morgan