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Dear Linda
I am pleased that my message was of help, and I see from your message that we are also related to Edward's son, Thomas. But first of all, looking again at my records I had noted that Edward-and-Sarah's last child was difficult to decypher in the official, handwritten records as to whether it was a Frances or a Francis. So it could just as easily have been a son. There were no further records of marriage or death of this person, so there is no way of telling .
I have a copy of great-great-Grandpa Thomas's death certificate. He died in 1856 aged 72 and there is a point to metioning this. At the age of 65, I was found to have diabetes. My doctor asked if anyone else in the family had it. My father was found to have it also when he was the same age. G-g-grandpa Thomas died of "Mortification of the foot" - or gangerine, as we call it today. My doctor said this would likely have been caused by diabetes, but back in 1856 diabetes was unknown.
The official records show that Thomas Tomlin, and his wife, Francis Lovell, had six children:
1816 Thomas - Blacksmith
1818 John - Baker
1820 Millicent
1822 Mary Ann
1828 Frederick
1831 Emund - Sawyer
I had arrived at this point searching backwards through the English official Births, Marriages and Deaths records, which were started in 1837 (I seem to remember), and also through the English Census records, which show the people living in particular dwellings, which has been done every 10 years from 1841 (with the exception of the War year, 1941). Records before 1837 were a collection of parish records archived in the Hertford archive office, and go back to the 1580s.
Edmund was my great-grandfather, found to be a sawyer (sawmill worker) at the time of his marriage. His son, Charles, was my grandfather (whom I never knew) and Charles's son, George, was my father. My father was born blind and became a piano-tuner. I live in London now and my father's relations lived in and around Luton, in Bedfordshire. I compiled my own records after I retired (I am now in my mid-70s) and at that time, when I had a car, visited the village of Kimpton and took photographs. It is rather isolated now, and one has the impression that the villagers kept it so, in order to avoid development of an overspill population from Luton.
I, too, found the record of the marriage between Francis and Abigail. Their names appeared in the marriage lists but I could not find a connection with any members of our line..
Today I uploaded my family records onto my Website so that you can download them if you wish. The site address is: http://www.redpine.co.uk/Tomlintree.htm. The dates are in American format (mm/dd/yyyy) to enable computer sorting numerically. If you would like to contact me directly, you can find my e-mail address by clicking on the "Home" icon at the bottom, which brings up a page with my e-mail address on. Or you can continue using the Tomlin website, whichever you prefer.
Kind regards and best wishes to your mother
Peter Tomlin.
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