John Tomlinson

• Birth Notes
  • 
    Name    John Tomlison
    Baptism Age    0
    Record Type    Baptism
    Birth Date    10 1774
    Baptism Date    29 Jan 1774
    Baptism Place    Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
    Father    Randle
    Page number    88
    
    John son of Randle Tomlinson of Abenbury, Farmer

• Death Notes
  • TOMLINSON, JOHN        71 
    GRO Reference: 1845  D Quarter in WREXHAM 
    Volume 27  Page 189
    
    Headstone reads:
    IN MEMORFY OF
    John Tomlinson
    of Ridley Wood
    who died October 3rd
    1845, Aged 73 years
    (Exact same design headstone as his brother Thomas's)
    
    See: https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2017/77/UNCEM_1489840842211.jpg
    
    Name    John Tomlinson
    Death Age    71
    Record Type    Burial
    Birth Date    1774
    Death Date    abt 1845
    Burial Date    9 Oct 1845
    Burial Place    Marchwiel, Denbighshire, Wales
    Page number    19
    
    Abode: Ridley Wood (Holt Parish)

• General Notes
  • John was a farmer from Ridley Wood, Holt. It appears from his Will, he never married.  There is no mention of a wife or children, only siblings, nephews and nieces.
    
    In 1805, it is most probably another John Tomlinson, farmer that married Hannah Hockenhull.  This family lived at Biston
    
    John Thomlinson, farmer of Ridley Wood, Holt died in 1845. In his Will he appointed James Davenport (shopkeeper of Wrexham) and John Sanderson (farmer of Ridley Wood) his executors.  He left £20 to his brother-in-law John Whitefield and monies to his spinster sister Sarah and nieces Anne Davies, Mary Eddowes (both daughters of John and Mary Whitefield) and nephew David Rowlands.
    
    Oct 1845, John (and his brother Thomas) of Ridley Wood, Holt Parish died and is buried at Marchwiel (near Wrexham) in a single grave.