Thomas Hessom

Person Sheet

NameThomas Hessom953,954,955

Birth Date11 Jul 1844953,954,955,956

Birth PlaceFletcher Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Reside Date30 Mar 1851954 Age: 6

Reside Place17 St David's Place, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

OccE Date1861 Age: 16

OccE PlaceLiverpool, Lancashire, England

OccE MemoBaker, working for Master Baker Robert Wood

Reside Date7 Apr 1861953 Age: 16

Reside Place26 Cable Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

OccE Date15 Mar 1868 Age: 23

OccE PlaceDuckinfield Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

OccE MemoBaker

OccE Date1871 Age: 26

OccE PlaceBirkenhead, Cheshire, England

OccE MemoBaker

Reside Date2 Apr 1871955 Age: 26

Reside Place9 Bridge End Lane, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England

Death Date19 Jun 1879 Age: 34

Death PlaceShanghai

Death MemoDrowned off the coast of Shanghai while on the SS Stentor

FatherJohn Hessom (<1815-1883)

MotherJane Gadd (~1817-1852)

Spouses

1Eliza Emily Kegg906,907,908,909

Birth Date14 Oct 1843910,911,906,907,908,912,909

Birth Place9 Leander Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

Birth Memo[Births 1843 Dec Liverpool 20 449 - Eliza Emily Kegg]

Death DateJun 1901 Age: 57

Death PlacePrescot, Lancashire, England

Death MemoConvalescent home [burial record - try also Deaths 1901 Sep Prescot 8b 561]

Burial Date4 Jul 1901

Burial PlaceWest Derby Cemetery, Lancashire, England

Burial MemoSection 5, Grave No. 279, at 4pm by Rev Harper

FatherJohn Kegg (~1819-~1865)

MotherEliza Evans (~1820-1890)

Marr Date15 Mar 1868

Marr PlaceSt Nicholas' Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, England

ChildrenJohn (1868-)

George (1870-~1913)

Joseph (1872-)

Alfred James (1874-1912)

Emily Jane (1875-1875)

Thomas (1877-1877)

Emily Thomasina (1880-)

Notes for Thomas Hessom

His birth certificate is unusual in that it shows a time of birth. Could it be a multiple birth? There are no other Hessoms in the complete Birth Indexes for West Derby in Jul-Sep quarter, 1944, nor are there any Hessom deaths registered in Lancashire in that quarter.

Robert Wood, the baker Thomas was apprenticed to, also appears as a baker in Cable St, Liverpool, in the 1841 census.

From Keith Birmingham:

[Thomas Hessom] was drowned in Shanghai off the ship SS Stentor 19 June 1879. This meant that some of the boys were put in the Seamans Orphanage in Liverpool. Their mother appears to have got a job as a Stewardess to support them. I managed to access to their archives some years ago and found a few documents you may like. It was in the Orphanage that he first came across my grandmother!

Transcription of birth certificate:
When and where born: Eleventh of July 1844 11:45 P.M. Gomez Build. Fletcher Street
Name: Thomas
Sex: Boy
Father: John Hessom
Mother: Jane Hessom formerly Gadd
Occupation of father: Bread Baker
Informant: Jane Hessom, Mother, Gomez Buildings, Fletcher Street
When registered: Twenty first of August 1844
Registrar: G. Edgar Depy. Registrar

Last Modified 11 Mar 2009Created 24 Dec 2009 Stephen Pickles using Reunion for Macintosh