Past and Present

    by Janet McNeilly  © 2002

28 December 2008

Thomas Hoggett 1868

Born in Cotherstone on the 6th of July 1868, the son of John Hoggett and Mary Eales, and baptised in Lartington on the 12th by Thomas Witham, sponsors Thomas Body and Elizabeth Binks.
The 1871 census shows a James Hoggett , born 1869, son of John and Mary Eales, no mention is made of Thomas Hoggett born 1869. 
A Thomas Hoggett was confirmed on the 24th of September 1882.Married Rose Evans in Teesdale in 1890.
The 1891 census shows Thomas, employed as a coachman, living with his family at High Startforth.

The following information courtesy of Thomas' Great Grandson, Steve Reed.

Thomas married Rose Evans. He left high Startforth with his family in the early 1890's and moved to Trimdon Station, Durham where he worked as a railway porter. They later moved to Sunderland where Thomas worked for Vaux Brewery as a Drayman, delivering the beer kegs by shire horse and cart until he died in 1925.

Thomas and Rose had 10 children, one of their sons playing in two consecutive FA Cup finals.

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