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Thomas Walter Church

Thomas Walter Church, Bedford, 1877 - 1917

C074:
b. 1877;
m. 1897;
d. 1917.

Thomas Walter Church was the first known child of Walter Church and Hannah Redman.
See: Chart F120

1877: (Q1) Thomas Walter Church was born1 in Bedford.
1877: 30th June 1877: Thomas Walter was baptised2 at St John's Church, Kempston, Bedford.

1881: UK Census3: Thomas Walter Church, aged 4 years, was living at 2 Linnets Yard, Radford, Nottingham.; with Father Walter, aged 25, a House Painter from Bedford; mother Hannah, aged 29, a Dressmaker from Wootton, Bedford, and sister Elizabeth, aged 10 months, also from Wootton, Beds.
1881: UK Census4: Walter Church, aged 4 years, was enumerated at Keely Lane, Wootton, Bedford.; with Grandfather James Redman, aged 63, a Carpenter from Bedford; Grandmother Eliza Redman, aged 58, a Lacemaker from Wootton, Bedford.

1897: Thomas Walter Church married5 Catherine Hannah Tudor in Nottingham.
1898: Thomas Walter Church was born
1899: Florence Church was born
1900: Hilda May Church was born
1903: Arthur Leonard Church was born
1905: Jack Church was born
1908: Leslie Church was born
1911: Alice Church was born
1913: Frank Church was born
1916: Ivy Church was born
1917: 5th August, 1917: Thomas Walter Church died in active service in Belgium and is buried in grave A2 at the Wieltje Farm Cemetery.

See: Chart F074


Sources:
1) FreeBMD: GRO Volume 3b, Page 333.
2) Family Search: England Births and Christenings, 1538 - 1975, Batch number C14871-1.
3) Family Search: PRO Ref RG11, Piece 3344, Folio 29, Page 3.
4) Family Search: PRO Ref RG11, Piece 1620, Folio 46, Page 8.
5) FreeBMD: GRO Volume 7b, Page 704.