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Thomas PENFOLD (1813-1854)Tree035:T001

Name:	Thomas PENFOLD
ONS Reference:	Tree035:T001
Sex:	Male
Record Id:	6299
Father:	Henry PENFOLD ( - )
Mother:	Mary Ann ( - )

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	1813
Death	1854 (age 40-41)	56 Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury

Marriage

Spouse	Mary GILLARD (1810-1875)
Children	Thomas PENFOLD (1839-1862?)
	Campion PENFOLD (1841-1846)
	Charles PENFOLD (1844-1894)
	Clara PENFOLD (1848- )

Individual Note

Note From Matthew Penfold:

Thomas, from whom we are descended, was the third son. Avoiding the paper bag trade, he was a butcher, living at 56 Great Ormond Street, next door to the hospital. From at least 1841 his widowed mother-in-law, Ann Gillard (1782-1870), lived with him and his

wife Mary, and their children. She was a licensed victualler, which I suppose means she kept a cookshop that also sold alcohol, and came from Tutbury in Staffordshire. Why or when she had moved to London is not clear — probably brought by parents or guardians,

for there was another family of Gillards living in or near Holborn, and her daughter Mary was born in London: like Thomas, in the parish of St George the Martyr.

Their children were Thomas, Campion, our ancestor Charles, and Clara. The fate of young Thomas we do not know. Campion died aged five in 1846. Clara grew up to marry a warehouseman grocer named, appropriately enough for the daughter of a butcher,

Thomas Meatyard. In 1881 the Meatyards were living at 67 Linton Street, Middlesex, with six-year-old Thomas and three-year-old Harry, who were both born in Shoreditch, and for all we know to the contrary may well have been nicknamed Meatinches.

Charles’s father Thomas died in 1854, aged forty one, after suffering from phthisis for nine months. Phthisis, Greek for wasting away, was an old term for T.B. Thomas’s death certificate mentions halmoptysis, a word which did not find its way into the

O.E.D. ( the Oxford English Dictionary). However, the Greek derivation shows it must mean salty spittle. After his death the family seems to have split up; perhaps there was insufficient income to keep the premises in Great Ormond Street. In 1861 Charles is

living with his uncle George, helping to make paper bags, and Ann Gillard and her granddaughter Clara with a nephew Horatio Guy and his family in Bermondsey on the other side of the river.