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Thomas VOGWELL
1867 - 1905 (~ 38 years)
Has 45 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Thomas VOGWELL Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born Mar Q 1867 Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England 
- GRO ref: VOGWILL, Thomas q1 1867 Liskeard RD 5c 55
Gender Male Occupation 1881 Hetton-le-Hole, Co. Durham, England Coal miner Residence 1891 Station Terrace, Cramlington, Northumberland, England - Unmarried, with his mother and a 17 year old boarder, Forset Ripper.
In 2 rooms in the same house as another hosuehold who also had 2 rooms.
The next entry includes his brother James and his wife.
Occupation 1891 Cramlington, Northumberland, England Coal miner Residence 1901 Back Lane, Newbottle, Co. Durham, England - With his wife, living in one room (as defined by the census)
Occupation 1901 Newbottle, Co. Durham, England Coal hewer below ground Died Sep Q 1905 Easington Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England - GRO ref: q3 1905 Vogwill, Thomas aged 38 Easington RD 10a 266
Occupation 1919 Storekeeper - On passenger list when emigrated
Emigrated 8 Nov 1919 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland From - Sailed on the ship "Rembrandt" of the Lamport and Holt Ltd. steamship line, bound for Brazil.
Thomas was shown as a storekeeper, aged 51, last permanent residence 'foreign country' (i.e. not England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland or British Possession)
Country of intended future permanent residence was shown as Brazil.
The passenger list shows "Mr. T. G. Vogwill" and an age of 51. Other Thomases in the close family had the middle name George so I expect this one did too. The age is not quite right - this Thomas would have been 52 - but that seems close enough. No other Thomas Vogwill known of that could have been the one who emigrated, although as I haven't looked at Scottish censuses etc. it is just possible a family could have been 'hiding' there.
Emigrated Aft 8 Nov 1919 Brazil To - Although the passenger list shown that Thomas was bound for Brazil, it also showed he had been living in a foreign country prior to this, so it may be that he had emigrated to Brazil at an earlier date and was returning from a trip back to the UK.
Siblings6 brothers and 1 sister Half-siblings5 half brothers (family of Henry VOGWELL and Jane PELLEW) Patriarch & Matriarch 
William VOGWELL, b. Est 1720, d. Nov 1789, Whitchurch, Devon, England (Age ~ 69 years) (2 x Great Grandfather) 
Anne, d. Yes, date unknown (5 x Great Grandmother)Notes - Clearly there is something wrong here - Thomas can't have died in 1905 and have emigrated in 1919! Need to work out which reference is to him and which to another.
- (Research):FreeBMD shows only one Thomas Vogw*ll born 1860-1875, so I'm pretty confident the Thomas in the 1901 census with a birthplace of "Devon n.k." is this Thomas (he was probably so young when the family moved north that he would not have had any early memories of his birthplace)
Person ID I1020 All Last Modified 12 Oct 2013
Father Henry VOGWELL, b. Abt 1817, Kingsteignton, Devon, England , d. Sep Q 1890, Tynemouth Reg Dist, Northumberland, England (Age ~ 73 years)
Other Partners: Jane PELLEW m. 28 Jun 1838; Jane WEDLAKE m. Jun Q 1850Mother Betsey BAILEY, b. Abt 1826, Whitchurch, Devon, England , d. Sep Q 1908, Easington Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England (Age ~ 82 years) Married - Assuming Henry became a widower for a second time before marrying Betsey, then they must have married between the 1851 and the 1861 censuses.
Not only can no such marriage be found but Marian Warriner's notes record that Bessie had 4 children who were adopted by Henry: Thomas, James, John and William. However, the sons of these names appearing in the census returns were clearly registered as Vogwills when born, not as Baileys, and for the last 2 at least the births were after the censuses show that Henry and Betsey were living together as a married couple.
But maybe Henry and Betsey had not married and so legally the sons were not his?
Formal adoption did not exist at this time but Henry may have informally have adopted his own sons by registering them with himself shown as father.
(The four named as being adopted were children 1,2,6 and 7 of the 8 Henry and Betsey appear to have had together; the other 4 all died in infancy)
The daughter, Kathryn, of one of those said to be adopted, William, said her father used to say he was one of thirteen sons by two wives - it is hard to imagine he would have said this is he was adopted and not a biological son of Henry.
Since no death has been found for Henry's 2nd wife, Jane nee Wedlake, perhaps he did not marry Betsey because he was already married? [1]
Family ID F787 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Harriett Ellen TONKIN, b. Abt 1876, Eston, Yorkshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown Married Sep Q 1896 Tynemouth Reg Dist, Northumberland, England - GRO ref: Tonkin, Harriet Ellen TO Vogwill, Thomas q3 1896 Tynemouth RD 10b 473
Last Modified 5 Jun 2013 Family ID F5697 Family Group Page | Family Chart
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Born - Mar Q 1867 - Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England 
Occupation - Coal miner - 1881 - Hetton-le-Hole, Co. Durham, England 
Residence - 1891 - Station Terrace, Cramlington, Northumberland, England 
Occupation - Coal miner - 1891 - Cramlington, Northumberland, England 
Married - Sep Q 1896 - Tynemouth Reg Dist, Northumberland, England 
Occupation - Coal hewer below ground - 1901 - Newbottle, Co. Durham, England 
Died - Sep Q 1905 - Easington Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England 
Emigrated - From - 8 Nov 1919 - Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland = Link to Google Earth (if installed; see link below to install) Pin Legend 
Sources - [S165] Vogwill info from Emily (Vogwill) Warriner via Marian Raynham, Marian Ray, p. 3, 4 (Reliability: 3).
Mentions 4 sons of Bessie being adopted by Henry and William's claim to be one of 13 sons.