Thomas VOGWELL

1867 - 1905  (~ 38 years)

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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.
  Siblings	6 brothers and 1 sister
  1. John Henry VOGWELL,   b. Jun Q 1857, Whitchurch, Devon, England ,   d. 9 Apr 1902, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA  (Age ~ 45 years) ▻ Anna RAGG;   Kate EATON + 2. William VOGWELL,   b. 11 Feb 1859, Whitchurch, Devon, England ,   d. 17 Jan 1933, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 73 years) ▻ Martha EATON   3. Alfred James VOGWELL,   b. Abt Jan 1861, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England ,   d. Dec Q 1864, Liskeard Reg Dist, Cornwall, England  (Age ~ 2 years)   4. Eleazar VOGWELL,   b. Mar Q 1863, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England ,   d. Jun Q 1864, Liskeard Reg Dist, Cornwall, England  (Age ~ 1 years)   5. Elizabeth Jane VOGWELL,   b. Mar Q 1864, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 6. James Frederick VOGWELL,   b. 18 Jan 1865, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England ,   d. 29 Sep 1941, 2 Welfare Crescent, South Hetton, Co. Durham, England  (Age 76 years) ▻ Ann PATTERSON,  m. 9 Aug 1884 7. Thomas VOGWELL,   b. Mar Q 1867, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, England ,   d. Sep Q 1905, Easington Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England  (Age ~ 38 years) ▻ Harriett Ellen TONKIN,  m. Sep Q 1896   8. Eleazar VOGWELL,   b. Jun Q 1869, Pickering Reg Dist, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Jun Q 1869, Pickering Reg Dist, Yorkshire, England  (Age ~ 0 years)
  Half-siblings	5 half brothers (family of Henry VOGWELL and Jane PELLEW)
  1. George VOGWELL,   b. Sep Q 1838, Launceston Reg Dist, Cornwall, England ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Henry VOGWELL,   b. Dec Q 1840, Whitchurch, Devon, England ,   d. 2 Dec 1905, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA  (Age ~ 65 years) ▻ Susan WILLEY,  m. 26 Apr 1863 ;   Sophia Elizabeth WILLIAMS,  m. 23 Sep 1874 + 3. George VOGWILL,   b. Mar Q 1843, Sydenham Damerel, Devon, England ,   d. Mar Q 1894, Tavistock Reg Dist, Devon or Cornwall, England  (Age ~ 51 years) ▻ Susanna BUCKINGHAM,  m. 1 Sep 1864 + 4. Emmanuel VOGWELL,   b. 1845, Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, England ,   d. Jun Q 1877, Houghton Le Spring Reg Dist, Co. Durham, England  (Age 32 years) ▻ Johanna PIPER,  m. Jun Q 1869   5. Josiah VOGWELL,   b. Jun Q 1847, Launceston Reg Dist, Cornwall, England ,   d. Jun Q 1850, East Stonehouse Reg Dist, Devon, England  (Age ~ 3 years)
  Origins
  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 1850
  Mother	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)
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  [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.