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Thomas Thwaites circa 1765-1844 Molly Dungate circa 1767-1813 William Thwaites 1800-1843 Jane Prior

William Thwaites 1 Vicar 2 of Whittington, Northwold, Norfolk born 1824, Hastings, Sussex baptized 25 February 1824, St. Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings died 26 October 1916, Whittington, Norfolk 3 buried 1 November 1916, Whittington, Norfolk 4 Notes: He started his life as a coachpainter and in 1841 he was an apprentice, living with his parents in Gas Cottages, St. Mary in the Castle, Hastings. He served as a choir boy in St. Mary's Church and then as a Sunday School teacher and went on to become a schoolmaster at Westminster. The 1851 census records him as a schoolmaster, with a wife and 2 young children, at the Shornecliffe Barracks Convict Station (near Folkestone in Kent). This was an outpost of Millbank Prison and a holding stage for convicts awaiting transportation. He later took up special duty in the Hulks, Woolwich, where he ministered to the convicts. This he found a fearful experience and he declares that some of the chief officers were as shamelessly wicked as the convicts. This so stirred his soul that he wrote to the Times and also to members of the Lords and Commons, eventually appearing before a Parliamentary Committee which, after hearing his damning evidence, resolved to abolish the Hulks. Later he moved to Norfolk and in 1873 became a church deacon at Northwold, then curate at Whittington where he was ordained priest by the Bishop of Norwich in 1875. He remained priest at Whittington for 41 years. In his capacity as a priest, he officiated at the wedding of his nephew George Thwaites to Sarah Humphriey at Holy Trinity Church, Sheerness, Kent on 4th April 1879. (Information for this family comes from Lesley Thwaites, who provided the article from the Churchman's Magazine, April 1913, from which much of the above information is quoted)

married (1) 7 April 1847 at St. Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings Frances Sinden 1824-1875

Samuel William b. c1848 children William Francis d. c1859 Harriet Mary c1852 - 1946 children George Joshua c1856 - 1939 James Hedley b. c1859 Caroline Elizabeth 1862 - 1939 Jane Helen b. c1864 children Fanny Louisa 1855 - 1941 Annie b. c1865

married (2) 3 December 1878 at St. John's Church, Kilburn, London 27 Elizabeth Thwaites 1837-1896

Arthur Ernest b.1881

children of William and Frances Thwaites Samuel William Thwaites born circa 1848 born circa 1848, Sandgate, Kent  married circa 1870 Hastings Ellen Jane Foster 5 born circa 1848 assistant school teacher William Francis Thwaites 6 died circa 1859 died circa 1859 7 Harriet Mary Thwaites circa 1852-1946 born circa 1852, Southsea, Hampshire died November 1946 buried 21 November 1946, Whittington, Norfolk  married 16 October 1878 Christ Church, Whitington, Norfolk Walter Taplin Symington born circa 1848 grocer of Northampton Road, Little Bowden, Northampton George Joshua Thwaites 8 circa 1856-1939 born circa 1856, Gosport, Hampshire 9 died 21 January 1939 10 Notes: He was partner and manager of the large and well known department store, Symington & Thwaites, in Adam & Eve Street, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire. James Hedley Thwaites 11 born circa 1859 born circa 1859 12 Caroline Elizabeth Thwaites 13 1862-1939 born 29 April 1862, Whittington, Norfolk 14 died 3 September 1939 15 buried 4 September 1939, Whittington, Norfolk 16 Jane Helen Thwaites born circa 1864 born circa 1864, Whittington, Norfolk  married 27 August 1885 Whittington, Norfolk Charles Frederick Bush died before 1901 Fanny Louisa Thwaites 17 1855-1941 born 21 July 1855, Gorpan (thus in 1881 census) ? Gosport ? 18 died 11 November 1941 19 buried 14 November 1941, Whittington, Norfolk 20 Notes: She was Whittington's school mistress until the school was closed in 1910. (Information from Lesley Thwaites) Annie Thwaites 21 born circa 1865 born circa 1865, Whittington, Norfolk 22 Notes: Six children, Kathleen Helen 1892, Hilda Frances 1893, Queenie, Geoffrey William born and died 1897, Muriel Annie 1900, and Charles William 1902.  married 30 September 1891 Whittington, Norfolk 23 William Alfred Buckenham born circa 1868 grain and coal merchant 24 of Stoke Ferry, Norfolk 25 born circa 1868 26 children of William and Elizabeth Thwaites Arthur Ernest Thwaites 28 born 1881 born 17 August 1881 29 baptized 1 October 1881, Whittington, Norfolk 30 Notes: In the 1901 census he is shown as an Insurance Agent in the census district of Hampstead. (Information from Lesley Thwaites)  married Irene Jarvis 31

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