Thomas WILSHERE FMFMMF

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Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Thomas WILSHERE

Date and place of birth
1802 Hitchin area Herts. - 5½ at baptism

Names of parents
Thomas WILSHERE Honor (Hannah) FRANCIS

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
13/3/1808 Hitchin St Mary Herts.

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Mary IZZARD 15/10/1825 Hitchin St Mary Herts.

Occupation(s) - if any
Labourer/ Ag. Lab

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
1826/7 Preston Herts
1830 - 1837 Kings Walden Herts
1839 onwards Hitchin Herts
1841 Hitchin Hill Hitchin Herts
1843/44 Back St Hitchin Herts
1849 Possibly County Gaol Hertford

Date, place and cause of death
31/10/1849 Hertford Gaol Herts Asiatic Cholera
I know from other documents that he died in 1849 & this appears to be the only possible but there is nothing on the cert. to support it. The age is 10 years out which is why I didn't send for the cert. until 2007.

Date and place of burial.
If the above is correct 31/10/1849 Hertford All Saints Herts

Details of will / administration of their estate - N/A

Memorial inscription - N/A

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As I can't play this week I'm reviving Thomas. Below is an article from a local paper proving that he is indeed my Thomas.


Hertford Mercury & Reformer
Saturday 3rd November 1849

CORONER'S INQUESTS,
On Wednesday, an inquest was held at the Plough, on view of the body of Thomas Wilshire of Hitchin, who was committed into the gaol on the 17th of October, on a conviction for deserting his family. Wilshire was a labouring man, 35 years of age, and had been in the prison eight times. When admitted into the gaol his health was good but on Friday, the 2tV.li of October, he was attacked with diarrhoea, which assumed the form of cholera on the following day. The prisoner died on Wednesday morning. He was well attended to. Verdict—Died of Asiatic cholera.