Of Bethnal Green and Mare St, Hackney.
He and Mary were married by license.
Winesses were William Smart, Thomas Joad, P Renvoize and Elin Small.
Worked at the Bank of England until 1816
from David Ballance . . . .
Thomas followed his father into the Bank at the age of 18 in 1802, when the family was living at Providence Row, Hackney. He was in the Bank Note Office until August 1816, when he resigned, a month after his father's death. He thus abandoned 130 p.a.. I do not know what he inherited from his father, but he seems to have used what capital he had to great effect. He lived in Hackney all his life, occupying from at least the 1830s a house variously considered to be in Mare Street or to be No. 1 Church Street. As the Tree shows, he had a large family, but evidently not a healthy one. Not one of the children shown at home in the 1841 Census had a job, and he himself was then "of independent means". I cannot trace him with any certainty in commercial directories of the time. Yet he died in 1858 worth 115,000 pounds. There is one reference to a man of his name as a "builder", which might mean that he was what we should now call a property developer, for whose activities there was great scope in the area. After provision for his second wife, the estate was divided between the four surviving children, one of whom died the following year, the money reverting to the remaining three. He must have been able to make a handsome settlement for his daughter Mary on her marriage. |
