Thompson, William Harvey (1829-1922)

Family

William was born in 1829 at Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, to parents William Thompson, a cabinet maker, and Mary Harvey. He was baptised on 1 May 1829 at Barnard Castle.

Census returns identify the following occupations for William.

• 1851 PM itinerant minister
• 1861 gardener
• 1871 land & mineral agent & farmer of 10 acres
• 1881 farmer 216 acres & limestone quarry manager
• 1891 farmer in Canada
• 1901 farmer
• 1911 farmer

The family emigrated to Canada in 1884.

He married Elizabeth Dalkin (abt1829-1866) in the summer of 1855 at Barnard Castle, Co. Durham. Census returns identify three children.

• Mary (1856-1912) – married George Sanderson, a quarry timekeeper (1911), in 1879  
• William Harvey (1861-1916) – a railway traffic foreman (1911)         
• Rachel (1864-1955) – married Frank Ames             

He married Jane Parker (1849-1937) on 11 August 1866 at Stanhope, Co. Durham. Census returns identify ten children.

• Edmund Harvey (1868-1957) – a carpenter (1891)
• Fanny (1871-1961) – married Ernest Hunt, a farmer
• Lizzie Annie (b1874) – married John E Peterson, a dentist
• Jane Parker (1877-1967) – married Robert Dunn, a commercial traveller (1921)
• Ethel (1880-1913)  – married Charles C Cooke                  
• Robert William (1882-1958) – a farmer (1921)
• John Wilfrid (b1886) – a lawyer (1921)
• Dara (b abt1889) – only identified in 1891 Canada census return
• Maud Emily (1892-1913)
• Lawrence Harvey (b1895) – a farmer (1921)

William died on 25 April 1922 at Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada

Circuits

• 1851 Brough
• 1852 Allendale
• 1854 Berwick
• 1855 disappears

References

W Leary, Directory of Primitive Methodist Ministers and their Circuits, 1990

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers