Thomas Midgley Grayburn and Sophia Alice Hatcliffe Tummon

St Mary's, Lowgate, Hull
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Thomas Midgley Grayburn (b. 1826), son of William Midgley Grayburn and Elizabeth [maiden name unknown], married Sophia Alice Hatcliffe Tummon (b. 1836), daughter of Joseph Tummon and Jane Hatcliffe and elder sister of William Henry Tummon and Thomas Tummon, at St Mary's Church, Hull also known as Lowgate St Mary, on 8 Aug 1858. Both bride and groom gave their address as 9 Manor Street, Hull. Both Thomas and his father, William's occupation is listed as tinner (tin plate worker) and the late Joseph Tummon, this time had been upgraded to farmer from agricultural labourer. Witnesses to the marriage were the bride's brother, William Henry Tummon and an Ann Stephenson.

Although born around 1826, Thomas Midgley Grayburn was baptised, on 26 Feb 1837, at Holy Trinity Church. His sisters, Eliza and Mary Ann, were baptised at the same time and all three were listed as the children of William Grayburn, a Tin Plate Worker, and his wife Elizabeth, then living in Edgar Street, Hull. These 'catch up' baptisms in 1837 are not unusual and one imagines the church offered a discount ahead of the introduction of civil registration that year, probably fearing, rightly as it turned out, that people would stop baptising their children once they had that option. Indeed, Sarah Ann Greyburn, who later married Asher Swift, was also baptised along with several siblings, at Hull Holy Trinity in 1837. 

(What relation - I don't imagine they're not - Sarah Ann Greyburn is to Thomas Midgley Grayburn, records don't go back far enough to determine.)

In 1841, Thomas Grayburn (15), was living in Edgar Street, Holy Trinity, Kingston upon Hull, with his parents William and Elizabeth and siblings, Maria (8) and William (2). And in 1851, Thomas M Grayburn (23), Tinner journeyman, was still living in his parents' home, this time at 8, Duncans Place, St Mary, Hull. His father, William M Grayburn (53) listed also as a Tinner journeyman, from Cottingham.

There do not appear to have been any children born to this couple. There was a Sarah Emma Grayburn born in 1859 and died in 1860, but because she falls between the cracks and misses any census and because her birth record does not come up in the GRO, her mother's maiden name cannot be confirmed and she cannot therefore be attributed to this (or any other) Grayburn family.

Sophia Alice Greyburn, wife of Thomas Midgley Grayburn, of 3 Winter's Alley, Manor Street, died, aged 32, on 12 Sep 1868 from 'Consumption and Disease of the Lungs' (Tuberculosis) and buried on 15 Sep 1868 at Hull General Cemetery.

In 1871, the widowed Thomas Grayburn (46) was a boarder in the household of his brother-in-law, William Henry Tummon, at Broadley Street, St Mary, Hull.

However, in 1881, Thomas Midgley Grayburn, listed, wrongly, as only 49, Journeyman tinner, was living in Providence Place, Trippett Street, Kingston upon Hull with a wife, Jane and daughter, Jane Grayburn (6). Born Jane Elizabeth Midgley Grayburn in 1875 (J Quarter in HULL Volume 09D Page 252), this child's mother's maiden name is listed as Wilkinson. Also in the household was Charlotte Trolly (19), single, Worker at lead works, listed as daughter-in-law - but this is often used when meaning step-daughter - and a grandson, Thomas Trolly (0). 

There are no birth records of Charlotte Trolly or Thomas Trolly, nor marriage between a Wilkinson (or anyone) and a Trolly. I've also found no records of any other marriage for any Grayburn to any Jane, or any Wilkinson, or Trolly (or any other variation I can think of thereof). Nevertheless, there is a record of the death of a Jane Grayburn, aged 52, in 1885 J Quarter in HULL Volume 09D Page 154.

[So far] I've been unable to find any further records for Jane Elizabeth Midgley Grayburn after the 1881 census, neither can I find any further records for Thomas Midgley Grayburn, not even his death. Nobody left to register it, I'd guess.

Presumed step-daughter, Charlotte Trolly, married Jack Braithwaite in the second quarter of 1881. Listed as John Jnr Braithwaite (21), from Knottingley, Yorkshire, he was listed as Mate of the 'Alice' (a ship) to his father, John Braithwaite (53) Master (of said vessel) in 1881. In 1891, Charlotte Braithwaite (29) married, Black lead packer, was living in Trippett Street, with John Braithwaite (10) (could this be Thomas Trolly renamed for his putative father?), Henry Braithwaite (7) and Mary Ann Munns (68) Boarder. Jack, presumably was on board ship somewhere.

In 1911, John Braithwaite (49) was listed as Lighterman mate at Recketts Wharfe, Stone Ferry, Sculcoates (see: Lightermen in Hull), while Charlotte Braithwaite (50), living at 9 Kent Street, Hull was Forewoman black lead manufactory.

In 1921, Charlotte Braithwaite (60) was at 25 Kent St, Holderness Rd, Hull, in the household of son Henry Braithwaite (37).

John Braithwaite died, aged 64, in 1925.

In 1939, Charlotte Braithwaite (b. 10 Feb 1862), widow, was living in the household of her younger son, Henry Braithwaite, at 28 James Reckitt Avenue, Kingston Upon Hull. Charlotte Braithwaite died, aged 78, in 1940.