1 Thomas FRITH

Occ:    Framesmith (stocking frames).

Reli:    Church of England

            Priory Row

Spouse:           Elizabeth YATES

Birth:  1771, Hinkley Leicester England

Death: 1857, Hinkley Leicester England

Marr:  8 Sep 1799, St. Mary's, Hinkley, Leicestershire England

 

Children:   Thomas (1802-1892)

                  Edward (1810->1890)

                  Anne (1812-)

 

English Branch

1.1 Thomas FRITH Jr.

 

Birth:  Jan 1802, Hinkley Leicester England

Death: 16 Jan 1892, no 1 Ireson's Yard

Bapt:   25 Jan 1802, at St. Mary, Hinckley

Occ:    stocking seamer.

 

Spouse:           Hannah GARROT

Birth:  1800, Hinkley Leicester England

Death: 30 Dec 1884

Marr:  12 May 1823

 

Children    George (1825-)

                William (1828-)

                Sarah (1834-)

                Maria (1836-)

                Mary (1838-)

                Thomas 3rd (1840-)

 

Thomas Jr. (1.1) married Hannah in 1823 and had  6 children. 

 

1851 Census: Whole family described as stocking makers. The widowed Elizabeth  aged 70, described as pauper as well as a seamer. They lived at Priory Row and all natives of Hinckley .The

youngest was  Thomas (iii) aged 10 being described as a stocking seamer. All the family were either framework knitters or seamers. Elizabeth was presumably in receipt of parish relief - hence her designation as pauper.

 

1861 Cencus:  All the family still at Priory Row but 20-year-old Thomas is missing. Probably gone to London by then

 

Thomas (iii) was married in Shoreditch, London to Elizabeth Mary West in 1864. He was the founding London Frith. He had become a butcher by then. There were 8 children. The first born, Thomas William (Thomas iv) was born in Liverpool Road, Islington  in 1866.

 

1871 Census:  Thomas and Hannah, now 70 years old, still at the framework knitting at Priory Row but now Mary and Maria gone. One of them married a Mr. Powell and went to live in Burton on Trent but can't tell which one as the only sighting is of a Mrs. M. Powell.  Still at home with mum and dad were George and Sarah aged 46 and 36. Also members of household were grandsons William (11) and Thomas (8)- both surnamed Frith.

 

1863 A son Thomas was born in Hinckley Union Workhouse in Sep. to a Sarah Frith (unmarried).

 

1881 Census:  Thomas and Hannah, aged 80, still on the stocking  frames at Priory Row. With them George (55) unmarried, desc. as odd job man and grandson Thomas (17), shoe finisher by trade.

 

1884: Hannah (84) dies 30 December at Priory Row, Daughter M. Powell of Burton on Trent in attendance.

 

1892: Thomas dies on 16 Jan aged 90 at No.1 Ireson's Yard. His daughter Sarah in attendance, now named Mrs. Pratt, lived next door at No. 2.

 

 

Philadelphia Branch

 

 

             1.2a Edward FRITH*

 

Birth:  May 1810, Hinkley Leicester England

Death: aft 1890

Bapt:   3 Jan 1810, at St. Mary, Hinckley

Occ:    Mechanic(1851) Machine -Hosiery machinist

Reli:    Church of England

Spouse:             Elizabeth BROOKES

Birth:  25 Dec 1811, Hathern Liecester England

Father:            Thomas BROOKES

Mother:          Margaret

Marr:  27 Feb 1832, Longborough by Banns Leicester England

Children:         Emma (1833-)

                        Ann (1835-)

                        Mary (1837-)

                        Harriett (1844-)

                       Elizabeth (1845-)

                       Henry Edward (1848-1927)

                       William C. (1853-)

1851 census     9 Russel Square Leicester England

1857                 Immigrated to US

1858                Frith, Edward - Country of Former Allegiance : England

                                                  Date of Declaration of Intent : Apr 27, 1858

                                                  Court of Declaration of Intent : Common Pleas

                                                  Document Name : Edward Frith

                                                  Document Signature : Edward Trith

1860            Phila. City Dir. - Edward mechanic Centre bel Hancock

1890            Phila. City Dir. - Edward 1675 Dounton st. Philadelphia Pa

 

1.3 Anne FRITH

Birth:  Mar 1812, Hinkley Leicester England

Bapt:   13 Mar 1812, at St. Mary, Hinckley

Nothing is known of what happened to Ann

 

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