Thomas1 Margetts son of William and Elizabeth was baptised at St Mary’s Church on 13th November 1808, when his birth date was recorded as 4th October 1808.
In 1835 Thomas married Ann Knight.
Thomas2 son of Thomas1 bricklayer and Anne was privately baptised at St Mary’s on 2nd Sept 1838. In the 1841 census they have a son Edwin aged 4, son Thomas2 2, and John 9m. In 1843 a daughter Emma was buried at the Old Baptist Churchyard, and Ann was buried there in January 1847.
In 1851 Thomas1 is aged 41, a widower with sons Edwin 14, Thomas2 12, John 10, and a daughter Sarah, and married lady Mary Elard is noted as servant/housekeeper. Thomas1 married Dec Q 1859 to Mary Ann Ellard, his housekeeper.
Thomas2 married Martha before 1861 census, when she is recorded as 16 years old and Thomas junior was 22. Her obituary tells us she was a Miss Whitehead [daughter of Cornelius] when she married Thomas.
In 1901 Thomas2 age 62, club manager is at 15 High St South, with his wife Martha (nee Whitehead) 56 (born 1845) and daughter Kate O age 23.
| In his younger days he bought property adjoining the Wheatsheaf, Rushden (both sides of High-street, and understood to be parts of buildings belonging to the Wheatsheaf Windmill), and rebuilt the structures to make dwelling-houses. In those houses an old member of the Claridge family of Rushden lived, and in a little shop at the back (on the east side of the street) a humble beginning of the present great firm of Messrs John Cave and Sons Ltd., was made. Amongst Mr Margetts’ many activities was the much-valued work of repairing and restoring the fabric of St Mary’s Church, Rushden. Part of this work meant a climb to the weathercock, which Mr Margetts did on the outside of the church. He got the weathercock down, gilded it, slung it on to his back, and climbed the church to replace it. This is recorded on a tablet in the church and also in the official records. He was skilled in many trades and was a busy man, always to good purpose. |
Their son Frank was a school teacher, and became headmaster at Higham Ferrers Board School in 1909. Martha died Jan 1925 age 80; her obituary tells Thomas had died 1905 Jan. from, and was buried on the 1st Feb 1905 in Rushden Cemetery, aged 66.
MI : B679/80 In loving memory of Thomas MARGETTS who departed this life January 27 1905 aged 66 years. At rest.
In ever loving memory of Martha the beloved wife of Thomas MARGETTS who fell asleep January 19th 1925 aged 80 years. |
Their daughter Kate is in the cemetery too, alongside her parents, having married W H Marriott.
| MI : B678 Sacred to the memory of William Henry the loved and loving husband of Kate Olive MARRIOTT entered into rest Sept 5th 1929 aged 48 years. Patient and meek beneath afflictions rod and why his faith and hope were fixed on God. Sacred to the memory of Kate Olive the loving wife of William Henry MARRIOTT passed beyond March 1st 1961 aged 83 years. And with the morn those angel faces smile which I have loved long since and lost awhile. |
Martha Whitehead aged 6 born in Rushden was living with her family in The Turrett, Hinwick House in the 1851 census. Her father Cornelius was the gardener and she is not with them in 1861. His father, John Odell Whitehead married Maria Clements by banns at St Mary’s on 2nd August 1841.
We are unable to find the marriage of Thomas2 and Martha - please can you help? Or did they marry at the Old Baptist Church?
Thomas1 age 92, a retired builder, is at 13 High St South in 1901, with Eunice his wife 76. Thomas1 buried in Jul 1901 aged 92 at Rushden Cemetery Grave C495, but no MI.
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