Thomas John Audley was baptised at Corfe Castle on 16 May 1824. [1] He was the son of labourer Thomas Audley (1805-1880) and Mary Ann Audley nee White (1801-1880). By 1841, Thomas was a shoemaker’s apprentice living with his family at Market Place, Corfe Castle.
On 29 July 1845, Thomas, then aged 21 and a cordwainer (shoemaker), married 19 year old Sarah Keats (1825-1873) at Corfe Castle. Sarah was baptised at Corfe Castle on 28 November 1825 and was the eldest child of James Keats (1804-1851) and Harriet Keats nee Day (1809-1879). In 1841, Sarah was a servant of Corfe Castle baker and grocer John Shitler in West Street.
Thomas and Sarah had ten children – five sons and five daughters (see below). In 1851, Thomas & Sarah, along with their second daughter, were living at East Street, Corfe Castle. In 1861, the family was still at East Street, with wife Sarah shown as a laundress, and with two sons present but two daughters absent. Ten years later they were back in Market Place with four sons and one daughter present.
Sarah died in May 1873 and is buried at Corfe Castle. By 1881, Thomas was living at Scoles Gate Cottage, Kingston with three sons and two daughters.
On 5 August 1884, Thomas (senior) was ordered at the County Petty Sessions at Wareham to send his child to school – this would have been Thomas (junior) then aged 12.
Sadly by 1891 Thomas (senior) was in the Union Workhouse at Wareham and he died there five years later in June 1895. He was buried at Corfe Castle.
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