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Thomas was born in 1802 in Cottingham near Hull. [1] He was the son of Richard Acklom from Bewholme and his wife Mary Morrod.
Cottingham was not truly a rural or even a suburban parish in the early 19th century, though the village itself was still rural and surrounded by market gardens. The parish spread much closer to industrial Hull than it does today, as far as Stepney, Springhead, Willerby Road, Newland, Inglemire and Hull Bank with a growing population of urban poor on these boundaries ignored and denied by the village proper.
Thomas moved to Barnsley to work as a linen hand loom weaver.
Thomas Acklam married Elizabeth Brookes in the Barnsley area 1825. They had three children in Barnsley with baptisms widely spaced: George 1826, Mary 1838 and Charles 1844. [2]
Thomas Acklam, one of the Barnsley Manifesto's signatories, left Barnsley for the Chartist settlement of Lowbands in a great fanfare; it was reported by the Barnsley Chronicle. Like the vast majority of allottees he did not last long, and was reported to have argued with Fergus O'Connor. Thomas Acklam was back in Barnsley by the time of the 1851 census. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Land_Company
Thomas Acklam appears to have been imprisoned for his Chartist activities (and may according to some reports have been transported to Tasmania but either the sentence was never carried out or somehow he got back).
Thomas seems to have prospered for a time as a publican and built a small terrace Acklam Row in Barnsley.
Nevertheless at the time of his death in Barnsley in 1876 Thomas was a poor man. [3]
The information relating to Barnsley was supplied by Nick Acklam, a descendant who has clearly researched his ancestor carefully.
Another Thomas Acklam was also born 6 May 1802 in Hornsea, the son of Thomas.
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