Thomas Bullock (1842 - 1905)

Born 15 Apr 1842 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Sutton) Bullock — married 16 Aug 1864 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Husband of Dora Blanche (Barker) Bullock — married about 1879 in Nottingham

Descendants

Died 3 Mar 1905 at age 62 in Congleton, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom [uncertain]

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Biography

Thomas Bullock was born in Staffordshire, England.

Thomas was born to Thomas Bullock and Mary James on 15 April 1842.^[1]

The 1851 Census shows him living at 54 George Street, Newcastle, Staffordshire with his parents, his father was a tailor and draper.^[2]

He was educated at Orme’s Endowed School in Newcastle.

In 1861 he was living at 19 George Street, Newcastle, Staffordshire with his parents, grandfather, John James and cousin, Martha Weale. Aged 18 he was a solicitor’s general clerk.^[3] He earned 2/6 a week at the solicitor’s office alongside another lad called Mr Bourner, who was later to become his partner in their firm of Accountants.

On 27 Aug 1864 he married Margaret Sutton, daughter of a Newcastle builder and businessman who lived only a few doors away. They had eight children, only three of whom survived beyond infancy:

1. William Sutton Bullock (1865-1865)
2. Charles Ernest Bullock (1866-1963)
3. Thomas Bullock (1867-1867)
4. Oswald Herbert Bullock (1868-1869)
5. Ethelwyn Mary Bullock (1870-1967)
6. Reginald Thomas Sutton Bullock (1874-1946)
7. Emma Sutton Bullock (1876-1876)
8. Sarah Sutton Bullock (1876-1876)

By 1871 he had moved to 18 Liverpool Road, Newcastle, Staffordshire with his wife, 4 year old son, Charles Edward Bullock and daughter Ethelwyn M (aged 10m). Thomas, at 28 years old, was Registrar of Births and Deaths as well as a Solicitor’s Clerk. ^[4]

Following the death of his wife, Margaret in 1876, he married Dora Blanche Barker in Nottingham in 1879. They had one child together:

1. Elsie Bullock (1881-1959)

By 1880 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, then in 1883 he was appointed Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, his district extending to portions of Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire and Montgomeryshire. For nine years he was a member of the Newcastle Under Lyme Town Council and was twice Mayor of that borough in 1885 and 1886.. He was also appointed Justice of the Peace for the borough of Newcastle in 1885. He was, for six years a member of the Newcastle School Board of Guardians and President of the North Staffordshire Infirmary. He retired from the accountancy practice, Bourner Bullock. In 1891, but this did not diminish his record of public service.

He was one of the proprietors of the Staffordshire Sentinel newspaper, which led to him being appointed a Trustee of the Newspaper Society and Chairman of the Press Association. In 1896 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the County of Cheshire and the following November also for the County of Staffordshire.

During the 1880s he and the family moved from Newcastle to Congleton and lived at ‘The Mount’, 86 Astbury Road. He later built a family home called ‘Hillesden’ on the outskirts of Congleton.^[5]

He passed away in 1905 in Congleton at the age of 62^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/8912/media/ONS_B18422AH-0445.jpg?securitytoken=cc930606d044d8cd00ade11ca7f82bc4&download=false&client=IIV&imagequality=HighQuality&enhancement=AdaptiveContrast
2. ↑ https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/8860/media/STSHO107_2001_2001-0138.jpg?securitytoken=1e00581222e4b76491526ef8c5417426&download=false&client=IIV&imagequality=HighQuality&enhancement=AdaptiveContrast
3. ↑ https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/8767/media/STSRG9_1917_1921-0063.jpg?securitytoken=9b1d02bad5bee3348b617b2aaf8d0b1a&download=false&client=IIV&imagequality=HighQuality&enhancement=AdaptiveContrast
4. ↑ https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/7619/media/STSRG10_2832_2835-0332.jpg?securitytoken=58653072fbbd433072e9e9fa756361a3&download=false&client=IIV&imagequality=HighQuality&enhancement=AdaptiveContrast
5. ↑ https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/7814/media/CHSRG13_3344_3348-0852.jpg?securitytoken=cda34249f7a21638dc000960c2487cd1&download=false&client=IIV&imagequality=HighQuality&enhancement=AdaptiveContrast
6. ↑ https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/8914/media/ONS_D19054AZ-0057.jpg?securitytoken=17a2ab67c91f988eec85b1ed02d4d590&download=false&client=IIV&imagequality=HighQuality&enhancement=AdaptiveContrast