Thomas Raper (bef. 1843)

Born before 26 Sep 1843 in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, Yorkshire, England

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Biography

Scholar 1851 Holme on Spalding Moor

Christening

Date: 26 Sep 1843

Place: Holme Upon Spalding Moor, York, England

Enoch Raper with his wife Ann and four children is living in his native village of Holme. We know that her son the first Thomas Raper died young: we wonder from the absence of John b 1838 and Charles b 1846 whether this was their fate also. Arglam Lane leads well outside the village, west into the Moor: Moors in East Yorkshire are old commons, enclosed belatedly or never, but unlike the rest of Yorkshire, moors here are low-lying, flat and hard to drain.

Head Enoch Raper 49 Farm Lab. b Holme

Wife Ann Raper 30 Dressmaker b Holme

Daughter Hannah Raper 15 emp at home b Holme

Son Thomas Raper 7 scholar b Holme

Son Isaac Raper 1 b Holme

Son Henry Raper 1 month b Holme ^[1]

Lived most of life in Holme upon Spalding Moore

Sources

1. ↑ Census 1851 : Arglam Lane, Holme on Spalding Moor, Yorkshire

• From the notes of Murray Copeland
• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB8V-2XS : 21 March 2020), Thomas Raper, 1843.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to Murray Copeland for the research on over 2,200 people, centred around the Copeland family of Argenteuil, Quebec.
• Raper-203 was created by Ross Henderson through the import of PatriciaFrancisup.ged on May 5, 2014.