THOMAS RUFUS MARSDEN

Born: 12th October 1890; Chedgrave, Norfolk.

Baptised: 9th November 1890, Chedgrave, Norfolk.

Died: 13th November 1918; age 28; died of Pneumonia at the Military Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Residence: 5 and 7, Fore Street, Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 75480.

Regiment: Middlesex Regiment, 29th Battalion, transferred to (255081) 431st Coy, Labour Corps.

Grave Reference:

T.28.6.

Ipswich Old Cemetery,

Ipswich.

Relatives Notified & Address: Third son of Charles Marmaduke & Mary Ann Marsden, of 15, Hatfield Road, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1891   Norwich Road, Chedgrave, Norfolk.

Thomas was 8 months old and living with his parents & siblings.

Charles Marmaduke Marsden, 29, a Collar & Harness Maker, born Bramfield, Suffolk.

Mary Ann Marsden (nee Frost), 38, born Hollesley, Suffolk.

Frederick William J. Marsden, 8, born Hachin, Suffolk.

Charles Marmaduke Marsden, 4, born Chedgrave, Norfolk.

Marion Elizabeth Marsden, 2, born Chedgrave.

1901   Leatherworks Cottage, Stowupland, Suffolk.

Thomas was 10 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Charles, 37, a Horse Collar Maker.

Mary Ann, 45.

Marion, 12.

Joseph Archer Marsden, 9, born Loddon, Norfolk.

1 visitor – John Albert Marsden, 40, a Tailor, born Bramfield.

1911   11, Church Lane, Stowmarket, Suffolk.

Thomas was 20 years old, a Farm Labourer. He was living with his mother & siblings.

Mary Ann, 56.

Marion, 22, a factory Hand – Leatherworks.

Joseph, 18, a Gardener – Golf Course.

Thomas’s father, Charles Marsden, a Harness Maker, was living at his brother’s family home – Large Hall Farm, Bramfield, Halesworth, Suffolk.

Aldis Jolley Marsden, 41, a Farmer.

Ellen Marsden (nee Blaxill), 41, born Sibton, Suffolk.

Ellen’s widowed mother – Ann Blaxill (nee Cracknell), 75, born Sibton.

Soldiers’ Effects to Mary Ann Marsden – mother.

East Suffolk Gazette – Tuesday, 17^th October 1893 – LODDON – At the Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before H. Rider-Haggard, Esq. Chairman, and W. H. D. Haggard, Esq., Charles Maraduke Marsden, late of Loddon, a harness maker, was brought up in custody, charged with neglecting to maintain his wife and children, and leaving them chargeable to the common fund of the Loddon and Clavering Union. They were admitted to the Heckingham Workhouse on the 5^th August last. In answer to the charge, the defendant said he had allowed his wife 10s. per week until she turned herself into the Workhouse. She had broken up the home, and neglected him and the children. Superintendent Eagling said the whole family were in a wretched condition whilst they lived in Loddon. The Bench intimated to Charles Marsden that they were desirous of dealing leniently with him if he would make some arrangement, and he therefore agreed to pay 10s. per week to the Guardians for the maintenance of his family, and upon these terms he was discharged.

 Middlesex Regiment, 29th Battalion transferred to (255081) 431st Coy, Labour Corps.