THOMAS RICHARD WILLIAM SIDES

1879 to 1943

 

 

 

THOMAS RICHARD WILLIAM SIDES was born on the 21st January 1879, the second child of Samuel William & Fanny Sides.

On August 21st 1906 he married ETHEL BROMLEY (born 8th May 1882).

They lived initially at Russell Place in Cross Houses, Salop, until ‘The Hollies’, a property specially built for them at a cost of £375, was ready for occupation later that year. This was next to the Post Office & General Store in Cross Houses, run by William & Elinor Bromley (Ethel’s parents).

The Hollies was later used as the Post Office with Thomas as the receiver (The name of T.R. Sides as receiver can be seen in Wildings Directory of 1916).

Thomas also ran a shoemaking business from a workshop at the rear of the Hollies referred to as ‘General Shoemaking & Specialised Shoemaking for Hospitals’, following in the footsteps of his father.

Thomas & Ethel had the following children, all born at the Hollies: -

 

The Sides children in 1927

SAMUEL WILLIAM RAYMOND                 born October 13th 1907           died Feb 6th1982

 

BENJAMIN                                                    born November 25th 1908        died April 15th 1909

 

NORMAN                                                      born November 25th 1908        died Oct 28th 1982

 

IVY                                                                 born May 20th 1910                 died 1977

 

GEORGE KENNETH                                     born October 25th 1911           died 1999

 

FRANCIS ETHEL                                           born March 9th 1913

 

THOMAS RICHARD                                     born July 16th 1914                  died March 14th 1990

 

SYLVIA                                                          born August 29th 1915              died 7th July 2007

 

HELEN ENA                                                   born June 3rd 1918                   died May 6th 1992

 

CYNTHIA JOAN                                           born July 25th 1920                  died 2003

 

MARGURITA JEANETTA BROMLEY         born February 2nd 1922

 

CONSTANCE HARRIET                               died in infancy

 

UNNAMED CHILD                                       born & died 1923

 

Tom,    (Elizabeth Rowley),     Sylvia

Margurita,  Helen,  Cynthia

 

Their oldest son, Samuel, left home at the age of 11 or 12 yrs to live with his Aunt Constance & uncle Henry Jones in Southport. He lived with them until 1930 when he married Florence Maud SKILL

 

Sadly Ethel died in 1923 (probably during childbirth as an unnamed child is shown to have been born & died in 1923)

 

Just before Ethel died a move from Cross Houses was imminent, presumably due to financial difficulties.

The move took place in that year of 1923 to Swiss Cottage, Bomere Heath, Salop, where Thomas continued his profession of shoemaking & repairs.

Swiss Cottage was in fact owned by Henry Jones, Constance’s husband.

 

On the 31st August 1926, at the Wesleyan Chapel, St. John’s Hill, Shrewsbury, Thomas married Elizabeth ROWLEY, (born 1882 daughter of John Rowley a blacksmith from Bomere Heath, Salop).

They lived at Swiss Cottage until 1931 when they rented ‘The Villa’ Shawbury Road (now Sandy Lane), Grinshill, Salop.

 

Thomas Richard died on the 9th June 1943.

Elizabeth died on the 9th July 1966; they are both buried at Grinshill churchyard.

Samuel William Raymond’s ashes and those of his wife Maud are interred in this same grave.

Norman Sides & his wife Margaret are also buried at Grinshill as are Thomas Richard jnr. & his sister Helen.

 

The Sides family register

 

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