Thomas George was the son of Thomas and sarah Handley of Northfleet and the brother of Sarah, William James, Jane, Lucy, Edward, James William and Mary.
His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptised on 2nd May 1858 at St Botolph's Church, Northfleet, just five months after his parents were married. He lived with his parents at 4 Huggens Place, Northfleet.
At age 24 he married Amelia Amy Ridley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882 and had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith, 1902 and Alice, 1905.
After his marriage he lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet until his death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, crating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
He spent his entire working life (62 years) as a labourer at Bevan's Cement Works, Northfleet. He was a keen gardener and kept an allotment "on the south side of the path leading to the Blue Lake, soon after leaving the tunnel under the railway" and was known for growing large white lilies and dahlias. He was also known for wearing a naval type peak cap.
He died December 29th 1932, aged seventy-four and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery, plot 89A. His death certificate gives his cause of death as Myocandial degeneration and bronchitis. His funeral was reported in the Gravesend Reporter. The report stated that he had worked in the cement industry for sixty-two years, meaning he must have started work at twelve years old.
His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptised on 2nd May 1858 at St Botolph's Church, Northfleet, just five months after his parents were married. He lived with his parents at 4 Huggens Place, Northfleet.
At age 24 he married Amelia Amy Ridley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882 and had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith, 1902 and Alice, 1905.
After his marriage he lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet until his death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, crating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
He spent his entire working life (62 years) as a labourer at Bevan's Cement Works, Northfleet. He was a keen gardener and kept an allotment "on the south side of the path leading to the Blue Lake, soon after leaving the tunnel under the railway" and was known for growing large white lilies and dahlias. He was also known for wearing a naval type peak cap.
He died December 29th 1932, aged seventy-four and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery, plot 89A. His death certificate gives his cause of death as Myocandial degeneration and bronchitis. His funeral was reported in the Gravesend Reporter. The report stated that he had worked in the cement industry for sixty-two years, meaning he must have started work at twelve years old.
Thomas George was the son of Thomas and sarah Handley of Northfleet and the brother of Sarah, William James, Jane, Lucy, Edward, James William and Mary.
His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptised on 2nd May 1858 at St Botolph's Church, Northfleet, just five months after his parents were married. He lived with his parents at 4 Huggens Place, Northfleet.
At age 24 he married Amelia Amy Ridley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882 and had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith, 1902 and Alice, 1905.
After his marriage he lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet until his death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, crating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
He spent his entire working life (62 years) as a labourer at Bevan's Cement Works, Northfleet. He was a keen gardener and kept an allotment "on the south side of the path leading to the Blue Lake, soon after leaving the tunnel under the railway" and was known for growing large white lilies and dahlias. He was also known for wearing a naval type peak cap.
He died December 29th 1932, aged seventy-four and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery, plot 89A. His death certificate gives his cause of death as Myocandial degeneration and bronchitis. His funeral was reported in the Gravesend Reporter. The report stated that he had worked in the cement industry for sixty-two years, meaning he must have started work at twelve years old.
His exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptised on 2nd May 1858 at St Botolph's Church, Northfleet, just five months after his parents were married. He lived with his parents at 4 Huggens Place, Northfleet.
At age 24 he married Amelia Amy Ridley at St. Botolph's Church, Northfleet, on 29th May 1882 and had nine children, Robina, 1883, Thomas, 1885, Charles, 1888, John, 1893, Elizabeth, 1894, William, 1898, Percy, 1898, Edith, 1902 and Alice, 1905.
After his marriage he lived at 26 Rose Street, Northfleet until his death. The houses in Rose Street were brick built with grey slate roofs and had very small front gardens but larger back gardens. No. 26 was a two bedroom house with a scullery, kitchen and front room downstairs, the scullery being fitted with a large brick/concrete copper heated by a coal fire underneath. There was also coal seller, and coal deliveries were brought through the living room, crating much mess. Clothes were boiled in the copper on monday mornings before scrubbed with soap on a washboard, passed through a mangle and hung on a colthes line to dry. The hot water was then used to bath the entire family in a tin bath on the scullery floor. All cooking was done on a coal fired kitchen range which also heated the house. By 1905 they had nine children, all living at home. The parents lived in the front bedroom, the boys in the back bedroom and the girls bought mattresses downstairs every evening and slept on the settee, chairs or the floor.
He spent his entire working life (62 years) as a labourer at Bevan's Cement Works, Northfleet. He was a keen gardener and kept an allotment "on the south side of the path leading to the Blue Lake, soon after leaving the tunnel under the railway" and was known for growing large white lilies and dahlias. He was also known for wearing a naval type peak cap.
He died December 29th 1932, aged seventy-four and was buried in Northfleet Cemetery, plot 89A. His death certificate gives his cause of death as Myocandial degeneration and bronchitis. His funeral was reported in the Gravesend Reporter. The report stated that he had worked in the cement industry for sixty-two years, meaning he must have started work at twelve years old.
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