Thomas Baxter
The name Thomas Baxter is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in St Wilfrid church burial ground, South Stainley, Yorkshire, England.
There are 139 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Thomas Baxter was buried in 1848. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Thomas Baxter age is given as 65.
Thomas Baxter calculated year of birth is 1783.
Thomas Baxter is listed on the GPR grave numbered 142256.
Thomas Baxter is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Thomas Baxter has the record number 303867 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 30 June 2011
There are 2 images available for the monument listing Thomas Baxter (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Thomas Baxter record:
Thomas was born at Rigg Farm on Monkton Moor, the last son of Thomas (1741-1819) and Elizabeth Baxter née Shutt. All the men in the family were lime burners, with a little farming on the side. They moved to South Stainley between 1788 and 1791, and lived there and at Cayton, a 'lost village' within the parish. Thomas junior married twice, and there were two surviving children of the first marriage Ann (Nancy)Whitley, who died in 1814. Many more children were born, the first two girls migrating to London in the late 1830s and early '40s. They were back in Yorkshire by the early '50s. Son Benjamin (1826-1906) moved to London in 1844, and stayed there until 1893. In that year he sailed to Australia to open a wool business with a son-in-law, husband of one the two children who had settled there during the 1870s. Descendants still flourish there, but there are now only two living Baxters - Craig Baxter and his daughter, who shows no signs of marrying. Thomas's youngest son Charles had a daughter whose story I have written. She became the wife of the celebrated Harrogate 'millionaire' Samson Fox. After his death she married, in 1912, the German Consul to Hartlepool. not the best time to do it. They were deported in 1915. Eventually they returned to the U.K., and Annie Louisa was re-naturalized in 1946. She died at Harrogate 10 years later. Benjamin (above) has a grave in Rochester, Victoria, cemetery.