Thomas INKSON b. ABT 1683 Family Group
Husband
Most of what we know about Thomas comes from a plaque in St Nicholas' and from his will [see the introduction on the tree page]. He was clearly a very wealthy man with a lot of property.
Thomas INKSON
Born: ABT 1683 - assumed Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND
Marr: 26 Sep 1706 - St Nicholas' Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND
Died: 30 Oct 1743 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND
Father: ???? INKSON
Mother: ???? ????
Other Spouses:
Wife
Thomas' wife is called Margaret in most parish records and on the plaque in St Nicholas' but we have assumed that there is only one Thomas fathering children In Kings Lynn at this time and two of the children are noted on the parish records as children of 'Thomas and Mary'. There has to be a possibility that there were two Thomases but, in that case, we are missing at least one child as Thomas and Margaret had a daughter Mary [she is mentioned in both of their wills] but the Mary baptised on 27 Mar 1713 was recorded as a 'daughter of Thomas and Mary [sic] Inkson'.The problem with Margaret's surname arises because the parish record and the Archdeacon's transcripts of the wedding differ slightly and neither is particularly legible. Both surnames are to be found in Norfolk at this time. Her year of birth is derived from the plaque which gives her exact date of death and her age.
Margaret / Mary BATES or BATTS
Born: ABT 1688 - assumed Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND
Died: 29 Aug 1746 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND
Father: ???? BATES or BATTS
Mother: ???? ????
Other Spouses:
Children
Gorg INKSONGorg [presumably George], son of Thomas and Margaret Inkson, was baptised in St Nicholas' on 30 Mar 1710.He is one of the candidates for being the George who married first Lucy Richardson and secondly Elizabeth Metcalf and hence the root of a [or possibly the] major trunk of the Norfolk Inksons tree.
Born: ABT 1710 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND Died: -Margaret INKSON
There are no parish records for a Margaret Inkson at this time, her existence is based on the text of the plaque in St Nicholas'.She cannot have been the girl baptised Mary in 1713 because Mary was still alive in 1745.
Born: ABT 1711 - assumed Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND Died: 2 Feb 1732 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLANDMary INKSON
Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary [sic] Inkson, was baptised in St Nicholas' on 27 Mar 1713.Note however that the Archdeacon's transcript records the parents as 'Thomas Inkson Margret [sic]'.Mary is mentioned in the wills of both her father and mother.
She married a Robert Chennery in All Saints' South Lynn on 30 Aug 1745.
It is almost certain that it was this Mary Chennery who was buried at St Nicholas' on 18 July 1787.
Born: ABT 1713 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND Died: 1787 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLANDWilliam INKSON
William, son of Thomas and Margaret Inkson, was baptised in St Nicholas' on 31 Mar 1717A Will [sic] Inkson, barber of Lynn Regis, paid a fee for an apprentice on 10 Jul 1732 : was that William b. ABT 1717?
According to a debenture dated 10 Nov 1736, a William Inkson, 22 year old perriwig maker of 'Lynn Regis' [so b. ABT 1714], emigrated to the Americas heading for Jamaica : was that William b. ABT 1717? Being a barber and being a perriwig maker seem to go well together.
Born: ABT 1717 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND Died: -Thomas INKSON
Thomas, son of Thomas and Margaret Inkson, was baptised in St Nicholas' on 2 Oct 1718This Thomas must have died in infancy because Thomas and Margaret baptised another son 'Thomas' four years later.
Born: ABT 1718 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND Died: -Richard INKSON
Richard, son of Thomas and Mary [sic] Inkson, was baptised in St Nicholas' on 18 Oct 1719Richard, son of Thomas Inkson, was buried at St Nicholas' on 16 Oct 1720
Born: ABT 1719 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND Died: ABT 1720 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLANDThomas INKSON
Thomas, son of Thomas and Margaret Inkson, was baptised in St Nicholas' on 1 Nov 1722An Edward Brown, butcher of Bloomsbury, paid a fee for a Thomas, son of Thomas Inkson of Lynn, Norfolk, to be his apprentice on 25 May 1738; this Thomas would have been 16 at the time which is a good fit.
A Thomas Inkson of Hertford married a Mary Ward of Sawbridgeworth in Holy Trinity, Bengeo [on the outskirts of Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire] on 13 Aug 1747. We know from Mary's will that Thomas and Mary had at least one child : a daughter called Margaret known as Peggy.
Mary's will was drawn up in 1797 when she was described as a widow so Thomas had died before then.
Born: ABT 1722 - Kings Lynn, Norfolk, ENGLAND Died: BEF 1797 -