Thomas Simmons 1818 – 1866 (47) bap. 9 Jul 1818 at St James, Toxteth, son of Gwin Simmons (merchant) and his wife Mary of Stanhope St. d. 13 May 1866 , age 47y, at The Elms, Princes Park, Toxteth Park. |
~1840 Thomas Simmons married Anne Willans (born in Dublin ~ 1822 – parents John & Anne) (marriage possibly took place at St Peter, Dublin on 31 May 1841 – just before the 1841 census) |
Children Annie bap. 4 Oct 1842 at Holy Trinity, Wavertree - daughter of Thomas & Anne Simmons (merchant) William St Clair bap. 6 Feb 1848 at St Mary, Birkenhead – son of Thomas & Anne Simmons (merchant) of Tranmere. (birth registered in West Derby district - jfm1848) Kate Ethel b. jfm 1855 bap. 1 Oct 1857 at Rainham, Kent – daughter of Thomas & Annie Simmons (Gentleman) of Maidstone. Mary b. jas 1857 bap. 1 Oct 1857 at Rainham, Kent – daughter of Thomas & Annie Simmons (one transcription for this baptism gives the date as 12 Oct 1857) |
C1841 Thomas Simmonds (20, merchant) with wife Ann Simmons and two others living at Falkner Terrace, Liverpool. (this is almost next door to brother-in-law, Robert Angus) |
C1851 Thomas Simmons (32, Station Master) and wife Annie (28) with children Annie (8), William (3) and visitor Mary Willant (25) and one servant living at the Railway Station, Maidstone, Kent. |
C1861 Thomas Simmons (41, Book keeper) and wife Anne (39) with children St Clair (12) and Kate (6) living at 17 Poplar Grove, Elms, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. (daughter Mary (2) with aunt Bessey Angus) Annie Simmons (18, granddaughter) with grandmother Anne Willans (70, widow, landed proprietor, b. Ireland) and aunt Sarah Willans (34, b. Ireland) at 7 College Terrace, St Peter Port, Guernsey. |
1864 Marriage by licence of Sarah Willans (full, spinster) of The Elms and William McCartney McCay (full, widower, lawyer) of Leeson St, Dublin. Bride’s father – John Willans (merchant) Groom’s father – Robert McCay (merchant) Witnesses - Obe Willans, Annie Simmons, Mary L Angus. |
1866 Death of Thomas Simmons, age 47y, on 13 May 1866 at The Elms, Princes Park, Toxteth Park. |
C1871 Anne Simmons (48, widow, landowner) with son William St C (23, clerk in Railway Office) and daughters Ethel K (15) and Mary (12) at the home of son-in-law John W Orr (33, Student of the Inner Temple, b. Buenos Ayres) and his wife Annie Orr (27) and children Annie E F (3) and John C S (1) (both children born in Bombay, India) and one servant (nurse) at Colville Terrace West, Kensington, London. |
1872 Death of William McCartney McCay, age 67y, at Dublin South in 1872. |
C1881 Annie Simmons (59, widow, Independent Lady) at the home of her sister Sarah McKay (58, widow) with two servants at 13 Westbourne Park, Paddington, Kensington, London. |
C1891 Anne Simmons (70, widow, living on own means) at the home of her daughter Ethel K Farran (35, barrister’s wife) at Stags End House, Gaddesden Row, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. William StC Simmons (43, figure painter artist) visitor at Malswa, Sydenham Terrace, St Mary Church, Newton Abbot, Devon. Sarah McCay (69, widow, living on own means) with two servants living at Westbourne Park, Paddington, London. |
1898 Death of Sarah McCay, age 76y, of 13 Westbourne Gardens, Paddington – bur. 4 Feb 1898. |
1898 Death of Anne Simmons, age 79y, at Karenza, Cheltenham on 22 Sep 1898. (Karenza was where her daughter, Kate Ethel Farran, was living. Two weeks earlier Kate's husband, Sir Charles Frederick Farran, had died in Bombay. She soon left Karenza as the 1901 census shows Kate Ethel living with six of her children at her new home – Ombersley, Hatherley Rd, Cheltenham) |
1899 Death of William St Clair Simmons, age 51y, on 10 Sep 1899 - Barnstaple district, Devon |