Reeve, Thomas

Summary

Father: Abraham Reeve
Mother: Elizabeth Wallace

Birth: c1792, Hadleigh, Suffolk
Birth Source: Baptism, census

Death: 13 May 1865, Raydon, Suffolk
Death Source: Obituary

Spouse1: Elizabeth Dunningham, m. 15 Sep 1814, Colchester, St. Leonard, Essex

Narrative

Children of Thomas Reeve and Elizabeth Dunningham:

1. Emma Reeve, b. c1825

Gleaned from England births and baptisms from the parish of Hadleigh, Suffolk:

• Thomas Reeve, bap. 17 Sep 1792, s/o Abrm. & Eliz. Reeve

Marriage from Colchester, St. Leonard, Essex Parish Registers:

• Thomas Reeve of the parish of Hadleigh in the County of Essex Esqr and Elizabeth Dunningham of this Parish Spinster were married in this Church by Licence...this fifteenth Day of Sepr in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

Jackson's Oxford Journal, 24 Sep 1814
Marriages....At St. Leonard's, Colchester, Mr. T. Reeve, youngest son of Abraham Reeve, Esq. of Hadleigh, Suffolk, to Miss E. Duningham, daughter of the late Mr. John Dunningham, of the same place.

The Bury and Norwich Post, 6 Aug 1817
Thursday last the Rev. Thos. Reeve was instituted to the Rectory of Roydon, in this county, on the presentation of Abraham Reeve, Esq. void by the death of the Rev. Thos. Cautley.

The Alumni Cantabrigienses (Cambridge Alumni) includes the following about him:
REEVE, THOMAS. Adm. pens, at Corpus Christi, Dec. 29, 1809. Of Suffolk. Matric. Michs. 1810; Scholar, 1810. Ord. deacon (Norwich) June 9, 1816; priest, July 20, 1817. R. of Raydon. Suffolk, 1817-65. Died there. May 30, 1865, aged 73. (Clergy List; Crockjord; G. Mag., 1865, i. 799.)

In 1841, he was age 41, living in Raydon, Suffolk with wife Elizabeth (35) and daughter Emma (16). Also with him are servants Elizabeth Barber (30), Elizabeth Scott (15), Robert Jennings (20), and Charles Poggs (12).

In 1851, Thomas was age 59, born in Hadleigh, Suffolk, listed in Raydon, Suffolk as the Rector of Raydon. With him are wife Elizabeth (53), groom Samuel Webber (38), and servants Elizabeth Bettis (29) and Mary Ann Lambert (30).

In 1861, Thomas was age 69, born in Haldeigh, Suffolk, listed in Raydon, Suffolk as Rector with wife Elizabeth (63), and servants Harry Borham (39), Mary Ann Cutting (35), and Ellen Dunnett (21).

Cambridge Independent Press, 20 May 1865
REEVE - On the 13th inst., the Rev Thomas Reeve, M. A., Rector of Raydon, Suffolk, aged 73.

Research Notes

Note that the Alumni Cantabrigienses has an incorrect death date.

Sources

Baptism:    England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Ancestry)
Marriage1:  Colchester, St. Leonard, Essex Parish Register 1813-1837, D/P 245/1/16
Death:        Obituary, Cambridge Independent Press, 20 May 1865

1841 Census:  HO107, Piece 1034, Book 17, Folio 8, Page 10
1851 Census:  HO107, Piece 1798, Folio 147 reverse, Page 15, Schedule 62
1861 Census:  RG 9, Piece 1159, Folio 88 reverse, Page 12, Schedule 63

Jackson's Oxford Journal, 24 Sep 1814
The Bury and Norwich Post, 6 Aug 1817
Venn, J. A., comp. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954. Vol. 5, pt. 2, p269