Thomas Pinnock Thirkell

Thomas married Elizabeth Fletcher 20 Jan 1777, St. Marylebone, Westminster, England. Elizabeth was born 15 Oct 1756, Reading, Berkshire, England; died 31 Aug 1831, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

John married Judith Oyler 16 Apr 1811, Cranbrook, Kent, England. Judith (daughter of George Oyler and Judith) was born Abt 1791, Cranbrook, Kent, England; was christened 25 Nov 1791, Cranbrook, Kent, England; died Dec 1837; was buried 27 Dec 1837, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

John married Mary Jessop 1853, St George Hanover Square Middlesex, England. Mary was born 1801, Fletching, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet]

Nathan married Jemima Chantler 20 Mar 1809, Maidstone, Kent, England. Jemima (daughter of Thomas Chantler and Hannah Woor) was born Nov 1788, Goudhurst, Kent, England; died 9 Dec 1869, Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet]

George married Ann Knowlden 22 Dec 1833, Maidstone, Kent, England. Ann (daughter of James Knowlden and Mary Cottington) was born 16 Apr 1809, Cranbrook, Kent, England; died 1898, Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Alfred married Caroline Wilmshurst Tye 11 Mar 1846, Parish Chapel, St. Pancras, Camden, England. Caroline (daughter of John Tye and Mary Mandy) was born Abt 1819, Cranbrook, Kent, England; was christened 10 Jun 1821, Sevenoaks, Kent, England; died 3 Apr 1877, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

William married Elizabeth Burden 1848, Camberwell, London, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Burden and Elizabeth) was christened 7 Aug 1825, Biddenden, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Amelia married John Wicker 2 Oct 1850, Brenchley, Kent, England. John was born Abt 1826, Hawkhurst, Sussex, England; died 1857, Maidstone, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Amelia married James Boorne 1858. James (son of Thomas Boorne and Martha) was born 20 Dec 1820, Deptford, Kent, England; died 16 Mar 1915, Croydon, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet]

Emily married William White 7 Sep 1852, Cranbrook, Kent, England. William (son of Robert White and Mary Hitchcock) was born 29 Jul 1808, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England; was christened 31 Aug 1808, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England; died Between 1871-1881. [Group Sheet]

Francis married Joanna Jane Elphick 13 May 1853, Horsmonden, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married Charles Chantler 1 Jan 1856, Christ Church, Forest Hill, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Edwin married Mary Flint. Mary was born Abt 1835, Yalding, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

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Christened:
Name: Thomas Penneck Thirkell
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 22 Oct 1809
Christening Place: Goudhurst, Kent, England
Father's Name: Nathan Thirkell
Mother's Name: Jemima

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I04661-9 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1736722 , Reference ID: item 4

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JSQD-MQ5 : accessed 1 January 2015), Nathan Thirkell in entry for Thomas Penneck Thirkell, 22 Oct 1809; citing Goudhurst, Kent, England, reference item 4; FHL microfilm 1,736,722.

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Christened:
Name: Anne Elizabeth Thirkle
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 03 Mar 1811
Christening Place: SALEHURST, SUSSEX, ENGLAND
Father's Name: Nathan Thirkle
Mother's Name: Jemima

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C13548-7 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 1067299

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JS5L-RBS : accessed 1 January 2015), Nathan Thirkle in entry for Anne Elizabeth Thirkle, 03 Mar 1811; citing SALEHURST, SUSSEX, ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,067,299.

Anne married Alfred Edward Burr 31 Aug 1835, Maldstone, Kent, England. Alfred died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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John Pinnock Thirkell was born the eighteenth of July 1814. His Father Nathan Pinnock Thirkell was a game keeper. This occupation was very dangerous. Two of his sons had been killed while Nathan was employed as a game keeper; yet John started working with his father at the age of seventeen. One time when John and his father heard poachers in the forest, they called to them to come out of hiding. As two of them appeared, one of them shot John in the leg. It was at close range, and cloth from his trousers went into the wound with the shot, causing a great deal of trouble. John limped, and in later years, had to use crutches. On other occasions, John had a finger and eye injured by poachers. The eye was taken out, scraped and returned to the socket and he had good eyesight afterwards.
When John was 21, he went to the north of England to be a gamekeeper for Squire Oswald Eaton. While in the Northern England, John met Mary Brown Baynes. The Baynes were textile designers and weavers. John and Mary were married the 21 of September, 1836. Five children were born to them.
One day John encountered a local L.D.S. Elder cutting timber. This man told him about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Elder talked with him a long time, quoting and explaining scripture from the Bible to him. When John arrived home, he looked in the Bible for these passages of scripture and was surprised that he had not understood them before. John prayed that he might know whether or not they were true. Shortly after this incident he became seriously ill; never before nor after had he known such illness. His wife suggested that the Elders be called. They came and administered to him, and he was healed. He felt that his prayer had been answered. Following this event the Elders met often with the Thirkell family.
Believing strongly in the new religion, John joined the Church and was baptized on the 6th of October 1850. His wife and the two oldest children were baptized later in October. The parish minister objected to the Thirkell family joining the “Mormon Church” and complained to the Earl so forcefully that the Earl gave John notice to leave his employ in 1 month. A neighbor gave the family shelter until John found another job as a game keeper for Mr Goodman.
At a branch meeting, John prophesied that he and his family would go to Utah and that they would experience hunger. The people were amazed that he would consider going to America. Just before sailing to America John and Mary heard about polygamy; Mary wanted none of that and objected to their going; but John knew the Gospel was true and wanted to go to America; therefore he promised that he would not enter into plural marriage. This promise he faithfully kept.
John and Mary with their 5 daughters, Sarah Ann (15), Jemima (11), Caroline (9), Mary Agnes (6) and Rebecca (6 months), sailed from Liverpool. While on board the ship a fire broke out, causing much excitement among the passengers. Shortly after the fire was controlled, they found themselves stranded on a sand bar. Here they remained for 2-3 days while a strong wind and high waves rocked the ship until it was thought that they would never reach America. John assisted the crewmen in lowering the anchor and drawing in the sails. He was a very strong man and helped while the wind whipped him from side to side. After many hard and anxious hours the men succeeded in freeing the ship, which was still in good condition to continue the voyage. They landed in New Orleans and then traveled to Keokuk, Iowa where they encountered wind storms, flood and rain which added to their delay. John purchased 2 milk cows, 3 oxen and 1 ½ wagons. He shared ½ a wagon with another man. While crossing the plains, two of the daughters became ill and died; Rebecca, one year old and Mary Agnes 6 years old. Mary brought yards of fabric that was woven by her parent’s textile business in England. She hoped to use the material to make clothes for her daughters, but most of the material was sold or traded for food or protection on the journey west. Two of the large boxes that had carried this material from England were used as coffins to bury their two little girls along the wagon trail.
After arriving in SLC, President Brigham Young asked them to continue on to Grantsville (West of SLC and south of the Great Salt Lake in Tooele County). They lived in tents and wagons until they could build a 2 room log cabin. They cleared 10 acres of land and planted grain, but the grasshoppers were numerous, consequently their crop was very poor. They had no wheat bread for three months, only bread made from musty corn. Two more daughters were born to them while they lived in Grantsville. Their home was in the fort walls of Grantsville.
In 1857 the family decided to move to Cache Valley. They planted wheat. On July fourth 1857, their first summer in the CacheValley, a meeting was held in the bowery. Many were discouraged because their fields of wheat had recently been frozen black. Also hundreds of cattle had died of starvation and cold. John Thirkell, filled with the Spirit, stood up pointing northeast toward where Logan now is and prophesied that someday a Temple would be built on the east bench. He said that he could see it and many houses and thousands of people in them. He told the people to press on, be diligent and faithful and that God would temper the elements for their good, and that Cache Valley would be a fruitful land, a place to be desired. John was wearing the short buckskin breeches, as they were called; that he had worn as a gamekeeper in England. The buckskin had dried and shrunken after the rains and washings, they were halfway up to his knees. Years later a man asked John why he still wore the short buckskin pants, his answer was, “For the same reason any man wears pants”
The first real bricks made in Cache Valley were made by John Thirkell and used to build an addition onto his home. The first apples and black native currants in the valley were brought by ox team from the Salt Lake Valley by John Thirkell. There were twenty apples on the trees when President Young visited the valley. Two apples were given to him for tithing.
At age 70, John Pinnock Thirkell died on the tenth of April 1884 in Wellsville, Cache, Valley, Utah.

Biography taken from FamilySearch.org.

John married Mary Baynes Brown 21 Sep 1836, Hutton-Bushel, York, England. Mary (daughter of William Brown and Sarah Banes) was born 30 Mar 1815, Hutton-Bushel, York, England; died 7 Dec 1881, Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States; was buried , Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

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Christened:
Name: Harriet Pinnick Thirkell
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 20 Nov 1816
Christening Place: Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Father's Name: Nathan Thirkell
Mother's Name: Jemima

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01915-4 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 1473692

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JQJK-1RF : accessed 1 January 2015), Nathan Thirkell in entry for Harriet Pinnick Thirkell, 20 Nov 1816; citing Sevenoaks, Kent, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,473,692.

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Christened:
Name: Caroline Sarah Thirkell
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 15 Mar 1821
Christening Place: Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Father's Name: Nathan Thirkell
Mother's Name: Jemima

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01915-4 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 1473692

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N2NB-S98 : accessed 1 January 2015), Nathan Thirkell in entry for Caroline Sarah Thirkell, 15 Mar 1821; citing Sevenoaks, Kent, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,473,692.

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Birth:
Name: Fredric Pennick Thurkell
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 25 Jul 1824
Christening Place: BRANDON,SUFFOLK,ENGLAND
Birth Date: 04 Jul 1824
Father's Name: Nathan Thurkell
Mother's Name: Jemima Chantler

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C13230-1 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 951470

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N5YD-WL1 : accessed 1 January 2015), Nathan Thurkell in entry for Fredric Pennick Thurkell, 25 Jul 1824; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 951,470.

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Christened:
Name: Selina Jemima Thirkel
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 28 May 1826
Christening Place: Weeting, Norfolk, England
Father's Name: Nathan Thirkel
Mother's Name: Jemima

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I02301-0 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1471003 , Reference ID:

"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N6TG-N51 : accessed 1 January 2015), Nathan Thirkel in entry for Selina Jemima Thirkel, 28 May 1826; citing Norfolk, England, reference item 7 p 22; FHL microfilm 1,471,003.

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Occupation: Cooper

David married Ann Eliza Hall 6 Feb 1858, St. John, Horselydown, Southwark, England. Ann (daughter of John Hall) died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Ann married Josiah Foreman 14 Sept 1856, Brenchley, Kent, England. Josiah (son of John Foreman and Mary Ann) was born 28 Aug 1836, Horsmonden, Kent, England; was christened 27 Aug 1837; died 1916, Hastings, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet]

Abraham married Esther. Esther was born Abt 1839, Tudeley, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Alfred married Christiana Law 30 Sept 1867, New South Wales, Australia. Christiana (daughter of William Law and Ann Westwater) was born 20 Feb 1847, Greendale, New South Wales, Australia; died 26 Jun 1925, Burwood, New South Wales, Austrailia; was buried 27 Jun 1925, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, New South Wales, Austrailia. [Group Sheet]

Caroline married William Rolfe 30 Sept 1867, New South Wales, Australia. William was born Abt 1838, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia; died 22 Aug 1903, Bega, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Edith Hitchcock Abt 1901, Surrey, England. Edith was born Abt 1874, Kingsland, London, England; died 20 Nov 1964, Worthing, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet]

Frank married Louisa Jane Bridgland Jan 1877, Cranbrook, Kent, England. Louisa was born Mar 1858, Cranbrook, Kent, England; died 12 Jun 1930, Boughton, Monchelsea, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Mary married March. [Group Sheet]

Sarah married John Pool 25 Jun 1854, Grantsville, Utah, United States. John died 28 Dec 1898. [Group Sheet]

Jemima married William Frederick Darley 22 Mar 1857. William was born 6 Nov 1830; died 19 Jun 1899. [Group Sheet]

Caroline married Edwin Mitton 2 May 1861, Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States. Edwin was born 15 Apr 1840; died 14 Sep 1906. [Group Sheet]

Emily married Samuel Baugh Apr 1873. Samuel was born 22 Sep 1840, Old Park, Dawley, Shropshire, England; died 12 Jul 1877; was buried , Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States. [Group Sheet]

Emily married James John 10 Apr 1914. James was born 10 Nov 1846; died 23 Dec 1927. [Group Sheet]

John married Acatarina Bucuris 29 Oct 1906, Liverpool, St. Nocholas, England. Acatarina died 20 Jan 1929, Walton, Liverpool, England. [Group Sheet]