Nat Gould

Thurstan Dale 1822-1864

Thomas Dale was born in 1822 at Lea Hall in Derbyshire (1), the son of Thomas Dale 1799-1864 and his wife nee Elizabeth Dakin 1808-1849. He was baptised at Bradbourne on 3 November 1822.

In 1841 he was an apprentice living in the household of a grocer John Dakin and his wife Eliza in Winwick Street, Warrington (2). When the 1851 Census was taken he was at home at Lea Hall Lower House (Lea Cottage) aged 29 and a grocer.

In 1861 Thurstan Dale was a commercial traveller lodging in the household of James Edmondson in Main Street, Bingley, Yorkshire.

He was unmarried.

At the time of his death he was living in Manchester. He died on 24 May 1864 aged 41 years and was buried on 30 May 1864 at Bradbourne, where there is a memorial gravestone.

(1) Lea Hall is a tiny civil parish situated between Bradbourne and Tissington, in the ecclesiastical parish of Bradbourne. It consists of only three farms: Lea Hall, Lea Cottage and Gorse Hill.
(2) Warrington was then in Lancashire, now in Cheshire.