Thomas Redfern played the organ in the Spiritualist Church in Rochester for a number of years.
Citizenship: Thomas Redfern 37 Bullock St New Bedford Mass Cert. no. 6447-VOL. 1895 YR. 1904, 3ed Dist. Court Bristol Co., age 25 b 31 Mar 1879 Great Britain, Naturalized 15 Oct 1904
In 1912 they left New Bedford and in 1919, he and Alice and are found in the Rochester city directory: REDFERN, Thomas (Alice) packer 250 Main E h 63 Greig. Note that there is a Frederick Downhill connection, and this is a family that also moved from New Bedford. In 1897 a Thomas Redfern, 30 years and Mrs. Redfern travel from Halifax, N.S. to Liverpool with Mr. & Mrs. Downhill.
World War I draft registration: Thomas Redfern, 37 b 31 Mar 1881 [sic 1879], naturalized citizen, Clerk, Sibley Lindsay & Curr Co., Main st., Rochester; wife Alice Redfern 63 Greig St., med. ht. & build; brown eyes, dark hair. Signed 12 Sep 1918.
1871 UK Census Ashton Under Lyne
CROSSLAND, Wm H 45 Head married Cloth Looker b. Hadfield, Derbyshire, England
--Nancy 42 Wife married b Stockport Cheshire
--Elizabeth 9 months Daughter b Ashton under Lyne
REDFERN, John 66 Boarder Widower Laborer b Stockport Cheshire
REDFERN Mary H 27 Boarder [sister on 1881] unmar. Weaver b Stockport Cheshire
Thomas Redfern played the organ in the Spiritualist Church in Rochester for a number of years.
Citizenship: Thomas Redfern 37 Bullock St New Bedford Mass Cert. no. 6447-VOL. 1895 YR. 1904, 3ed Dist. Court Bristol Co., age 25 b 31 Mar 1879 Great Britain, Naturalized 15 Oct 1904
In 1912 they left New Bedford and in 1919, he and Alice and are found in the Rochester city directory: REDFERN, Thomas (Alice) packer 250 Main E h 63 Greig. Note that there is a Frederick Downhill connection, and this is a family that also moved from New Bedford. In 1897 a Thomas Redfern, 30 years and Mrs. Redfern travel from Halifax, N.S. to Liverpool with Mr. & Mrs. Downhill.
World War I draft registration: Thomas Redfern, 37 b 31 Mar 1881 [sic 1879], naturalized citizen, Clerk, Sibley Lindsay & Curr Co., Main st., Rochester; wife Alice Redfern 63 Greig St., med. ht. & build; brown eyes, dark hair. Signed 12 Sep 1918.
1871 UK Census Ashton Under Lyne
CROSSLAND, Wm H 45 Head married Cloth Looker b. Hadfield, Derbyshire, England
--Nancy 42 Wife married b Stockport Cheshire
--Elizabeth 9 months Daughter b Ashton under Lyne
REDFERN, John 66 Boarder Widower Laborer b Stockport Cheshire
REDFERN Mary H 27 Boarder [sister on 1881] unmar. Weaver b Stockport Cheshire