Thomas George Playford FENN [23]

   Cause of his death was a stroke.

  General Notes:

Births.
Fenn - August 8 at 1 Albion Terrace Southampton the wife of Theodore George Fenn son.
London Standard Friday, 15 August 1879.

THOMAS GEORGE P FENN
Birth year1879
Birth quarter3
DistrictSouthampton
CountyHampshire
Volume2C
Page28
Record setEngland & Wales Births 1837-2006

Tom's godfather was George Weightman Hand who left him £100 in his Will in 1914.

OTAGO HIGH SCHOOL OLD BOYS' REGISTER.
Information is wanted from parents, relatives, or schoolmates as to the whereabouts of : . . . . . Fenn, Thomas G. P. (Captain Fenn) 1889 (Years at School)
Otago Witness, Issue 2673, 7 June 1905, Page 15

Thomas was a day boy at Tonbridge School from 1890 - 1895. He then joined the Merchant Service, and was a Master Mariner with the British India Steamship Navigation Coy.

In a letter from Isabella Cotes to Harry Fenn 11 Oct 1926 Thomas is mentioned:
"Tom Fenn is in England now in a nursing home near London Lucy writes to me and she and Dick have been to see him and she says he is much better in every way except that his speech has not yet thoroughly recovered I can only think that he has had a kind of stroke Lucy and Dick are very good to their brothers & Josephine, his wife and two children are in Brighton and she does not seem to trouble herself much, Tom has always been such a good husband and father the I hope he will get well again Lucy means to have him to stay with her as soon as he can be moved . . . . . "

His daughter Margaret remembers "we hardly knew our father, poor man. At 43 he had 3 strokes and was left incapacitated for 21 years, after his third stroke in 1943 he was left badly crippled. He then went to stay with his brother Frank and his wife Betty at Twickenham until his death". (this is at variance with the National Probate Index who puts Thomas's address as 22 Portland Place Brighton, the same as his wife and they died on the same day?)

Thomas is recorded in the 1935 & 1956 Twickenham Richmond Electoral Register as having a Residential Qualification to vote and living at 3 Popes Grove Twickenham the home of his brother Francis.
Ref Ancestry

1939 Register.
3 Popes Grove , Twickenham M.B., Middlesex, England
Thomas G Fenn08 Aug 1879 married retired Master Mariner

FENN, Thomas G.P. b. Southampton 1879 Beng C296 Bengal 1909 vol. 77 no voyages listed
Lloyd's Captains Register http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capintro.htm - an index to most of the Lloyd's Captains Registers held by the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

THOMAS G P FENN
Birth year1880
Age64
Death quarter1
Death year1944
DistrictBrighton
CountySussex
Volume2B
Page418
Record setEngland & Wales Deaths 1837-2007

Fenn Thomas George Playford of 22 Portland Pl, Brighton died 20 March 1944 at The Municipal Hospital Elm Grove Brighton Administration (with will) (limited) Winchester 18 December 1944 to Richard Playford Fenn schoolmaster attorney of Margaret Hermione Hiller. Effects £1039 19s 3d
National Probate Calendar

  Research Notes:

Is this his marriage Civil
Age: 20
25 Sep 1899 • London

  Medical Notes:

Thomas suffered 3 strokes in 1943.

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 3 Apr 1881, Park Cottage Easeborne Midhurst SSX. Thomas is recorded as a son aged 1yr, born Southampton HAM.

2. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, 52 Hadlow Rd Tunbridge Kent. Thomas is recorded as a son aged 11 born Southampton HAM

Thomas married Ethel Maude BENSKIN [484] [MRIN: 138], daughter of Walter Henry BENSKIN [4911] and Mary Jane WILLIAMS [4912]. (Ethel Maude BENSKIN [484] was born 4 Qtr 1884 in Pwllheli Wales, baptised on 18 Jan 1885 in Denio CAE, died on 20 Mar 1944 in Municipal Hospital Brighton and was buried in Brighton SSX.)