Thomas ApSimon in obit in Y Brython

Thomas ApSimon (Jones)

Birth Name ApSimon (Jones), Thomas
Gramps ID I0008
Gender male
Age at Death 75 years, 9 months, 27 days

Notes

Note

Cotton broker, industrial entrepreneur, Presbyterian Welsh nationalist - he seems to have spent much of the time when he was theoretically in Sowerby Bridge, manufacturing machinery, in Liverpool, agitating for Welsh colleges, Home Rule, Welsh liberalism etc

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth [E0007] 21/11/1843 Bala, Merionethshire Thomas is born as Jones and listed as such in the 1851 census. By 1861, however, he is Apsimon. 1 2 3
Residence [E2304] 26/3/1873 44 Beaumont Street, Princes Park, Liverpool, Lancashire Thomas advertises a 10-year lease on the recently deceased Simon Jones' chandlery, grocery, and drapery business on High Street, Bala, inquiries to him in Beaumont St or solicitor J.R. Jones in Bala. Note the ropery behind St Clement's church - probably relevant to his business, and may help explain why he later had offices in the Old Ropery in Liverpool docks. Simon Jones's business was taken over by John Parry, then supervising the Carndochan gold mine near Llanuwchllyn - see entry E0234. 4a
Occupation [E0395] before 30/6/1877 Brown’s Buildings, 4 Water Street, Liverpool Docks, Liverpool, Lancashire Partner with John Hawleigh Smith, Edward Edwards and Hilmar von Schwartz in the firm of John Hawleigh Smith & Co. Hawleigh retired and the partnership was dissolved. 5
Occupation [E0396] between 1/7/1877 and 22/6/1878 Brown’s Buildings, 4 Water Street, Liverpool Docks, Liverpool, Lancashire Partner with Edward Edwards, Hilmar von Schwartz, cotton brokers, trading as John Hawleigh Smith & Co. 5
Occupation [E2328] 1878   Voluntary liquidation 1878 called on their personal estates and may have led to bankruptcy for Thomas, by coincidence at the same time he was getting hitched to the presumably wealthy Annie.  
Occupation [E0397] between 1879 and 1887 3 Old Ropery, Liverpool Docks, Liverpool, Lancashire Mill furnishing partnership with Van Gelder. Old Ropery address, also Victoria Works/Industrial Road, Sowerby Bridge. White's 1887: Pieter van Gelder & he are managing directors, Van Gelder, Apsimon & Co. Limited. 5 6a 6b 7a
Note

Trademark application, 13/12/1879, from TGEA clippings: An oval containing a shield, emblazoned on which are two cornucopiae and letters 'M. and C.,' on top of which is a knight's visor surrounded by wreaths.

Occupation [E2305] 6/9/1879 Back Goree, Liverpool Docks, Liverpool, Lancashire Mill furnishing partnership with Van Gelder - see also the Old Ropery address around this time. 8a
Occupation [E2310] between 1881 and 1883 Jamaica Street, Liverpool Docks, Liverpool, Lancashire Van Gelder / ApSimon manufacturing premises, 7 storeys with 50 HP engine, boilers, shafting etc. 8b
Occupation [E2306] 27/4/1881 1 Goree Piazza, Liverpool Docks, Liverpool, Lancashire Van Gelder & ApSimon of 1 Goree Piazzas are looking for engineer's shop with power. 8c
Occupation [E2309] 27/9/1883 20 Brunswick Street, Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire Address of ApSimon/Van Gelder in ad for the sale of the Jamaica Street factory. 8d
Occupation [E2326] 24/12/1884 Hope Foundry, Burnley Wood, Burnley, Lancashire Fined on Christmas Eve with co-proprietor Van Guelder (sic) for employing three young workers without registration. DRA: Interesting do... child, young person, meal hour. Three days in December. Four cases involving eleven kids. 10s for employing a kid without cert or registration - £1 for failing to report a death. And look at the costs! I'd like to bet that there weren't as many cases in the whole of last year, in the whole country (or decade even). Assuming there are still rules about that sort of thing. No sign of a Hope Foundry on the OS 25" in Burnley Wood. But it might not have been very big. Every town (with a canal, river navigation, or railway) had one. Must have been an interesting place in those days. Filthy and smelly too. 9a
Occupation [E0498] 1884 Victoria Machine Works, Industrial Road, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire Mechanics shop as occupier: voters at Industrial Road, SB, as occupiers of rateable value of £12 and under £50 rental. Advertising for whitesmith for sheet-iron work at VMR, SB. I conclude that VMR was on Industrial Road. Products included Victoria separators and Mayer separators. 10 11a
Occupation [E2302] 1890 Victoria Machine Works, Industrial Road, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire Tenanted by Van Gelder, Apsimon & Company Limited. 12a
Occupation [E0406] 1891 Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire Flour mill engineer 1
Occupation [E0907] 1894 Leamington Chambers, 5 Richmond Street, Liverpool, Lancashire Agent/warehouseman for John Thompson of Belfast, presumably the animal feed miller, perhaps family of his father-in-law Joseph Thompson, who was born in Ireland. 13a
Occupation [E0911] 1900 7 Clayton Square, Liverpool, Lancashire Manufacturer's agent. John Thompson, warehouseman is at the same address, but Thomas may be his agent. 14a
Occupation [E0501] 1901 Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire Commission agent. 2
Death [E0008] 18/9/1919 13 Victoria Road, West Kirby, Wirral, Cheshire Presumably killed by the consequences of the Spanish flu - TTA's letters from the front advise him on remedies for a flu-like illness. 15 3 16a 17
Burial [E0208] 20/9/1919 Parish Church, West Kirby, Wirral, Cheshire    

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Simon Jones (Bala) [I0009]180521/2/1873
Mother Grace Jones [I0010]27/12/180415/5/1870
         Thomas ApSimon (Jones) 21/11/1843 18/9/1919
 
Father Simon Jones (Bala) [I0009]180521/2/1873
Stepmother Jane Rowlands [I0020]27/2/183620/12/1880
    Half-brother     David Jones/Ap Simon/ApSimon [I0021] 6/5/1872 28/2/1947

Families

Family of Thomas ApSimon (Jones) and Anna Elizabeth Thompson [F0003]
Married Wife Anna Elizabeth Thompson [I0011] ( * 27/11/1853 + 26/9/1928 )
 
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage [E0014] 21/11/1877 Presbyterian Church, 2 Catharine Street, Liverpool, Lancashire Rev. John Thomas B.A. officiated. 15 5 18
Residence [E0385] between 1879 and 1883 14 Amberley Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire In 1883 Thomas advertises it for rent at £46: "two entertaining rooms, six bedrooms, bath, w.c., kitchen, washhouse, pantry." 15 8e
Residence [E2308] 22/7/1882 Hoylake, Wirral, Cheshire Thomas ApSimon of Hoylake is hurt in a crash on the Birkenhead tram. 8f
Occupation [E0498] 1884 Victoria Machine Works, Industrial Road, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire Mechanics shop as occupier: voters at Industrial Road, SB, as occupiers of rateable value of £12 and under £50 rental. Advertising for whitesmith for sheet-iron work at VMR, SB. I conclude that VMR was on Industrial Road. Products included Victoria separators and Mayer separators. 10 11a
Residence [E0386] between 1885 and 1887 17 Trafalgar Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire 1887 date is from White's. 1885 Namebase. 15 7a
Residence [E0383] between 1887 and 1891 Willow Hall, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire Start date established in the Monthly Tidings article, recording the Catharine St. Presbyterian Church's thanks to Thomas for almost 20 years service. 1891 census gives Willow Hall Lane - if in another house here, that may explain the discordance re address. 5a 15 6c 19a
Residence [E0499] 4/1891 Lower Willow House, Skircoat, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire   1
Residence [E0394] 1893 Lower Willow Hall, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Riding, Yorkshire Appears to have lived in both Willow Hall and Lower Willow Hall. Very confusing. 10
Residence [E0387] between 1891 and 1896 20 North Road, West Kirby, Wirral, Cheshire AMA: The move to West Kirby followed Thomas ApSimon's financial crash - Van Gelder, ApSimon & Co. patent suit against Sowerby Bridge United District Flour Society. Very small compared to Willow Hall. 1893 Liverpool Mercury ad for an iron chapel is marvellous. 15 1 6d 5 13b 20
Residence [E0500] between 1896 and 1900 9, Dunraven Road, West Kirby, Wirral, Cheshire   21 22 14a
Residence [E0388] between 1901 and 1902 5, Dunraven Road, West Kirby, Wirral, Cheshire Thomas, Annie, Joe, TTA, ATA, EDA, Harriet (sister in law), Mary Anne Jones 24 Rhos Denbigh servant 15 2 22
Residence [E0781] 1906 Derwen, Mostyn Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral, Cheshire   22
Residence [E0910]        
Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Joseph Henry ApSimon [I0012]3/6/18791925
Thomas Trevor ApSimon [I0007]5/11/18801976
Arthur Tryweryn ApSimon [I0014]6/18834/8/1917
Estyn Douglas ApSimon [I0015]30/8/18859/1/1962

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