Individual Details

Christen

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name Thomas Tomkins
Gender Male
Christening May 22 1761
Alton-Pancras, Dorset, England
Residence Alton-Pancras, Dorset, England
Father Edwin Tomkins
Mother Betty
Indexing Project (Batch) Number C15896-1
System Origin England-EASy
GS Film number 1279478
Reference ID item 14

Ordination

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification BA
College Balliol
University Oxford
Employment Date 2 Nov. 1783
Employment Church Christchurch
Employment Place Oxford
Clerical Status Deacon
Type Ordination
Authoritative Bishop Charles Moss
Authoritative Bishop Residence Date 1774-1802
Authoritative Bishop Jurisdiction Bath & Wells
Letters Dimissory Yes

Ordination

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification BA
College Balliol
University Oxford
Employment Date 11 Jun. 1786
Employment Church Christchurch
Employment Place Oxford
Clerical Status Priest
Type Ordination
Authoritative Bishop Charles Moss
Authoritative Bishop Residence Date 1774-1802
Authoritative Bishop Jurisdiction Bath & Wells
Letters Dimissory Yes

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification BA
Employment Date 22 Aug. 1788
Employment Place Chilton Canteloe
Type Institution
Office Status Rector

Marriage

ref: Somerset Eng Marriage Register Banns and Allegations PR 1788 St Peter and St Paul, Page 13 No. 51 -Thomas, Clerk, Mary Messiter, Spinster both of Wincanton - Marriage performed by John Messiter, Curate by License - Witnesses Letitia and Anne Messiter.

Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914
Name Mary Messiter
Gender Female
Marriage or Bann Date 7 Oct. 1788
Marriage Place Wincanton, Somerset, England
Parish as it Appears Wincanton
Spouse Thomas Tomkins

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification MA
University Cambridge
Employment Date 9 Jul. 1795
Employment Place West Coker, Somerset, Bath & Wells
Living Value About £180
Office Status Rector

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Employment Date 9 Jul. 1795
Employment Place Earl of Carnarvon
Type In Post
Office Status Domestic Chaplain

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification MA
Employment Date 23 Jul. 1795
Employment Place West Coker
Type Institution
Office Status Rector

Residence

It appears that Rev Thomas Tomkins moved his family to Yeovil around 1798.

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification MA
Employment Date 16 Aug. 1799
Employment Place Yeovil With the Chapel of Preston
Type Licensing
Office Status Curate

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Employment Date 20 Sep. 1802
Employment Place West Coker
Office Status Rector
Reason Resignation

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification MA
Employment Date 28 Jun. 1804
Employment Place Yeovil, Ffree and Endowed Grammar School
Type Licensing
Office Status Schoolmaster

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification MA
Employment Date 28 Jun. 1804
Employment Place The Chantry School in Yeovil
Type Licensing
Office Status Schoolmaster

Occupation

England, Clergy of the Church of England Index, 1540-1835
Name Thomas Tomkins
Qualification MA
Employment Date 6 Jun. 1817
Employment Place Mudford
Type Licensing
Office Status Curate

Residence

He moved to Thornfalcon in 1836, where he was “instituted by the Bishop of Bath and Wells (on the petition of John Batten Esq) to the rectory of Thorn Faulcon.

Death

Thomas Tomkins
Gender: Male
Birth: Circa 1761
Occupation: Rector of Chilton Cantelo
Occupation: Rector of Thorn Falcon
Death: July 18 1839
Yeovil, Somerset, England
Age: 78
Newspaper: The Spectator
Publication: July 27 1839
Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Text: ...Wilts, CHARLOTTE, the Widow of Admiral Sir GEORGE MONTAGU, G.C.B., in her 82d year. On the 18th inst., at Yeovil, Somerset, the Rev. THOMAS TOM?INS, Rector of Chilton Cantelo, and of Thorn Falcon, in that county, in his 78th year. On the 24th inst., at his house, Bromley,...

Thornfalcon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Taunton in the Somerset West and Taunton district. The village has a population of 119.[1] The parish includes the hamlet of Ash. The name comes from Thorn, and the personal name Fagun (now Falcon) which was the Norman surname of Sir Gilbert of Thorn, whose family were lords of the manor until the 14th century.[2]
The parish of Thorne Falcon was part of the North Curry Hundred.[3] The manor was bought from the Burridges of Lyme Regis by Nathaniel Butler Batten of Yeovil whose descendants, known as Chisholm-Batten from 1859 lived at Court House.[2]
The village is in the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton, which was established on 1 April 2019. It was previously in the district of Taunton Deane, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and part of Taunton Rural District before that.[4] The district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.