Thomas Poysor 1849 - 1923
Occupation - Wheelwright, Joiner and Builder
Baptised - 17 November 1850, Flash, Quarnford
Buried 24 October 1924, Eccleshall Churhyard, Grave No. N83
Thomas Poysor by Judith Poyser
After the death of his first wife, Ann Mosely, Thomas remarried Bertha Vickers.
Their son, Thomas Poyser, 1883 - 1958, married Ellen Leyden. They had lived in the Sharrow Road area and upon Ellen's death Thomas and his children moved to 54 Hunter Hill Rd, with his brother and father living at 42.
I believe that Tom Snr did not build the houses but was actually a joiner
and window maker and it was Longdens (the builders) who owed him money,
along with someone else who left the country. Evidently he turned to drink
and squandered a lot of money. Before that they had been quite well off,
hence the horse and trap.
When Ellen died her sisters came and cleared the house (they were catholics
from N Ireland originally)and the only thing my Dad had left was a photo and the cross she was wearing on the photo. Her husband Tom, my Grandad, was a builder. He worked a lot lining furnaces. My Dad left school at fourteen and became a barber, Uncle Frank got an apprenticeship as an electrician. Thay were both called up, my Dad went into the army (Cameronian regiment, so wore tartan trews) and Uncle Frank went in the RAF. He was a rear gunner in a lancaster bomber and was shot down over Berlin and was POW, but he never told of his time as a POW. He married Gwyneth in 1946 and they had an adopted daughter called Carole Marie, she married and divorced without children and has not been seen or heard of since her Dad died. She never appeared at her mother's funeral! I now live in Scarborough and am a nurse working in the local hospice.