Thomas Perrin and the Perrin Family
of England
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Thomas's father Henry Jacob Thomas Perrin was a plasterer as was Thomas. Thomas married Ellen Kate Blake, born on December 31 in 1878 Campden, Gloucestershire, England on October 14, 1895 at the Parish Church, Frindsbury, Kent, England. From the marriage certificate her brother Harry was a witness to the marriage along with her grandmother Mary. In 1904 Thomas and Kate adopted George Edward Last 1902-1929, my mother's father, who took the name George Edward Perrin. They all arrived from England in 1909 most likely to check out their future home in Canada. What is strange here is on the passenger list Georege Edward Last is listed as their son with the name George Edward Perrin. Yet in the English census of 1912 he is listed as George Edward Last (adopted son).
I have always felt that Thomas was friends with George's parents as they lived a few blocks away and George and Thomas were born at New Rd Chatham, Chatham, Kent, England. I have also believed that Thomas and Kate, both coming from large families couldn't have their own children and that's what they adopted George. In 1914, Kate Perrin and George Edward Last-Perrin returned to England. I have found death records for Kate's mother, Lucy Ann Biggerstaff who died in 1914 which in all likelihood was the reason for the trip. Her husband, Thomas, did not accompany them on the trip. I can't explain why because Thomas didn't enlist until 1916 for WWI. Thomas joined the Canadian Army in 1916 and fought in WWI. He was a member of the Grand Lodge Of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Of Canada. The family moved around from Ottawa to Toronto and Thomas and Kate evenyually ended up living in and were buried in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. In his later years Thomas came to live with us until he passed away in 1961. As my mother’s father had died, Thomas gave my mother away at her wedding. I remember visiting them at their house in Kirkland Lake when I was a young boy and remember feeling the rumbling of the house in the mornings as they blasted underground in the gold mines of Kirkland Lake. One could walk to the baseball park from their house at 7 Day Ave. They had an old player piano tin the house with rolls of tunes one could place in the piano, I have no idea of whatever happened to it. Thomas and Kate remained married for over 66 years.
My great grandmother, Ellen Kate Blake, born December 31, 1878 in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England to Oswald Blake (1843 - 1901) and Lucy Ann Biggerstaff (1844 - ????). Like her husband Kate also came from a large family having 3 brothers and two sisters. I was lucky enough to have met my great grandmother and have fond memories of her. She had an old china cabinet which has a curved French glass door on it, that I always admired, so much so I repaired it and looked after it as a child. My mother left it to me when she passed away and I have it in my house today. Thomas and Kate lived at 7 Day Ave in Kirkland Lake, Ontario and when Kate passed away Thomas came down from Kirkland Lake, Ontario to live with us. When he passed away he was taken to the Kirkland Lake Cemetary to be buried with his wife, Kate. They are buried in an unmarked grave in Grave 1 & 2 Lot No. 9 Range 2 Section 9, Kirkland Lake Cemetery, Teck Township. Thomas and Kate made their Wills on November 18, 1952, almost a year after I was born. They made my mother Executrix of their estate and left her everything, on my mother's death everything was to go to my her children. My great grandmother passed away in September 1960 and my great grandfather came to live with us in Scarborough and passed away almost a year later in 1961. Their estate in Kirkland Lake consisted of a house and furniture. My mother loved her grandmothers china cabinet with the French curved door, I also admired the cabinet and inherited it from my mother. This inheritance would prove to be a godsend as my father’s health troubles began a few years later.
George Edward Last-Perrin moved to Windsor, Ontario. I can only assume it was for work. Surprisingly, Gladys Emily Walker showed up in Windsor as well. They had known each other when the two families, Perrin and Walker, lived in Ottawa. They were married in Windsor, Ontario on June 6, 1925. When I was cleaning out the papers of my parents house I came across numerous pictures I had never seen. Above is a picture of my grandfather holding my grandmother and below is perhaps one of the best pictures I had discovered. It is a picture of my mother’s father George Edward Perrin with his parents Tom and Kate Perrin. I also did not know my great grandfather was a Seargent in the army during WWI.
I can trace the Perrin family back to about 1600 to John Perrin and his wife Mary. I have all the family tree but it is far too much information for this web site. As all the Perrin's seemed to have rather large families I will start with Thomas's grandfather William Jacob Perrin. William Jacob Perrin William Jacob Perrin was born on January 11, 1818 at Strood, Kent, England the son of Jacob Perrin 1792-1848 and Esther Walker 1782-1849. Something very interesting on their marriage license was that a J Huggins was witness to their marriage. I can find no J Huggins in the Huggins family of my father however, it could be, also my mother's mother was a Walker. William Jacob Perrin married Jane Elisabeth Buck born January 1, 1821 in Chatham, Kent, England, the daughter of Richard Buck 1794-1838 and Jane Ladd 1799-?. William Jacob Perrin married Jane Elisabeth Buck 1821-1879 on September 10, 1838 at Spitalfields Christ Church with St Mary and St Stephen, England. They had seven children. Children • Richard William Perrin born November 17, 1861 in Chatham, Kent, England who married Hellen Banks in 1860 and had a son Richard born in 1860 • Francis Jane Perrin 1841-1845p • Jane Esther Perrin 1843-1851p • Emma Ketura Perrin 1846-1847p • Henry Jacob Thomas Perrin 1847-1928 married Phillis Jane Goodey 1844-1922 • Jane Elisabeth Perrin 1852-1928 who married Thomas Walter Atkinson 1839-1903 in 1882p • William Jacob Perrin 1856-1928 who married Mercy Scrace 1855-1898 and they had five children. Children: • John Russell Perin 1879-? • Mercy Margaret Perrin 1884-1950 • Jane Elizabeth Perrin 1885-1950 • William Jacob Perrin 1888-? • Margaret Adelaide Perrin 1890-1890 Henry Jacob Thomas Perrin married Phillis Jane Goodey 1844-1922, she was the daughter of Thomas George Goodey 1815-1859 and Phillis Gant 1822-1873. Children
Children: • Edith Maud Pope 1887-1968 • Phyllis Maria Pope 1889-1952 • Arthur Henry Pope 1890-1962 • Henry Pope 1891-1913 • Ethel Pope 1894-? • Nellie Pope 1897-? • Albert Edward Pope 1899-1978 • Baden Powell Pope 1900-1975 • George Pope 1903-? • William Samuel Pope 1905-?
Children: • Ada Atkinson 1889-? • Eva Mabel Atkinson 1894-1980 • Louise E Atkinson 1898-1989 • Thomas Henry Atkinson 1903-? John Thomas Perrin 1870-1936 he married Harriet Jane Pennell and they had four children. Children: • May Hilda Perrin 1901-1992 • Ethel Violet Perrin 1901-1992 • Ellen Rose Perrin 1905-? • John Thomas Charles Perrin 1910-1946 William Jacob Perrin 1872-1939 married Emily Elizabeth Wadhams 1873-? and they had five children Children: • Frederick William Perrin 1888-? • Lillian Perrin 1891-? • Emily Elizabeth Perrin 1893-? • May Emily Elizabeth Perrin 1897-? • Joseph James Edward Perrin 1898-? Alfred James Perrin 1875-1875
Children: • Thomas Stanley Perrin 1895-? • Richard Perrin 1896-? • Henry Jonathon Harry Perrin 1897-1973 • Alice Phillis Perrin 1899-? • Arthur Edmund Perrin 1901-1944 • Edgar George Perrin 1903-1987 • Edward Perrin 1904-? • Bertie William Perrin 1906-1969 • Hilda Eliza M Perrin 1911-1997 • Horace Frederick Perrin 1913-1997 • Kathleen Victria Perrin 1915-2003 • Dorothy Eden "Doll" Perrin 1919-1990 • Phyllis Lily Bessie Perrin 1923-1991 • Thomas Perrin 1879-1961 (discussed above) my great grandfather • John Perrin 1880-1940 • Arthur Perrin 1883-1953 • Charles Frank Perrin 1885-1951 • Edith Maud Perrin 1888-1940 • Cardeath Perrin 1889-? • Ada A Perrin 1890-1940
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Thomas
Perrin, my mother's grandfather, was born October 14, 1879 at New
Rd Chatham, Chatham, Kent, England to Henry Jacob Thomas Perrin 1847-1928
and Phillis Jane Goodey 1844-1922. Thomas came from a large family
having twelve siblings, five sisters and seven brothers.
Phyllis
Jane Perrin 1866-1953 and she married Arthur John Pope 1964-1926
and they had eleven children
Maria
Perrin 1868-1909 married Thomas Joseph Atkinson 1864-? and they
had four children.
Richard
George Perrin 1876-1953 he married Alice Maud Slucock 1877-1953
and they had thirteen children.