Thompson’s of Kirkbymoorside
The Thompson family were farming Kirkbymoorside, aka Kirkby Moorside, for generations before our 3rd Great Grandparents, Bethel THOMPSON (1800-1872) married Elizabeth SIGSWORTH (1803-1867) in Kirkbymoorside, 1828. The adorable couple are portrayed in their later years in the above photographs from the 1860s. As freehold farmers the couple employed two men to work their 55 acres as agricultural labourers, in addition...