Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 30 Mar 1851, Highbury, Finsbury, London, UK; 1851 Census: 1 month old, living with father and mother plus maternal aunt and maternal grandmother,, Father was a 'Ships Broker'.
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, St Paul's Terrace, St Mary's, Highbury, Finsbury, London, UK; 1861 Census: 10 years old, born Stoke Newington, Dad was a ship owner. Living 1-2 miles from Drake Shardalow etc.
• Professional position/status: 8 Jan 1866, Lannelli, Wales, UK; Indentured as an apprentice on the ship Dorothea, aged 16
• Miscellaneous as specified: 9 Mar 1871, Whangerei, New Zealand; Sentenced to 12 months labour for stealing a horse, saddle and bridle. Discharged from Auckland Gaol 9 Mar 1872, thought to have left for Sydney for New Caledonia.
• Miscellaneous as specified: 1878, Christchurch, New Zealand; Charged for embezzling employer Press Company of £10 and 16 shllings. He was a cricket fast bowler. But he had left Lyttleton by steamer for Wellington and on to Sydney with his cricket clothes. Also more charges against him. It was thought he had gone on to Tasmania probably under a different name.
• Professional position/status: 13 Feb 1890, Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia; Appointed Valuer of all ratable property within Cootamundra Borough
• Miscellaneous as specified: 20 Oct 1890, Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia; "A warrant has been issued by the Cootamundra Bench, for the arrest of Alfred Shardalow Simpson, charged with unlawfully deserting his wife Elizabeth Calderwood Simpson, at Cootamundra, since the 20th ultimo, leaving her without means of support. He is about 45 or 47 years of age, 6 foot 2 inches high, very sallow complexion, light blue eyes, scant whiskers (if any), light moustache; swaggering; a good pianist." [Source: 1890 New South Wales, Police Gazettes].

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Name:
We haven't been able to connect him in to our family. The Shardalow middle name is unexplained? It possible that it relates to a maternal maiden name. Key I think is his mother being born in Norfolk. Indeed she and his father married in December 1849 in Raveningham. Raveningham is very close to where most Shardalows were living at the time. There were about 45 in Norfolk, Norton Subcourse (and adjoining Thurlton) being the centre, it is less than 2 miles from Raveningham. George Shardalow (born in Thurlton) and his wife Louisa were living in Raveningham itself. But what is the link? I can't see anything in Thomas's mother's history that links her to the Shardalows nor any gaps or anomalies eg indicating illegitamacy (although they would have covered that up rather than signposting it with a middle name). So why do they give Thomas, their first child, a middle name of Shardalow 14 months after marrying, now down in London? Maybe George and Louisa, for whom we have no evidence of children, helped Thomas's parents move to London and so when their first child was born they gave him the Shardalow middle name?
PS George is my (Cliff) 2 x cousin 5 times removed.

Thomas married THORNTON, Clara ConstanceNew Zealand. Clara was born in 1855; died on 11 Jul 1939 in Christchurch, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. SWEET, Ethel Winifred was born on 31 Oct 1876 in New Zealand; died on 4 Apr 1951; was buried in Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2. SWEET, Mildred Thornton was born on 18 Feb 1878 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Thomas married GIBB, Elizabeth Calderwood on 28 Jan 1879 in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia. Elizabeth was born in 1858; died in 1945. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Thomas was a distinguished cricketer. Coincidentally he was living and got married in the same town that Donald Bradman was born in 1908. Bradman was undoubtedly the greatest cricketer who has ever lived. The town/village of Cootamundra only has about 7,000 inhabitants today. It was established in the 1860s as part of the gold rush.

1. SIMPSON, Lancelot Oswald was born in 1880 in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia; died in 1920.
2. SIMPSON, Clara Mildred was born on 17 Aug 1882; died in 1917.
3. SIMPSON, Edith Nancy was born on 25 Jun 1884 in Kensington Hill, Victoria, Australia; died in 1954.
4. SIMPSON, Gertrude Emma was born on 20 Apr 1886 in Hill View, Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia; died in 1965.
5. SIMPSON, Alfred was born on 13 Apr 1890 in Hill View, Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia; died in 1938.
6. SIMPSON, Vera Winifred was born on 2 Jun 1893 in Victoria, Australia; died in 1980.
7. GEORGE, Mary Ellen

Thomas married PUNCHARD, Hannah Elizabeth on 29 Dec 1849 in Raveningham, Norfolk, UK. Hannah was born in 1831 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Possibility she was born in or lived when young in Topcroft, Bedingham or Reedham,