Where did Thomas de Trafford live from Mar 1778 to Aug 1803?
Thomas de Trafford Marriage and family . Thomas married Laura Anne Colman ( born 18 August 1780 , baptized 9 November 1780 , Cullompton ) , daughter of Francis Colman ( d . 1820 ) of Hillersdon , Devon , and Jemima Searle ( d . 1807 ) , on 17 August 1803 , and the couple lived at Trafford Hall , in Trafford Park . They had nine daughters and five sons , including : - Elizabeth Jane , born 22 October 1804 , died September 1813 , aged 8 - Laura Ann , born 23 November 1805 , who married Thomas William Riddell of Felton , Northumberland on 4 September 1845 at All Saints Catholic Chapel , Barton-upon-Frode and died 16 May 1877 - Jemima , born 30 January 1807 , died 17 January 1883 , who in 1829 married her fathers first cousin Henry Tempest of Heaton ( near Bolton ) , Lancashire , who was a JP for Lancashire . Their daughter , Jemima Monica Mildred Tempest ( 1841-1907 ) married Le Gendre Starkie in 1867 . - Humphrey Francis , born 1 May 1808 , died 4 May 1886 , who became the Second Baronet - Jane Seymour , born 27 July 1809 , who in 1842 married George Archer Shee , eldest son of Sir Martin Archer Shee , a former President of the Royal Academy . Jane and Georges great-grandson George Archer-Shee was the subject of a notorious 1910 prosecution for allegedly stealing a 5 shilling postal order . The case formed the basis for the play The Winslow Boy . - Maria , born 16 November 1810 , died 9 May 1826 , aged 15 - Caroline , born 29 March 1812 , married William Gerard Walmesley of Westwood , Lancashire , son of Charles Walmesley ( 1781–1833 ) , on 18 October 1838 , and died 21 December 1883 - Thomas William , born 23 August 1813 , never married , died 7 May 1844 - Sybilla Catherine ( or Catherine-Sybilla ) , born 23 September 1815 , who married Reverend John Sparling , third son of William Sparling of Petton Park , Shropshire in 1843 , and died 22 May 1886 - Belinda , born 29 November 1816 , never married , died 19 February 1900 - Harriet ( or Harriotte ) , born 25 August 1818 , who married James Cunningham , a captain in the Fourth Dragoon Guards , on 27 April 1853 - John Randolphus , born 11 April 1820 , married Lady Adelaide Cathcart , daughter of General Sir Charles Murray Cathcart , 2nd Earl Cathcart and Henrietta Mather , on 13 July 1850 , died 3 February 1879 ( or possibly 15 February 1871 ) . Succeeded to the Croston Estates , previously held jointly by his father with the Trafford estates . Eldest son Sigismund de Trafford . - Charles Cecil , born 18 or 28 December 1821 , never married , died 15 December 1878 , a captain in the Third Regiment of the Duke of Lancasters Own Militia and also an officer in the 1st Dragoons - Augustus Henry , born 12 April 1823 ( or 1828 ) , married Gertrude Mary Walmesley , daughter of Herman Walmesley , on 19 September 1876 , died 19 January 1895 at Haselour Hall , Tamworth Estates . After his fathers death on 29 October 1815 , and despite his position as the fifth son , Thomas inherited his fathers estates in Lancashire and Cheshire . Two elder brothers , both named Joseph , had died in infancy and two others , Humphrey and John , had both died before their father . By 12 November 1819 , he is recorded as selling the advowson of the parish of St Bartholomews Church , Wilmslow to Edward Vigor Fox for £6,000 . This gave the right to nominate the rector when the parish became vacant , and was a right conferred by lordship of the manor in many cases . Selling that right was legal , so long as the post was not already vacant . However , in this case it appears that Trafford and Fox drew up the sale after they learned that Joseph Bradshaw , the incumbent , was close to death . The sale was concluded at ten to three in the afternoon , and Bradshaw died at half past eleven the same night . At the time of the sale , Trafford was major-commandant of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry , and Fox was a lieutenant in the same force . Foxs subsequent nomination of George Uppleby as rector , on 30 December 1819 , was contested by the Bishop of Chester , and the case wound through the courts during the 1820s . Eventually on 3 June 1829 , the House of Lords heard Foxs appeal of earlier decisions voiding the appointment . The Lords could not find any evidence that Uppleby had conspired with Trafford and Fox to buy the appointment ( an offence known as simony ) and so they ruled in favor of Fox and Trafford . Slaters Directory for 1845 names Thomas Ayres as Sir T . J . de Traffords land agent in Stretford . In Edward Twycrosss The Mansions of England and Wales ( 1847 ) , Thomas is noted as the owner of Trafford Hall in the parish of Eccles on the southern bank of the Irwell , west of Manchester . The mansion is described as built of stone with a front featuring a classical portico with columns and a pediment . Tithe maps from the mid-19th century show that Thomas owned more than 700 plots in the Bollin valley near Wilmslow , amounting to about . Thomas is recorded as having divided the Manors of Trafford and Stretford , giving land including a portion of Croston Manor to his son John Randolphus . In 1853 , John Randolphus applied for a £5,000 government loan to drain lands in Croston , Penwortham , Wigan . In 1874 , John Randolphus reunited Croston Manor for the first time since 1318 by purchasing the remainder from trustees of Thomas Norris . It appears that Thomas Trafford was alert to the financial opportunities presented by the burgeoning coal mining industry . He leased mining rights at the Pemberton Four Feet Mine in Hindley to a partnership of Byrom , Taylor and Byrom for 33 years from 24 December 1849 . Trafford was entitled to rent of £75 per foot per Cheshire acre , and £100 per annum at the least . This venture evidently did not prove as profitable as the lessors had hoped . Within three years the partnership was bankrupt and the mine lease was auctioned on 27 October 1852 . Military service and role in Peterloo Massacre . Thomas Trafford was commissioned as a Captain in the Third Battalion of the Royal Lancashire Militia on 6 March 1801 , towards the end of Britains involvement in the French Revolutionary Wars . Much later , after the Blanketeers march of 10 March 1817 , the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry was formed in response to the perceived threat of riot , Trafford was commissioned as the Major-Commandant in charge of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry on 23 August 1817 . By 1819 , social discontent because of rising food prices and lack of suffrage had fueled a rise in radical groups in northern England . On 16 August 1819 , Major Trafford was sent a note by a magistrate , local coalowner William Hulton , urging him to dispatch the cavalry regiment to a public meeting being addressed by the orator Henry Hunt . Major Trafford did send his 116 troops in response , but he appears not to have been present for the disastrous attack on the assembled crowd . Fifteen people died and hundreds were wounded . The government and landowners viewed the yeomanrys actions at Peterloo as a courageous defence against insurrection . Following the Peterloo Massacre , on 27 August 1819 , Lord Sidmouth sent a message of thanks from the Prince Regent to Major Trafford , among others . However , public horror at the actions of the yeomanry grew after the massacre . Major Trafford resigned his commission in 1820 , and the yeomanry corps was disbanded on 9 June 1824 . Public office and creation of baronetcy . After the repeal of the Test Acts and the passage of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 , the Trafford family became eligible for offices previously barred to them by their religion . Thomas Trafford was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1834 . He is also recorded as serving as Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire . He was created the First Baronet de Trafford on 7 September 1841 . On 8 October 1841 , Queen Victoria issued a royal licence to Sir Thomas Joseph Trafford .. . that he may henceforth resume the ancient patronymic of his family , by assuming and using the surname of De Trafford , instead of that of Trafford and that such surname may be henceforth taken and used by his issue . The anglicisation to Trafford had probably occurred in the 15th century , when the Norman article de , signifying that a family originated from a particular place , was generally dropped in England . The resumption of such older versions of family names was a romantic trend in 19th-century England , encouraged by a mistaken belief that the article de indicated nobility . Later life . Thomas de Trafford is recorded as living at 12 Grosvenor Street , in Mayfair , London from 1847 to 1852 . In 1852 , Thomas was thrown from his horse and broke several ribs . While he was convalescing , his wife , Laura , died on 22 October 1852 . The family delayed Lauras burial to 5 November , and Thomas died five days later at Trafford Park on 10 November 1852 . Thomas de Traffords funeral was held on 19 November 1852 , with a procession departing Trafford Park at 8:30am . An immense crowd attended the service at Salford Cathedral . Bibliography . - Baines , Edward ( 1836 ) , History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster , Fisher , Son , & Co . - Richards , W.S.G . ( 1896 ) , The History of the De Traffords of Trafford . Circa A.D . 1000-1893 . Including the Royal and Baronial descents of the family . 202 pages , printed for private circulation , Plymouth