Try as I might, I can't find Joseph Thornthwaite in the 1911 census. Born Lorton, 1854. In 1901 he was still running the Crown and Mitre in Cockermouth but gave up the tenancy that year. In 1921 he's lodging in Goat and working as an ag lab at Hames Hall. Can anyone else find him in 1911, please?
Could he be the Joseph Chointhwaite (FMP) widower working as an Ag Lab Kirkgate Cockermouth? Unhelpfully his pob is just Cumberland, Cockermouth dittoed from the others on the schedule RG14 PN31411 SN41
Well done MM - that looks quite likely. I couldn't find him, but hadn't reckoned on the surname being quite so mangled. And it looks as though he could/would have been a widower - FreeBMD is giving me the death of a Dinah T in the Cockermouth district in Jun qtr 1901, age 42.
Perfect, thank you @MollyMay - that's him. Yes, @arthurk he was widowed after the 1901 census - he'd had the pub for thirteen years but she died of cirrhosis of the liver, as you say, only 42 years of age. Very sad. Thanks both!
My 2nd gt aunt married a Thornthwaite ( a branch that moved from Cumberland to Bath) I found them transcribed as Thomshward, Thornivade and Thornwast!
Ooh @Londoner. Not from around Embleton, were they? (One never knows). Not surprisingly, it took me an instant to find the Chointhwaite once @MollyMay had located them - because there was only one of those.
No, apparently descended from Daniel and Hannah(nee Gibson) of Bromfield. On the other side of the Pennines.
