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Thomas Pentecost
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Thomas Pentecost was born at Crawley in 1792 and became a rural postman in Uckfield. At the age of nearly sixty he commenced to write poetry which he published in 1856 under the title of the "Harp of Aeolus." He is known as Uckfield's Postman-Poet.


See also Uckfield's Postman-Poet by Arthur Beckett published in 1939.
Date
Type
Information
Source
 
1792
Born
In the Parish of Crawley, Sussex
1851 Census
Uckfield, Sussex
 
21st October 1817
Married
Ann Brooks at St. Mary's Church in the Parish of Newick, Sussex; witnesses: James Standen & Sarah Sifflet
Newick Marriage Registers
 
1819
Birth of a son
Edmund in the Parish of Newick, Sussex
1851 Census
Uckfield, Sussex
 
1828
Birth of a son
Albert in the Parish of Uckfield, Sussex
1851 Census
Uckfield, Sussex
 
1833
At Uckfield; Penticost, Thomas; occupation Boot maker
Pigot's Directory
 
6th June 1841
Census
At Church Street in the Parish of Uckfield, Sussex; Thomas Penticost, M, Head, age 49, born Sussex; occupation Leather cutter
1841 Census
Uckfield, Sussex
 
1851
At Uckfield; Pentecost, Thomas; occupation Leather cutter
Post Office Directory
 
30th March 1851
Census
At Church Street in the Parish of Uckfield, Sussex; Head; occupation Leather and coal dealer
1851 Census
Uckfield, Sussex
 
24th September 1869
Died
In the Parish of Uckfield, Sussex; registered at Uckfield District, Sussex; ref: 1869 Q3 Vol 2b Page 61; aged 77 years
Uckfield Burial Registers
Probate Registry of England and Wales
 
29th September 1869
Buried
At Holy Cross Church in the Parish of Uckfield, Sussex
Uckfield Burial Registers
 
22nd January 1870
Probate
In the Parish of Lewes, Sussex; Effects: under £200
Probate Registry of England and Wales

No ancestor's report
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Pencost, Pentecost, Penticost individual records
The ancestral pedigree of Thomas Pentecost
  
 Thomas Pentecostm: 21st Oct 1817 St. Mary's Church, Newick, SussexAnn Brooks 
 b: 1792 Crawley, Sussex
d: 24th Sep 1869 Uckfield, Sussex
bur: 29th Sep 1869 Holy Cross Church, Uckfield, Sussex
  b: 1792 Newick, Sussex 
  
  
 Edmund Albert
 b: 1819 Newick, Sussex b: 1828 Uckfield, Sussex
   
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