Thomas Bonham Kinnersley
Thomas Kinnersley's eldest son was:
| 1) | Thomas Bonham Kinnersley (Jul 1806 - 16 Oct 1852) |
| m.(1) 10 Apr 1828 Elizabeth Goodman Bryden (12 Apr 1805 - 2 Mar 1842) |
After Thomas's death, TBK continued to operate the family printing business. The New York City Directories list him at several addresses: 7 Leonard Street (1844), 11 York Street (1845), and 215 Church Street (1846-1851). His own early death at the age of 46 was from phthisis. (Phthisis, pronounced "tysus," is the term used at that time for pulmonary tuberculosis.) Information on his death is recorded in the New York City Death Records, which is also the source of his approximate date of birth. Thomas Bonham Kinnersley is buried in New York Bay Cemetery, Jersey City, NJ.
Thomas Bonham Kinnersley's wife Elizabeth Bryden was the daughter of a Scottish sea captain, William Bryden of Baltimore, and his second wife Elizabeth Goodman. William's brother James was an innkeeper, who moved from Baltimore to New York in 1818. Possibly Elizabeth met TBK during a trip to New York to visit her uncle.
| a) Elizabeth Mary Kinnersley (4 Jan 1832 - 2 Sep 1834) |
TBK's first child Elizabeth Mary was baptized 25 Mar 1832, at St Mark's Church in the Bowery, New York City. She did not survive early childhood.
| b) | William Thomas Kinnersley (9 Oct 1833 - 9 Jun 1913) | ||
| m. 15 Aug 1858 Alabama Virginia Moore (7 Oct 1838 - 18 Aug 1913) | |||
| c) | James B. Kinnersley (1 Jan 1838 - 16 Oct 1880) | ||
| d) | Charles H. Kinnersley (1839 - 1856?) | ||
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EBK died of pneumonia at the age of 36, and is buried alongside her parents in Westminster Presbyterian Churchyard, Fayette and Greene Streets in Baltimore, the same small cemetery where Edgar Allan Poe is buried. With three young sons to raise, TBK soon remarried:
| m.(2) | 1 Jan 1843 Mrs Mary Matilda Newstead (1812 - 31 Oct 1880) | ||
| (no issue) | |||
His second marriage took place at the Bedford Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn, witnessed by his brother Augustus Kinnersley, and by Elizabeth F. Ormond, who was probably Mary Matilda's mother. Thomas, Mary and Elizabeth are listed together in the 1850 Census:
1850 Census, New York Ward 5, p6 l29
| Eliz Omerode | 65 | Eng | ||
| Thomas Kingsley | 44 | Eng | ||
| Mary | 38 | Eng | ||
| Eliza | 16 | Eng | ||
| William | 17 | NY | ||
| James | 12 | NY | ||
| Charles | 11 | NY |
The Eliza listed here is unknown. She may have been a child from Mary's first marriage. After TBK himself died in 1852, Mary again remarried. We have a picture apparently of Mary and her husband, marked "Pap's Stepparents." Cemetery records give her name at the time of death as Mary M. Verlander.
1870 Census, Morrisania p89
| Philip Verlander | 62 | Eng | ||
| Mary | 58 | Eng | ||
| Henry | 29 | New York |
1880 Census, New York p368C
| Philip W. Verlander | 72 | Eng | ||
| Mary M. | 68 | Eng |
Mary is buried in New York Bay Cemetery, "next to Grandpa" (TBK). Notes taken by Bertie Kinnersley point out the coincidence between the death dates of TBK and James B. Kinnersley. (TBK and JBK, father and son, both died on Saturday, October 16th, 28 years apart.)
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