Flora Thompson, author of “Lark Rise to Candleford” and other books

Flora Thompson, author of “Lark Rise to Candleford” and other books
Family History       Named Families        19thC 20thC
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Family History:Resources for researching your family history: parish registers, censuses, and well-known local people and families.
Named Families:Resources on well-known local people and families.
DHRG No:102956
Format:Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Synopsis:
Article by Ted Flaxman. Born Flora Jane Timms in 1876, in the small rural hamlet of Juniper Hill in north Oxfordshire. She left home at the age of 14 to start work in the nearby village of Fringford as assistant to the Post Mistress until she was 20. Married in January 1903 to John Thompson, she came to Dartmouth when John was appointed Postmaster at Dartmouth in August 1927. The couple moved to Brixham during the Second World War. Flora died of a heart attack at the age of 70 in May 1947 at Brixham followed by John a year later. She is buried Longcross Cemetery, Townstal.