Captain Joseph Lowes Thompson Mildred Adamson                       1888-1978 Mildred was born on 25 May 1888, the daughter of John Adamson and Mary Burnop Mail. She died in 1978, at age 90, in a nursing home in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

Joseph Lowes Thompson                            1886-1929 Joseph Lowes was born 3 July 1886 in Fulwell, of Charles Elliot Thompson and Mary Jane Kish. He married Mildred Adamson on 5 January 1910. He was a shipowner, and during WW1, a Captain of 2/5th West Yorkshire Regiment. They moved to New York, USA, in 1922, and resided at 8 Field Court, in the Town of Bronxville, in the Village of Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York. He died on 27 June 1929, just six days short of his 43rd birthday. Cause of death was a heart attack. His occupation was listed as Christian Science Practitioner. After his death, Mildred and the children, except for one of the twins, who had already married, returned to England. Mildred Adamson Thompson in her wedding dress

Westburn, Thornhill Terrace, Sunderland

1922     Family sailed from Southampton, to New York City, on the Aquitania, arriving on 7 April 1922. The immigration manifest stated they were visiting Joseph's brother, Allan Robert Thompson, at Bronxville Road, Bronxville, Westchester County, New York. The family settled in Bronxville, and remained there until Joseph's death in 1929.

The Joseph Lowes Thompson family at Bronxville, New York.

The Joseph Lowes Thompson family at Bronxville, New York.

1929   Mildred returned to England with Rosemarie, Joseph, and Kenneth.

Summary of the Will of Mr. Joseph Lowes Thompson of Stratford House, East Bolden, Sunderland, County Durham Trustees and Executors: 1886 - 1929       Dated 3 July 1914 Wife Mildred, brother Charles Elliot Thompson, and William Kirk Hewson of 55 John Street, Sunderland. William Kirk Hewson Twenty Five pounds for services rendered. Wife:  Mildred Thompson: All my furniture and other household effects and my motor car, plus 100 pounds to be paid within one month of my death. Until death or remarriage: The full income from my residuary trust fund. If wife remarries: One half the amount otherwise entitled Children:  Any and all After death or remarriage of wife, the annual income from the Trust Estate equally divided Codicil to Will of Joseph Lowes Thompson of 2 The Lawn, Sunderland, County Durham Dated 4 January 1921 Delete Trustee and Executor: Brother Charles Elliot Thompson

The Times, Monday, Feb 8, 1937                         Marriages

DEMUTH : THOMPSON - On Feb. 5, 1937, at the Priory, Christchurch, Claud Frederick, younger son of Frederick George Demuth, of Southbourne to Rosemarie Pearl, daughter of the late Capt. J. Lowes Thompson, of Sunderland, Durham, and Mildred Thompson, of 80, Stanpit Christchurch.

Death

Rosemarie Pearl (Thompson) Demuth

Died 11 Dec 1956 Age 45 ,         Cobham,       1956 Dec Surrey Northern 5g 443

LONDON   26 Feb 1957                         Probate

DEMUTH, Rosemarie Pearl - of Church Stile House, Cobham, Surrey (wife of Claud Frederick Demuth) died 11 December 1956, at The Cottage Hospital, Cobham, Probate London 26 February, to the said Claud Frederick Demuth, advertisement copy writer, and Ronald Pitcairn Demuth, architect.   Effects £5,353 13s. 1d.