Biography:
1. Thomas Cross had been employed in cutting the weeds in the streams, according to a letter from his widow (Supply 5/198 dated the 23rd January 1807). Contained in this letter was a Petition from Elizabeth Cross that her husband, having been principally employed for 4 years in this capacity, had caught such a "violent cold as to be the cause of bringing on a Consumption of which he died', and she, therefore, requested fianancial assistance. In a letter dated the 16th February 1807 (also Supply 5/198), it was stated that she should be allowed the sum of "Two Guineas as some relief in her present necessity." Thomas Cross would have been a General Labourer; he died on or about the 23rd October 1806.
