Social Victorians/People/Mann Thomson

Also Known As

 * Family name: Mann Thomson, though sometimes handled as Thomson

Demographics

 * Nationality: Scots

Residences

 * Dalkeith, Kimmarnock
 * Falkland House, Falkland (as of 7 January 1888)

Family

 * John Mann Thomson (28 April 1834 – 12 March 1899)
 * Jessie Jackson (5 September 1837 – 5 April 1924)
 * Jane Baird Mann Heneage (30 April 1866 – 12 October 1909)
 * Jessie B. Thomson (c. 1867 – )
 * William Dixon Mann Thomson (c. 1868 – )
 * John Mann Thomson (28 May 1880 – )
 * H. Mann Thomson ? [mentioned as brother of the groom in the report on William Dixon's wedding]

William Dixon Mann Thomson

 * Royal Horse Guards

Timeline
1865 June 1, John Mann Thomson and Jessie Jackson married.

1897 July 2, Captain Mann Thomson attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

1900 July 6, Friday, the London Evening Standard reports that Captain W. D. Mann-Thomson embarked on the Persia: THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. TO-DAY'S EMBARKATIONS.

Captain W. D. Mann-Thomson, of the Royal Horse Guards, will command the reinforcement for the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment, which will embark in the Persia, at the Royal Albert Dock, to-day. Captain Mann-Thomson will have command of all the troops on board, the latter including a strong draft for the Gloucestershire Regiment, as well as about 200 horses. 1901 July 25, William Dixon Mann-Thomson and Violet Hemsley Duncan married. Their wedding was reported in local papers, with an extensive list of gifts.

1903 February 4, Miss Jeanie Mann Thomson and Captain Ivo D. W. Heneage married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Mann Thomson (at 321), probably William Dixon Mann Thomson, was dressed as a Yeoman in the Queen Elizabeth procession.


 * "Four yeomen held a canopy over Her Majesty's head. Their uniforms were exactly copied from the picture of the Field of the Cloth of Gold at Hampton Court. These were the Duke of Roxburghe, the Hon. Dudley Marjoribanks, Captain Maunde Thompson [sic], and Mr. Rose attired in scarlet and black."
 * He was one of the "six halberdiers attending on the Queen, their costumes copied from Holbein's picture at Hampton Court."

Notes and Questions

 * 1) John Mann Thomson is listed in the 1881 Scotland census as "Iron Master (Emp. 6000 Lds)." His wife Jessie J. Thomson is there, as are children Jessie B. Thomson (14) and John M. Thomson (10 months) and 7 servants, all women. Both John Mann Thomson and Jessie J. Thomson were born in Glasgow.
 * 2) John Mann Thomson is listed in the 1891 Scotland census as "Iron Master." This wife Jessie Mann Thomson is there, as are children Jane Baird Mann Thomson, Wm Dixon Mann Thomson, John Mann Thomson, and 10 servants, one male.
 * 3) John Mann Thomson died in Mantone, France, on 12 March 1899.