Thomas married Mary Ann MONCKTON, daughter of Edward MONCKTON. Born abt 1795 in Kent, England.
- from familysearch.org digitized book entitled “A Genealogical History of the Family of Monckton, comprising A Full Account of the Yorkshire and Kentish Branches, with some partiuculars of the Principal Members of the Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, and Northamptonshire Branches”
by David Henry Monckton, M.D. Dond., F.R.C.S. Engl, L.S.A., A.K.C., Surgeon-Major Commanding Fifth Division Volunteer Medical Staff, and Member of the Kent Archaeological Society. Formerly of Rugeley, now Maidstone. Printed in London: Mitchell and Hughes, 140 Wawrdour Street, W., MD.CCC.LXXXVII [1887]:
On page 16 and 17, regarding
"In reference to this picture [of Rev. John Monckton, Vicar of Brenchley, Kent] Mrs. Mary Anne Boorman (nee Monckton, and the oldest member of the family then living) wrote in 1871 to the author of these memoirs to the following effect: "My Grandfather and Grandmother, Edward and Rosamond, lived in an old roomy house looking into the village of Benchley, but at their death pulled down, and the garden, orchard, and farmyard all thrown into the meadow adjoining Porto Bello House and garden; in the said house was one of the parlours, not papered like the rest, but tapestried; in this room were three life-sized canvas pictures, family likenesses, but as a child I cannot remember what they were, save one, and that was a clergyman in his black gown and a Bible in his hand; this picture, when we left Peckham, was hanging on the staircase at Hale Place [her father Edward's residence]. All that I know of his history is that he was of the Church of England, he married three times, had five children by each wife, and his fifteen children followed him to the grave."
Later on page 17: "The same Mrs. Mary Ann Boorman, whose letter is quoted above, writing to the author in May 1869, says, "When your uncle Doctor [meaning Stephen of Porto Bello; No. 63; Plate XXVI.] heard that our two boys (of blessed memory) went to school at Wye College, he said that years ago, when a parson Moncton was preaching in Wye Church, there came up an awful thunderstorm, so much so that he dismissed the congregation; he had just reached the cloisters door when a tremendous crash caused him to look behind hime, and the tower of the church was split to atoms." [Further details of this event, which happened on Sunday, March 21st, 1686, are also listed. The identity of the parson mentioned is uncertain.] Wills exist for Rev. John Monckton and 12 of his children.
Page 17 shows a plate of a memorial plate located "in Chancel of All Saints Church. Brenchley, Kent." Transcibed as "To the Memory of the Rev'd John Monckton M.A. for 57 years Vicar of Brenchley. Interred in this chancel. Feby 16th 1709, Aged 89. He was the son of the Rev'd Christopher Monckton M.A.-B.D. Rector of Hayes, and Vicar of Orpington. in the County of Kent. Erected A.D. 1881"
On page 157: "This Surgeon Jonathan of Marden was the baptismal sponsor of the writer's father Jonathan Monckton, surgeon, of Brenchley, and the following account of him is from a letter written to the author by his aunt Mrs. Mary Ann Boorman nee Monckton: I am afraid I cannot enlighten you much respecting the Monckton family of bygone days, but thus much I can say, your dear father (i.e. Jonathan of Brenchley) was born in 1796 (fifteen months after my unworthy self). An old gentleman of Marden in Kent, a medical man of little practice, a bachelor, asked my father (i.e. Edward of Hale Place, East Peckham) what his last child was, boy or girl; the reply was a boy. 'Well, Ned (said he), have him named Jonathan after me, and I will think of him in my will.' The legacy was the old Bible which you know of. (Old Book, No. I, p. cvii.) He was very eccentric and used to pay your old Uncle Dr. an annual visit till within a few years of his death. I think I understood he left his old housekeeper (as eccentric as himself) the bulk of his property. I do not know where he was buried, but, by his own desire, it was in his best wig, a new suit of clothes, and his gold-headed walking-stick and a mourning ring."
Other references to "Boorman" in this book:
- In the Appendix - Descendants of Edward and Sarah Monckton of Hale Place, East Peckham, Kent page cix [quantities only, not names]…
Grandchildren - Mary Ann Boorman's children - 7
Great-grandchildren - Thomas Boorman's cildren - 4
Great-great-grandchildren - Thomas Hugh Boorman's child - 1
- in the appendix - Porto Bello Deeds, under the subtitle "The Contents of My Iron Chest" on page CXXX: "The title deeds and the marriage settlement between Mr. Tho's Boorman and my niece Mary Ann Monckton"
- On page following the index entitled "Original Subscribers of this Work" [including] "Boorman, Captain Herbert Wild, Oceana"