Stationmaster – Hatfield – John Thomas Cross

John Thomas Cross

1859 – 1923

Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans branch:

• Stationmaster at Hatfield and in charge of Nast Hyde Halt c1917 – 1923.

Life Highlights:

• Born in 1859, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire.
• Married Sarah Alice Pedder in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, in 1887.
• Died on 31^st July 1923.
• Probate granted to Sarah Alice Cross on 26^th October 1923: effects £1,141.3.0.
• (Wife died on 23^rd September 1939: probate granted 28^th November 1939: effects £4,029.19.8.)

Homes included:

• Woolmer Green, Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
• Knebworth Cottage, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

He, his wife, 4 daughters and 1 son are at Woolmer Green, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, in the 1901 census, Railway Station Master.

He, his wife and 2 daughters are at Woolmer Green, Knebworth, Herts, in the 1911 census, Station Master.

Recorded in the 1911 census is the fact that he and his wife had had 7 children born alive, of which 6 were still alive.

Information gathered from:

• The Roger Taylor archive.
• Census returns.
• Births Index
• Marriage Index.
• Deaths Index.
• Wills Index.