Records of William Thom on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Thom and the Thom Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Thom Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Thom family tree.

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Some Famous People called William Thom

William Thom (preacher)

William Thom (also known as 'Billy') (1751-1811) was a Methodist preacher and co-founder, with Alexander Kilham, of the breakaway 'New Itinerancy', later the Methodist New Connection, founded in 1797. Thom was the first President of the New Connection, while Kilham was its first secretary. Thom wrote a brief guide entitled Serious advice to the servants of the Methodist Society: in the circuit of Leeds, published in 1796, and he and Kilham jointly wrote the Out-lines of a constitution; proposed for the examination, amendment and acceptance, of the members of the Methodist New Itinerancy, which was published in 1797.

He was mentioned in John Wesley's Last Will and Testament as being 'of Whitby' and listed as a 'preacher and expounder of God's Holy Word'. Wesley wrote a letter to Thom in 1790 regarding the Methodist position on attending Church of England communion services.

Source: William Thom (preacher), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Thom

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