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WALLINGFORD, CT - (From Alderson-Ford Funeral Home) Norma Lamb Thompson of Wallingford passed away Thursday, January 21, 2021 at age 100.
She was the devoted wife of the late John Boyd Thompson. Norma was born in New Haven on May 25, 1920, daughter of the late William and Mary Ann Kelly Lamb.
She is the beloved mother of Maryann Dolan and her husband, John, of Wallingford; and also leaves her precious grandson, Kevin Dolan and his wife, Julienne; and her two great-grandchildren, Megan and Cullen Dolan of Avon, who she adored; and several wonderful nieces and nephews.
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In addition to her husband, Norma was predeceased by her cherished daughter, Sheryl Lee Thompson and 13 siblings.
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CHESHIRE, CT - (From Alderson-Ford Funeral Home) Norma Lamb Thompson of Wallingford passed away Thursday, January 21, 2021 at age 100. She was the devoted wife of the late John Boyd Thompson.
Norma was born in New Haven on May 25, 1920, daughter of the late William and Mary Ann Kelly Lamb.She is the beloved mother of Maryann Dolan and her husband, John, of Wallingford; and also leaves her precious grandson, Kevin Dolan and his wife, Julienne; and her two great-grandchildren, Megan and Cullen Dolan of Avon, who she adored; and several wonderful nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, Norma was predeceased by her cherished daughter, Sheryl Lee Thompson and 13 siblings.
The union was not condoned by Catherine’s family, who turned her out when they realised she was romantically attached to the guardsman who earned a living selling pamphlets and ballads.
But Catherine was enchanted by the charismatic, handsome Irishman and the pair began a life together travelling from town to town on foot and sleeping rough – by the time she left her family’s care, she was already pregnant.
Their speciality was writing and selling ‘gallows ballads’, on one occasion the couple hawked such a publication at the execution of Catherine’s cousin, Charles Christopher Robinson, 18, who was hanged in Stafford after being found guilty of cutting the throat of his sweetheart in 1866.
The union was not condoned by Catherine’s family, who turned her out when they realised she was romantically attached to the guardsman who earned a living selling pamphlets and ballads.
But Catherine was enchanted by the charismatic, handsome Irishman and the pair began a life together travelling from town to town on foot and sleeping rough – by the time she left her family’s care, she was already pregnant.
Their speciality was writing and selling ‘gallows ballads’, on one occasion the couple hawked such a publication at the execution of Catherine’s cousin, Charles Christopher Robinson, 18, who was hanged in Stafford after being found guilty of cutting the throat of his sweetheart in 1866.
It is wonderful to see the magnificent work being carried out at the former Central Hotel on Peter Street - including Haughney s Hole in the Wall.
It has an extraordinary history and it would take a book to record it all, but going back to 1898, Albert Robert Kelly took over the license for it.
It was a place famous for great gatherings, not least in September 1901 when newly elected MP for Louth, Joseph Nolan arrived by train from Dublin to be met by the Colonel Leonard Band and he was paraded in a torchlight procession to the Central for a gathering.