Thomas Edmondson [SEP] place of death
Thomas Edmondson
Thomas Edmondson (30 June 1792 in Lancaster, England – 22 June 1851 in Manchester, England) is the inventor of the 
Edmondson railway ticket.
He was a member of the Religious Society of Friends and originally worked in the Lancaster cabinet making business of Gillow.
While working as a station master at Milton (later Brampton) on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway he 
devised the idea of a new type of railway ticket: a small piece of cardboard, 
pre-printed with journey details
property, including Millford. The 1787 tax records show Elizabeth Rickman charged with two tracts of land, and , with no name directly associated with the land. Elizabeth Rickman subsequently married John Edmondson around 1789. Her will, drafted in May 1790, specified all of her land was to go to her husband John Edmondson; and upon his death, the Thomas Brown tract was to go to her brother William Henry Harrison, while the home place would go to Carter Bassett Harrison, another brother.
Although Elizabeth's will specified