Searching back to 2011 through the posts on this Forum, there has been plenty of interest in the surname Thompson.
I have a GG grandfather George Thompson who I can find little about.
He was a bricklayer and was alive in 1853. His son John b 1831 married Charlotte Mycock on the 1st of May 1853 at Sheffield Cathedral.
With little knowledge of George I am unable to identify him if there, in this sites burial index
I searched the census for George Thompson’s who were bricklayers and who were living within 20 miles of Sheffield.
It brought up two of them in the right age range:
One was born ca 1804 Bakewell, and was living in Bakewell in 1861.
The other was born ca 1797 Messingham, and was living in Doncaster in 1861.
Are either of these your man?
I have in my records a reference to John Thompson age 10 years in the Charity School, this would have been the building still standing adjacent to Sheffield Cathedral on East Parade.
Probably a question never to be answered, what were the circumstances which found him there ?
Looking at this site's burial records, there are a George and Ann Thompson buried together in Burngreave Grave no 68N. Unfortunately, there ages do not correlate with the marriage date information given!
One piece of information leads to another, but presumption is dangerous!!
In the burial records there is a George Thompson age 62 buried 3 August 1869 in Grave 28 J2
described as a Mason
On John's baptism record his father George is described as a Mason
As I commented presumption when researching is dangerous
Found the George Thompson born ca 1807 who was the mason. In the 1851 census in Sheffield he was with a wife called Frances Hadfield Thompson. Their marriage in 1834 says he was a bachelor at the time.
You can definitely exclude the one who was the bricklayer in Bakewell. I found him listed as a mason in 1851, and he had a son John who was only 10 years old.