Thomas Cave Winscom (1787-1840) conducted one marriage at Badsey in February 1818 and seven baptisms between January and April 1819 during the interregnum of Curates, William Squire Rufford and Cudworth Bruch.
Thomas Cave Winscom was born at Brecon on 10th October 1787, the son of Thomas Winscom and his wife, Jane (née Cave). He was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, on 19th November 1811. He was a “ten-year man”; this was a category of mature student (a man over 24) who, under the University's statutes of 1570, could proceed to a BD degree ten years after matriculation without first gaining a BA degree or a MA degree. He gained his BD in 1823.
Thomas was ordained a deacon on 29th June 1811 and as a priest on 27th March 1814 at St James’ Church, Piccadilly. From June 1811 he was Stipendiary Curate at Llangattock juxta Caerleon and at Llanhennock, both in the diocese of Llandaff. From March 1814 he was Curate of East Woodhay in the diocese of Winchester and from May 1820 he was Vicar of Warkworth, Northumberland, in the diocese of Durham. He is not known to have had a curacy in the Vale of Evesham area in 1818-1819 when he was officiating at services at Badsey, but he must have been living in the vicinity at that time.
Reverend Winscom married Susanna Judith Deschamps at Romsey, Hampshire, on 28th December 1812. Susanna died at Warkworth in December 1820, seven months after they had moved to her husband’s new parish. Thomas then married Eliza Maria Clutterbuck at Warkworth on 25th July 1822. They had five children: John Cave (1824), George Vivian (1826), Jane Ann (1828), Harriett (1830) and Richard Thomas (1832).
Reverend Winscom died at Warkworth in March 1840, aged 52, and was buried in the parish. His widow outlived him by 44 years, dying in Stroud in 1884.