Joseph Barber Brooks

[Joy Dean]

This is in The Gazette, 29 November 1833:

Brooks, Joseph Barber (sued by the name of Joseph B.
Brooks), formerly of Denmark-Street, Soho, Apprentice to
a Looking Glass-Maker, then of Wardour-Street, Soho, then
of No. 139, High Holborn, all in Middlesex, then of Silver-
Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, and late of No. 24, Anderson'sSBuildings,
City-Road, Middlesex aforesaid, Carver and
Gilder, and Picture-Frame, and Looding Glass-Manufac-turer



I can't find anything else to tell me what happened next to him. Can anyone think of where else to look, please? Thank you.

[Mary from Italy]

Historical directories?

Historical Directories

Have you found him on the 1841 census?

[Joy Dean]

I'll try that, thanks.

He's not with his wife and son in 1841, they are with her parents, and can't find him in free BMD deaths and not on any census.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

I googled and got loads of messages written by someone called Joy Dean!! lol

Did he only have the one child that you know of?

[Joy Dean]

That's what I get when I google his name!!

Yes, as far as I know, only the one son, Joseph William Brooks, born about 1831.

Joseph was christened in St James, Westminster, 2 October 1808 and married Harriet France in St George's, Hanover Square, 23 October 1830.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

I realise this isn't helping to find JBB, but when I looked on the 1841 I thought the son was the 10 year-old with someone called George France (silversmith) aged 25, but you said the son was with his mother (on Rootsweb!), so is that the wrong one?

[Joy Dean]

Ah yes, good point - he's either with his uncle or with his mother.
1841 census Shop boy, age 10, with his uncle George France, Silversmith, age 25, at Riders Court, St Anne, Soho, Westminster.
1851 census Joseph Brookes, Pawnbroker's assistant, unmarried, age 20, born Holborn, Middlesex, 2 Albion Place, Islington. Living in a house with other pawnbroker's assistants and a pawnbroker's foreman who was head of the house (to whom his relationship was servant).


Got to go soon, but any more ideas gratefully received.



PS hay fever's got to me, can't stop sneezing ....

[Joy Dean]

PS - this is where I had thought he was with his mother and grandparents
William France age 11, Harriett France age 36, Robert France age 69, Sarah age 62.

Class: HO107; Piece 673; Book: 17; Civil Parish: St Giles in The Fields; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 7A; Folio: 32; Page: 56; Line: 19; GSU roll: 438789.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Oh, why aren't Joseph junr and Harriet called Brooks?

I found Joseph Brooks aged 10 in St Ann Soho with George France.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Oh sorry, I missed the additions to your previous post! I've got it now!!

[Joy Dean]

Perhaps my great-great-great-great-grandad Robert said to the enumerator something like there's me, my wife Sarah, daughter and grandson .....

There again, maybe William is a different relative ....

atchoo ..... Night night.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

lol! Anything is possible!

Nite nite !

*passes hankies*

[Joy Dean]

Any more thoughts, please?



PS thank you for the hankies

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

He was still alive in Feb the following year!! lol

Morning Chronicle 10th Feb 1834

Morning Chronical 10th Feb 1834.jpg

[Joy Dean]

So he was. Thank you.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Pity it didn't say when the case was adjourned to?

[Joy Dean]

And I can't get in the Gale site any more to search around :(

More information leads to more questions, as always

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Ah, it was adjourned until the following day! lol

Doesn't say any more.....Opposed cases from yesterday and his name.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

And I can't get in the Gale site any more to search around :(

More information leads to more questions, as always

Not could I. I re-registered!

[Joy Dean]

Thank you.

I'll have to do that, too.