looking for a horrible woman!!

[Jeanie with one n.]

In 1876 at Derby county court a Hannah Brewerton was fined for beating her
4 year old step son.
She was the landlady of Commercial House, Midlands Road, no town stated.
Cannot find her either on ancestry or by googling.
Any thoughts?
Many thanks
Jeanie

[Little Nell]

What is the source for the information you have?

[Little Nell]

There's a Midland Road in Derby itself, so that seems the likeliest place.

[Jeanie with one n.]

Hi Nell, it is from a report from the Derby paper found on the gale site.
I have looked on the 1881 and 1891 census.
Have also tried to find marriages between 1872 and 1876.
Of course his age might have been recorded incorrectly.

[Jeanie with one n.]

I have searched on there for commercial house and it looks as if that was the name given to any hotel or no doubt, a type of hotel.
Have also searched for midland road.
Off to search historical directories.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

If her step-son was aged 4 then you would expect Hannah had only married Mr B within the last four years. However, I can't see any marriages of Brewerton to Hannah X between 1872 and 1876.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Tried same with Ann/Annie etc. Still nothing.

[Jeanie with one n.]

Thanks for looking Merry.
I too can't find anything. I suppose the son could be a different age from the newspaper report which made uncomfortable reading.
The one good thing was that the police were involved, so they did not just dismiss it as a mothers right to beat her child.

[Little Nell]

I don't think mothers had rights in 1876. I thought fathers had rights to beat their wives and their children.

Of course stepson mightn't be strictly accurate as a way of describing their relationship. But its odd you can't find any information about her.

[the meercat]

hi,

i think you will find her name was Hannah Bruerton she married john Bruerton in
1874.

[KiteRunner]

I can't find our map of Derby just at the moment, but I think Midland Road would be near the railway station and there would have been lots of hotels etc there.

[Jessbowbag]

Hannah Hickling married John Bruerton

[KiteRunner]

There is a John Bruerton death registered in Derby Mar 1900, age 70, and a Hannah Bruerton in Dec 1916 age 80. So they should be around on some censuses... if it's the same people of course! Hannah's surname was Hicklin when she married John.

[KiteRunner]

This could be them in 1891:

RG12; Piece: 2739; Folio 97; Page 14
New Normanton, Derbyshire. (part of Derby)
7 St James Road
John Bruerton Head M 61 Blacksmith Staffordshire Darlaston
Hannah Do Wife M 55 Derbyshire Chellaston
Emily Do Daur S 28 Machinist Do Derby
Florence Mary do Daur 10 scholar Do New Normanton

[KiteRunner]

There is a Hannah Hicklin baptism on the IGI at Chellaston, 14 Aug 1836, parents Samuel and Elizabeth.

[KiteRunner]

And on the 1881 census they have been mistranscribed as Bricerton (mind you, I think the 1891 transcriber did a good job to get Bruerton), but I can't seem to get the right image to load. Anyway, this is the reference:
RG11; Piece: 3388; Folio: 10; Page: 11;
The transcription says they are at 39 St James Road and there is a boy John H age 10 who would be the stepson in your report. There is also a Hannah Hicklin age 8 to show the marriage mentioned earlier is the right one.

[KiteRunner]

John Henry Bruerton birth registered Dec 1870 Derby.

[KiteRunner]

Oh, that makes him a bit too old to be the boy that you mentioned, doesn't it?

[KiteRunner]

This is the family in 1871 (transcribed as Brueston on ancestry):
35 Barlow St., Litchurch, Derbyshire
John Bruerton Head Mar 41 Engine Bell Maker Staffordsh Darlaston
Lucy Do Wife Mar 30 Do Do
Ann Do Daur 13 Scholar Do Do
Emily Do Daur 8 Do Derbysh Litchurch
Ada Do Daur 3 Do Do
John H Do son 6 mo Do Do

There are baptisms on the IGI for John and Lucy's children and the Derby ones were baptised at St Andrew's Derby, but there is no boy after John Henry - there is a girl, Mary Elizabeth, baptised 27 Nov 1872 (birth registered Dec 1872), and Lucy's death was registered Sep 1873. There aren't any Bruerton births in Derby on FreeBMD after Mary Elizabeth until 1876, so it doesn't look as though there was a younger stepson - so it must have been John Henry who was the boy mentioned after all. He would be about 5 or 6 at the time of the fine, wouldn't he? I don't suppose the case took years to come to court like it might nowadays, but that could be the explanation? Or they just got his age wrong.

[Little Nell]

I have got the 1881 image to load.

39 St James Road
John Bruerton 51 engine smith at factory b Darlaston, Staffordshire
>>>Hannah, wife, 45 Chellarton, Derbys.
Emily daur 18 tailoress Derby, Derbyshire
Ada daur 13 scholar Derby, Derbyshire
John H. son 10 scholar Derby, Derbyshire
Florence M. daur 4 months Derbyshire Homarton by D.
Hannah Hicklin visitor 8 scholar Findern, Derbys.

There's a big gap between John (b. abt 1871) and Florence.