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Phoenix 18-10-19 23:27

Who was Charles Brooks?
 
He seems straightforward enough:

Charles Hector Brooks bp 1791, son of Thomas and Susanna Brooks of Eagle & Child Yard, Holborn

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...17/edit/record


By 1841 (ie 50 years later) he is living south of the river, in Collingwood Street Southwark:


https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...59/edit/record and is a quill maker.


He is living with Mary Ann Pow, nee Cotmore, aged 45, her daughter and son-in law Mary Ann and Henry Hanscomb, and Elizabeth Rogers, aged 55, a quill-dresser.


Charles's will, made in 1844 (but not fully administered until 1890!!) https://www.ancestry.co.uk/mediaui-v...?usePUBJs=true mentions both Mary Anns, suggests that Thomas Pow may not be dead.


He also mentions Mary Ann Clapham common law wife of James Cotmore, Edwin Wall son of Sarah Cotmore and Edwin Wall, son of Ann Cotmore.


The Cotmores were famous pen-cutters.



Did Charles Brooks leave his money to them
  • because he'd worked with them?
  • through the persuasions of his common law wife?
  • because he already had some family connection with them?
Can anyone find any trace of Charles before 1841?

kiterunner 19-10-19 11:21

Possible marriage for Charles's parents: Thomas Brooks and Susannah Taylor 30 May 1785 at St Leonard, Shoreditch. Witnesses John Tilley and Margaret Stover. But I think there may have been more than one Thomas / Susanna couple in London around that time.

kiterunner 19-10-19 11:24

FMP has an 1844 Charles H Brooks entry in the "British Royal Navy Allotment Declarations 1795-1852". Sorry I haven't got a sub to look at it.

Phoenix 19-10-19 11:46

That's a lovely source, Kite. It helped me identify a Jones! But it's just after Charles died.

I do wonder if these are his parents:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...nSearchResults


They marry, just after his birth, by licence, and not in Holborn, though Thomas is of that parish

kiterunner 19-10-19 12:36

Could be. So we need to look for Brook(e) as well as Brook(e)s.


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