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Some bits and pieces from FMP newspaper records about Job Henry West (I've not transcribed fully, this is the jist!):
Morning Chronicle 03 November 1823 Partnerships dissolved: Job Henry West and Mary Forsyth of John St Curtain Road - brewers 17 October 1832 - Morning Post - London From the London Gazette Oct 16th - Bankrupts - James William West and Job Henry West Turner's Square Hoxton brewers 17 March 1858 - London Evening Standard Charles Stewart, an ex-policeman, was found guilty of having stolen a pint pewter pot, the property of Job Henry West. Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette 31 July 1880 West July 23rd at Katherine Villa Thornton Heath Croydon Job Henry West aged 78 Croydon Chronicle and East Surrey Advertiser 09 April 1881 A search for creditors etc following JHW's death. He is described as "formerly of Hackney Road, Middlesex but late of Thornton Heath Croydon. Chelmsford Chronicle 10 March 1905 A claim is made upon the estate of JHW of a piece of land at Shaftesbury Road Leyton by Charles William Bowles of 181 Church Road Leyton. CWB lost the case. London Evening Standard 21 July 1909 High Court of Justice Chancery Division - Not entirely sure what this is about as I cant tell where the details of one case end and the next begin! I wonder if widow Mary Forsyth is of any importance?
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As others have said on this thread, the Victorian era was one in which many ordinary people made a vast sum of money. My 4xg-aunt, daughter of a hat maker, married a chap, son of an umbrella maker. Her husband lived 1803-1893, so a similar time frame to your ancestor and when he died he left over £300,000 (I haven't worked out what that might equal today!) all made from selling tea. Could have been beer if he hadn't been teetotal!
I'm not saying the stories you have might not be true, just that it was possible to make a great deal from nothing if you got lucky and worked hard.
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Probably lol! None of it has filtered in my direction
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Wannabe Toff, one thing you could try if you haven't already done so, is to look through any West wills from around the right time to see whether they mention any of these people.
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Plus he "took a job in Chatham" a long time before the Napoleonic Wars began!
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