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Old 31-10-10, 14:08
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Joseph Barber Brooks

Date and place of birth
3 September 1808

Names of parents
Robert and Elizabeth (née Gifford) Brooks

Date and place of baptism
2 October 1808 St James, Westminster

Details of his marriage
23 October 1830 to Harriet Elizabeth France at St George's, Hanover Square.

Occupation
Joseph was a frame maker according to his son Joseph's baptismal record, and a carver and guilder according to his son's marriage certificate; from more information, below - apprentice to a looking glass-maker, carver and gilder, and picture frame, and looking-glass manufacturer.


Addresses
Denmark Street, Soho, Wardour Street, Soho, 139 High Holborn, all in Middlesex
Silver Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
24 Anderson's Buildings, City Road Middlesex

Date, place and cause of death
Not yet discovered.


More information about him:
The Matters of the PETITIONS and SCHEDULES of the PRISONERS hereafter named (the same having been filed in the Court) are appointed to be heard at the Court House, in Portugal Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, on Monday the 23rd day of December 1833, at Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon.

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's Buildings, City Road Middlesex aforesaid, Carver and Gilder, and Picture Frame, and Looking-Glass Manufacturer.

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I know it's not much later, but the last mention I can find of him in the newspaper is in The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, February 11, 1834, when his case in the insolvent debtors' court in Portugal Street was held over until the following day.
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Oops, I've just seen that I already said that in July 2008 on another site! lol
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Old 02-11-10, 21:47
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Oops, I've just seen that I already said that in July 2008 on another site! lol
And I must have forgotten to note it on my computer!
Done it now.

And then he disappeared ...
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Old 03-11-10, 12:50
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Do you have the will of Robert France, framemaker (1842)? I wondered when it was written and, if he left his dau anything, what her status was at that date? Rather a long shot for making a difference! lol
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Old 03-11-10, 14:52
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Just browsing newspapers again (using my library ticket) - and getting nowhere fast other than - The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, February 10, 1834; Issue 20112.

Now that's a good thought, Merry :-)
A cousin obtained some wills a while back. I seem to be amassing masses of information. I wonder if I have a copy of his. Off to go through a pile of papers ....
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Old 03-11-10, 14:59
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Oh my word ... one for Robert Brooks, one for Harriet Brooks - ah, Robert France - shall try to decipher the small neat-looking writing. Back later.
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Old 03-11-10, 19:27
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Any luck?
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Old 03-11-10, 22:19
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I don't think so, but have been going cross-eyed trying to read it! I don't think she is mentioned in it.

I have scanned it which makes it a little easier to read - may I email it to you (tonight or tomorrow) to see what you think?
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OK (*hopes it isn't a 20 page one!!*). Have you got me addy?
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