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Section 27
The children of Samuel of Harrow

Samuel of Harrow and his wife Lucy had seven children of whom three survived childhood, married and had children. George, Charles Alfred (who establised the 'Kings Norton Branch') and Mary Ann who married BURROWES.

27.A  George  1817-1869

George Brush[82] was baptised on 8 June 1817 at St Mary's Harrow. His parents lived at Greenhill , a hamlet in the parish of Harrow, just north of Harrow itself.

It seems that Samuel was able to secure places 'in service' with his employer, for both George and his younger brother Charles Alfred, appear in the 1841 census record at the London house of Sir John Dean PAUL (the elder) at 218 The Strand - close to the bank in which he was a partner.  Also employed there in 1841 was Elizabeth LILLINGTON who George married on 11 February 1847 at St Clement Danes Church in the Strand.

I can find no evidence that Sir John Dean Paul also had a house at Greenhill.  The farm of which Samuel was steward seems simply to have been owned by PAUL and SNOW. The Paul and Snow families were banking partners, owned at least one other farm and were inter-married. Sir John Dean PAUL the elder is described in Wikipedia as "an English landowner, banker, painter, and occasional author.  Most of Paul’s works as a painter were landscapes and paintings of horses. In 1821 he was created a baronet, a revival of an honour previously held by another branch of the Paul family."   The BRUSH 'boys' were perhaps fortunate to have left the family's employ a few years before his son, the second Sir John Dean PAUL, was disgraced, sentenced to transportation on 27th October 1855 and made bankrupt over a banking fraud.  It's an interesting story but too much to include here.

George BRUSH set up as a fruiterer and greengrocer at 15 Goswell Road in Clerkenwell, where son George Charles was born on 26 March 1848.  The baptism register shows his address as 15B - presumably above the shop. He soon moved to premises in Holborn.  By 2 April 1850, when their second son Samuel Isaac is born, George and Elizabeth are at 28 Red Lion Street in Holborn.  In the 1851 census he is recorded as a greengrocer and they have a live-in servant of their own.  Elizabeth is recorded in the census as Eliza and her birthplace as Somersetshire. I cannot make out the parish name (possibly Bath) but it is interesting to note that the same birthplace is given for their 15 year old servant Mary Ann Dempsey.  Elizabeth's father is named as Ambrose Lillington but I cannot find any records for their family other than his death at Bath

Every morning for two years from 2005 to 2007, on my way to work, I used to sit having my breakfast in a café right opposite number 28 Red Lion Street, which is on the corner with Princeton Street.  Unfortunately Red Lion Street suffered bomb damage in WW2 and number 28 looks to be a post-war building.  But the neighbouring properties (the Chinese restaurant on the left in the picture) are of a style which suggests they were there in George's time.  Today it is a quiet side street full of small cafes but in the 19th century it was a busy "high street" - a main thoroughfare from north London.

Their second son Samuel dies in 1851 - sometime after the census date.  At 1861 they are sharing a house with two other families at White House Yard near Drury Lane in the parish of St Clement Danes and George is a coal dealer.  Both George and Elizabeth die in Q1 1869. The index for George gives his age as 48 which is about four years younger than we would expect to see. At the 1869 marriage of their son George Charles father George's occupation is given as "steward" though he is not noted as deceased.

George Charles 1848-

The surviving son George Charles was born 26 March 1848 and baptised on 23 April at St Barnabas Finsbury. He married Mary Ann Hanson on 22 November 1869 at St John the Evangelist church in Lambeth. At the marriage George Charles's occupation was recorded as a Salesman whose residence was 9 Waterloo Road.

They have eight children between 1870 and 1888: Elizabeth M A 1870 George E Mary A A 1875 Albert E 1876 Adela F 1879 Harry G 1882 Mary E A 1885 Edward 1888 At 1881 George was a porter living at Great Wild St, St Giles and in 1901 a draper's porter livng in Bermondsey. George Charles dies 1932 at Camberwell RD age 84.

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(1) The population of the whole parish in 1821 (an early census) was only 1,580.  This was after the coming of the canal. Pigot & Co's National Commercial Directory for Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire, 1830 quoted in Genuki.     back to text   

(2) In 1801 it had just 1,198 people according to A Brief History of Swindon by Tim Lambert. www.localhistories.org/swindon.html back to text   

(3) See http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/wanbrgh.htm including a quote from: Wiltshire 1791-97 Benjamin Baker in the Universal Magazine. "Wanborough was once much more important than it is today, as well as being larger in area than the present parish. ….. The parish then was about 5 miles north to south and 1.75 miles to 2.5 miles east to west. Later the width was reduced by about a third when Little Hinton became a separate parish. An old book refers to the "Town of Wanborough looking down on little Swindon". It lies on a Roman road, the Ermin Way or Ermin Street, about one and a half miles north of where that road crosses the even older Ridgeway, and where it crosses that other pre-Roman road the Icknield Way. back to text   

(4) Based on his age at death. There is a baptism recorded at St Mary's Harrow in 1807 for Isaac BUSH, but, although the mother is identified as Lucy, the father is clearly named as Joseph. Two naming errors looks like one too many but searches for Joseph, Lucy and Isaac Bush have drawn a blank, so maybe… back to text    /p>

(5)FWB handwritten notes refer to 123 - slab number - located near juction of left transept and nave back to text   

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