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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 and Mary Ann who married BURROWES.
27.B Charles Alfred
Charles Alfred Brush[83] was born on 29 May 1824 and baptised on 2 Jan 1825 at St Mary's Harrow. His parents Samuel and Lucy 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 at least two of his sons, George and 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. The 1841 census refers to him simply as Charles and refers to him as a servant "age 7". This is surely an error and should be 17 which fits the birth date for Charles Alfred.
One of Sir John's pictures that is not horses or fox hunting
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.
<At the 1851 census Charles Alfred is living at 6 Bow Street near Covent Garden, which was the office of the Strand Union workhouse. I think the entry gives his occupation as "messenger" to the Strand Union. He was 'living above the shop' in the household of John Lockhart, Relieving Officer of the Union. He is then unmarried.
Charles Alfred marries twice. The 1860 baptism of Alfred Charles at Lambeth identifies his parents as Charles Alfred and Mary BRUSH, their abode as Maynard Street, Bloomsbury and his occupation as ?Time? Keeper. A helpful marginal note identifies the birth date as being eight years earlier on 6 November 1852. However, Mary Brush died in 1859 so the baptism appears to have been done after she died. In the 1881 census Alfred Charles states his birthplace to have been Peckham in Surrey.
There is a big hole in the records at this point. The GRO index does not list the marriage of Charles and Mary or the birth of Alfred. Several family trees on Ancestry identify his first wife as Mary Giribreeck, born 1811. The key - for which I have to thank David Gibson's Ernsting family tree- seems to be the 1861 census. Alfred BRUSH, age 8, is living at 23 Maiden Lane. He is identifed as the nephew of Gerhard and Charlotte Ernsting. Charlotte's maiden name was Giribreeck and she had a sister Mary. Mary's first marriage was to Frederick Willhelm Paetsch. The hole in the records continues. There is no record of Frederick's death but Mary Paetsch is listed in the 1851 census as a widow living with five of her children at 89 Drury Lane which is less tha a quarter of a mile away from where Charles was living. Her age is given as 37 which is a few year less than the 1811 baptism record indictaes it should be.
Mary, the wife, of Charles Alfred dies in the St George Hanover Square RD in London in 1859. Thanks to David Gibson's Ernsting family tree we have this detail: Died at 9 Old Bond St, Piccadilly of an Abscess of the Brain. Domestic Servant. Reported 2 July by Charles Alfred Brush present at the death. Also reported 6 Sept by Coroner for Westminster, after inquest on 1 July. Found dead in bed. Described on coroner's death certificate 1859 as wife of Charles Alfred Brush.
The link is further reinforced by the 1871 census in which we find Alfred Charles age 18 living and working as a watchmaker's apprentice in the home of Carl Johann Heinrich Buntz, watchmaker at 65 Queens Raod (now Queensway), Paddington. Carl's wife Maria is Maria Paetsch, Mary's daughter. Alfred is apprenticed to his half-sister's husband.
After Mary's death, at the 1861 census Charles Brush, widower, foreman, (transcribed/indexed by Ancestry as Chas A Bursk) is living as a lodger in the Lambeth St Mary census district Waterloo Road First. As mentioned earlier, his son Alfred Charles is with his aunt Charlotte.
Later in 1861, on 18 August, when Charles Alfred marries Harriet BATTEN in Kennington he is again described as a widower. Harriet was a housemaid at The Grove, Clapham Road in nearby Lambeth and it is this address which is given as Charles's address on their marriage. She had been born on 22 March 1835 and baptised on 6 July 1835 at St Philip's, Birmingham, the daughter of William and Cordelia BATTIN. William's occupation was stated as a farmer, their address as Bradford Street.
They had six children from 1862 to 1875.
Charles Arthur Oswald [101], born 1862 Lambeth, Surrey.
George Alfred [102], born 1864 Lambeth.
Henry William [103], born 1866 Lambeth.
Thomas Samuel [104], born 28 August 1870 at 21 Millers Lane, Lambeth.
Harriet Cordelia [105], born 1872 Lambeth and died 1873 Lambeth.
Arthur Ernest [106] born 1875 Lambeth and died 1876 Kings Norton.
At the 1870 birth of Thomas, Charles was a commercial traveller living at 21 Millers Lane, Lambeth. FWB states that from 1874 to 1876 he was a bottle dealer of 56 High Street, Lambeth - from trade directories
I'm unsure if the references to Kings Norton are to the town itself or to the Kings Norton RD.
The birth and death entries for Arthur in 1875 and 1876 define the time for the family's move to Kings Norton. Kings Norton was at that time a self contained town in Worcestershire although it later became absorbed into Birmingham. It is known as a canal junction. In correspodence with my father one of the descendants of Charles Alfred (George Arthur BRUSH [248] ) said that his grandfather spoke of some connection with the canals, so it is possible that the family had travelled up from London by barge - though this is simply speculation, the railway was already in place well before the time of their move.
As described below, Alfred Charles, the son by Charles's first marriage did not move with the family. He was, at ???, still at 56 High Street Lambeth.
Harriet died in 1890 in Solihull. Charles Alfred in 1894 in Kings Norton.
The children of Charles Alfred.
Alfred Charles 1852-1921
As previously noted, Alfred had lived for a time with his aunt Charlotte after the death of his mother and then with his brother in law as his appentice watchmaker.
As a watchmaker he was living at 56 High Street, Lambeth in 1877 and in 1881 at 12 Hanbury Road, Battersea. At the 1881 census he is married to Emily Newby. Emily is identified as his wife in the censuses but no reord has been found of their marriage. The 1911 census says they have been married for 36 years which places their marriage as 1874/5 and with young children .
At 1911 Alfred, Emily and two daughters - Florence and Emily - are living with his sdaghter Maud and her husband Alfred Sage, a house painter, at 51 Charlmont Road, Tooting in Wandsworth. Alfred is still a clockmaker, working from home - as an employee rather than on his own account.. At 1921 (24th April) Alfred is a patient at St Bartholemews Hospital in Rochester in Kent, age given as 60 years and 7 months - which seems wrong. His occupation is recorded as a clock repairer working on his own account, at no fixed place. The hospital appears to be a regular medical one. Emily was living with thir son Frederick Charles at Gillingham in Kent. Alfred dies in Q2 1921 with his age given as 68.. Emily died age 68 in 1923.Charles Arthur Oswald [101], born 1862 Lambeth, Surrey.
George Alfred[102]
Wikitree : Brush-1879
Born 1864 in Lambeth R.D.
Son of Charles Alfred Brush and Harriet (Batten) Brush
Husband of Annie Maria (Fisher) Brush — married 5 Oct 1891 in Kings Norton, Worcestershire,
Father of George Christopher Brush
At his 1891 marriage he is listed as a Saddler age 26, living at 166 Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook.
At the 1901 census he was living at 183 Stony Lane, Balsall Heath, Worcestershire. His wife is not with him, she is in an asylum. He is a harness maker and shop keeper on his own account. The business card shown below says the business was established in 1890.
His two surviving sons age 8 and 3 are living with him. They are still at 183 Stony Lane in 1911 when he is listed as a Saddler.
George A Brush in the Auxillery Fire Brigade during WW2
George Alfred Brush sitting down and his brother Thomas Brush
Photos from Ancestry family tree of Martyn Simmonds: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/164892247/person/432150169818/facts
Died 9 Nov 1949 at about age 85 in Birmingham, Warwickshire
Henry William [103], born 1866 Lambeth.
Thomas Samuel [104], born 28 August 1870 at 21 Millers Lane, Lambeth. appears in the photo above with brother George Samuel.
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