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Section 29 : Direct Line 1809-1927

Chapter 29.F

The Children of John Thomas BRUSH and Mary Ann nee WALLIS
1853-19??

My GG-grandparents, John Thomas BRUSH and Mary Ann WALLIS had five children:

John Edward in 1853
Arthur Wallis in 1855, my great grandfather, considered in Chapter 29.D .
Mary Ann in 1859
George Samuel in 1861
Alice Sarah in 1864

After John Thomas's death in 1864 Mary Ann remarried to James COOPER and had two further children. Charlotte Ellen, in 1867 and Henry in 1874 or 1875.

John Edward

John Edward BRUSH was born on 23 October 1853, just six months after the marriage, and baptised on 22 January 1854 at St John the Evangalist, Smith Square in Westminster.

At the time of his baptism the family address was 5 Pulford Street,Westminster, just north of the Thames - next to the Equitable gas works.  I found Pulford Street on 'the underground map' , an amazing resource with maps from multiple different periods.

John's father, John Thomas, dies in a swimming accident in July 1864.

Later in 1864, on 14 November, John and brother Arthur are admitted by their widowed mother as pupils in class 3 at St Michaels School, Westminster. John is 11 years and one month, Arthur 8 and 11 months. Their address is given as 6 Bridge Row.

At the 1871 census, age 17, following the 1865 remarriage of his mother to James Cooper, he is living with them at 1 Temperance Cottages in Fulham. He is listed as a fishmonger. At 1881

He married Ellen Mary MOON at All Saints Church in Fulham on 24 October 1882.  He gives his occupation as a carpenter.  His wife dies in 1883.  He remarries on 3 April 1893 at St Barnabas Islington to Mary Morley. They have two children,

Mary Ann

Mary Ann BRUSH was born in Chelsea in 1859.

George Samuel

George Samuel was born in 1861 at 2 Caversham Street in Chelsea, In 18// he marries Eliza At the 1901 census George, Eliza and Elsie are living at 50 Heysham Road at Tottenham. He is described as "Preach. Wesleyan Evangalist". Eliza's birthplace is given as Hornsey, her age as 24 - fourteen years younger than her husband. Elsie's birthplace is given as Blackheath.

Alice Sarah

The final child, Alice Sarah arrives in 1864, still in Chelsea.  She marries Walter Collins in 1894.

Following the death of John Thomas, his widow Mary Ann remarried. Her new husband is James Cooper. In the 1871 census they are at 1 Temperance Cottages in Fulham.

John S. Brush is a Fishmonger Four other children are shown.

At the 1881 census Charlotte and Henry COOPER are living with their half brother Arthur Wallis BRUSH at 1 Eelbrook Gardens in Fulham.

The census sheet shows Henry Cooper with an initial for his middle name.  It could well be C, for Charles.  An Ancestry tree places him as the Henry Charles C Cooper born in Holborn RD in Q1 1875.  It also suggests that at 1891, age 17, he may have been a servant living in Westminster.

In my father's autobiography he says that, as well as Charlotte, James and Mary Ann Cooper also had a son named Charles who joined the Army and fought in the Boer War in South Africa, being promoted to Serjeant.  I have not been able to verify this. He may well be the child identified in the 1881 census as Henry Cooper.

I have not been able to identify James and Mary in the 1881 census or later. Mary Ann may have died in 1876.  A death of a Mary Ann COOPER age 42 is recorded in Q3 1876 in the St George Hanover Square RD.  A tree in Ancestry suggests that James may have been the James Cooper who died in 187 .  That both have died is fully consistent with their children living with their half brother Arthur Wallis BRUSH in 1881.

However placing the death of James in 187 raises a question about Henry.

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Chapter 29C: The younger children of Samuel and Sarah and
Chapter 29D: The children of John and Mary and