The Children of Thomas Barrand and Sarah Took

A:- Sarah Took had a still-born child just 1 month before her marriage to Thomas Barrand and the gender of the child is not known.

Information in the record of Still Born Took from England Deaths and Burials

Name: Still Born Took

Gender Unknown

Burial Date 20 October 1804

Burial Place St. John The Evangelist, Westminster, Middlesex, England

Age 0

Birth Date 1804

Mother’s name Sarah Took

Citing this Record

"England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," database, FamilySearch

(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NRJQ-8YJ: 24 December 2014), Sarah Took in entry for Still Born Took, 20 Oct 1804; citing, reference; FHL microfilm 560,359.

England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991

Indexing Project (Batch Number) B02146-8

System origin England-EASy

GS Film Number 560359

B:- Leah Frances, the 2nd child was born on the 8^th October, 1809, baptised on the 24^th December, 1809, but died in 1810 and buried on the 15^th September, 1810.

LEAH FRANCES BARRAND Female

Event(s):

Birth: 08 OCT 1809

Christening: 24 DEC 1809 Saint Mary-St Marylebone Road, Saint Marylebone,

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH ELIZABETH TOOK

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C035245 1807 - 1810 0580907 Film 6903614 Film

IGI Record of the birth of Leah Frances Barrand

Baptism Record of Leah Frances Barrand 1809

Burial record of Leah Frances Barrand 15^th September, 1810

C:- Thomas John, child No 3, was born 25^th July, 1811, baptised on the 15^th September, 1811 and died before 1823. No record of his death or burial has been found. The reason I suggest he died before 1823 is because Thomas Barrand and Sarah Took had another son called Thomas in 1823. There is also a family tree by James Guest which suggests the same.

THOMAS JOHN BARRAND Male

Event(s):

Birth: 25 JUL 1811

Christening: 15 SEP 1811 Saint Mary-St Marylebone Road, Saint Marylebone,

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH ELIZABETH TOOK

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C035245 1811 - 1814 0580908 Film NONE

IGI Record of the birth of Thomas John Barrand

Baptism record of Thomas John Barrand

Baptism record of Thomas John Barrand

Bishops’ Transcript of baptism of Thomas John Barrand

D:- Joseph Henry, the 4th child was born on the 10th September, 1813, baptised on the 13^th February, 1814, and he eventually became a merchant dealing in wine from France, Italy and Portugal. He married Jane Ashworth on the 25^th August, 1835 in Bowdon in Cheshire (Near Altrincham) where Joseph’s name is transcribed as “Farrand”. It is probable that his business took him to Cheshire and the marriage record shows that witnesses to the marriage were Joseph Ireland and Mary Ann Ireland and, on the 1841 census for Greenwich there is a Bennett Ireland, Eliza Ireland and a Mary McIntosh with Joseph Henry Barrand, the son of Joseph Henry Barrand and Jane. Mary McIntosh was originally Mary Ireland. The records show that Joseph Henry and Jane Ashworth had just the one child, Joseph Henry, born on the 1^st March, 1836, but not baptised until the 11^th June 1845. The 1841 census for Greenwich confirms that their son was not born in the county, so born elsewhere. It is here on the baptism record that Joseph Henry is mentioned as a merchant. It seems that Joseph Henry and Jane may have moved to France at some time before 1845 probably on business, but what happened to both Joseph Henry and Jane, his wife after 1845 when Joseph Henry their (son) was baptised is unclear, as no records of either of them on the census for 1841 and 1851 have been found. There is also no sign of their son, Joseph Henry after the 1841 census. Joseph Henry (snr) possibly died in 1854 in Elham, Kent as “Farrand” Elham 3^rd Qtr (2a-563)

There is also no sign of their son, Joseph Henry after the 1841 census but there are records of a Joseph Farrand returning from Calais (France) in 1857. There are also records of a Joseph Farrand’s death in London in 1904 (b1837) and burial in St. Pancras. Ref: London City 1^st Qtr (1c – 9)

The 1851 census for Arbour Square only shows Bennett Ireland (b 1784) and his wife Eliza (nee Cassie) (b 1796). They were married in 1837. Bennett however also died in 1851 and Eliza died in 1870.

JOSEPH HENRY BARRAND Male

Event(s):

Birth: 10 SEP 1813

Christening: 13 FEB 1814 Saint Mary-St Marylebone Road, Saint Marylebone,

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH ELIZABETH TOOK

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type: Film

C035245 1811 - 1814 0580908 Film NONE

IGI Record of the birth of Joseph Henry Barrand 1813

Record of the birth of Joseph Henry Barrand 1813

Marriage of Joseph Henry Barrand to Jane Ashworth – Witness Mary Ann Ireland

Farrand Joseph Henry + Jane Ashworth 1835 - Cheshire Diocese Of Chester Parish Marriages 1538-1910

Baptism record of Joseph Henry Barrand 1813

Joseph Henry the son of Joseph Henry Barrand and Jane Ashworth, was born on the 1^st March, 1836, (The actual date looks more like 1^st May, 1836) and baptised on the 11^th June 1845 when his parents Joseph Henry Barrand and Jane Ashworth were living at 11, Arbour Street East, Stepney in 1845. On the 1841 census for 11, Arbour Street East in Stepney however, there is mention of Joseph Barrand, aged 5, living with a Mr. Bennett Ireland, aged 54, Eliza Ireland aged 45 and a Mary McIntosh aged 25, but no sign of either Joseph or Jane (parents). His parents should have been living with him at the time in 1841. Clearly his parents were present at his baptism in 1845, but no further records exist of Joseph Henry or his parents. If Joseph and Jane had moved abroad, then they must surely have taken Joseph Henry with them. The Arbour Square area was home to people of considerable wealth in 1845, but the area built up rapidly in the early 19th century, mainly to accommodate immigrant workers and displaced London poor, and developed a reputation for poverty, overcrowding, violence and political dissent.

Arbour Street East forms part of Arbour Square in Stepney, Arbour Square is a late Georgian square in Stepney, in the borough of Tower Hamlets, East London, England. It is located just off the Commercial Road (A13) approximately one mile (1.6 km) east of the City of London. The square is currently laid out as a formal garden with mature trees and planting and is surrounded on two sides by elegant early 19th century townhouses. Arbour Square was finally laid out as a garden enclosure in 1819. By 1830, contemporary maps show buildings on all sides of the square and many of the surrounding roads. The south and west sides of the square are still made up of the original three and four storey buildings which are grade II listed.

Terrace on the south side of Arbour Square

Arbour Square

Arbour Street East.

JOSEPH HENRY BARAND Male

Event(s):

Birth: 01 MAR 1836

Christening: 11 JUN 1845 Saint Thomas, Stepney, London, England

Parents:

Father: JOSEPH HENRY BARAND

Mother: JANE

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C067881 1840 - 1876 0597931 Film 6903901 Film

IGI Record of the birth of Joseph Henry Barrand 1836

Baptism Record of Joseph Henry Barrand in 1845

1841 Cenus showing Joseph Henry Barrand, aged 5.

E:- Susan, the 5th child was, born in St. Giles, London in 1817 and baptised on the 23^rd February, 1817. The record from the IGI shows she was baptised in St. Giles, Oxford, but why they should travel to Oxford is not known. It should may be St. Giles in London, although the censuses for 1851 and 1861 both show her place of birth as Oxford, and the IGI records certainly show the baptism in Oxford and the reference numbers certainly are for Oxford.

On the 1841 census, Susan was a female servant working at “The Grove” in Highgate, an area of extremely wealthy residents, and Jacob Starr was working as a male servant at the same address. There is no birthplace shown for either of them on this census, and both are shown as "Born out of the County". Jacob Starr was a son of Simon Starr and Sarah Piggin who were married on the 5^th November, 1808 in Kidderminster and they had 9 children. Simon Starr had been married previously to Sarah Knibbs in 1806, but she died in childbirth with their only child, Phoebe in 1807. Simon Starr’s children to Sarah Piggin were:- John Starr 1809 – 1817; Sarah Starr 1811 – ? Simon Starr 1816 – 1820; Jacob Starr 1820 – 1883; Ann Starr 1822 – 1882: Eliza Starr 1823 – 1869; Eleanor Starr 1826 – ?: Joseph Starr 1826 – 1865: and Mary Starr 1831 – ?

On the 10^th August, 1846, Jacob Starr (b 1820) in Kidderminster married Susan Barrand (b 1818) (showing born in Oxford) in Islington. Marriage Ref: Islington 1846 - 3^rd Qtr (3 - 205)

They then moved to Bewdeley in Herefordshire, and had a son, Joseph Henry Starr, born in 1849. By the 1851 census, Joseph’s occupation is shown as a victualler and they still had just the 1 son, Joseph Henry Starr, aged 1 Birth Ref: Kidderminster 1849 - 4^th Qtr (1 - 369. A second son, Arthur Starr was born in October of 1851, and was baptised on 22^nd December, 1851 at St. Mary’s Church in Kidderminster. . Birth Ref: Kidderminster 1851 – 4^th Qtr (18 – 399) Arthur died in 1852 and was buried on the 18^th January, 1852. Death Ref: Kidderminster 1852 – 1st Qtr (6c – 106)

By 1861, Jacob Starr & Susan had moved back to London and were living at 5, St. Marks Place, Kensington. By this time they had 2 children, Joseph Henry Starr (b October, 1849), and George Barrand Starr. (b April, 1857). Birth Ref: Kensington 1857 - 1^st Qtr (1a - 89) but he died in 1918. On the census for 1861, Jacob Starr is described as a "Dairyman" and their son Joseph Henry, is noted as an "Idiot". Also living with them is Jacob Starr's sister Eliza Starr, who was also born in Kidderminster and working as their servant. Joseph Henry Starr, their eldest son, died in July, 1863 aged 14 – Death Ref: Kensington 1863 - 2^nd Qtr (1a - 84).

George Barrand Starr married Elizabeth Bukett (1855 - 1944) in October, 1884 Marriage Ref: Lambeth 1884 - 4^th Qtr (1d - 661) and they had just 1 son, George Jacob Starr (b 28^th March, 1887) Birth Ref: Stratford 1887 - 1^st Qtr (4a - 26) and he married Mary Darby in October of 1915. They had 2 children: Margaret Winifred (1916 – 1966) and Barrand G.W. (1920-1983) George Jacob Starr died in 1967. George Barrand Starr went back to Worcestershire, where he became a brewer’s assistant and died in January, 1918.

NEWSPAPER CUTTING – Simon Starr was convicted of stealing shoes in Kidderminster and sentenced to be transported for seven years.

Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser 22 April 1835

18 April 1835 - Worcester Herald – 16 April 1835 - Worcester Journal -

On the 1871 census, Jacob Starr is shown as a widower, (Susan having died aged 53 on the 3^rd May, 1870 of apoplexy at their home) Death Ref: Kensington 1870 - 1^st Qtr (1a - 106) and he is living in Kensington still working as a dairyman and with his unmarried son, George Barrand Starr, and also his Sister-in-Law, Sarah Elizabeth Barrand (aged 51 - b 1820) but the name is mis-spelt as "Barman". On the 1881 census, Jacob Starr is living in Chelsea, and also at the same address is Alfred James Barrand (Visitor) the cousin of Susan Starr, Jacobs decd. wife. Alfred James Barrand married Sarah Elizabeth Barrand (his 2^nd cousin) and on her death, re-married a Mary Biglands in Wigton (Cumbria) He was also a cousin to Susan Barrand. Alfred James's father and Susan's father were brothers. Jacob Starr died on the 23^rd March, 1883 Death Ref: Chelsea 1883 - 1st Qtr (1a - 223)

Jacob Starr’s will of 21^st April, 1883 shows that his estate was just over £641, and the estate was administered by Alfred James Barrand, (his wife’s cousin) and Daniel Hudman, Susan’s brother-in-law.

IGI Record of the birth of Susan Barrand (showing St. Giles, Oxford)

BARRAND Female

Event(s):

Birth:

Christening: 23 FEB SUSAN 1817 Saint Giles, Oxford, Oxford, England

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C038814 1769 - 1854 0887485 Film 6901078 Film

1841 Census

Marriage certificate of Susan Barrand and Jacob Starr

1851 Census

1861 Census

1871 Census

1881 Census

Will of Jacob Starr

1881 census Jacob Starr with Alfred James Barrand

Death certificate of Susan Starr (nee Barrand)

F:- Sarah Elizabeth, the 6th child of Thomas and Sarah Elizabeth Took was born on the 13^th May, 1819 and baptised on the 30^th May, 1819 at St. Anne’s Church, Soho. On the baptism record, her father, Thomas is shown as a cheesemonger and the family were living at Crown Street. (Details and picture of Crown Street on page 325)

Crown Street was a narrow, winding lane running southwards from the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road, but known in former times as Hog Lane. It forms the boundary between the parishes of St. Giles and St. Anne, Soho. Its narrowness and its windings alike serve to show its antiquity; and no doubt, it derived its first name from the pigs that fed along its sides when it had green hedges and deep ditches on either side. In 1762 it came to be dignified by its more recent appellation from the "Rose and Crown" tavern. Rose Street runs out of Crown Street, on the west connecting it with Greek Street. It was in Rose Street that Thomas Barrand went to school and it is in Greek Street that Robert Palmer and Elizabeth Barrand (daughter of William Barrand and Alice Young) lived in 1846 at the time of their marriage. Sarah Elizabeth was a cousin of Elizabeth Palmer (nee Barrand).

Crown Street, Soho

Soho Square Rose Street Crown Street St. Ann's School

Oxford Street Soho Square Rose Street Crown Street 7-dials Clare Market

It would appear that in 1819 Thomas was working with his brother, John and in business together as cheesemongers, most likely at Clare Market and possibly with some money left to them by their father, Thomas.

On the 1841 census for Westminster, (Thomas having died in 1836), Sarah Elizabeth Barrand is working as a female servant, still living in Crown Street, Soho but, on the 1851 census, Sarah Elizabeth is shown living with her mother Sarah Elizabeth Took, and working as a laundress in Elder Walk. In 1861, she is again shown as a female servant living in Brunswick Avenue, Islington. By 1870, Sarah Elizabeth was living with her Brother-in-Law, Jacob Starr and this is shown on the 1871 census. Jacob Starr’s wife Susan (Sarah’s sister) had already died the previous year in 1870. Sarah's name however is transcribed as "Sarah Barman"

Sarah Barrand was never married, worked as a servant all her life, and died on the 27^th August, 1872, aged 53 of typhoid fever and stroke at the home of Jacob Starr at 5, Marks Place, Brompton where she worked as his housekeeper and, in Sarah’s will, her estate was to be administered by her younger brother Isaac Andrew, but he failed to do this, and it then passed to Sophia Matilda Hudman who was Sarah’s younger sister. Death Ref: Kensington 1872 - 3^rd Qtr (1a - 103)

SARAH ELIZABETH BARRAND Female

Event(s):

Birth: 13 MAY 1819

Christening: 30 MAY 1819 Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, London, England

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH ELIZABETH TOOK

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C062361 1817 - 1837 0918607 Film NONE

IGI Record of the birth of Sarah Elizabeth Barrand 1819

Baptism Record of Sarah Elizabeth Barrand

1841 Census

Also a George Palmer living in Crown Street here (was he a relation of Robert Palmer who married Elizabeth Barrand ?) The Palmers owned a business in Crown Street dealing in horses and saddles.

1851 census

1861 Census

1871 census

Death Certificate Sarah Elizabeth Barrand

1st Will of Sarah Barrand – Not administered

Will of Sarah Barrand – Re Administration

G:- Thomas William Frederick was the 7th child of Thomas Barrand and Sarah Elizabeth Took and he was born on the 18^th January, 1823, and baptised on the 19^th January, 1823. I cannot find any positive death record for Thomas William, but the fact that he was baptised shortly and within 24 hours of his birth suggest he may have died soon afterwards. It was a common practice to baptise any sick child as soon as possible after the birth. The address shown for the baptism of Thomas Frederick is shown at 13, Charles Street, St. Marylebone in London, which does not show on any other records. Although there were three Charles Streets in Marylebone in 1820s, the most likely candidate is the Charles Street, formerly Lewknor's Lane, opposite Short's Gardens, at the top of Drury Lane, which derived its name from Sir Lewis Lewknor, who owned property here in the reign of James I. From an early date it bore a bad character, and boasted several "houses of ill-fame." The thoroughfare (called Lutner's Lane by Strype) is, as it was two hundred years ago, "a very ordinary place." But it was referred to as a "rendezvous and nursery for lewd women.

Thomas William does not show on the 1841 census as he would almost certainly still have been at home being only 17 years old at the time so the suggestion is that he died prior to 1841. There are records of a Thomas Frederick “Ballard” ?? burial on the 15^th December, 1824 in St. Marylebone, Westminster, and is noted as a child. This is almost certainly Thomas William Frederick Barrand.

Horwood’s map of 1792 showing Charles Street off Drury Lane and below Coal Yard.

THOMAS WILLIAM FREDERICK BARRAND Male

Event(s):

Christening: 19 JAN 1823 Saint Martin In The Fields, Westminster, London,

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH ELIZABETH TOOK

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C037211

IGI Record of the birth of Thomas William Frederick Barrand 1823

Thomas bc 1755 d 1810 = 22/06/1781 Susan Cook bc 1752 d 1822 Thomas b 1783 d 1836 Peter Cook b 1785 d 1839 Elizabeth b 1787 Ann b 1789 d ? John b 1791 d 1871 Joseph b 1793 d 1839 Eliza Cook b 1795 = 11/11/1804 Sarah Eliz. Took b 1787 d 1852 = 05/09/1810 Eliz. Corry b 1784 d 1837 = 15/11/1812 John Stead b 1778 d ? Ann Routeledge b 1795 d 1857 = 27/03/1827 Eleanor Page b 1795 d 1845 = 24/08/1815 James Able b 1779 d 1849 William b 1782 d 1835 = 06/04/ 1804 Alice Young b 1774 d 1833 = 29/11/1813 Still Born b 1804 d 1804 Sarah Elizabeth b 1819 d 1872 = 20/12/1851 Daniel Hudman b 1825 d 1908 Thos. Will. Frederick b 1823 d 1824 ? 1 child Sophia Matilda b 1825 d 1899 Isaac Andrew b 1827 d 1877 8 children Joseph Henry b 1813 d N/K Mary Eliz. Reece b 1826 d 1912 = 22/10/1850 Susan b 1816 d 1870 Jacob Starr b 1820 d 1883 = 10/08/1846 = 28/05/1835 Jane Ashworth b c1815 d N/K Thomas John b 1811 d b4 1823 1 child 3 Children Leah Frances b 1809 d 1810

Baptism record of Thomas William Frederick Barrand

Burial record of Thomas Frederick Ballard ?? on the 15^th December, 1824

H:- Sophia Matilda, the 8^th child of Thomas Barrand and Sarah Elizabeth Took, was born on the 19^th July, 1825 and baptised on the 25^th December, 1825. She was born in Golden Lion Court where Thomas Barrand and Sarah Elizabeth Took now lived. This address is very near King Street. Again, this address is only shown once.

It used to be called the Golden Mine Court in 1800. Golden Lion Court was in existence by 1680. In the story BARNABY RUDGE, by Charles Dickens (1841) it mentions Golden Lion Court several times.

Sophia is found living with her mother, Sarah Elizabeth on the 1841 census as Thomas (father) had already died in 1836, but she is not found on 1851 census. It is possible she is the Sophia “Barrat” shown as a drape maker and living with the Gardner family in St. Pancras, in 1851 although this is only a possibility. Sophia Matilda marrried Daniel Hudman (b 1825) in Ripple Church, Worcestershire on the 20^th December, 1851 and he is described as an office clerk. Marriage Ref: Upton 1851 - 4^th Qtr (18 - 763) Daniel Hudman was the youngest child of four of Thomas Hudman and Ann Dancox. Although Sophia Matilda is described as a servant, there is no record of her father, or his occupation shown on the marriage certificate. Sophia’s place of residence is shown as Ripple, but Daniel Hudman’s residence is shown as Norwood in Middlesex. In April of 1851, Daniel Hudman was living in Hemel Hempstead and was employed as an assistant toll clerk. It is most probable then that Sophia Matilda Barrand was also working in Hemel Hempstead at the time of the 1851 census, but I can find no record of this.

On the 1861 census, Daniel Hudman was employed as a debt collector, and they had just 1 son, Thomas Edmund, (b 18th September, 1852). By 1871, Daniel was employed as a toll 2^nd clerk on the Grand Union Canal in Paddington, and their son, Thomas Edmund, now aged 18, was an apprentice as an Architect. The surviving lock-keeper’s cottage at Paddington dates from 1864, and had an attached single-storey boiler house with a steam pump maintaining the water level in the pound above the locks. Thomas, their son had left by 1881, and Daniel Hudman & Sophia then moved to Ealing.

On the 1891 census, Daniel Hudman and Sophia Matilda (nee Barrand) moved to Marsworth in Buckinghamshire, where Daniel was employed as the Canal Toll Clerk on the Grand Union Canal. He was responsible for collecting duties on a variety of goods including grain, timber, coal and building materials which passed through the Marsworth locks. The locks are located right at the start of the Canal at Marsworth Basin - these two canal locks are staircase locks which is where the middle gate joins the top and bottom locks. This type of canal lock is unique on the Grand Union Canal's Southern Waterway. The toll house is now a listed building and consisted of an L-shaped, 2-storeys and basement building with the Toll Office beside the lock-pond and the house-frontage at right angles, facing east over the Wendover Arm of the canal.

The Toll House, Marsworth Toll Charges

Sophia Hudman died on 21^st March 1899 in Southall, near Uxbridge at the age of 73 on the 21^st March, 1899 of a brain hemmorage and is buried in the Havelock Norwood Cemetery. Daniel is described as a retired Toll Clerk and debt collector. Sophia’s death was registered by their son, Thomas Edmund Hudman who was living in Dublin at the time. Death Ref: Uxbridge 1899 - 1^st Qtr (3a - 34) Daniel Hudman is shown on the 1901 census still recognised as a "retired Toll Clerk" Daniel died on the 3^rd July, 1908 in Southall (Uxbridge). Death Ref: Uxbridge 1906 - 3^rd Qtr (3a - 25) and he is also buried in the Havelock Norwood Cemetery In the will of Daniel Hudman, his estate of £780 was administered by their only son, Thomas Edmund.

Thomas Edmund Hudman, the only child of Daniel Hudman and Sophia Barrand, was born in North Hyde, Middlesex, England on the 18^th September, 1852 and was articled to Robert Edis in London in 1867 at the age of 15, serving a four-year "apprenticeship". He is described as an architect in the English census of 1871, when he was living with his parents in the Canal Office, Paddington, and where his father was a clerk. After completing his apprenticeship he worked as an assistant in the offices of Frederic Chancellor in London and William Dawes and William Reid Corson in Manchester. He moved to Ireland later in the 1870s to work in the office of James Bridgford and, in 1893 he set up his own practice as an Architect.

As a freelance architect, he gave lectures and in 1900 was temporary secretary of the sketching and camera club. Several of his photographs were published in the Irish Builder. In December 1906 he embarked on a series of articles on 'The Industrial Resources of Ireland' for the Irish Builder.

In 1885 Thomas Hudman married Ada Pile, a sister of Thomas Pile, an auctioneer and wholesale fishmonger, who became lord mayor of Dublin in 1900, and who was created a baronet in the same year. Thomas Hudman and Ada Pile had just 1 daughter, Dorothy March Hudman, born 1885 in London, and she married Lewis Whyte (1865-1938) in 1903 in Ireland and they had 3 children. Devereaux Hatton Michael (1904-1942), Morris Hudman (1907-1984) and Alan Hayes (1912 -1937) Through his connection with the Pile family, Hudman received a commission to design Earlsfort Mansions, a block of flats, which were erected by the builder James P. Pile, who was probably a brother of Ada Pile, in 1896 In his latter years he gave up architecture and became secretary to the hosiery manufacturers Smyth & Co., of Balbriggan, although he always preferred his old profession of architect. He died at his home, 2, Kenilworth Road, Dublin, on 8th February 1937 at the age of eighty-five. His widow, Ada Pile died in 1942.

SOPHIA MATILDA BARRAND Female No 1736 on the Registers

Birth: 19 JUL 1825

Christening: 25 DEC 1825 Saint Botolph Without Aldersgate, London, London,

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH ELIZABETH TOOK

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C022383 1762 - 1844 0374442 Film 6903849 Film

IGI Record of the birth of Sophia Matilda Barrand 1825

Baptism record of Sophia Matilda Barrand

1841 Census

1851 census for Sophia not found

1861 census – Sophia Hudman

1871 Census

1881 Census

1891 Census

Marriage Certificate of Sophia Matilda Barrand + Daniel Hudman

SOPHIA MATILDA BARRAND Female

Marriages:

Spouse: DANIEL HUDMAN

Marriage: 20 DEC 1851 Ripple, Worcester, England

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

M109972 Film

IGI Record of the marriage of Sophia Matilda Barrand and Daniel Hudman

Ripple - Worcestershire

Death Certificate of Sophia Matilda Hudman (nee Barrand)

Will of Daniel Hudman

I:- Isaac Andrew was the final last child of Thomas Barrand and Sarah Elizabeth Took and he was born on the 22^nd April, 1827 and baptised on the 10^th August, 1828. Thomas (father) was still employed as a shoe maker. No exact address is shown on the baptism record except that it is St. Giles. The name Isaac was given to their son in recognition of Isaac Tooke who was Sarah’s uncle and who “adopted” Sarah as a child.

Isaac Andrew married Mary Elizabeth Reece on the 22^nd October, 1850. Marriage Ref: West London 1850 - 4^th Qtr (2 - 314). Isaac’s father, Thomas had already died in 1836, but he is shown on Isaac Andrew’s marriage certificate in 1850 as a house decorator instead of a shoemaker or more correctly as a cordwainer.

Mary Elizabeth Reece was born in 1826 and baptised on the 12^th July, 1826, and she was the only daughter of John Reece & Margaret Morgan. John Reece and Margaret Morgan also had 2 sons, John Talaison Reece and Ivor Reece. Mary Elizabeth Reece’s mother, Margaret Reece (nee Morgan) was born in 1797, in Clanginig (Montgomery) Wales and she married John Reece (b 1796) from Cillie (Cardigan) Wales. They were married on 10th April, 1822. (IGI film 178119) (Information from Guest family Tree) John Reece was a prominent bookseller and had premises first in Paternoster Row in Spitalfields in 1826, then in Union Street in Tower Hamlets in 1833 and finally became a bookseller in Clements Lane (see below), and was made a Freeman of the city of London on the 15^th September, 1836. It appears that John Reece only rented the shop as reference is made on several occasion to a Mrs. Bell as landlady of the premises. On the 1841 census for the Reece family, Mary Elizabeth is written as "Mary Ann", (aged 15) and the two boys as John Taleisen (aged 11) and Ivor (aged 4).

Many of the houses in Clements Lane were occupied by booksellers of a “certain class” — those who deal in indecent and immoral literature and its reputation became so bad that, in the interest of the more respectable inhabitants, it has been proposed more than once to alter the name to "Booksellers' Row." The street had however shown a marked improvement during the 1840s, owing to the stringent enforcement of an act against the sale of bad books and prints, for which this thoroughfare was a notorious market. The shops and houses consisted of lofty-gabled and deep-bayed fronts with multi-occupied tenements above the shops.

Ivor Reece was born in 1837 and married Eliza Jemima France (b 1843) the 2^nd daughter of Henry France and Matilda Ordway of St. Giles, on 24^th September, 1874, at St. George Hanover Square. Henry France was an undertaker, the son of Robert France and Sarah (Not known). Ivor and Eliza had no children (in 1881 census he was earning an income from houses) and in (1891 & 1901) he was "living on his own means". He received a large amount of money from the sale of the bookshop on the 4^th March, 1873 just prior to his marriage to Eliza France. Margaret Reece sold the book shop business to a William Paul Metchin who was already a master bookbinder and stationer.

Ivor died on 14^th April, 1920 in Richmond and Eliza Jemima died on the 12^th June, 1912 at the Bethlehem Hospital.

John Taleisin Reece was born in 1831, baptised on the 2^nd January, 1831 and died in 1857 aged 27. His father, John died the following day and they both have the same registration number on the deaths in the BMD records. London City 1857 - 2nd Qtr (1c – 65 It was first assumed from suggestions by other researchers that they both died as the result following a fire at the premises in 32, Clements Lane, but the death certificates suggest otherwise. John (senior) died on the 9^th June, 1857 from Phthisis (tuberculosis) which he had for over a year, and John Taleison Reece died the previous day, 8^th June, 1857 from scrufola (tuberculous infection of the lymph nodes in the neck), which he had been suffering from for 16 years. Margaret Reece is shown on the 1861 census still living at Clements Lane but died in 1866 in Hackney. Hackney 1866 - 2^nd Qtr (1b - 293)

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Probate record for Eliza Jemima Reece

John Rees

Wales, Glamorganshire, Parish Registers

Digital Folder Number: 004189908

Marriage Henry France and Matilda Ordwaya – parents of Eliza Jemima France

Death Certificate John Reece 1857

Death Certificate John Taleisen Reece 1857

1861 Census showing Margaret Reece and Ivor Reece at 32 Clements Lane

Pall Mall Gazette - Monday 28 September 1874

32 Clements Lane where John Reece had his bookshop

32, Clements Lane where John Reece had his bookshop

In 1981, excavations funded by Guinness Peat Properties Ltd were conducted in an east to west trench (15m x 3m) inside the standing building of 32, Clements Lane. The initial occupation of the site, of Neronian date (dated to the time of emperor Nero from Rome), consisted of slot trenches with associated stake-holes cut into a brickearth slab. Associated with this later redevelopment was a parallel and corresponding wall and a tile drain. Evidence was found of Neronian timber buildings and an early fire, apparently Boudican. These buildings were succeeded by brickearth sill, wattle and mudbrick structures. Late medieval chalk and brick foundations, one of which was arched, were recorded on the Clements Lane corner. This building was burnt in the fire of 1666 and subsequently rebuilt.

The Lady’s Newspaper Saturday 30^th July, 1853 (p50)

Derbyshire Courier, Worcester Journal & Staffordshire Advertiser 6th August, 1853

Worcestershire Chronicle 10th August, 1853.

Oxford Journal 08 September 1849

Bell's Weekly Messenger 08 September 1849

York Herald 21 August 1847

Granting of Freedom of the City of London to John Reece.

Isaac Andrew was first employed at W. Roberts, an auctioneer in Piccadilly in 1840 where he was an errand boy at a salary of 5/- per week at the age of 13. Altghough he thoroughly enjoyed working at the auctioneers, he left that job and became a general clerk at the offices of W. Hale & Co, a solicitor in Finsbury at an improved salary of 7/- a week but still worked for the auctioneers in an evening and at weekends.

When aged 15, Isaac joined the Sabbath School in Finsbury Chapel and eventually became a teacher at the Sunday School at the age of 19. The Chapel Sunday School also had a teaching premises at Walton-On-Thames and Isaac spent several weeks at this address which was the Hersham Wesleyan Chapel and the fees of 1/- a week were paid by the Finsbury Chapel.

In 1847, Isaac left Hales the solicitor in Finsbury and gained employment at another solicitor, a Mr. Remnant at an improved salary of 12/- per week. In 1848, he took out a life assurance on his life in the sum of £100 in the Company Medical Legal and General Life Assurance Society which joined with the New Equitable Life Assurance Co. Just before his marriage Isaac obtained employment as a clerk at the London docks and it is most likely he got the job from William West, a son of Solomon West and Eleanor Routeledge who worked in the docks as a supervisor. Solomon West was father of his Aunt Nancy Ann (Routeledge), a shipwright and who was himself also a London Dock supervisor and had his own band of workers. People preferred to work with members of their family or with friends that they could trust. This created a close-knit community of workers with strong bonds of loyalty and solidarity. There were many well-established families in the docks. Usually, the oldest member would be in charge of the gang. The docks were surrounded by a high wall and had room for more than 300 vessels. The warehouses, four storeys high, had space for over 200,000 tons of goods. The dock was used by sea traders, carrying cargoes such as tobacco, dried fruit, canned goods, ivory, wool and spices.

In the 1851 census, Isaac Andrew is shown as being a clerk at the docks in London at the age of 23, and was still there at the same occupation in 1870s, although promoted to “The Chief Clerk” or also described as “First Clerk” In late 1850, he was the clerk in charge of the Dockmaster, his Deputy and an Assistant, and six officers plus another six working men to supervise the labourers. There were usually 30 labourers, including watchmen, employed on yearly contracts, while another 100 men were engaged on a casual basis as 'lumpers' to load and unload the ships for eight months of the year. Other casual labour was hired if needed. In the London Docks there were nearly 3000 men employed and these men could get employment without either character or recommendation. At the dock-gates, at half-past seven in the morning, Isaac Andrew along with the dockmaster, would have been seen offering swarms of men employment for the day or perhaps for just a few hours. These men were quoted as “bankrupts, master-butchers, master-bakers, publicans, grocers, old soldiers, sailors, refugees, down-and-outs, gentlemen, discharged lawyers, clerks, suspended government-clerks, almsmen, pensioners, servants and thieves” and every one was willing to work.

In 1865, Isaac Andrew was again promoted to become one of the chief clerks in charge of the lucrative wine warehouse, which was the largest in England at the time and being 6 storeys high. His office was in charge of the bonded warehouses and Isaac wore a brass-buttoned jacket to show his status. He was also responsible for the issue of passes to enter the warehouses. His salary would have been around £250 per year, which was quite a substantial amount. Isaac Andrew was a well-known person in the area, and the family had by now moved to Palatine Road. He was noted for always wearing a bowler hat in public and regularly attended the local church where he was Church Warden. The move to Palatine Road would have made his journey to the docks quite a task, although there was a new railway line directly into the docks from the North of London and it is this that probably made him change to his new home at Avenue Road in Hackney. In 1871 census, Isaac Andrew is mentioned as a chief clerk at the Stock Market, but I believe this was mis-heard by the remunerator and he was still Chief Clerk at the “Dock Market”.

On the 1851 census, Isaac Andrew and Mary Elizabeth were living at 47, Skinner Street (See below) in the Holborn area of London which is found from Snow Hill to Turnagain Lane in the St Sepulchre area. This is the same part of London that John Barraud lived in from 1756 until his death in 1763. As with all the buildings on Skinner Lane, No: 47 was a gloomy and crumbling house, and although the house itself was only built in 1807, the whole area was demolished in the 1860s. They only rented the building for £250 per annum. In 1838 it was the home of a butcher who became bankrupt and in 1843 it was a carper manufacting business. The building was demolished in 1869 and the renter at the time was declared bankrupt as a result of loss of trade and was sent to Whitecross debtors’ prison. In 1861, they had moved to their new home at No 7 Palatine Place which was rented at £78.00 per annum. Certainly, Isaac Andrew is shown on the Voters’ list for London in 1873, 1875 and 1876 living at 18, Avenue Road, Clapton, but he moved in 1877 to 36, Avenue Road. Although Isaac Andrew Barrand died in 1877, he is still shown on the London voters’ lists for 1879, 1882, 1883 and 1885 with his address still shown as 36, Avenue Road.

Skinner Street being constructed 1807

Skinner Street

Skinner Street did not prosper much, and never could compete with even the dullest portions of Holborn. It was a declining neighbourhood almost before it could be called new. Window-glass broken, doors cracked from top to bottom, spiders' webs hanging from every projecting sill or parapet. When the buildings were ready for occupation, tall and substantial as they really were, the high rents frightened intending shopkeepers. Tenants were not willing to occupy the houses and, in order to get over the money problems, a lottery was sanctioned by Parliament.

Lotteries were then common tricks of finance, and nobody wondered at the new venture; but even the most desperate fortune-hunters were slow to invest their capital, and the tickets hung sadly on hand. The day for the drawing was postponed several times, and when the actual day came, there was little or no excitement, and whoever become a house-owner on such easy terms, the original builders were understood to have suffered considerably. The winners found the property in a very unfinished condition, very few of the dwellings were habitable, and a majority of the houses remained empty, and the shops unopened.

In 1872, Isaac Andrew was a defendant in a case brought by a John Story and others - The other defendants were Emily Louise Daplyn, William Daplyn, John Farnan and his wife, William Eastwood and his wife and a Harriot Fish. The details of the case are held at the National Archives (case C 16/827/S304) under the heading Story v Daplyn. Law Notice of the case was published in the London Standard on the 19th April, 1873.

This concerned the will of Thomas Daplyn where one of his beneficiaries, a Mary Ann Daplyn Wilkinson employed Isaac Andrew Barrand (who is identified as her lawful attorney) to act on her behalf. It was most likely that Isaac Andrew was appointed as her legal entity, as her father was Wilmot Wilkinson, a director of the Peninsular and Orient Steam Navigation Company and stationed in India with offices in the London Docks. Mr. Wilmot Wilkinson claimed to be entitled to four houses in Cambridge Road and also to share in profits and rents in the will. No final judgment was made on the case therefore I presume it was amicably resolved without further Court appearances.

Isaac Andrew Barrand died on the 25^th August, 1877 at the age of just 50 of apoplexia (stroke) which he suffered from for 18 hours and died at his home address of 36, Avenue Road, Hackney with his daughter Mary present. His occupation is described on his wife Mary Elizabeth’s death certificate in 1912 as “Chief Clerk at London Docks”

He was buried on the 1^st September, 1877. Death Ref: Hackney 1877 - 3rd Qtr (1b - 266), in Abney Park Cemetery Ref: G03 (Index 6S02) along with Beatrice Alice and Walter George, two of his children. His will left the estate to his wife, Mary Elizabeth. Mary Elizabeth Barrand (nee Reece) died on the 30th December, 1911 of “fatty degenesation of the heart”, aged 85, at their home of 36, Avenue Road, Clapton and her DOB is shown as 1827, An Agnes Davies was present at the death, and she is described as a “cousin” and I have found a direct connection (details below). Agnes Davies also shows on the 1901 and 1911 census living with Mary Elizabeth Barrand as her nurse. This Elizabeth Davies is also shown as a witness to the marriage of Isaac Andrew Barrand and Mary Elizabeth (nee Reece) in 1850. Death Ref: Hackney 1912 - 1st Qtr (1b - 474) Mary Elizabeth was buried in Abney Park Cemetery 30th December, 1912: Ref: G03 (Index 6S02) with Isaac Andrew. The 1911 census states that they had 8 children, 4 were still living in 1911 and 4 had already died. I have found a ninth child which is not mentioned in the 1911 census. Probate of her estate was left to her brother, Ivor Reece instead of to any of her own children. Ivor Reece eventually left his estate to Helene Susan Sophia Boyce (nee Barrand) one of Isaac Andrew’s daughters in 1920 as Ivor and Eliza had no children. The estate came to well over £5,000.

Marriage Certificate of Griffiths Morgan + Elizabeth Davies (parents of Margaret Morgan)

Davies: Agnes Davies as mentioned:- There are records showing a John Davies (b 1816) - most probably Agnes's father, born in London but actually living in Wales on the 1851 census and living with the Morgan family in Mefenydd near Aberystwyth (Cardiganshire). This would tie up with Mary Elizabeth Reece's mother's family of Morgans. There is an Elizabeth Morgan (nee Davies), aged 82 (b 1769 and baptised on the 19th November, 1769 in Llanrhystyd), so with almost certainty this is Margaret Morgan's mother. It seems that Elizabeth Davies married Griffiths Morgan on the 26th July, 1790 (see certificate).

Agnes Davies married a James Davies (same surname) in July 1865 in Lambeth, but the surname of both parties is written on the marriage certificate as Davis, and not Davies. James Davis is noted as a cordwainer (shoemaker) on the marriage certificate and that certainly ties up with the census of 1871 and 1881 where they are both shown living in Southwark. In the 1891 census, Agnes is shown as a "ladies nurse" and described as a widow, so James must have died between 1881 and 1891. Agnes's father is shown as John Davis (decd) tailor and James Davis's father is shown as Richard Davis (decd) no occupation. Going back to the 1841 census, Richard Davies, aged 20 is shown as a farrier, married to an Elizabeth Davies aged 25, and both shown as “not born in London” but living at Margaret Street which is coincidental, as members of the Barrand family also lived in Margaret Street.

As mentioned, this Elizabeth Davies is also the Elizabeth Davies who witnessed the marriage of Isaac Andrew Barrand and Mary Elizabeth Reece.

Map of London Docks 1844

London Docks

London Docks 1850 Wool Shed – London Docks - 1850

London Docks 1850

The Eastern Basin, London Docks in 1865

Voters’ List 1873 showing Isaac Andrew Barrand at 18 Avenue Road, Clapton (Hackney)

Voters’ List 1875 also shows Isaac Andrew Barrand at 18 Avenue Road, Clapton (Hackney)

Voters’ List 1876 also shows Isaac Andrew Barrand at 18 Avenue Road, Clapton (Hackney)

Voters’ List 1877 shows Isaac Andrew Barrand at 36, Avenue Road, Clapton (Hackney)

Voters’ List 1879, 1882, 1883 & 1885 shows Isaac Andrew Barrand at 36, Avenue Road, Clapton (Hackney), although he died in 1877

The Bells of St. Clements.

St Clements is a small church situated in St. Clements Lane, Eastcheap. There have been three Churches on the site starting with the first in the 11th Century when the church is mentioned in a confirmation of grants to Westminster Abbey in 1067. The original old Church was rebuilt in the 15th Century. The second church was destroyed in 1666 during the Great Fire of London. The existing church was rebuilt in 1687 by Sir Christopher Wren (the great architect of St Paul's Cathedral). The "Oranges and lemons" refer to the citrus fruits unloaded at the nearby wharves.

The church stands in St Clements Lane. In fact, the name of the street comes from the church. It was previously known as Eastcheap. The rhyme begins with this church because when the Thames was wider than it is today, the wharf where the citrus fruit cargoes from the Mediterranean were delivered lay just across the street. It is said the church bells peeled when a cargo arrived.

ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH, - There is a vault under this church called the "Rector's Vault," the descent into which is in the aisle of the church near the communion table, and when opened the products of the decomposition of animal matter are so powerful, that lighted candles, passed through the opening into the vault, are instantly extinguished; the men at different times employed, have not dared to descend into the vault until two or three days had elapsed after it had been opened, during which period the windows of the church also were opened to admit the perflation of air from the street to occupy the place of the gas emitted; - thus a diluted poison is given in exchange from the dead to the living in one of the most frequented thoroughfares of the metropolis. The other vaults underneath the church are also much crowded with dead. From some cause, at present doubtful, these vaults were discovered to be on fire upwards of fifty years ago; they continued burning for some days, and many bodies were destroyed. At the eastern side of this church a pump was formerly fixed; this, within the previous month, has been removed, and a brick erection placed upon its site; the well was sunk in the year 1807, but the water had become so offensive, both to the smell and taste, that it could not be used by the inhabitants, owing, most probably, to the infiltration of the dissolved products of human putrefaction. Graves certainly have been dug very near to this well, and the land springs have risen to within a few feet of the surface. From information recently obtained, it appears that several persons have been buried near this spot, and that in particular, the coffins of two very respectable inhabitants of the parish, as soon as let down into the graves, sunk below the surface of the water which had percolated into them; it is even stated that the deceased, from a wish to be buried in a watery grave, and knowing the situation, had particularly fixed upon it for the interment of their bodies. Can it be surprising, then, that the water of this well should have become impregnated and corrupted? (Walker 1839)

Clements Lane, Westminster, London, c1840.

Clements Lane 1866

Clements Lane 1866

Images of Clements Lane 1867

Clements Lane bookshop

ISAAC ANDREW BARRAND Male

Event(s):

Birth: 22 APR 1827

Christening: 10 AUG 1828 Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, London, England

Parents:

Father: THOMAS BARRAND

Mother: SARAH ELIZABETH TOOK

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C062361 1817 - 1837 0918607 Film NONE

IGI Record of the birth of Isaac Andrew Barrand 1827

Baptism record of Isaac Andrew Barrand

Baptism record of Mary Elizabeth Reece

Name: Elizabeth Reece

Record Type: Baptism

Estimated Birth Date: abt 1826

Baptism Date: 12 Jul 1826

Father's Name: John Reece

Mother's Name: Margaret Reece

Parish or Poor Law Union: City of London Lying-In Hospital, City Road, Finsbury

Borough: Islington

Transcript of Baptism record for Elizabeth Reece 1826

1841 Census – Elder Walk

1851 census – Skinner Street

1861 census

1871 Census

1881 Census – Mary Elizabeth now head of the family

1891 Census

1901 Census

1911 Census

Marriage certificate of Isaac Andrew and Mary Elizabeth Reece

Marriage Certificate of Isaac Andrew and Mary Elizabeth Reece (Internet)

Death Certificate of Isaac Andrew Barrand

Mary Elizabeth Barrand (nee Reece) - 1895 aged 69 - at wedding of daughters

Death Certificate of Mary Elizabeth Barrand (nee Reece)

Will of Isaac Andrew Barrand

Will of Mary Elizabeth Barrand to Ivor Reece

Will of Ivor Reece

Isaac Andrew and Mary Elizabeth Reece had 9 children, and I will mention them later on. See Page 898 although the 1911 census states they had only 8 children – 4 living and 4 that had died.