Thomas Barrand (1783–1836)

Thomas Barrand was the 2^nd child of Thomas Barrand and Susannah Cook, born on the 2^nd July, 1783 and he was baptised on the 27^th July, 1783 in St. Mary’s Church, St. Marylebone.

THOS. BARRAND Male

Event(s):

Birth: 02 JUL 1783

Christening: 27 JUL 1783 Saint Mary-St Marylebone Road, Saint Marylebone.

Parents:

Father: THOS. BARRAND

Mother: SUSANNA COOK

Source Information:

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C035242 1782 - 1790 0580906 Film NONE

IGI Record of Thomas Barrand’s baptism

He was certainly apprenticed to a James Miller as a Cordwainer (Shoemaker) on the 29^th January, 1799 at the age of 16 and as apprenticeships generally lasted seven years he would not have been freed until he was about 22 or 23 years old. As a qualified tradesman, this would have given Thomas a status well above many other members of the family.

Those who worked with the finest leather were called Cordwainers rather than shoemakers because their material came from Cordoba in Spain. They developed a soft and durable goatskin leather known as Cordwain – the very finest leather available – importation of which contributed to the growing prosperity of London. Over a period of time, those who processed the leather formed their own guilds. These shoemakers, however, retained the name of 'Cordwainer'.

Apprenticeship record of Thomas Barrand

Baptism record of Thomas Barrand

Baptism record of Hannah Jones

At the age of 21, on the 11^th November, 1804, Thomas married Sarah Elizabeth Took in St. Mary’s Church, St. Marylebone and the witnesses to the marriage were his uncle John Jones, the husband of his Aunt Mary, and Susan Barrand, his mother. It seems odd however, that his father, Thomas was not a witness as he witnessed the other weddings of both his own brother and sisters and also his eldest son, William. Thomas’s surname is transcribed as Barrard on the Pallot’s marriage index and as Barrard (or Barrand) on the transcription of the Parish register. The banns show the surname as possibly either Barrard or Barrand.

In Pallot’s Marriage Index 1538-1840

Surname as Barrard as well as Barrand

Pallot’s marriage Index of marriage – Thomas Barrand and Sarah Took

Parish Records Collection - marriage Year: 1804

Supplied Surname: TOOK

Full First name: Sara

Spouse Surname: BARRARD

Spouse Full First name: Thomas

Spouse First Name: Tho

Place: MARYLEBONE (ST MARY LE BONE)

Record source: Boyd's Marriage Index 1538-1840

Data provider: Society of Genealogists

Parish Record of the marriage of Thomas Barrard and Sara Took (sic) (Soc of genealogists)

County Middlesex

Place St Mary-le-Bone Church St Mary

Marriage Date 11 Nov 1804

Groom Forename Thomas

Groom Surname BARRARD

Groom Condition Bachelor

Bride Forename Sarah Elizabeth

Bride Surname TOOK

Bride Condition Spinster

Witness One Forename Susan

Witness One Surname BARRAND

Witness Two Forename John

Witness Two Surname JONES

Notes By Benj. Lawrence. Groom surname may be Barrand. Bride signed X.

File Number 10574

Transcript of parish register.

Copy of banns Notice of the Marriage of Thomas Barrand and Sarah Took

Thomas was classed purely as “a Tradesman” in 1813, and that would most likely have been as a cordwainer (Shoe maker) which shows he was an “upper class citizen”. There is a record of Thomas Barrand and Sarah Took at a fair in Hyde Park, London, in August of 1814 where they were assaulted by several men, and the matter was brought to court and the details are noted below. Thomas’s father, Thomas had already died in 1810 in Woolwich, and he left his sons, small amounts of money when he died. I cannot find a copy of a will however. Thomas Barrand then went into business with his brother John at some time, between 1814 and 1819 (when on the 13^th May, 1819 he is recorded as a cheesemonger), and they most probably worked from the Clare Market as cheesemongers, as that is where John continued with the business after 1825 when it appears that Thomas left the business, and again took up the trade as a Cordwainer for which he had served his apprenticeship. He was a member of the Liverymen of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers and campaigned for increased charges for their work.

Thomas lived from 1828 in what was the outskirts of Islington at the time, in a detatched cottage in Elder Walk, and worked from home as a shoe-maker and shoe repairer, and seems to have provided for his family quite well serving the local community which was in the stage of new development including several new factories and, although Thomas died in 1836, he is still described as a shoemaker on his children’s marriage certificates except for some odd reason, his occupation changed to that of a house decorator (decd) on the marriage certificate of his youngest son, Isaac Andrew in 1846. The previous resident of 4 Elder Walk was Charles Pearson, an eccentric schoolmaster aged 45 when he died suddenly in 1828 of cold and damp. He was noted for giving money to the poor of the parish.

As Thomas Barrand died in 1836, he does not show on either the 1841 census or the 1851 census and Sarah Took is described as a widow on both censuses, so that confirms his death prior to 1841 in both censuses. In fact, the death records are clear that Thomas died in 1836 in Elder Walk in Finsbury, Islington and was buried on the 6^th March, 1836 in St. Mary’s Church, Islington. From 1814, parish burials also took place in the much larger churchyard atached to the Chapel of Ease in Holloway Road and burials continued here until 1853.

Elder Walk

By 1817 the streets around Elder Walk in Islington had been extended a little way south-east of Frog Lane and some building had begun, while Popham Street, between Elder Walk and Britannia Row, had been built with small terraced houses. In the 1820s the small houses off Frog Lane in Elder Walk were occupied by artisans and tradesmen, many of them in watch-making, shoe making and similar trades.

From the farther end of Aldersgate Street straight north is called Goswell Street (see previous description), with small tenements, cottages and alleys, gardens and banquetting-houses. There appears also to have been a toll-gate in Frog Lane, which was demolished by Mr. Aubert of Highbury; as it seems that the tenants of the Prebend Field had been from time immemorial bound, to repair the way through this toll gate. This bridle-way used formerly to be well used by travellers and pack-horses and some years earlier a toll was erected upon it for the Hampstead and Highgate Trust, but persons could now pass that way on horseback toll-free to the city. The right of way by this road, was for some years a matter of conflict between the occupier of the field and Mr. Aubert of Highbury. The latter gentleman caused the gate to be cut down, which had been put up by the former to prevent horses passing over. The way has since continued open, and the right of free passage undisputed. The Elder Walk, from Frog Lane to the Lower Street - “Old Iseldone," there are existing portions of the Prebend Manor, particularly the narrow ways by Elder Walk and its neighbourhood which retain the irregular features of the oldest thoroughfare in all ancient towns, and mark the tracks between even the earliest buildings that were erected.

Map of 1830 showing Goswell Street and Frog Lane. Elder Walk was slightly further to the north.

Map of 1860 showing Elder Walk between Lower Street and South Place which used to be Frog Lane.

Morning Advertiser 15^th October, 1828 The new address for Thomas and Sarah

London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980

about Thomas Barrand

Name: Thomas Barrand

Record Type: Burial

Event Date: 6 Mar 1836

Age: 52

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1784

Parish: Saint Mary

Borough: Islington

County: Middlesex

Transcript of Parish Record of Thomas Barrand’s burial

Death record of Thomas Barrand (age 52) at No 4, Elder Walk

Sarah Tooke

All researchers agree that Sarah Elizabeth Took was certainly born in London between 1780 and 1790 however, according to her death records she was born around 1787. The records show she was born on 17^th December, 1786 and baptised on 8^th March, 1787.

There are clear records to show that Sarah Took(e) was a daughter of a Charles Tooke and his wife Sarah (Not known). Charles Tooke was born in Bungay (Suffolk) around 1764/5 and he had a brother Isaac and 3 sisters, Antonia, Sarah and Hester. They were the children of William Tooke and Jemima Trasham.

I cannot find any marriage record for either Charles or Isaac Tooke but certainly Isaac was born in Bungay, Suffolk in 1767 and baptised on the 14th June, 1767. Isaac and Charles moved from Bungay and both lived in the vicinity of London near to where Thomas Barrand lived. I can find no further records of Charles Tooke, but it seems he may have died quite soon after Sarah was born. There are records to show that Charles’s wife, Sarah Tooke paid rents on property in 1804 and 1805. Sarah Elizabeth was then “adopted” by Isaac Tooke who regarded Sarah as his own daughter as he had no family, and there was clearly a fond affection between them.

Isaac Tooke’s occupation was as a cork cutter and he eventually became a Porter and Wine Merchant with premises at 321, The Strand (see Picture) and also at 6, Great St. Martins Lane and with a home address of 44, Southampton Row in Russell Square where he paid rents. Isaac seems to have been prosperous early in his life and took on an apprentice Thomas Mathews at his St. Martins Lane address where he is again mentioned as a Cork Cutter. Although Isaac Tooke never married, in 1795 he was involved in a fatal accident involving his live-in partner, a Miss Shewin who was a passenger in his carriage when it collided with another carriage being driven by Lord Spencer Churchill. The accident was subject to an inquest and the final verdict was clear that Mr. Churchill’s carriage was to blame for the accident. The incident made headline national news and Mr. Churchill then attempted to take the newspapers to court for libel, but failed.

Isaac Tooke was also a mason for his profession as a wine merchant in “Lodge 240.” and he also served several times on juries in Coroner’s Inquests. He died suddenly in 1832 and was buried on the 15th November, 1832. He made a will leaving everything to a Mary Burfield (?) a spinster who was living with him at the time (see Isaac Tooke’s will). There is no mention of her being his wife.

There is however mention of Thomas Barrand and Sarah Took being assaulted at the Hyde Park Fair in 1814 (see below) where they were looking after a stall on behalf of a Publican, a Robert Pierpoint from the Strand, and it is most likely this stall was selling wine and porter for Sarah’s uncle, Isaac Tooke. It should also be noted that Thomas and Sarah’s youngest son was named Isaac Barrand, born in 1830 and this was in recognition of the friendship between Sarah Took and her uncle Isaac.

Sarah Tooke at the age of 16 had a still born child just before her marriage to Thomas Barrand and they were married 3 weeks after this child was buried. The records do not give details of the sex of this child.

If the birth date of 1787 is correct, then Sarah would only have been 17 years old and therefore under age of consent at the time of her marriage in 1804, and I can find no record of any permission to marry which would possibly have been granted by Isaac Tooke if he had officially adopted Sarah. No notice of her being under the age of consent is shown on the banns, or on the marriage certificate itself, so this suggests that perhaps she was not officially adopted. On the 1841 census she is described as a widow, aged 53 so born around 1788, and working as a laundress and still living at No 4, Elder Walk with her children, Sophia and Isaac as lodgers along with a Susan Harford, a book seller and, on the 1851 census Sarah Elizabeth is shown as aged 64, and still a laundress but now living at 5, South Street, Finsbury in Islington. Both the 1841 census and 1851 census suggest her DOB was around 1787.

Other researchers of the the Took family suggest that her name was Elizabeth Sarah “Toke” and was a daughter of Nicholas Toke and his wife Ann (Not known) and she was baptised on the 27^th March, 1787 in Holborn. I am quite sure that this not the Sarah Took that married Thomas Barrand, as Holborn is several miles from Marylebone where Thomas Barrand lived. The Toke family also has her Christian names as Elizabeth Sarah instead of Sarah Elizabeth, and this Elizabeth Sarah Toke died 6 weeks after her birth and she was buried in St. Andrews Church in Holborn on the 17th April, 1787. I have shown the baptism records for future reference. Nicholas Toke also had another daughter, Sarah Alice, born in 1792 but with a different wife.

Pallots record of baptism of Elizabeth Sarah Toke

Burial record of Elizabeth Toke 17th April, 1787

Parish Register St. Geo Hanover Square – Baptism of Sarah Tooke.

Bishop’s transcript of baptism of Sarah Took 8^th March, 1787.

Robert Pierpoint was the publican mentioned in the Hyde Park assault, and he lived at 83, The Strand known as the Cock and Bottle PH and was married to Marion St. Quinton and, on his death she took over the Public House. She was described as a Victualler, Wine-Merchant, Dealer and Charwoman and declared bankrupt on the 21st of October 1825. Her address was 17, Crown Court, Russell-Street, Covent Garden, and served a sentence in His Majesty's Prison of the Fleet for embezelment. On Monday the 26th of July 1830, she was again declared bankrupt and an Assignee was appointed to manage her estate and effects. Her effects were sold by auction on 14^th April, 1834.

321 The Strand 7^th Feb 1885 (The Builder) Court Case Advert for Isaac Tooke

Inquest – Isaac Tooke Will of Isaac Tooke 1832

Court case involving the carriage driven by Lord Charles Spencer Churchill

Morning Chronicle 28 May 1818

Bell's Weekly Messenger 31 May 1818

The Commissioners in a Commission of: Bankrupt bearing Date the 17th Day of May 1810, awarded and, issued forth against Isaac Tooke and Augustus Todd, of the 'Strand, in the County of Middlesex, and of Brighton in the County of, Sussex, Wine-Merchants and Partners, intend to meet on the 13th Day of June next, at -Twelve, at Noon, at Guildhall, London, in order to make a further dividend of the Separate Estate and Effects of Isaac Tooke, one of the said Bankrupts; when and where the Creditors, who have not already proved their Debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the Benefit of the said Dividend and all Claims not then proved will be disallowed.

London Gazette 19th May, 1810

On 23rd March, 1847, Sarah Barrand was admitted to the Marylebone Workhouse as an inmate and they give her an allowance of 2/6 per week. Her birthdate is shown as 1782.

Sarah died on the 26^th April, 1852, at No 5, South Street, Finsbury, Islington aged 65, of apoplexy (Stroke) after 6 days. Death Ref: Islington 1852 - 2nd Qtr (1b - 134) The death certificate of Sarah confirms that Sarah was born in 1787 and that Thomas was a bootmaker as his profession.

St George Hanover Square 1798 The area where Sarah Took was baptised

Finsbury Square No 5, South Street Now Finsbury Circus

Copy of Parish Record of the death of Sarah Elizabeth Barrand

London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980

Name: Sarah Elizabeth Barrand

Record Type: Burial

Event Date: 2 May 1852

Age: 65

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1787

Died in South Street

Parish: Saint Mary

Borough: Islington

County: Middlesex

1841 Census – Sarah Took (widow) at 4, Elder Walk

1851 Census – Sarah Took (widow)

1852 Death Certificate Sarah Barrand

Sarah Elizabeth Took – Burial record

London Morning Post - Thu 11 Aug 1814 - London, England FAIR IN HYDE PARK

Morning Chronicle - Thu 11 August 1814.

(Porter as mentioned is ‘London Brown Beer, under the Name of Porter.’)

Taunton Courier Thursday 18th August 1914

A century ago, in August 1914, Britain was plunging into war, but in the same month a hundred years before, the country was rejoicing at the end – as they thought – of the long conflict with France, and the toppling of Napoleon Bonaparte. The prince regent announced a grand jubilee in London’s Royal Parks, to be held on 1 August – a date that also marked a centenary of Hanoverian rule. It was rather more spectacular than he hoped: the Chinese pagoda in St James’s Park caught fire during the firework display and tumbled into the lake, killing two men and some swans, and drawing huge crowds who thought it was all part of the show. In Hyde Park, the fairground shows of Bartholomew Fair, due at the end of the month, took over the ground: swings, roundabouts, wild-beast shows, donkey racing and sack-racing, and even printing presses to run off souvenirs. The grass was turned to sand, and “booths & drinking places go all round it for a mile & half... the stench of liquors, bad tobacco, dirty people & provisions, conquers the air." Bakers ran out of bread and the cows in Hyde Park were spooked by the cheers, and produced no milk. The booths selling liquour adopted the names of the victorious soldiers: Fifty Lord Wellingtons, Ten Marquis of Granby, Twelve Dukes of Marlborough and innumerable Nelsons.

Puppet-shows, wrestlers, fire-eaters, dwarfs, dancing bears, performing monkeys and caged tigers vied for attention with contortionists and tight-rope walkers. Astrologers cast horoscopes and miraculous medicines were hawked. Proprietors of food and drink, beer and tobacco, bellowed for custom amid a miasma of roast pork. There were plentiful supplies of toys, gingerbread and mousetraps, puppies, purses and singing birds in a general bedlam of shouts, fiddles, drums and rattles. The fair was one of the year’s great opportunities for pickpockets, naturally, and also for prostitutes, who might be found in tents coyly labelled ‘soiled doves’ or in a nearby street appropriately named Cock Lane.

Attractions in 1815 included albinos and Red Indians, ventriloquists, waxworks, and a learned pig which, blindfolded, could tell the time to the minute and pick out any specified card in a pack. Among things were the living skeleton, an elephant which uncorked bottles, a glass-blower in a glass wig blowing tea-cups for threepence apiece and baby crocodiles being hatched from eggs by steam. The fair’s loutishness, drunkenness and vulgarity, however, aroused growing middle-class disapproval. It was attracting too many thieves and one lady complained that the crush was so great that knees were crushed and boots pulled off. Carriages were practically immobile and walking extremely hazardous.

The entertainments in Hyde Park although of a different description, were not the less interesting, the whole space being converted into an extensive fair; between 400 and 500 booths were erected, where every delicacy that could please the eye or suit the taste of the most fastidious gourmand might be obtained.

The fair was allowed to continue during the whole of the week; the park being cleared by order of the Secretary of State on Monday the 8th, and such was the injury done to this beautiful spot by the influx of so many visitors, that a lapse of two years passed away before it recovered its pristine beauty.

Hyde Park Fair 1815 Hyde Park 1815

980. JOHN KELLY was indicted for stealing, on the 12th of July, at St. Marylebone, one piece of printed calico, value 3 l., the goods of Clement Sharp, in his dwelling-house.

CLEMENT SHARP. I am an upholsterer and cabinet-maker, and live in Berner's-street, Oxford-street, in the parish of St. Marylebone. On the 12th of July, about two o'clock, I missed this piece of printed cotton from my shop, which is part of my dwelling-house - the prisoner was brought back with it about three o'clock. It is worth about 5 l.

MARY CUNNINGHAM. I work for Mr. Sharp. I was sitting at work about half-past two o'clock, and saw a man go out of the shop with a piece of cotton under his arm - I did not see his face; he had a blue coat on, and was about the size of the prisoner. I cannot swear it was him. He is the man that was brought back.

JOSEPH DANIEL. I am a jobbing porter. On the 12th of August as the prisoner was going by my door, I heard the cry of stop thief, and took him in Edward-Street, Cavendish-Square. I found nothing on him. I brought him back to Mr. Sharp's, and the constable took him. He asked me to let him walk by himself. I refused.

WILLIAM WEEDON. I produce the calico which Mr. Sharp delivered to me.

CLEMENT SHARP. Barrand, a witness, who is not here, present, gave the calico to me, with the prisoner; he told me, in the prisoner's presence, that he saw the prisoner come out of my shop with this roll of calico in his hand - that he followed him up the street, and never lost of him till he was taken, that he saw him drop it just before he was taken, and he took it up, and still followed him. The prisoner made no answer, but said he hoped I should have mercy on him. The property is mine. I saw it in the shop the day before.

The prisoner made no defence.

GUILTY - DEATH . Aged 17. Recommended to Mercy by the Prosecutor.

Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Best.

Old Bailey Records 18th September, 1820

John Kelly was born in 1803 and no record has been found of him until 1820 when he appeared at the Old Bailey for the theft of the calico. The sentence of death was eventually respited on the 30^th November to be transported for life.

Old Bailey Records 18th September, 1820

Thomas Barrand and Sarah Elizabeth Took had 9 children.

1 Child 2 Children 1 Child 8 Children Jane Ashworth b d Still born b 1804 d 1804

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