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I have edited my original post correcting the error.

Tom

Edward Brookes and Sarah Sambrook were in fact Joseph's parents, and therefore Horatios grandparetns.

Also, with regards to my earlier osting re the Brookes of Sedgley, it looks as if the link may be Edward above, who was born in Wolverhampton (1821) and lived there until 1851, and then lived in Sedgley 1861 and Lower Gornal 1871, before returning to Wolverhampton where he lived with his daughter Maud and her husband and died in 1896.

the Brooks was an extremely prolific family with large familie and a tendency to multiple marriages. Unfortunattely they all tended to cakk there children by the same names causing much confusion. So far I have only come across one Horatio. I have a deat tcert and await delivery of a birrth cert.

Thanks again

Tom

Thank you folks, I will read your replies, but I have discovered that therre was an error in my posting which may have some astray. horation was the son of Joseph and May Ann, not Thomas and Sarah; sorry about that.

Tom

Hello Tom and welcome to the Community Boards. :-)





I'll send Tom a friendly message on how to return to his thread. :-)

Assuming it's the correct family, just confirming Horatio not with them 1901.

1901 England Census
Name: Joseph Brook
Age: 56
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary A Brook
Gender: Male
Where born: Wolverhampton

Civil Parish: Birmingham
Ecclesiastical parish: Emmanuel
County/Island: Warwickshire

Registration District: Birmingham
Sub-registration District: St Martin
ED, institution, or vessel: 27
Joseph Brook 56
Mary A Brook 50
Joseph Brook 24
Arther Brook 17
Sidney Brook 15
Ernest Brook 11
Emily Brook 4
George Binckshaw 5 Months
Walter Field 24
Maud Field 24

Tom, you start off by saying that you have a considerable amount of information about this man but where did it come from and is it accurate?

Presumably:

Marriages Mar 1871 (>99%)
Brookes Joseph Wolverhampton 6b 589
Buckley Alfred George Wolverhampton 6b 589
Cope Matilda Wolverhampton 6b 589
Williams Mary Ann Wolverhampton 6b 589

1891 England Census
Name: Horatio Brookes
Age: 16
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Joseph Brookes
Mother's Name: Mary A Brookes
Gender: Male
Where born: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England

Civil Parish: Birmingham
Ecclesiastical parish: St Barnabas
County/Island: Warwickshire

Registration District: Birmingham
Sub-registration District: Lady Wood

Joseph Brookes 46
Mary A Brookes 41
Edward Brookes 20
Horatio Brookes 16
Joseph Brookes 15
Maud Brookes 13
Emily Brookes 11
George Brookes 9
Arthur Brookes 7
Sidney Brookes 5
Ernest Brookes 1

There's no Horatio Brooks/Brookes on the 81 census with parents Thomas & Sarah, only the one with Joseph & Mary.

There's this marriage for a Sarah Sambrook(es), but a lot earlier than Horatio's birth date, and if she married Mr Brookes, his name's Edward, not Thomas:

Marriages Sep 1844 (>99%)
BLACKHAM Eli Jonathan Wolverhampton 17 328 Scan available - click to view
BLAKEWAY George Wolverhampton 17 328 Scan available - click to view
BROOKES Edward Wolverhampton 17 328 Scan available - click to view
COOKE Joseph Wolverhampton 17 328 Scan available - click to view
Harper Eliza Wolverhampton 17 328 Scan available - click to view
KIDSON Hannah Wolverhampton 17 328 Scan available - click to view
SAMBROOKES Sarah Wolverhampton 17 328 Scan available - click to view
TILL Ann Wolverhampton &c 17 328

Horatio and Mary Ann had Roland 1922 could this be who was on the death cert in 1960.

Maryb.

Where did your information come from, Tom?
Do you have any certificates to verify the names/dates?

Not seeing a marriage for Thomas and Sarah

and the only Horatio Brookes listed in 1891 is with parents Joseph and Mary

Someone on Ancestry has this person as his daughter - you maybe??:

Births Sep 1921 (>99%)
Brookes Olga P Clarke Birmingham 6d 397

Jan

There are several comings and goings on passenger lists for Mr H Brookes ... maybe he was one of them.

The only one I can see had parents Joseph and Mary Ann.

According to Ancestry trees hi was born 1875 to Joseph and Mary Ann nee Williams and he married Mary Ann Clarke.

Maryb.

Name: Horatio Brookes
Year: 1920
Ward or Division/Constituency: Deritend
Residence Place: Birmingham
89 Upper Highgate street with a Bertha Mall

So he never married??

I have a cconsiderable amount of info re this man but thee is a gap between 1891 and 1920

He was born in Wolverhampton in the 2nd quater of 1875, son of Joseph Brookes and Mary Ann Wiliams. He appears in the census for 1881 and 1891 living with his parents and sibs in Birmingham.

Then there is the gap until he reappears in Birmingham with entries in the electoral role at various addresses between 1920 and 1960. This was the year of his death and he died in Selly Oak Hospital, age 85. 28 Sept 1960. The death cert gives 87 Berrington Road as his address. the informat seems to be R Brookes of 134 Longmeadow Crescent Birmingham 34

Tom Murray