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Family of John BROOKS and Hannah BEARD

Husband: John BROOKS (c. 1828- )
Wife: Hannah BEARD (c. 1833-bef1871)
Children: Thomas BROOKS (c. 1850- )
John BROOKS (1853-bef1901)
Arthur BROOKS (c. 1854- )
Martha BROOKS (c. 1858- )
Hannah BROOKS (c. 1860- )
Marriage 7 May 1849 St. Edwards Parish Church, Leek, Staffordshire

Husband: John BROOKS

Name: John BROOKS
Sex: Male
Father: John BROOKS (1799- )
Mother: Millicent COPE (c. 1792-1830)
Birth c. 1828 Ipstones, Staffordshire
Baptism 8 Jun 1828 (age 0) St. Leonard's Parish Church, Ipstones, Staffordshire
Occupation Farm servant.
Death

Wife: Hannah BEARD

Name: Hannah BEARD
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth c. 1833 Ipstones, Staffordshire
Baptism 4 Aug 1833 (age 0) St Leonards, Ipstones, Staffordshire
Death bef 1871 (age 37-38)

Child 1: Thomas BROOKS

Name: Thomas BROOKS
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mary GRINDY (c. 1851- )
Birth c. 1850 Leek, Staffordshire
Baptism 21 Mar 1851 (age 0-1) St. Edwards Parish Church, Leek, Staffordshire
Occupation Farmer (60 acres)

Child 2: John BROOKS

Name: John BROOKS
Sex: Male
Spouse: Angelina Jane BEARD (1848- )
Birth 24 Jul 1853 Bradnop, Staffordshire
Baptism 23 Aug 1853 (age 0) St. Edward's Parish Church, Leek, Staffordshire
Occupation Farmer
Death bef 1901 (age 47-48)

Child 3: Arthur BROOKS

Name: Arthur BROOKS
Sex: Male
Spouse: Ann Elizabeth COPE (c. 1856- )
Birth c. 1854 Bradnop, Staffordshire
Occupation Coalminer

Child 4: Martha BROOKS

Name: Martha BROOKS
Sex: Female
Spouse: Edmund MURFIN (c. 1858- )
Birth c. 1858 Bradnop, Staffordshire

Child 5: Hannah BROOKS

Name: Hannah BROOKS
Sex: Female
Birth c. 1860 Bradnop, Staffordshire

Note on Marriage

Marriage not on the IGI or FreeBMD (21 Mar 2005).

Note on Husband: John BROOKS

Occupation: Farm Servant (1849,51), Farmer of 56 Acres (1861), Farm Servant Indoor (1871).

 

In 1851 John Brooks lived at Bottom Lane which came under the parish of Ipstones. John Brooks married Hannah Beard at Leek in 1849. The Vicar, Thomas H Heathcote conducted the ceremony. John Chadwick and George Rider were the witnesses. In 1861 he was a Farmer at Dirty Gutter Farm.

 

Has a neice Glady M Brooks on 1901 census.

Note on Wife: Hannah BEARD

 

John and Hannah were probably distant cousins through the Stubbs family.

Hannah was the daughter of Thomas Beard and Martha Stubbs. Her mother was of the 'Butterton Stubbs line' and had brothers called Walter and Henry Stubbs.