Brickwall with Margaret Brook(e)s from Whitchurch

[Aquitaine]

Hi everyone

I have had alot of good help recently and thanks to all.  Looking for the Eureka moment with this family!

Just checking on my brickwalls!  I dont have much on this family I have Margaret Brook(e)s in 1851 Bury Lancashire and she married James Cooper  I have her death etc..the problem is her earlier life.
I know her father was Thomas from the marriage in Bury and I know she had a sister Jane Brook(e)s also in Bury 1851 she married Frederick Wilkinson St Mary Bury Lancashire 10th September 1851

I know her father was a cordwainer or shoemaker.  On census both always state born "Whitchurch Shropshire" but I cant seem to find anything for certain back there or a Thomas B. who was a shoemaker..

Margaret born abt 1839-1832
Jane born abt 1830 roughly

Anyone any clues?

Thanks in advance.

A.

 

[CaroleW]

Have you already discounted this 1841 entry

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/8978/records/13286249?tid=&pid=&queryId=548dd68f-2444-40f1-9069-fa4658fc10cf&_phsrc=kMp6&_phstart=successSource

[CaroleW]

In 1861 Margaret & James are living with sister Ann & her husband. 

Also in the same house is a nephew Henry J Brookes b Manchester whose father appears to be Ambrose according to other docs.  Ambrose was b Shropshire so is presumably the brother of Margaret & Ann

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1841--John Street, Whitchurch, Wem & Whitchurch, Shropshire, England

Mary   Brookes   Female   35   1806   Shropshire, England
William   Brookes   Male   15   1826   Shropshire, England
Ambrose   Brookes   Male   10   1831   -
Jane   Brookes   Female   9   1832   Shropshire, England
Margaret   Brookes   Female   7   1834   Shropshire, England

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Brookes
William
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1827
Shropshire Baptisms
Kinlet, Shropshire, England

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Probable death of Thomas Brookes. £3 digital image would confirm..

Burial image on Ancestry

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BROOKES, THOMAS       aged 47 
GRO Reference: 1840  D Quarter in CLEOBURY MORTIMER  Volume 18  Page 35

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Ambrose Brooks - full age, stone mason
Father Thomas, cordwainer

Mary  Heys Withington - full age
Father Henry, stone mason

Abode: Pendleton

marriage 3 December 1849, Eccles

Witnesses Jane Brookes, John Huggis???

[Aquitaine]

Good evening

Wow - now why couldnt I find them!  I am happy with the 1841 Whitchurch with Mary and children showing siblings.  I was looking just around Whitchurch. The unusual name "Ambrose" has helped to open up this family.  So they were quite aways from Whitchurch. I had to look Kinlet up on maps.

Oh yes I downloaded the death for Thomas Brookes in 1840 per your suggestions and it is indeed the one.  Death certificate Cleobury Mortimer reg district

5 October 1840 Kinlet Thomas Brookes 47 yrs a shoemaker died spasm - wife Mary present at the death.
 
So a big thanks

SS
Mabel
CaroleW

[Neale1961]

Children of Thomas and Mary  - Baptisms in Kinlet
•   Eliza Brookes 6 July 1823; Father – shoemaker, abode Upper House (burial 28 Apr 1825)
•   Eliza Brookes 15 May 1825; Father – shoemaker, abode Upper Meaton
•   William Brookes 23 Dec 1827; Father – shoemaker, abode Upper Meaton


Possibly this Marriage ?
1 May 1820 Kinlet Shropshire
Thomas BROOKES and Mary TAFT


Burial 11 Oct 1840 Kinlet
Thomas Brookes; age 47
Abode Kinlet