1858. Herbert Nuttall Brookhouse was born Carrington Basford Mar 1858 to Henry Brookhouse & Hester Nuttall

1861C. Herbert A Brookhouse, 3, b. Basford , is living 13 Market Place Basford with his parents and a sister. His father, b. Radford,[ a mistranscripton here] was a lace machine builder and his mother, b. Allerton, has no occupation . A mistranscripton too of his initial - it seems like an N to me!

1862. His mother, Esther Brookhouse, is buried Carrington St John on 9/4/1862

1869. His father, Henry Brookhouse, marries Elizabeth Fettyplace on 3/4/1869 in Carrington, Basford

1871C. Herbert N Brookhouse, 13, b. North Carrington, is living Market Place Basford with his father, step mother and a half brother: Harry was born 1863 as Harry Brookhouse Fettyplace, son of his father & Elizabeth Fettyplace. His father, b. Radford, was a lace machine fitter and his stepmother, b. Lenton, a dress bobbin winder

1881C. Herbert N Brookhouse, transcribed as Key??, 23, butcher, b. Carrington, is living 17 Guys Terrace, Nottingham St Mary, with his father and seemingly yet another step mother , Selina, only 36 . His 2 step brothers likely have the surname Key, and he has mistakenly been likewise entered

1881. Herbert Nuttall Brookhouse marries Annie Sophia Walker Nottingham Sep 1881.

1889. He goes to prison for 21 days for non payment of a debt, but then sues for perjury, saying the demand for the debt had never been served. 2 reports in the newspapers- FMP- on 1st & 10th April 1889- he loses the charge of perjury

1889-1891. He moves the family west to Birmingham, probably because of the loss of face he suffered in court!

1891C. Could not trace them. Eventually found them in Ancestry through their young children, mistranscribed as Brookery . Herbert Nuttall Brookhouse, 33, butcher, living 2 Clarke Street Birmingham. Basford mistranscribed as Bedford!

1891. Gertrude Brookhouse was born to Herbert & Annie Brookhouse Birmingham Sep 1891

1901C. Herbert N Brookhouse, 42, clerk & time keeper, is living 6 St Mark Street Quadrant Place Birmingham with his wife and 8 children. Has thus abandonned being a butcher.

1911C. Herbert N Brookhouse, 52, clerk in engineering industry, is living at 246 Balsall Heath Road B Ham, Balsall Heath, Kings Norton .Worcs. They had had 10 children, of whom 1 had died. All 9 survivors still living with them. This Kings Norton - where a marriage took place 1920!

1912-1914. I am sure this can be Not be he- he would have been 54 in 1912!!- but very likely could be his son, Herbert, born 1895

discharged in 1914

OR, even less likely!

1920. ?? Could he - just as Herbert Brookhouse , no initial - have remarried Elsie G Dicks in Kings Norton in 1920? . Hardly possible as his wife dies later than he does, but there could possibly have been a divorce?? None shown on Ancestry , so think this 1920 marriage was that of another just plain Herbert Brookhouse, very likely his son, Herbert Brookhouse 1895

1926. Herbert N Brookhouse dies Birmingham S. Sep 1926, stated age 68. No probate

1937. His widow, Annie S. Brookhouse, dies Birmingham Sep 1937, stated age 77

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