- In White’s Directory of 1857 Brindley Benjamin, cheese and bacon factor, 44, Corn market Brindley Wm., woollen mercht, 7, Tenant St.
- Brindley Benjamin (2), Cheese and Bacon Factor and general Provision merchant, 44 Corn Market but living at South Parade, 80 South Street.
- Brindley W & Sons, woollen merchants, 7 Tenant Street.
- Brindley Wm (1) (of WB & Sons), living at 8 St Alkmund’s Churchyard.
- Brindley Wm Hy (2) (of WB & Sons), 7 Tenant Street.
Brindleys of Derby 1851 - 1880
By 1851 Charlotte Brindley (nee Spencer) is widowed and living with her son John, her daughter Mary and William’s (2) son Benjamin at the Market Place Derby. John’s occupation is given as Cheese Factor and Benjamin is his apprentice. Benjamin later inherited the business when John died in 1856 aged 56.
By the 1851 census William Brindley (46) was still living in Tenant Street in Derby with his wife Mary (nee Thickett) (44) and their children Ann (21), Charlotte (19) William H (15), John (12), Mary (10) Adelaide (8) and Edward (5). William and William H are recorded as a Woollen Drapers, Ann as a Milliner and Mary as Housekeeper.
On 23rd October 1829 Ann died of consumption aged 23
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William and Mary’s eldest son Benjamin was living in the Corn Market with his wife Jane (nee Watson) and his daughter Charlotte B Brindley. Benjamin is recorded as a Provision Merchant. |
On 8th May 1855 Charlotte Brindley married Henry Howe Bemrose. Sir Henry Howe Bemrose (1827-1911), was the owner of a Derby printing company who became mayor of Derby and MP from 1895 to 1900, and who compiled a large Derbyshire Collection with the aim of completing a massive bibliotheca of the county.
Trade Directory
In 1861 William Brindley was still living in Tenant Street in Derby with his wife Mary and their children William H (25), John (22), Mary (20) Adelaide (18) and Edward (15). William Snr and Jnr are recorded as Woollen Drapers, John as a Silk Merchants Clerk and Edward as an Ironmonger’s apprentice.
In 1862 Adelaide died of consumption aged 19.
In 1862 William Henry married Jane Maria Beresford.
In 1871 William Brindley was living in St Alkmund’s Place in Derby with his wife Mary and their son Edward. William is recorded as a Woollen Draper and Edward as an Ironmonger.
John Brindley 32 has gone further a field and is in Caterham in Surrey at 'Clareville House' and is recorded as clerk to member of stock exchange, a Mr William Barrett. After which there is no trace of him.
In 1871 William H Brindley (Jnr) was living in at 7 Tenant Street, Derby with his wife Jane M. Brindley, his sister-in-law Elizabeth Beresford and a servant Hannah Kirkland. William is recorded as a Woollen Merchant.
In 1871 Henry Howe Bemrose was living at 124 Uttoxeter New Road. Mary Brindley, Charlotte’s sister is also at this address with Charlotte (9) and Edith (5). Henry is recorded as senior partner at ‘Bemrose and Sons’.
In 1872 June ¼ Edward Brindley married Mary Ann Fearn at Nottingham.
They had the following children
Ernest
Edward
Fearn
Brindley
born
1873
registered
at
Stockton,
County
Durham,
N
Yorkshire
George
Arthur
Fearn
Brindley
born
1874
registered
at
Stockton,
County
Durham
Maud(e)
Mary
Fearn
Brindley
born
1876
registered
at
Middlesborough
County
Durham
Minnie
May
Brindley
born
1879
registered
at
Middlesborough
County
Durham
Arnold
Bemrose
Brindley
born
1881
registered
at
Middlesborough
County
Durham
Jennie
Louisa
Brindley
born
1884
registered
at
Middlesborough
County
Durham
Edith
Evelyn
Brindley
born
1886
registered
at
Middlesborough
County
Durham
Gladys
Gertude
Brindley
born
1886
registered
at
Whitby
North
Yorkshire
Trade Directory
In 1874 the entries for Wright’s Trade Directory reveal the following
This entry shows that Benjamin (2) has taken over the shop from his uncle and that William’s younger son William Henry (2) has joined his father at the shop in Tenant Street. William (1) has moved out of the shop to another address and William (2) is now living at the shop.
In 1878 John Brindley died in London - death certificate Greenwich 1d 613.