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Gloucestershire / Brickwell of Stroud
« on: Friday 02 March 07 22:54 GMT (UK) »
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I found this in a book on Victorian Liverpool theatres which may help anyone researching the Brickwell family of Stroud. According to RootsChat member Angela R, on another board, Henry Thomas Brickwell married Evelina Terry in LIverpool in 1876.
From the Annals of the Liverpool Stage (Sefton Theatre):
Although not a native of Liverpool, having been born at Stroud in 1858, Mr Brickwell was educated at the Liverpool College, and in a small part, made his first appearance on stage at the local Amphi.
In the eighties, the Sessions House Hotel , Kirkdale, was occupied by Mr Brickwell pere. One Sunday when his son and his daughter-in-law arrived at the hotel they were surprised to find, massed in front of the house and stretching aloong the footwalks and roadway leading thereto, a dense body of people. On seeing Mr HT Brickwell, the crowd shouted 'That im, that's im' and then a very respectable cheer was given. The younger Brickwell blushed becomingly, looked dreadfully conscious, and bowed as gracefully as possible. Apparently he had been taken for some illustrious personage. Who could it be? The mystery was solved after he and his spouse had fought their way through the demonstrative crowd, each one striving to shake him by the hand, and were safely housed in the hotel. It then appeared that Mr Brickwell had been mistaken for Bartholomew Binns, the successor of the 'long drop' man, who was expected to arrive that day to carry out on the morrow the dread sentence of the law on an unfortunate criminal at the adjacent Kirkdale gaol.
I found this in a book on Victorian Liverpool theatres which may help anyone researching the Brickwell family of Stroud. According to RootsChat member Angela R, on another board, Henry Thomas Brickwell married Evelina Terry in LIverpool in 1876.
From the Annals of the Liverpool Stage (Sefton Theatre):
Although not a native of Liverpool, having been born at Stroud in 1858, Mr Brickwell was educated at the Liverpool College, and in a small part, made his first appearance on stage at the local Amphi.
In the eighties, the Sessions House Hotel , Kirkdale, was occupied by Mr Brickwell pere. One Sunday when his son and his daughter-in-law arrived at the hotel they were surprised to find, massed in front of the house and stretching aloong the footwalks and roadway leading thereto, a dense body of people. On seeing Mr HT Brickwell, the crowd shouted 'That im, that's im' and then a very respectable cheer was given. The younger Brickwell blushed becomingly, looked dreadfully conscious, and bowed as gracefully as possible. Apparently he had been taken for some illustrious personage. Who could it be? The mystery was solved after he and his spouse had fought their way through the demonstrative crowd, each one striving to shake him by the hand, and were safely housed in the hotel. It then appeared that Mr Brickwell had been mistaken for Bartholomew Binns, the successor of the 'long drop' man, who was expected to arrive that day to carry out on the morrow the dread sentence of the law on an unfortunate criminal at the adjacent Kirkdale gaol.