John Brereton

John Brereton and Tobacco for Workhouse

This picture was taken on December 31st, 1892 and sourced from Cheshire Observer.

• Individual Picture Notes
  • John was a member of the Wrexham Workhouse board of Guardians, and proposed giving older inmates 1oz of Tobacco each week.

• Birth Notes
  • Aged 14 in 1841, Harthill (with grandparents)
    Aged 24 in 1851. Servant as Castle Inn
    Aged 42 in 1871
    
    The Brereton book has John born in 1827, so the oldest of the children, but census records indicate otherwise.

• Death Notes
  • Probate:
    BRERETON John of Higher Hall Isycoed Wrexham Denbighshire farmer died 9 May 1896. Probate St Asaph 17 July to Edward Brereton farmer Effects £1295 3s
    
    According to the chapel records, John was buried Brown Knowl chapel in 1896, aged 69.  This is the same cemetery (but different grave) as where his parents are buried.

• General Notes
  • No christening record.  John (14) living with Mary and William in 1841, but Mary would be too old for John to be her child, and census divide indicates of another family. Now believed to be the John, the son of Thomas and Martha.
    
    John and brother William emigrated to Port Philip, Victoria, Australia in Aug 1852 on the "Lady Head", and their other brothers arrived in 1858. There is a shipping record for a John Brereton in 1852 and in 1856 the electoral roll has a record for John Brereton and William Brereton in Kyneton Boroughs, Malsbury.
    
    John Brereton of Australia was reported in the Chester Chronical (14 July 1866) attending the Festival of Broxton, where two large waterproof tents were erected next to the Roal Oak Inn at Broxton..
    
    John returned to Wales, living with his brother Edward in 1891.  John Brereton of Is-y-Coed died 8-May-1896, aged 69, leaving his estate of £1,295 to his younger brother Edward Brereton farmer.
    
    John was a member of the Wrexham Workhouse board of Guardians, and proposed giving older inmates 1oz of Tobacco each week.