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Alban RUSHBROOKE

Male 1820 - 1895  (75 years)    Has 14 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Alban RUSHBROOKE 
    Birth 1820  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Christening 23 Jun 1820  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    Census 30 Mar 1851  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Occupation 07 Apr 1861  [4] 
    Farmer of 620 acres employing 24 labourers 9 boys 2 women, Scoulton 
    Occupation 02 Apr 1871  [5] 
    Farmer of 570 acres employing 19 men 4 boys, Scoulton 
    Occupation 03 Apr 1881  [6] 
    Farmer of 374 acres employing 13 labourers and 2 boys, Scoulton 
    Bankrupted 11 Aug 1881  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9] 
    Burial 1895  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11] 
    Death 28 Mar 1895  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13, 14] 
    Cause: Influenza 
    Probate 18 May 1895  London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Person ID I1995  NZ Genealogy Project | RUSHBROOKE Descendant
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2019 

    Father Thomas Allen RUSHBROOKE [Thomas Allen Mark],   b. 1775, Hardingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jul 1853, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Maria HARDY,   b. 1785, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1856, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 11 Feb 1808  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 16] 
    Census 30 Mar 1851  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [17] 
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    Family ID F1006  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Berthalina NORTON [Bertha],   b. 29 Jun 1835, Hingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Jan 1860, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years) 
    Marriage 24 Dec 1856  Hardingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [16, 18, 19] 
    Census 07 Apr 1861  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    Census 02 Apr 1871  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [21] 
    Children 
     1. Alban RUSHBROOKE,   b. 26 Mar 1857, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1907, Diss, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    +2. Ernest Edwin RUSHBROOKE,   b. 10 Feb 1859, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Apr 1940, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
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    Family ID F1003  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2024 

    Family 2 Elvina Margaret BROWN [Elvina Margaret BROWNE],   b. 1853, Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Sep 1916, Besthorpe, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Marriage 20 May 1874  Norwich, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [16, 22, 23] 
    Census 03 Apr 1881  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [24] 
    Census 05 Apr 1891  Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [25] 
    Children 
    +1. Maud Mary THOMPSON,   b. 07 Sep 1873, Norwich, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1952, Sharrington, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    +2. Clement RUSHBROOKE,   b. 19 Nov 1874, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Aug 1949, West End, West Bradenham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
    +3. Evelyn Alan RUSHBROOKE,   b. 23 Nov 1875, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 08 Jul 1960, Hitcham, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    +4. Ida RUSHBROOKE,   b. 09 Dec 1876, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1960, Newbold, Derbyshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     5. Violet RUSHBROOKE,   b. 06 Oct 1878, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1879, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    +6. Maria May RUSHBROOKE [Mollie],   b. 02 Jun 1880, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1957, Caston, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
     7. Leonard Brown RUSHBROOKE,   b. 04 Feb 1882, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1882, Scoulton, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    +8. Cecil RUSHBROOKE,   b. 28 May 1884, Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1944, Besthorpe, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    +9. Edith RUSHBROOKE [Daisy],   b. 14 Jan 1886, Great Ellingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1955, Thetford, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
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    Family ID F1005  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1820 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 23 Jun 1820 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 30 Mar 1851 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 Dec 1856 - Hardingham, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 07 Apr 1861 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 02 Apr 1871 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 20 May 1874 - Norwich, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 03 Apr 1881 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBankrupted - 11 Aug 1881 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 05 Apr 1891 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 1895 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Cause: Influenza - 28 Mar 1895 - Scoulton, Norfolk, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProbate - 18 May 1895 - London, Middlesex, England Link to Google Earth
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    • BIOGRAPHY

      Alban Rushbrooke, seventh son of Thomas Allen Rushbrooke and Maria Hardy was born in 1820 in Scoulton, Norfolk. He is one of the most interesting men in the Rushbrooke family. In 1841, the date of the first Census in Great Britain, Alban was 20 years old living at home and working on his father's farm. Six of his sisters were also living at home together with a sizeable staff of servants. By 1851, Alban was the Farm Bailiff and three of his sisters were still at home. The next ten years saw many changes in the Rushbrooke household at Scoulton. Thomas Allen and Maria died in 1855/56 together with their daughter Harriet in 1859. The other two sisters left home. Alban took over the farm (lease) following his father's death and he married Berthalina Norton in 1856. The Norton family lived at Scoulton Hall and Berthalina was Alban's cousin. She quickly produced two sons, Alban and Ernest, but regrettably she died in childbirth at the age of 25. It is reported that Alban was grief stricken at the loss of his wife, and mourned her for many years.

      By 1861, Alban was a very prosperous widower. He had also taken over the neighbouring property, Abergavenny Farm, and he now had 630 acres, employed 24 labourers, 9 boys and 2 women. His household consisted of two sons aged 3 and 4, supported by a housekeeper, nursemaid, various other household servants, a groom and even a boot boy. He had become the most important man in Scoulton.

      Fifteen years were to pass before a new era dawned. At the age of 54, Alban took to himself a new wife Elvina Margaret Brown. Elvina was born in 1853 in Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk. She was the eldest daughter of the local gamekeeper, James Brown, and it is reported that she was a very beautiful woman. Alban first asked for her hand when she was 18, but James Brown refused to give his blessing. They married in 1874 in Norwich when she was 21, having produced a child out of wedlock. Alban and Elvina had a further 8 children in the next 12 years.

      Alban retired at 62 and moved to Great Ellingham Hall which is a very beautiful moated house. In his retirement he produced his last two children. He died in Scoulton of influenza aged 74 in the presence of his son Clement, and is buried with his first wife Berthalina at Scoulton. His death marked the end of the Rushbrooke connection with Scoulton, not one of his children continued to live in the village of their birth. It is also interesting to note his alter type grave stone records his wife as Berthalina Norton not Rushbrooke. On the opposite end of the stone there is the most appropriate epitaph, "We bring our lives to a close, like a tale that is told".

      After the death of Alban, Elvina went to live with her son Cecil Rushbrooke and his wife Margaret Olive. Elvina died 21 years later at Besthorpe near Attleborough in the presence of Margaret at the age of 63. Her marriage to Alban ended in acrimony. Following Alban's death she refused to have anything to do with his estate, she signed everything over to Alban, his eldest son by Berthalina. She lived in poverty for the rest of her life.

      Source: The Rushbrooke Family a manuscript by the late Michael A Rushbrooke, Lavenham, Suffolk, 2000.

      Since the above research was done, details of Alban's bankruptcy have been found. On the 16 August 1881 Alban wrote to his largest creditor, noting that nothing had happened after he signed a petition the previous week. His farming property was sold in October 1881, including: 12 horses, 2 milking cows, carriages, farm implements, harness, a large quantity of building material, wheelwright's stuff, the contents of Carpenter's shop, several lots of old iron and miscellaneous effects. Sheep and cattle grazing on the farm, owned by neighbours, were also sold at the sale. Many farms in Norfolk were severely affected in the 1870s by a long depression of the agricultural economy. This possibly explains the reduction in farming activity between the 1871 and 1881 census, followed by eventual bankruptcy.

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