BRYER Surrey Family 3 Family Chart no. 200

	Joseph Henry BRYER		Sarah SWIFT
	b. circa 1781		b. circa 1786
			m. 31 Jul 1806 at Lambeth SRY
	d. 19 Oct 1849 St George the Martyr Southwark SRY, aged 68
	Currier (1841) Leather Shaver

Their Children

James	Henry	William [?]
b. 23 Nov 1809 bap. 17 Jun 1810 St George the Martyr Southwark [IGI]	b. circa 1811 SRY	b. circa 1821
	d. 23 Jan 1858 at Southwark Workhouse [?]

Who They Were

The IGI has an entry for Jas BRYER (no parentage) christened at St Saviour Southwark on 7 Oct 1781 - could this in fact have been Jos. short for Joseph? I have only been able to trace two children for Joseph and Sarah, but there are likely to have been more.

Joseph died of heart disease.

Son Henry may be the same Henry who died aged 49 on 23 Jan 1858 in St Saviours Workhouse, of Phthisis. He had been a Journeyman Japanner, and no relative is named on the death certificate. Certainly the age ties up with the Henry who is noted in the 1841 census, but I have been unable to trace him, as yet, in the 1851 census. Japanner is a fairly unusual occupation, and I have so far come across only one other described as such, with a very interesting address! This was William BRIER/BRYER, who was living at 18 Townsend Street, St George the Martyr Southwark in 1841, the house where Joseph was to die 8 years later. William said he was born in county and his age (20) suggests he was born around 1821. Could he have been another son of Joseph and Sarah? I think it highly likely.

Witnesses to the marriage of Joseph Henry and Sarah were Jno SWIFT and Elizabeth BRYER.



In the 1851 census, there is, living in St Mary Newington, a Sarah Bryer, widowed, aged 64 (born 1787 in Rochester KEN), and her son Henry, also widowed, aged 38, born circa 1813 in Rochester KEN, whose occupation is given as Cotton Jappaman. The dates of birth (although not the places) and the names fit, and the occupations of this Henry and the Henry who died in the workhouse are so similar as to make it a certain match. So who was his wife that died before 1851?

Where They Lived

At the time of the 1841 Census, Joseph and Sarah were living with son Henry at Lambs Place, St Mary Newington.

At the time of Joseph's death in 1849 they were living at 18 Townsend Street Southwark, 18 Townsend Street Southwark, and the informant, son Henry, gave the same address.

Family Group Identifiers

Family: BRYERSWK3
Family Group: b-sry200