.
.
Section 29 : Direct Line 1809-1946
Arthur Wallis Brush and Emily nee Pleming had four children. The eldest, Arthur Wesley Brush, was my grandfather and is considered in section 29.E, His siblings Elsie Louise, George Douglas and Herbert Stanley are considered in this section. From 1882 until 1895 the family was living at 190a Holloway Road, Highbury in North London, above Arthur Wallis's grocers shop. From there they moved to Victoria Terrace, Hornsey in and by 1911 to The Shrubbery, Gordon Road, Hornsey.
Elsie Loiuse was born in January 1887. The 1939 register shows her birth date as 4th January, the baptism register shows it as 14 January. She was baptise on 13 March at Highbury Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
In 1917 she married John Herbert Savage. He was her cousin - her mother's sister Elizabeth Pleming had married Herbert Edward Savage and John Herbert was one of their children. He had been living with her and her parents in 1901 when he was 18 and she was 14 ( or at least staying with them on the night of the census).
At the 1939 register she was living at 4 Raith Avenue, Southgate
Uncle George, my great uncle, was born on 8 December 1888.
At 1891 he is with the family at 190a Holloway Road.
At 1901 he is with the family at 2 Victoria Terrace. Also listed there are two of his cousins, John and Frederick Savage.
At 1911, age 22 a Solicitor's Law Clerk, unmarried, he still living with his parents and all three siblings at The Shrubbery.
In WW1 he served with the 5th London Regiment and reached the rank of Sergeant. He was in France or Belgium from 25 January to 24 May 1917.
There is another George Douglas Brush of a similar age - a Canadian - who also served in Europe - with the Canadian Army . At least one Ancestry tree tries to merge the two men together.
On 9 August 1924 he married Elsie Jeannie Blackett at All Hallows Church, Tottenham. His address at the time of marrige is still shown as the Shrubbery. His occupation is Solicitors Managing Clerk. The role of Managing Clerk in a solicitor's firm is broadly the equivalent of a 'Legal Executive' performing a professional legal function - not just a clerk.
He appears in the 1927 Elecoral Roll at 5 Gordon Road - the Shrubbery, though his wife Elsie does not.
At some point before 1935 ( when he is listed in the Enfield and Winchmore Hill Directory) he moved to 138 Morley Hill, Enfield.
At the time of the 1939 register he is a Solicitors' Managing Clerk, living at 4 Raith Avenue with his sister Elsie Savage and her three sons.
38 Morley Hill, Enfield was again his address after this. He is there in the 1956 phone directory, with number ENField 7239.
George was the uncle with whom my father retained most contact and who he greatly respected. I have memories, albeit vague ones, of him visiting us in Radlett in the 1960s and 70s. Memories of a benevolent uncle.
George died on 15 April 1978. His estate was valued at £20,356 and probate was granted on 20 November.
Herbert Stanley was my great uncle, though he had died
Next Sections: