THE FROGGATTS OF BREWHOUSE YARD:William Froggatt (1837 – 1881)William was born 5 April 1837, at Brewhouse Yard to WIlliam FROGGATT and Elizabeth BOWLER.
William was born 5 April 1837, at Brewhouse Yard. By the time of the 1851 census he was a “scholar” at Castle Wharf and on the 1861 census he was a “timber merchant’s clerk” aged 24 and still living with his parents at Standard Hill. By 1864 the family, including William, was residing at 8 Lenton Road, The Park Estate (see photograph above). A near neighbour in Lenton Rd was Arnold Goodliffe and family. William (II) married their daughter Sarah Goodliffe at Derby Road Chapel on 11th April 1867 in a double ceremony together with Frederick Arnold Goodliffe and Elizabeth (Eliza) Swain. In Arnold Goodliffe’s memoirs he records: “two large rooms were thrown open; William Taylor Confectioner provided the breakfast. The company consisted of, besides the immediate wedding party, Alderman and Mrs Swain, Mr and Mrs Bennett, Mr Latchmore, Mr and Mrs William Clark, Mr Froggatt and the members of our family.” Note that the Mr and Mrs William Clark were William’s older sister and brother-in-law who resided at “Fairlawn”, Duke William Mount in The Park. William (II) and Sarah purchased a property at Sandiacre where they had 6 children:
William died at Sandiacre on 9/7/1881 and is buried at St Giles Church, Sandiacre. Their two older sons William and James departed England on the ship “Austral” bound for Melbourne Australia, William in 1885 and James in 1887. James moved on to New Zealand, joined the Railways as a clerk, married Louisa Sharpe in 1894 and died childless of TB in 1905. William married twice and had 14 children, 10 surviving to adulthood. He died in New Zealand in 1946. William returned to England only once, for a few months in early 1907, departing Sydney at Christmas 1906 and returning on the “Oruba” in June 1907. Following his visit, his mother Sarah was placed in geriatric care at Dinsdale Park in Darlington. (There is more detail about the lives of William and James here)
Sarah lived on at Sandiacre until after her daughter Elizabeth’s marriage to Frederick William HOPE in 1894. They then moved to Newcastle on Tyne, then to 18 Langholm Cres, Darlington. She died 19/6/1909. Elizabeth died at Darlington in 1921. William HOPE remarried in 1924 to Kate Marguerite Cantelo, the daughter of Henry Cantelo (who had married Elizabeth Helen’s aunt Anne Froggatt - see above). JOSEPH FROGGATT (1845 – 1917)Joseph was born in mid-1845 in Nottingham. He married Elizabeth Jane POUNDS at Holy Trinity Church, Nottingham on 2 July 1867. The parish record is faded and almost impossible to read, but one of the witnesses was William Clark, Joseph’s new brother-in-law. Joseph and Elizabeth had four children, all born in Nottingham:
The 1881 census finds the family at 27 Glebe St, together with a servant, Annie Allan. Joseph was a Poor Rates Collector. Joseph’s wife Elizabeth Froggatt died on 4/1/1888. The following year Joseph remarried, to Mary FLEWITT at Nottingham St Andrew on 9/5/1889. They had twin sons Harold and Frank, baptised 25/12/1891 but both died before the end of that year. In the 1901 census Joseph, Mary and his youngest daughter Florence were living at 63 Church Drive, Nottingham. By this time the older daughter Elizabeth had married Ernest JARVILLE (Nottingham St Andrews, 13/8/1895) and they were at 82 Burford Rd. Ernest was an accounts clerk and they had two children (Doris aged 5 and Gladys aged 3).
Sometime after 1901, Joseph and Mary moved out of Nottingham to 4 Owthorpe Grove, Arnold, where Joseph died on 8/3/1917 aged 72. Mary died on 29/1/1940 aged 86. In 1891 Harry Joseph was a Chemist Apprentice and in 1901 was working in Willesden, Middlesex as Chemist’s Assistant. He was a photographer when he married Caroline Mary Whyman in Sneinton, Nottingham on 26/12/1906, and “a retired rubber goods dealer” when he died at Chiswick, in west London on 11 November 1956 aged 81. THE LAST FROGGATT OF BREWHOUSE YARDThe Froggatt family relationship with Brewhouse Yard came to an end with the death of Joseph Froggatt in 1917. This closed the history on four generations and 17 children who had lived or been born at BHY. Of those 17 children, 9 survived to adulthood but only 4 were male and who had offspring to continue the Froggatt name. Two of these were the youngest born at BHY (William and Joseph). William’s 2 surviving sons (William and James) emigrated to Australia with only William having children (14 in total) leaving Joseph’s son Harry Joseph Froggatt as the sole remaining Brewhouse Yard descendent bearing the FROGGATT name in England. And Harry died in 1956 without heirs. William had 14 children in Australia and New Zealand but only 5 were sons who reached adulthood. The oldest, Frank, was adopted early in his life and become known as Frank HUME the other 4 having 7 sons between them. Back to Froggatt Family History Last updated: 18/08/2010 |
