Author: Beuler, Jacob
Biography:
BEULER, Jacob (1796-1873: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the son of a Swiss immigrant, Jacob Beuler, and his wife Ann Pohl; he had an elder sister, Matilda. He was born on 6 Jan. 1796 and baptised on 24 Apr. in St. Martin in the Fields, London, the church where his parents had married on 10 Oct. 1788. Nothing is known about his education and he never married. He became well-known for writing comic songs which he published in sheet form but also in a series of collections beginning in the 1820s; these were modelled after Comic Songs by Thomas Hudson which began publication in 1818. He published the collections from 4 Bury Place, Bloomsbury, and census records give that as his address. His mother lived with him there until her death in Aug. 1849. In 1841 his occupation is given as engraver but in 1851 he is called an author. The 1861 Census gives his address as 42 Bemerton Street, Islington, and that was where he died on 3 Jan. 1873. He left effects of under £3000 to his niece, Ann Burr, the residuary legatee. (ancestry.co.uk 1 June 2023; findmypast.co.uk 1 June 2023)
Other Names:
- J. Beuler