Author: Deeble, Edward Bernard
Biography:
DEEBLE, Edward Barnard (1794-1845: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 31 Aug. 1794, in Little Swan Alley, Coleman Street, City of London, the second of three sons of William Deeble (1758-1796), dyer, and Mary Barnard (1764-1805) who had married at St. James, Clerkenwell, in 1790. His name was added to the register of nonconformist births at Dr. Williams’s Library on 14 Jun. 1799. He was admitted into the Worshipful Company of Dyers on 4 December 1816. He married Sarah Ann Fenton (1794-1852) on 31 Aug. 1819 at St. James, Piccadilly. They went on to have six children. In 1818-19 he was a member of Michael Faraday’s essay circle, which consisted largely of Sandemanians and relatives with scientific interests and a yearning for self-improvement and self-culture. (Faraday would marry Deeble’s cousin Sarah Barnard in 1821.) His contributions are unknown but may well have consisted of several of his poems. He was declared bankrupt in 1821 and in future years was variously listed as dyer, upholsterer, cabinet-maker, and engineer. He published a Plan (1827) and A Description (1828) for his patented metallic caisson as a replacement for stone in the construction of piers, harbours, quays, docks and other buildings but the project was unsuccessful and he was declared bankrupt again in 1831. He must have been leading an itinerant existence for some time, probably to avoid creditors. The insolvency petition gave him at various addresses in Marylebone, Bayswater, Soho, and the Haymarket (London Gazette 5 July 1831, 1375). In the 1830s he is recorded at 80 Wells Street, Oxford Street, and 33 Charles Street, Hampstead Road. By 1841 he was back in Marylebone, living with his wife and three unmarried daughters at 31 South Street, Manchester Square. He went to Jamaica in June 1843 with his wife and youngest daughter, Fanny, and found employment with Turnbull & Co., Dry Goods and General Commission merchants, 60 Port Royal Street, Kingston. He died at Water Lane, Kingston, Jamaica, aged 58 (sic), and was buried 2 Apr. 1845. His widow returned to England where she died in the Dyers’ Almshouses, Balls Pond Road, Islington, in 1852. (ancestry.co.uk 22 Dec. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 22 Dec. 2022; Familysearch, Kingston Burial Records 1842-48, 4. 151; London Gazette various issues 1821, 1831; ALS 16 June 1843, Sarah Ann Fenton, transcription and personal information, Elizabeth Kales, Vancouver; Alice Jenkins, Michael Faraday’s Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London [2008], 7-36, 39-40, et passim) AA
Other Names:
- E. B. Deeble