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Stephen Henry
Grueber was born in 1776 in Brockley near London. He
married Mary Wilkinson in 1801 in London and died in 1855 in Taunton,
Somerset aged 79. He was an East India Merchant and also a Gunpowder
Manufacturer. He had eight children. It seems he borrowed against his
fathers estate the total sum of ten thousand pounds which was a lot of
money in those days. This looks like when he bought the Gunpowder business
and also a property called ‘Brockley House’ in Brockley near London.
He also inherited all his mothers estate and his Uncle Nicholas also left
him four thousand six hundred pounds. One of his sons Charles Stephen went
to Cambridge University and earned his Batchelor of Arts degree. Charles
then went on to become Vicar of Hambridge in Somerset for fifty years.
Charles was a very well known Clergyman and also wrote a number of books.
His second son Thomas was a solicitor with the firm Dodd, Grueber and
Rowsell. His first son was a Wharf Clerk. Stephen Henry seems to have
somehow lost his fortune. The mill he owned failed. He has left nothing in
his will of any value. There were a number of court cases against him but
I can’t find anything definite. He moved from Brockley to Somerset in
his later years. His wife Mary died seven years after him in 1862. His
fourth son was Stephen Henry.
The
Proceedings Of the Old Bailey:
185. Thomas Crew was indicted for stealing, on the 30th of October, 1
lb. of gunpowder, value 4 s., the goods of William Gillmore Harvey and
Stephen Henry Grueber; and Thomas Goldsby was indicted for receiving the
same, knowing it to be stolen.
Mr. William
Gillmore Harvey. I am in partnership with Stephen Henry Grueber; we are
gunpowder-manufacturers at Twickenham-common. Crew was employed at the
works. In consequence of suspicion he was taken into custody. I was
present at his examination before the Magistrate, when he made this
voluntary confession and signed it.
Stephen Henry
Grueber - Will (1855)
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