Lusk info--help, please!

[claire]

Hi all,
Apologies if this is the wrong place to put this, but since I don't really want any info specific to the letter that Lusk received, can't think of where else it should go.

I'm writing a piece on Wilton's Music Hall which, after it suffered a fire, was renovated by our George Lusk. Problem is, I'm finding it difficult to find out any real information about him beyond BMD, his lodge affiliation, census et cetera. Can anyone provide me with a wee thumbnail sketch about him, or point me in the right direction to find some more biographical data on this chappie?

Many, many thanks in advance for any help.

[Mathilde]

Info. about Mr.Lusk!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lusk

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nychauta/CEMETERY/Sunset-obits.ht

..maybe I misunderstood your question, but hope you'll find something at this pages!

[claire]

Thanks, Mathilde...you didn't misunderstand my question, but unfortunately I'd seen the Wiki one, and the other didn't load

Does anyone know anything about his personal life (I recall a comment about the reason a part of a kidney, particularly, would be so upsetting to Lusk...any more about that, perhaps?)?

Thanks again, anyone, from someone who can't get to paper archives til the beginning of December

[Stewart P Evans]

Leonard Archer

Several years ago I purchased the Ripper collection of the late Leonard Archer, who was the grandson of George Lusk. In April 1966 Archer was in touch with the London Hospital about an article in the London Hospital Gazette that reproduced the Lusk 'from Hell' letter. Here is a copy of his letter to the editor of the Gazette -

[Chris Scott]

One question that puzzles me is the name of Lusk's wife
I can only find one record of him marrying - this was in 1863 to a woman named Sophia Shrimpton
However, in both the 1871 and 1881 census his wife is named as Susannah and her death, early in 1888, is listed under Susannah Lusk
In 1871 she is listed as follows:
Susannah Lusk aged 30 born Mile End Old Town

The Sophia Shrimpton he is listed as marrying has the following details in 1861, before the marriage:
45 Russell Street, Rotherhithe
Servant:
Sophia J Shrimpton aged 21 born Rotherhithe
She was employed in the household of George Jones, a coffee house keeper

Were Sophia and Susannah one and the same person?

[Chris Scott]

There is also the question of when George himself was born
He is given as having the distinctive name George Akin (or Aken) Lusk but there is no birth listed under this name
In successive censuses his ages are given as follows:
1841: 3
1851: 13
Not found in 1861
1871: 33
1881: 40
1891: 47
1901: 55
He is consistently listed as born in Stepney
If the early entries (1841-1871) are correct this would narrow his date of birth down to about 1838 but there is no listing for 1837 or 1838
Lusk died in 1919 in Poplar and his age at death is given as 80

[Debra A]

One question that puzzles me is the name of Lusk's wife
I can only find one record of him marrying - this was in 1863 to a woman named Sophia Shrimpton
However, in both the 1871 and 1881 census his wife is named as Susannah and her death, early in 1888, is listed under Susannah Lusk
In 1871 she is listed as follows:
Susannah Lusk aged 30 born Mile End Old Town

The Sophia Shrimpton he is listed as marrying has the following details in 1861, before the marriage:
45 Russell Street, Rotherhithe
Servant:
Sophia J Shrimpton aged 21 born Rotherhithe
She was employed in the household of George Jones, a coffee house keeper

Were Sophia and Susannah one and the same person?

Hi Chris,

Marriages:
GEORGE AKEN LUSK SUSANNAH PRICE
Marriage: 20 JAN 1863 Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England


Parish registers of the Stepney parish church, 1568-1929
Church of England. Parish Church of Stepney (Middlesex)
London Metro. Archives call no.: P93/DUN/061, 119, 161-164, 174, 178, 181, 273, 282, 294-298, 301-303.


Maybe the Sophia Shrimpton entry is missing information or the marriage was shortlived?

[Chris]

Maybe the Sophia Shrimpton entry is missing information or the marriage was shortlived?

I think the problem is that the person who transcribed the Susannah Price entry for the FreeBMD index couldn't read the page number. Therefore her entry wasn't cross-referenced to George Lusk's, leaving Sophia Shrimpton as apparently the only possibility for his wife. But apparently Sophia was married to one Joseph Gobbett, their marriage being registered on the same page as that of George Lusk and Susannah Price.

[claire]

Fabulous; as usual, you folk are wonderful. Thanks, particularly, for that very generous scan, Stewart.

Ah, but if only all research could be like this!

thanks again!

[Chris Scott]

Debs and Chris
many thanks indeed for clearing up that point
Very much appreciated
Chris

[Rob Clack]

There's a couple of mentions of George Lusk in a book on Wiltons I have seen (can't remember the title). I photocopied the pages.






Rob

[Khanada]

Try That Link Again...

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ny...unset-obits.ht

This one will load if the "m" at the end's not cut off -- at least, it did for me.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ny...nset-obits.htm

[claire]

Thanks, Khanada (and Mathilde again...if I'd bothered to even look at the end of the address, I might have noticed the missing 'm'!).

Thanks, too, Rob--I think that's from Peter Honri's history of Wilton's, written back in the good old days when they hoped to turn Wilton's into a school for Variety...All together now Thanks muchly for the scans.

[Mathilde]

How nice that you've got answers, Claire! I know exactly how frustrating it is not to find what you're looking for! Especially when it comes to history...! A little detail missed, and the whole work is changed...!

Wish you good luck with the rest of your work! (...and please forgive me for my BAD english!)

Mathilde

[Roy Corduroy]

Is our George any relation to Andrew?



Sir Andrew Lusk (Spectacle Maker) Alderman of Aldgate Ward 1863 - and Lord Mayor 1873 created a Baronet

From Some Notes on the Ward of Aldgate and its Ancient and Modern History 1904