Bruniges, John

Birth Name Bruniges, John
Also Known As Bruniges, Johan

    Shown as Johan on daughter Elizabeth's baptism transcription.

Gender male
Age at Death about 35 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1759     1a
Residence 15 November 1789 Wentworth Street, SpitalFields, Middlesex, England From Baptism of Henry Bruniges 2a
Residence 24 December 1790 Wentworth Street, SpitalFields, Middlesex, England From Burial of Henry Bruniges 3a
Residence 18 December 1791 Wentworth Street, SpitalFields, Middlesex, England From Baptism of Elizabeth Bruniges 4a
Occupation before 1794   Labourer 5a
Death 1794     1a
Residence 16 February 1794 Wentworth Street, SpitalFields, Middlesex, England From Burial of John Bruniges 1a
Burial 16 February 1794 Whitechapel, Middlesex, England   1a

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Bruniges, Martin171819 December 1795
Mother Celia, Elizabeth
         Bruniges, John about 1759 1794
    Brother     Bruniges, George 1760 April 1816

Families

Family of Bruniges, John and , Elizabeth Sarah
Married Wife , Elizabeth Sarah ( * 1757 + 1794 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Bruniges, Ann1784
Bruniges, Johnbefore 29 January 1786
Bruniges, Martinbefore October 1787
Bruniges, Henrybefore 15 November 1789December 1790
Bruniges, Elizabethabout 17911793
Bruniges, WilliamNovember 1793November 1793

Narrative

The 1790's were brutal years for the Bruniges families who where living in Wentworth Street, Spitalfields. The family of John and Elizabeth Sarah was decimated, assumingly by disease as these where awful times in the East End of London.
John and Elizabeth lost a son Henry in 1790 when he was about 1 year old. Two years later in 1793 they lost a 2 year old daughter Elizabeth and then later in the same year another son William died only months old. The following year in February 1794 John himself died aged only 35. Later the same year in October his wife Elizabeth Sarah died aged 37. They were survived by their three older children Ann (10), John(8) and Martin(7).
The following year 1795, close by and likely in the same building in Wentworth Street, Johns brother George and his wife Martha lost their 2 year old daughter Ann Margaret in February, followed 7 months later in September by another daughter Mary Ann aged 3 years. Then 3 Months later in December of 1795 George and Johns father Martin died at the age of 77 having seen 5 grandchildren and his son and daughter-in-law dying over the previous 5 years.