Noakes Wammpcl Sussex
Re Noakes of Corpus Christi
I found the following information among an autobiography of my father, a descendemt of Louisa Denman Noakes.
It is interesting to discover why such a well placed family should leave England when they were of the stock that was neither
too high socially for a superiority complex, nor too low for that later discovery, the inferiority complex. It seems that the oldest
son, Richard, who inherited the house and many acres beside it, was a bad lot with a liking for a London actress, and an
unwillingness to share with his brothers and sisters his lands. His brother Thomas came to the U.S.A.,. and became a
Postmaster of Nueces River, near Corpus Christi, Texas. His brother Edward came to Canada, I think his three sisters, Anne,
Kate and Emily all went to Australia, and William, in 1856 came to Quincy, boarding at Mrs. Campbell's and worked as a
bookkeeper in Quincy and Chicago, for several years after 1862 he did the more artistic work of designing and cutting marble
tombstones in Quincy, where an advertisement said in 1879 that "six men were employed in the business most of the time" for
Noakes and Bockenfield.
I believe the brother listed as Edward, was Edmund.
Virginia Faucett Harris
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