Sophy de Lisle (Brock)

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ID: I3381

Name: Sophy de Lisle Brock

Sex: F

Birth: 1 AUG 1811 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

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1841 Channel Islands Census

about Sophy Brock

Name: Sophy Brock

Age: 30

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1811

Gender: Female

Where born: Guernsey, Channel Islands

Civil Parish: St Martin

County/Island: Guernsey

Country: Channel Islands

Street address:

Occupation:

Registration district: Guernsey

Sub registration district: Guernsey

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Household Members: Name Age

Daniel Lisle Brock 78

Esther Brock 71

Sophy Brock 30

Caroline Torode 20

Judith Mollet 20

Father: Daniel DeLisle Brock b: 10 DEC 1762 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

Mother: Esther Tourtel b: ABT 1770 in Guernsey, Channel Islands

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Savery was very proud to discover wherever he went in the province, that Isaac's cherished memory "lived in the hearts of the people." He visited Isaac's grave at Fort George, where he had the good fortune to dine on August 16th, the fifth anniversary of Brock's capture of Fort Detroit, with 49 guests. Brock's regiment was the 49th.

None of the Brock men had any male children, and the brothers' properties were inherited by their daughters. Daniel's went to his only child, Sophia Brock, a spinster. William bequeathed his properties to his wife, Sarah Maria, who left the land in turn to her daughters, Mary Brock Pottinger and Julien Jane Pottinger. Savery's two daughters, Rosa Barnes and Betsey de Jersey Carey, were co-heiresses. None of the Brock family ever lived on these lands and over a period of time they were all sold.

Economic difficulties had always plagued the Brock brothers. The financial mainstay of the family was businessman, William, who purchased a number of Isaac's military commissions. William had intended these purchases as gifts, but unbeknownst to him the monies were listed as debts in the company's books. While William's business interests flourished, no one worried about these outstanding loans, but as Napoleon's embargoes on British goods flowing into Europe began to affect trade negatively, all debts were called in and the Brock brothers found themselves in financial difficulties. The brothers were more than grateful, therefore, when Isaac's fame brought them largesse as well as land, when the British parliament granted each brother a life pension of two hundred pounds.

Brock's brothers all died young. Savery, the last to go, died in 1847 of "a disease of the brain."

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