Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885.
In a list of 'Other Distributive Charities' has "Isaac Stroulger by will proved 1904 left £200 to Chelsea MB, subject to his wife Jane's life interest, income to be applied by council annually on his birthday (3 January) equally between one poor man and one poor woman resident in Chelsea and aged over 60, regardless of faith or marital status. Gift formed part of Scheme of 1936 (item 30), when Jane Stroulger was still alive."
This could be our Isaac Stroulger. This man's does not give a middle name.
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, advises that Isaac John Stroulger was born in 1839, a son of Timothy Stroulger (1798-1863) and Fanny Stroulger née Mullet (1798-1863). His birth was registered as Issac John Mullet Stroulger in the 1st quarter of 1839 in the Chelsea Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London).
He was shown in the 6 June 1841 census as Isc. Jno. Stroulger, aged 2 years and living at 53 Sloane Square, Chelsea, with his parents and three siblings: Timothy Stroulger (1823-1863); Mary Stroulger (1829-1843) and Elizabeth Stroulger (1833-1873). His father was described as a tailor.
He was still residing at 53 Sloane Square, Chelsea, when the census was taken on 30 March 1851 and was listed as Issac Stroulger, aged 12 years and a scholar. He was living with his parents and three siblings: Timothy Stroulger - a clerk: Thomas Stroulger (1832-1862) - a tailor and Elizabeth Strougler, together with a 14-year-old male tailor's apprentice. His father was again shown as a tailor.
On the census taken on 7 April 1861 he was shown as Isaac Stroulger, aged 22 years and a tailor, still living at 53 Sloane Square, Chelsea, with his widowed mother and a 17-year-old male tailor's apprentice.
On 10 March 1870 he married Isabella Victoria Hunt (1849-1870) in Old Souls' Church, Langham Place, Marylebone, Middlesex (now Greater London), where in the marriage register he is shown as Isaac John Stroulger, of full age, a bachelor and a tailor, residing in the parish of St Luke's, Chelsea, the son of Timothy Stroulger, a deceased tailor, whilst his wife was described as a minor and a spinster, living in the parish of All Soul's, Marylebone, the daughter of Lot Hunt, a van proprietor.
His marriage lasted only a matter of weeks as his wife's death was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1870 in the Chelsea Registration District.
The census conducted on 2 April 1871 shows him as Isaac Strougler, a widower aged 32 years and a tailor, still occupying 53 Sloane Square, Chelsea, with his sister, Elizabeth Stroulger, who was his housekeeper, together with two of his nieces: Annie Stroulger, aged 14 years and Fanny Shepherd, aged 18 years.
On 7 December 1874 he was initiated as a freemason in St Lukes' Lodge No.144 that met at Masons' Hall, Masons' Avenue, Basinghall Street, London. He is shown in the registers at the United Grand Lodge of England as Isaac John Stroulger, a tailor residing at 53 Sloane Square, Chelsea.
He was married again on 17 August 1876 to Jane Kingsbury (1852-1941) in the parish church of St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, Middlesex (now Greater London), where in the marriage register he is shown as Isaac John Stroulger, of full age, a widower and master tailor residing in the parish of St Luke's, Chelsea, the son of Timothy Strougler, a deceased tailor, whilst his wife was described as of full age and a spinster living the parish of St George's Hanover Square, the daughter of Edward Kingsbury, a glass and china merchant.
On 3 April 1881 his entry of the census was recorded as Isaac Stroulger, aged 42 years and a tailor still living at 53 Sloane Square, Chelsea, with his wife and his niece, Fanny Shepherd, aged 29 years, together with a male tailor's apprentice and a female general servant.
When the census was undertaken on 5 April 1891 he was listed as Isaac Stroulger, aged 52 years and living on his own means at 273 Trinity Road, Wandsworth, London, with his wife and a female domestic general servant.
He was still living at 273 Trinity Road, Wandsworth, when the census was completed on 31 March 1901. He was shown as Isaac Stroulger, aged 62 years and living on his own means, together with his wife and the same female domestic general servant from 1891.
His death was registered as Isaac Stroulger, aged 65 years, in the Wandsworth Registration District, London. Probate records listed him as Isaac Stroulger of 'Amberley', 273 Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common, London, and that he died on 15 September 1904. Probate was granted on 5 December 1904 jointly to his widow and to John Henry Wheeler Esq. His effects originally totalled £11,623-12s-10d but were subsequently resworn as £12,176-12s-10d.
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