Thomas was brother to Harriet and Daniel. He lived near Stepney Gate (probably near the junction of Commercial Road and White Horse Road) and died in or before 1886.
Thomas Barrett was born on 17 January 1805 in Marylebone, Middlesex (now Greater London), the eldest of the nine children of Paul Barrett (1781-1846) and Elizabeth Barrett (b. circa 1778). His eight siblings were: Daniel Barrett (1806-1880); William Major Barrett (1810-1860); Eleanor Barrett (1813-1877); Mary Elizabeth Barrett (1815-1877); James Barrett (1815-1877); Harriet Barrett (1816-1897); John Barrett (1818-1902) and Paulina Barrett (1821-1888).
On 18 October 1807 both he and his brother, Daniel Barrett, were baptised at Lady Huntingdon's Spa Fields Chapel, Clerkenwell, Middlesex (now Greater London), where the baptismal register confirms his date of birth and that he was born in the parish of Marylebone.
In the 1841 census he was shown as a grocer living in Church Street North, Bethnal Green, Middlesex (now Greater London), with his parents and two of his siblings: Harriet Barrett and John Barrett, a grocer's assistant. His father was shown as of independent means.
When the 1851 census was undertaken he was shown as aged 46 years and a grocer living at 6 Albany Place, Stepney, Middlesex (now Greater London), with his sister, Paulina Barrett, four grocer's shop-men and a female house servant. His place of birth was listed as Marylebone, Middlesex.
He was still shown as living at 6 Albany Place, in the hamlet of Ratcliff, Stepney, in the 1871 census wherein he is described as aged 66 years, a tea dealer and grocer and whose place of birth was recorded as St Pancras, Middlesex (now Greater London). Also residing at the address was his sister, Paulina Barrett, who was described as a housekeeper, four male tea dealer and grocer's assistants, a cook and a housemaid.
His death, aged 70 years, was registered in the 1st quarter of 1875 in the Stepney Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London). Probate records show that on 4 March 1875 administration (with the Will) of the effects of Thomas Barrett, late of the Gun Tea Warehouse, 599 Commercial Road in the County of Middlesex, who died 19 January 1875 at 599 Commercial Road was granted at the Principal Registry to Paulina Barrett 0f 599 Commercial Road, spinster the sister and one of the residuary legatees. His effects were shown as under £100.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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