Talk:Henry Jamyn Brooks

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A fact from Henry Jamyn Brooks appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 January 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Henry Jamyn Brooks painted 300 portraits, in one picture?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2014/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Jamyn Brooks.

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A couple of thoughts

I finished the WP:DYK review and thought I'd run a couple of unrelated thoughts your way:

What do you think of adding a list of his works, since there's plenty of information about his works, portraits, and some etchings (like Ethel Sands#Works?
I kept running across a Henry Jamyn Brooks who wrote books about science and Elements of the Mind.. Could this be a son -- or could the father have been multi-faceted? Just curious.--CaroleHenson (talk) 10:26, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that was my intention.
I found that too, but nothing stating that they were linked. It's an usual name, though. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:56, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, cool! I noticed that he writer of Elements of the Mind was from the same town that the subject of this article died in. I couldn't find a hint of a link though either. Interesting article just the same!--CaroleHenson (talk) 16:40, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Census records

I've been looking around to find better sources for some of the biographical information and ran into a bit of a snag - that is inconsistent with the census information in the article:

Henry J. Brooks - married to Selina:

Henry J. Brooks in 1881 - St Helen Without, Berkshire, England (born about 1839, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England)
H Jamyn Brooks in 1891 - London, England (born about 1839)
~~Henry Brooks in 1901 - Sussex, married to Mary Ann Brooks - this is the closest I could find, but this Henry was born about 1848 in Kent~~

There's a Henry Jamyn Brooks in London in 1893, per the Electoral records.

Henry J. Brooks - married to Jane:

In 1891 - London, England (born about 1834, London, England)
In 1901 - London, England (born about 1840, London, England)

Regarding Brooks' death, there's a record that a Henry J. Brooks died in 1925 (consistent identification of year of death across sources) in Sussex.

These are primary sources, which are discouraged, but can be used if 1) there's not extrapolation of data, 2) it's from a reliable, published source and 3) there's a tie to the information to directly link the records - in this case date and place of birth. (As soon as its drawing conclusions about data to link the records, it's WP:Original research). I put this here for me as much as anyone else, just to ensure clarity.--CaroleHenson (talk) 17:16, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]