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Trying to find any descendants of BUHICROSAN 1860's
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Need a little more info please - where have you got this name from?
Dea x
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I googled Buhicrosan and found lots of results He appears to have staged an exhibition called the Japanese Village. Here is a snippet of one document.
The Japanese Native Village
The last and most ambitious show at Humphreys' Hall was the Japanese Native Village of 1885–7, a working replica of a Japanese village centre, inhabited by Japanese craftsmen and artistes and their families – more than a hundred people in all. The promoter was Tannaker Buhicrosan of Lewisham, a Japan merchant with premises in Milton Street, Finsbury, and for some years the proprietor and director of a travelling 'Japanese Troupe'. In December 1883 Buhicrosan set up The Japanese Native Village Exhibition and Trading Company Limited with a number of associates, including Cornelius B. Pare, a Japan and China merchant in the City, Ambrose Austin, a concert agent, and John Miles, a Wardour Street printer. As managing director of the new venture, Buhicrosan was to receive a salary of at least £1,000. Although to all appearances set up as a commercial venture, the Japanese Village exhibition opened, a little under a year later, under a banner of altruism. Buhicrosan, it was reported, proposed to give the profits to his wife, a Japanese who had converted to Christianity and wanted to organize a mission to improve the social position of women in her native country. (ref. 54)
The exhibition was formally opened on 10 January 1885 by Sir Rutherford Alcock, former consul-general in Japan and the author of Art and Art Industries in Japan. (ref. 55) Housed in the older part of Humphreys' Hall, and built by Japanese workmen from authentic Japanese materials, the village comprised a broad street of houses and shops set against backdrops of painted scenery. These were constructed of bamboo, wood, and paper, with shingled or thatched roofs. There were further rows of smaller shops along one side, a Buddhist temple at the end, and a Japanese garden (Plate 53a). Individual shops displayed all manner of manufactures – including pottery, carvings in wood and ivory, toys, fans, cabinets, chased and inlaid metalwork and cloisonné, lacquer-work, textiles and embroidery. One shop was devoted to music and musical instruments.
Everything possible was done to bring the village to life: those attending could watch craftsmen at work in their shops (although the 'wares' were not actually for sale), and take refreshment Japanese-style in traditional tea-houses, where tea was served from lacquer trays by attendants in kimonos (Plate 53b). Priests officiated at the temple daily. A further attraction was in the newer part of the hall, where displays of kendo and other martial arts were staged.
The exhibition took place at the height of a vogue for Japanese arts and crafts; indeed, by this time Western demand for Japanese goods had already led to vulgarization and over-production in some manufacturing fields. An early visitor was the designer Christopher Dresser, who had been to Japan and had done much to promote appreciation of Japanese design and craftsmanship. He was generally impressed by the replica village, especially the 'manner in which the industries are carried on in the little open shops, where the goods would be sold'. (ref. 56)
The opportunity offered to study Japanese culture at first hand was not missed by W. S. Gilbert, whose idea for The Mikado coincided with the exhibition's arrival. When the new opera opened at the Savoy Theatre in March 1885 the cast had been coached in authentic deportment and use of the fan by inhabitants of the village, as the programme duly acknowledged. (ref. 57)
The exhibition was an immediate success, attracting 250,000 visitors in its first few months (and in time spawning 'many wretched imitations' – as Buhicrosan's publicity called them – in provincial towns). (ref. 58)
The Metropolitan Board of Works had been pressing for some time for structural improvements to the hall to bring it up to the required safety standards when, on 2 May 1885, the village burned down, destroying Humphreys' Hall, damaging Albert Gate Mansions, and killing a Japanese woodcarver. Buhicrosan at once announced his intention of reconstructing the village. It had earlier been arranged that the Japanese would take their exhibition to the continent, and, pending the rebuilding, they travelled to Berlin, setting up new quarters at the Exhibition Park. (ref. 59)
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My wife's father was Miles Buhicrosan his father was Tannaker
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From: 'Knightsbridge Green Area: Scotch Corner and the High Road', Survey of London: volume 45: Knightsbridge (2000), pp. 79-88. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45909&strquery=Buhicrosan Date accessed: 28 February 2009.
Continued as over the limit.
I mn at lunch now and my time is up. Should give a start for people to follow up on though.
Interesting ancestor you have here.
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1901 Address: 48, Vale Road Green Lanes North, Tottenham
BAPTY, Fredric Head Married M 21 1880 Tobacconists Assistant
Greenwich
London VIEW
BAPTY, Winnie Wife Married F 19 1882
Lewisham
London VIEW
BUHICROSAN, Ruth Visitor Widow F 50 1851
Japan (Naturalised British Subject) VIEW
BUHICROSAN, Tannaker Lodger Single M 26 1875 Draper's Ware Houseman
Lewisham
London VIEW
BUHICROSAN, Lancelot Visitor Single M 17 1884
Lewisham
London VIEW
BUHICROSAN, Sue Visitor F 11 1890
Lewisham
London VIEW
BAPTY, Lucy Daughter F 0 (3 MOS) 1901
Tottenham
Middlesex VIEW
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Using SEARCH top left hand side of the page beneath GR logo...there are what appears to be 2 trees (one is yours) with Tannaker mentioned.
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There's this who must be related
Births Jun 1880 (>99%)
BUHICROSAN Otakesan Maude B Lewisham 1d 1118
In fact if you type BUHICROSAN into FreeBMD there are quite a few, all with Japanese sounding names.
Pam
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Many entries for the surname of Freebmd
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This one could be his father
Deaths Sep 1894 (>99%)
Buhicrosan Taunsker B 58 Lewisham 1d 57
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Only birth I can find for a Tannaker :
Births Mar 1878 (>99%)
Torra Tannaker St. Giles 1b 611
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The family in 1881.
On the image against Tannaker senior it says "Head and Wife - Absent enumerated elsewhere":
Name: Tannaker Brehicrosan
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1876
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Tanniaker
Gender: Male
Where born: Lewisham, Kent, England
Civil Parish: Lewisham
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address: 44 Hither Gr Lane
Education:
Employment status: View Image
Registration district: Lewisham
Sub registration district: Lewisham
ED, institution, or vessel: 7
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Tanniaker Brehicrosan
Pollie Brehicrosan 20
Nellie Brehicrosan 17
Fanny Brehicrosan 12
Chickie Brehicrosan 10
Maude Brehicrosan 1
Tannaker Brehicrosan 5
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Marriages Sep 1879 (>99%)
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BUHICROSAN Otakesan Ohilosan Manchester 8d 359
BUHICROSAN Tannaker Billingham N Manchester 8d 359
HACKETT Ellen Manchester 8d 359
HOWES Alfred Manchester 8d 359
Ohilosan Otakesan Ohilosan Manchester 8d 359
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Winnie Bapty on the 1901 is also his daughter
Marriages Dec 1902 (>99%)
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Atkins Francis Charles Wandsworth 1d 1407
Bapty Frederick Lee Wandsworth 1d 1407
Buhicrosan Winifred Wandsworth 1d 1407
Evans Ellen Knowles Wandsworth 1d 1407
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Births Sep 1881 (>99%)
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Buhicrosan Winifred Billingham Lewisham 1d 1055
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Are you there Brian? Is this what you wanted?
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Many thanks Christine, I have been researching my wife's ancestry for over 10 years now, over this time all that I have found is with may I add, with the help of many other people is more or less what has shown up via this thread. I have been in contact with the Bapty's, have copies of all the certificates and numerous documents re: Japanese Village. What my wife and I were hoping was there might be out there somewhere a living relative, or someone who knows of one, thus the reason for this thread.
Once again to all of you who contributed, our thanks, we hope eventually by persisting we might find the answer to Buhicrosan Family mystery.
Brian
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But Brian do not give up yet. Now that you have confirmed what we have found we can think a little more and delve a little deeper. Everyone on this site thinks a little differently and goes about things a little differently,
Even if someone does not respond today the info is still there for someone to see in a year or so. Have you been to the Lewisham records library? You can contact them by email.
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Christine
Yes Lewisham library, has been searched, we are aware that at present, most avenues have been exhausted, but as you say, we are now looking for that one person!!! May have a long wait.
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Marriages Sep 1899 (>99%)
Arnold Phoebe Maria Islington 1b 882
Buhicrosan Miles Neville Islington 1b 882
There is no birth for Miles 1878 under this spelling.
1901 Address: 2, Sunny Cottages, Bray
BUHICROSAN, Miles Head Married M 23 1878 Oil & Hardware Merchant
Lewisham
London
BUHICROSAN, Phoebe Wife Married F 26 1875
Sth Woodford
Essex
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