Steve has been in contact with our cousin Anne's husband, Colin, who has also been working on this project. Among the items that Colin sent Steve was this cutting regarding the early death of James Broadbent Herbert Senior.
It is sad to read that his large family - a widow and nine children were left with no assets or income. Steve has often said that one of the frustrations of his work on genealogy is that although he can trace the milestones in the life of an ancestor – the WHEN things happened in their lives: births, marriages, children, work, death - it is very unusual to find anything about WHY some of these events occurred. Why did a family move from one city to another? Why did they change occupations?
In JBH’s case Steve has discovered that he was apparently working in the publishing business. It seems that eventually lost money – why? And he went into partnership as a coal merchant – that’s some stretch from publishing. Was he as unsuccessful in his new venture as his old one? His bankruptcy seems to have occurred about two years before he died. 
Is that what the newspaper report of his death refers to his death occurring from or being hastened by a broken heart.
We may never know the answer to these questions…….
Steve has also received a mound of papers and references from his good friend John in Britain, which he is working through. Among them is a reference to one Hindley Herbert, who died in 1915 at age 63. There is no certainty yet that Hindley Herbert is one of the family, but JBH’s partner was Edward Hindley and Hindley Herbert would have been born in about 1852. Maybe just a coincidence – maybe an answer to the question WHY was Hindley named Hindley?
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