A tallow chandler.304 This agrees with Kate’s recollections.

From 50: Kept school for young ladies when widowed. Married Richard Brook. Both from London. Owned candle factories and ruined during the Crimean War. Kate’s mother remembered being held up to the window to watch soldiers marching to Crimea. Crummy, the maid, was crying because her boyfriend was going.

Of 20 Bridge St., Southwark, Surrey, England.304