George Thomas' son Maxwell Robert Brooklyn Mushet Thomas. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, October 20, 2018, 19:38 (2225 days ago) @ helen550

Hi Helen,
I was intrigued by the grand-sounding name of George's son Maxwell Robert Brooklyn Mushet Thomas, especially the Brooklyn part which I guess indicates a link to America ?. I expect you wondered about this too, so apologies if I'm repeating what you already know.
I knew Brooklyn is a part of New York, apparently that's where the name originally comes from. I also knew from my schooldays that New York was originally New Amsterdam when first founded by the Dutch settlers. It seems that Brooklyn is originally derived from the Dutch "Breukelen", meaning "broken land".

Moving on, it seems likely George Thomas borrowed his son's name in two of Robert Forester Mushet's own sons, Maxwell and Brooklyn, as this prior thread shows, thanks MPG.
https://forest-of-dean.net/fodmembers/index.php?id=25546

This biography of Robert F Mushet mentions how his sons, Henry Charles Brooklyn Mushet and Edward Maxwell Mushet, were engaged as managers to a firm of steel-makers at Sheffield.
https://todayinsci.com/M/Mushet_Robert/MushetRobert-Bio(1909).htm

I think this Sheffield firm was Samuel Osborn's, who we were discussing just a few weeks ago.
https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=50107

I suspect you may have already searched Maxwell Robert Brooklyn Mushet Thomas on the net Helen, if not then this American web page may be of interest to you, it states how

"On October 14, 1898, my grandfather, Maxwell Robert Brooklyn Mushet Thomas, was born. He was three generations removed from Mary Thomas, born 1818 in St. Briavels, Wales who married Robert Forester Mushet, the inventor of the modern-day steel process."
-Godwin Maxwell Thomas, Texas.
https://www.maxwellrenovation.com/about/

Given Robert F Mushet's choice of name for his son Brooklyn, I wonder if he travelled to New York back in the 1840s, where his steel would be so important in the growth of the city and especially it's skyscrapers ?