1830: Declaration dated 9 Sept 1833 that Frederick, the son of Daniel Deacon of Dundee --- and his wife Sarah who was the daughter of George Leighton --- in 11 Vineyard Gardens Middlesex Bookbinder, was born at the house of the said Daniel Deacon in 4 B--- Road ---- in Middlesex on the Twenty Eight day of January 1930 (England & Wales Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers). The birth place 4 B--- Road is preceded by another striked out road.

1851 census: Frederick Deacon, 19 South Lambeth, Head, M, 20, ----- of Ch-- (profession), Belgium British Subject

1852: Fred Deacon, Proprietaire, Windsor (list of aliens on board Chemin de fer Belge from Ostend arriving in Dover on 28 March)

1861 census: Frederick H Deacon, Langley Lane 3 Hale's Place, son, M, 29 (?), Clerk in Manchester Ho (?), Belgium (British S). On the previous page is other family members: Sarah S Rogers, Head, 66, Fundholder, b. in Middlesex Chelsea, George L Deacon, Son, 41, b. in Southwark, Edward E Deacon, 33 (?)

1875: <29 December. The Will of Frederick Horace Deacon formerly of 3 Hale's-place South Lambeth but late of 7 Hardiss-road Cold-Harbour-lane Camberwell both in the County of Surrey who died 20 November 1875 at 37 Vaughan-road Cold-Harbour-lane Brixton in the said County was proved at the Principal Registry by Edward Erasmus Deacon of 19 Denmark-street Camberwell Gentleman the Brother the sole Executor.> (Probate calendar)

1875: Frederick Horace Deacon, 45, 37 Vaughan Road Coldharbor Lane Camberwell, buried 26 Nov 1875 (Norwood Cemetary) (London burials)

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All of which, too, reminds us that when the late Mr. Steinitz was on one of his visits to this city in the early '80s, a friend who was present tells us that the Deacon games came up for discussion. "What—Deacon win those parties?" broke In the great Bohemian master. "Nonsense; he has claimed to have won just such a game from me, though I never played any such with him". And then be went on to explain that Deacon had a habit of getting master players to try out certain variations of particular openings with him, testing and retesting sub-variations innumerable, taking back moves ad lib., and the like; and then, lo and behold! reproducing some one line of play that had turned tn favor of his side of the board as a game won from his distinguished adversary! And Steinitz thumped his stick on the pavement and chuckled grandly, as he imparted the new data in relation to the even then somewhat ancient controversy [i.e. the purported Morphy--Deacon games].
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The same letter is reproduced in the <Era> of March 10th 1861, p.15.

C.N. 5785

In a word, no. I have a BNA subscription so don't have to sully my hands with Googlebooks and the like, except where necessary, of course.

<As far as the <Philadelphia Evening Bulletin>, if it has a Philly connection, Reichhelm is the usual suspect...>

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According to Jeremy Gaige’s Chess Personalia (Jefferson, 1987), Frederic H. Deacon was born in Bruges in about 1829 and died, possibly in Brussels, circa October 1875. However, the privately-circulated 1994 edition gave his full name as Frederick Horace Deacon and stated that he was born in Bruges in about 1830 and died in Brixton, London on 20 November 1875. The additional sources specified by Gaige were the death certificate (reporting that Deacon died at the age of 45) and the probate record. >

C.N. 7854

But Townsend did quite a bit more digging:

C.N. 7859

where we find Deacon aging but 7 years over a 10 year census interval.

One man's sully is another man's bully!

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Now that Brexit is complete, I think there should be tariffs on the British sovereign subjects who utilize Google Books (largely populated with scanned books from American Universities and American public libraries). Basically, we have an asymmetrical situation allowing a bunch of freeloaders in who don't reciprocate when it's their turn to host the party(*).

The Dutch and Austrians, with their publicly accessible, and excellent, newspaper online db's are excepted, and welcome. Even the French's publically accessible Gallica resource qualifies (despite the fact that it's in French!).

(*) Note that even Google Book's ILN collection is from American libraries, not British.

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RE: Deacon's exodus -

I looked up the report on Deacon's blindfold display.

The Era, April 5th 1863, p.12:

<BLACKHEATH CHESS CLUB. - This young Club promises to attain a very high position. The promoters spare no pains to advance the interests of the Society, and there is every prospect of their exertions being well rewarded. On Tuesday last an interesting meeting of the members was held at the Blackheath Hall, when Mr F. Deacon, at the request of the Committee, exhibited his power as a blind-fold player, contesting six games simultaneously. His opponents on the occasion were:- 1, Mr W. S. Gover (the President); 2, Mr George Barber; 3, Mr H. Gover; 4, Mr H. G. Sharp; 5, Mr W. G. Lemon; 6, Mr Robert Hewetson [sp?]. Among the company present were the Rev A. B. Power, Dr Nisbet (Inspector General, R. N.), Mr Graham Stokes, Mr Walter Chinnery (the Hon. Sec.) and Mr Loewenthal. The meeting was graced by the presence of several ladies. The spectators took great interest in Mr Deacon's play, which was undoubtedly conducted with great success, considering that it was his first attempt to play six games at one time. With practice we believe that Mr Deacon will be able to do wonders in this line. The games were not finished during the meeting, but at the close of the play Mr Deacon had winning positions in three games, while in two the positions were about even. Mr Gover, the President, seemed to have a slight advantage on his board. We hear that Mr Deacon has consented to give an exhibition of his blind-fold play at the St. James's Chess Club.>

The following week's issue had a report and a game from the promptly arranged seance:

F Deacon vs W G Ward, 1863