Chapter 62.2.1.1, including 1939 Directory (WIP)
Showing only lines with known issue – see also Brittain Summary Tree
Mabel’s gt-grandfather, Charles, had five siblings; their gt-grandchildren were Mabel’s third cousins:
Eleanor Brittain (1820-1891) m George Peet Harrison (b 1829)
Ellen Brittain Harrison (1851-1922) m Benjamin Davies (1871)-1928
- Mary Eleanor Davies (b 1892) m Ivor Jones (b 1885)
- Ivor Jones (1908-1969)
- Edgar Jones (b 1910)
Edward Brittain (1821-1893) m Emma Mills ( 1827-1895)
Mary Ann Brittain (1850-1894) m George Hawkesford (1842-1887)
- Ellen Louise Hawkesford (1874-1955) m George Handley (1872-1913). He was a postman, and they lived at 4 Mansfield Place, Balsall Heath. Nowadays, Balsall Heath is the location of the Balti Triangle. In 1911, he was an assistant inspector of postmen, and they lived at 116 St Saviours Road, Saltley.
- Lily Ellen Handley (1893)
- Thomas George Handley (1896)
George Brittain (1852-1919) m Ethel Charlotte Lomas (1866-1936)
- George Edward Brittain (1897-1936) m Mabel Chessmer (1894-1984) in Aston in 1923
- Michael Robert James Brittain (1931)
- In WWI, George was a 2nd Lieutenant with the Tank Corps in France in December 1917. On 28 July 1917, the Heavy Branch had been separated from the Machine Gun Corps by Royal Warrant, and given official status as the Tank Corps. By December 1918, 26 battalions had been created.
- Robert Walter Brittain (1900-1975) m Margaret Gartshore (1908-1988) in Sutton Coldfield in 1941. Later, he was a counter cashier for local government (presumably Birmingham City Council), and they lived at Edwards Road, Birmingham.
Ellen Brittain (1858-1902) m William Tomkinson Riley (1853-1931)
- Nellie Leonora Maud Riley (1888-1980) m Benjamin Bennett (1890-1929) in Lincoln in 1913. My photos of Lincoln are here. In 1911, she was at home in Marple. He was a dental mechanic.
- He served in the RAMC in WWI, presumably as a dentist. In his service record, he initially asserts that he is married to an Ethel Cunliffe. In October 1918, there is a letter on file from the Major at the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup saying that he “was under a misapprehension of the real contents and purport of the form”. Ethel is an “unofficial” wife, apparently but at this point he has transferred his voluntary allotment to his wife who is now in receipt of separation allowance. This appears to be in response to “I should be obliged if you interview the soldier and favour me with your observations on the matter, at your earliest.” He was also caught stealing blankets from the Sidcup Hospital in October 1919, which went to court. He was demobbed in December 1919, which was later than most.
- Desmond Stewart Bennett (1914-2002)
Walter Brittain (1866) m Clara Eleanor Hannah Langridge (1868-1960). Emigrated to Australia.
- Percy Charles Brittain (1891-1938) m Ada Elizabeth Grew (1890-1977) at St David, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia in 1912.
- Charmain Thama Brittain (1918)
- Gloria Marcelene Brittain (1920)
- Hilton Travers Rudolph Brittain (1922)
- Edith May Brittain (1894-1977) m Albert James Ongley (1888-1957) at Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, Australia in 1921.
- Horace Walter J Brittain (1896-1987) m Mary W Middleton
- == m Lilly Beatrice Seaton (1901)
- Died in Australia.