Chapter 52.2
Edward and Mary Brittain had up to six children in Birmingham. Their children were Edward Brittain’s first cousins.
- 39.1.1 – Mary Brittain (1813-1833) – unverified
- No known children
- 39.1.2 – Edward Brittain (1815-48) – unverified
- No known children
- 39.1.3 – Charles Brittain (1817-1882)
- See Chapter 39
- 39.1.4 – Eleanor Brittain (1820)
- No known children
- 39.1.5 – Edward Brittain (1821-1893)
- Mary Ann Brittain (1850-1894)
- Married George Hawkesford (1842-1887) in Atherstone in 1873
- George is a pistol maker, and they live at 26 High Street, Aston Manor
- This is likely to have been at the Tranter Gun and Pistol Factory a large factory completed in 1867 at 31 Lichfield Road, Aston Cross, complete with an unprecedented degree of steam automation. It was the most extensive pistol-making business in the midlands, producing over 20 different cartridge revolvers and pistols of Tranter’s own design. Tranter was a founding partner of BSA.
- Mary Ann Brittain (1850-1894)
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- Children:
- Ellen Louise Hawkesford (1874)
- Alfred William Hawkesford (1880)
- In 1891, she is widowed, so has become a tobacconist, living at the same address, now considered Erdington
- Children:
- George Brittain (1852-1919)
- 1871/1881/1891: At home in Duddeston. Silver plater, then silversmith, then electro-plater in turn, in each case mirroring his father.
- Married Ethel Charlotte Lomas (1866-1936) at St James the Less, Ashted in 1896. This is the same church that John and Caroline Wheaver married.
- Children:
- George Edward Brittain (1897)
- Robert Walter Brittain (1900)
- 1901: 103 Francis Street, Duddeston. Electro-plater.
- 1911: 61 Bloomsbury St, Aston. Electro-plater (maker up)
- Charles Brittain (1854-1876)
- Died at 22 in Warwick
- Ellen Brittain (1858-1902)
- 1881: At home in Duddeston. Elementary teacher.
- Married William Tomkinson Riley (1853-1931) at St James the Less, Ashted in 1885
- William is a sewing machine agent. Ellen is a school mistress. They lived at 125 Abbey Hey Lane, Gorton, Manchester
- Children:
- Nellie Leonora Maud Riley (1888)
- Died in Coventry
- John Edward Brittain (1862-1941)
- 1881: At home in Duddeston. Clerk.
- 1911: At a boarding house at 59 Constitution Hill, Birmingham. Actor.
- 1939: Weston-super-Mare. Retired actor
- Walter Brittain (1866)
- 1881: At home in Duddeston. Errand boy.
- Married Clara Eleanor Hannah Langridge (1868-1960) at St Clement, Nechells in 1888
- Children:
- Lillian Clarina Brittain (1887)
- Percy Charles Brittain (1891)
- Edith May Brittain (1894)
- Horace Walter J Brittain (1896)
- Gladys Maud Brittain (1903)
- 1901: Great Brook Street, Duddeston
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- 1911: 35 Lyndon Road, Sutton Coldfield. Brass worker.
- William Henry Brittain (1868-1951)
- Married Ada Kate Prosser (1868) at St Philip, Birmingham in 1888 (where his parents married)
- Children:
- William Loft Brittain (1888)
- Maud Brittain (1889)
- 1891: 13 Court 3 House, Bloomsbury Street, Duddeston. Brassfounder.
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- 39.1.6 – William Brittain (1823)
- No known children
The Brittain family tree is at Chapter 58.10.
Chapter 52.3
- Thomas and Elizabeth Hill had only one known child, so Charles Brittain had no cousins on his mother’s side.
- 39.2.1 – Maria Hill (1819-1889)
- See Chapter 39
The Hill family tree is also at Chapter 58.10.