Through the Trees

Brittain Cousins of Gertrude Larard

Chapter 58.9

Charles and Maria Brittain had fourteen children in Birmingham. Their children are Gertie’s siblings and first cousins.

  • 52.1.1 – Emily Brittain (1837-1838)
    • No known children

  • 52.1.2 – Charles Edward Brittain (1839-1910)

  • 52.1.3 – William Brittain (1841)
    • No known children

  • 52.1.4 – Caroline (Carrie) Brittain (1846-1904)
    • No known children

  • 52.1.5 – Alfred George Brittain (1847-1909) m Ellen Teresa O’Neill (1854)
    • Jasper Brittain (1888-1922)
      • In 1911, a divinity student, boarding at The Vicarage, Littleport, Ely
      • Married Winifred Madelaine Pearce (1880) at St Nicolas, Kings Norton in 1913.
St Nicolas, Kings Norton (credit)
      • Volunteered for WWI, and served as a Corporal with the Royal Army Medical Corps. Received a disability pension. Died in Wangford nr Beccles, Suffolk four years after the war ended. 
      • Wangford is very close to Henham Hall which served as an Auxiliary Military Hospital, taking casualties from the Front, until 1919. Desmond also died in Wangford though, so this connexion is tenuous. 
    • Desmond George Brittain (1890-1943)
      • 1911: At home with widowed mother in Bournville. Teacher in elementary school, working for Kings Norton & Northfield Urban District Council. Of the four schools run by the Council, one was a mile from home – that at Tiverton Road, Bournbrook [Selly Oak]. It’s still a school.
Tiverton Primary School, Selly Oak (David P Howard)
      • Volunteered for WWI. Served with the 20th Company Machine Gun Corps (in 7th Division) in March 1916 – in France from June 1916. In this period, the 7th Division (“One of the greatest fighting formations Britain ever put into the field“) fought at the Somme (the Battle of Albert, in which the Division captured Mametz, the Battle of Bazentin, the Battle of Guillemont), then Operations on the Ancre, covering the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, and the Battle of Arras. (Long, Long Trail)
Vickers Machine Gun (York Castle Museum)
Machine Gun Corps at the Battle of Passchendaele (Imperial War Museums)
      • In March 1917, transferred to Cheshire Regiment who were also at the Battle of Arras; then the Battle of Passchendaele in July 1917. Transferred again (wounded?) to Eastern Counties Labour Corps in November. Discharged as no longer fit for War Service in March 1918. At Crookston War Hospital, Nitshill, Glasgow in 1918.
        • Married Martha E Anderson (1896) in 1921 in Kings Norton
        • Children:
          • Margaret E T Brittain (1930) 
    • Marjorie Sylvia Brittain (1894-1971)
      • Remained at home in Bournville with her widowed mother until at least 1919
      • Qualified and enrolled as a midwife in that year

  • 52.1.6 – Maria Louisa (Minnie) Brittain (1850-1893)
    • No known children

  • 52.1.7 – (Mary) Jane Brittain (1851-1921)
    • No known children

  • 52.1.8 – Arthur Henry Barrett Brittain (1854-1911) m Geraldine Feodora Hyde (1863-1935)
    • Arthur Hyde Brittain (1886)
      • 1911: At home in Whittlebury; assistant to his father, the vicar
      • 1925: Kelly’s – The Vicarage, Croxton Kerrial, Melton, Leicestershire
    • Daughter (no records found)

  • 52.1.9 – Henrietta Brittain (1856-1915) m Charles Wood (1856-1939). Children (born in Souris, Manitoba).
    • Charles Brittain Wood (1891-1891)
      • Died in infancy
    • Gladys Muriel Wood (1892-1892)
      • Died in infancy
    • Jeanette Constance [Connie] Wood (1893-1966)
Connie Wood Maclennan
(Valarie Drummond on Ancestry)
      • Children:
        • Charles Neil Robert Maclennan (1912)
        • Mary Lorayne [Sis] Maclennan (1913)
        • Eleanor Maclennan (1914)
        • Hetty Constance Marguerite Maclennan (1916)
        • Erna Catherine Maclennan (1917)
        • Ian Roy Maclennan (1919)
        • Donald Joseph Maclennan (1920)
        • Joseph Gordon Maclennan (1922)
        • (Charles) Bruce Maclennan (1924)
        • James [Jim] Dougald Maclennan (1926)
    • Richard Wood (1895-1895)
      • Died in infancy

  • 52.1.10 – Clara Hill Brittain (1858-1932) m James Dolman Knipe (1848-1923)
    • Randolph Charles Knipe (1885-1954)
      • No known children

  • 52.1.11 – Bertha Julia Brittain (1859-1860)
    • Died as an infant

  • 52.1.12 – Eliza Annie Brittain (1859-1860)
    • Died as an infant

  • 52.1.13 – Herbert Brittain (1861-1930) m Catherine Maria Augusta Jennings (1848-1908)
    • Kate Worcester Brittain (1887)
    • == m Winifred Richards (1873-1952)

  • 52.1.14 – Edith Constance Brittain (1862-1929)
    • No known children

More information on these families in Chapter 61.5.

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