Family History

Bower/Brecht Family Tree

Bower Family

• Marriage of Christopher Bower's daughter Elizabeth
• Birth certificate of their son George Christopher Bower (1841/2)or
• Elizabeth Bower (b 1843/4) or Louise (b 1856/7)
• Birth certificate of George Bower's son William Bower (23/10/1867)
• What became of William's siblings particularly Charles Bower in 1901

Jones Family

• Where David Jones was a school master
• John Jones' birth in Yorkshire
• Death of Elizabeth (Counter) Jones (1847/1851)
• Whether James Hicks of Thomas Goodman were Martha's Uncle (1861 Census)
• Birth certificate of Martha Hannah Jones (c1845 Whitechapel)
• Birth (born c 1861/2) of daughter Alice (Bower) Marriage and Death of Alice (Blake)
• Birth of son Frederick Hennenn (1880/1)
• Birth of Henry Hennenn (1886/7)
• Possible second marriage for Frederick Hennenn (1889+)

Hayes Family

• Where Thomas Hayes fits into information provided by another descendant
• Birth certificates of Charlotte Hayes' siblings, particularly:
  • Thomas b 1873/4
• Whether Charlotte Hayes was a brushmaker (per marriage certificate)
• What happened to her sister Mary & brother Thomas
• Marriage of John Reuben Hayes

Gardner Family

• Marriage & death certificates of Edward Gardner (born c 1808/9)
• Maiden names of his first wife (Martha)and his second wife (Hannah)
• Birth certificate of his daughter Charlotte Gardner (c1843/4)or
• Birth of Eliza 1851/2 or Henry 1855/6

Brecht Family

The birth of Heinrich & Mary Somes

There are fundamental problems in developing the earliest information that we have obtained and establishing the origins of the Brecht and Somes families.

We need to establish:

• Whether Mary Somes or Harriet Piper is the mother of the children other than Maria Catran Brecht.
• Whether Henry Brecht was dying and married Harriet Piper so that she would look after the children.

In 1808, Heinrich Brecht married Mary Somes at St Mary's Church, Islington.

There was a German Community in Islington amd we have wondered if Mary Somes was of German descent.

There are some interesting entries in the name Somes/Soames in the Universal British Directory 1791 (Archive CD Books Ltd):

• Somes Esq 11 Conduit-street
• Soames, Henry Senior Tallow-merchant Holborn-bridge
• Soames, Henry Junior Tallow-merchant 21 Cateaton-street
• Soames, Henry Tallow-chandler 71 Coleman-street
• Soames, Shoemaker 19 Ludgate-hill

For further details see Brecht One-Name Study:

Brecht One Name Study

 

Walland Family

For the moment, I am content with research by another descendant (back to Thomas Whirland buried in Meldreth, Cambridgeshire in 1714).

Some time it would be good to update the Family Tree provided by a correspondent, using the 1881, 1891 and 1901 Censuses.

Saunders Family

• Whether the family came over from Ireland as suggested
• Why Ellen Saunders was christened Curran and then was known as Creah (or Crae) Curran i.e. family connections
• Birth details of Henry Saunders (c1810 in Cheltenham)
• Where Charles Herbert Saunders was in 1871 (in Navy?)
• For which railway company Charles Herbert Saunders worked
• What happened to Charles' brother Francis

Seaborn(e)/Seabourn(e) Family

• Birth details of John Seabourn (c1800)
• Which was the family church
• Whether John Seabourn was the John Saban/Seban who married Mary Howard in Great Hallingbury in June 1824
• Birth details of James Seabourn (c1824/5 Gt Hallingbury)
• Whether any connection to John & Sarah Saban & family in 1841 & 1851 Censuses
• John & Mary Saban in 1851 Census
• Which family lived at 12 Three Colt Street, Limehouse in 1861:
  Catherine Seabourn b 1824/5
  Emma Jane Seabourn b 1839/40
  Edward Seabourn b 1846/1847
  Joseph Seabourn b 1854/1855
  
• 1901 Census entries for James & Charles Seabourn

Collier Family Tree

Collier/Hunt Family

• Confirmation of the name of Charles (Silk Weaver)Collier's parents
• Maiden name of Charles' second wife Maria

Gardiner Family

• Entries in 1841, 1851& 1871 Censuses
• Details of other children, e.g. George Gardiner b 1844/5 Bethnal Green and Caroline Gardiner b 1851/2

Peryer/Perrier Family

• Confirmation that James Peryer married Sarah Snelling (1782 Abinger)
• Confirmation that Henry Peryer married Sarah Mitchell (1828 Leatherhead) - difficult to read town in 1851 Census

Smith Family

• Elisha Smith (35) in 1841 Census
• Who the following were:
  • John and Mary Smith, witnesses at Martha Smith's wedding
  • William John and Esther Smith buried at St Peter & St Paul's, West Clandon
  • Elisha Smith and Mary (Hersey) Smith
  • Fanny Smith who married Thomas Etherington
  • Sarah Smith, widow living with the Etheringtons in 1881
  • Jane (Smith) Burckot c 1848
• Martha Smith's birth certificate 1848/1851

Hunt Family

• Birth details of:
  • John Hunt
  • Barbara Spall (John's wife)
  • Elizabeth Sheldrake (William's wife)
  • William Hunt (William & Elizabeth's son)

Farrow Family

• For the moment, I am content with research by another descendant (back to Thomas Pharoah b c 1740)

Marjoram Family

• Birth details of John Marjoram
• Details of marriage to Mary Rookyard
• Jeremiah Marjoram in 1861 & 1881 Censuses
• Whether there is a link to the Marjorams in Dennington

Ransom(e) Family

• Who John Ransome was, e.g. cousin (witness at wedding of Thomas Ransome & Elizabeth Allen)
• Maiden name of George Ransome's second wife

Naval History Project

Sinking of the SS Britannia

• The convoy number and the vessels in the convoy that sailed from Liverpool on 11 March 1841

Colin Bower
31 January 2010

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