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Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« on: Monday 22 October 07 17:37 BST (UK) »
I seem to have stalled and wonder if anyone can advise me.

My g,g,grandmother was a Mary Jane Brettwood born in Rye, Sussex in about 1856 according to various census records. I have her wedding certificate which states that her father was James Brettwood, deceased, mariner. No idea who her mother was.

The only record I can find at ancestry or LDS is of a William Brettwood born in Rye in 1852. I have assumed that he is her brother.

There just is no trace whatsoever of any other Brettwoods anywhere (apart from William's wife and children) and I don't quite know where to look.

Does anybody know of any other version of the name Brettwood? If the father was a mariner, could they just have lived under the radar?

I'm really stuck and if anybody has any advice, I'd be really grateful!

Many thanks
Hils

Keating: Caherciveen, Kerry / Mushet: Rye, Sussex UK / Piper: Kent UK / Barton: Durham UK / Mushet: Scotland

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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #1 on: Monday 22 October 07 17:56 BST (UK) »
I wonder if it is Brett Wood - meaning Brett is used as a middle name rather than part of the surname, alternatively maybe the enumerator got it/heard it wrong.  This might be the family you are looking for in the 1861 census

Town Wall Cottage, Rye, Sussex
James HB Wood Head Mar 39 Mariner Kent Witstable
Eliza AB " Wife Mar 35 Sussex Rye
Sarah AB " daur 13 Scholar " "
William HB " son 8 " " "
Mary JB " daur 4 " " "
Martha A Stone Lodger Un 25 Sussex Peasmarsh
Sarah Towle Visitor Mar 39 " "
RG9; Piece: 557; Folio: 51; Page: 32
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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #2 on: Monday 22 October 07 17:56 BST (UK) »
Do you have access to the 1861 census ?

Look at this entry - shout if you cant ...

RG9/557; Folio: 51; Page: 32
Town Wall Cottage

Family headed by a James (a Mariner) is shown as B Wood surname - theres an 8 year old William too
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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #3 on: Monday 22 October 07 17:58 BST (UK) »
Good Lord Mary - look at the timestamps !

Obviously 'Ladies first'  !

 :D
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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #4 on: Monday 22 October 07 18:04 BST (UK) »
Possible birth:

Mary Jane Wood
Jan/FEb/Mar 1857

Rye reg distr

ref 2b 5
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #5 on: Monday 22 October 07 18:06 BST (UK) »
William married as a Brettwood too -

William Brettwood March 1874 Easington Vol 10a Page 600
Bride - Dorothy "Rutley"

although with them in 1881 is a nephew William "Ruttey"
Dunning/Downing, Osborn/e, Astley -Cheshire/Birmingham/Middlesex
Fanthorpe/Hall/Driffill/Storm - Lincolnshire
Bower/Woodward/Bingham/Pettinger/Shaw - Nottinghamshire
Shaw, Marland - Lancashire
Broph(e)y - Queens County, Ireland
Richards - Neath Swansea
Hunt/Fox - Lincs, Waterfield/Middleton - Staffs
Hart/Harland/Askew/Scales - Yorkshire
Brereton/Vickers - Cheshire
Gleaves/Sandford/Hulse/Hulme - Wolstanton/Audley Staffs
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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #6 on: Monday 22 October 07 18:07 BST (UK) »
Christening from IGI - could well be same girl

17 April 1857 Rye
Parents James Henry and Eliza Ann

Links up with the 1861 census, by which time they all seemed to add the initial B before their Wood
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #7 on: Monday 22 October 07 18:08 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Newf on Monday 22 October 07 17:58 BST (UK)
Good Lord Mary - look at the timestamps !

Obviously 'Ladies first'  !

 :D

I thought it was having a bit of a fight to get to the screen  ;D ;D
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Re: Lost some parents! Brettwood in Rye
« Reply #8 on: Monday 22 October 07 18:09 BST (UK) »
cant see em in 1871 - apart from young Will - on a vessel in Whitstable Bay ...
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