Brassingtons of Staffordshire

[Menfreya]

Hi madabout

Yes Phyllis married Percy Mons Knott in Tunstall register office in 1940. He died 1973. Was a miner most of his life.

Trying to work out also why he is called Mons, born 1914 called after a battle in WW1 but that's a whole new topic! 

Will check out the site you mentioned as well

Cheers.

[madabout]

Hi Menfreya

There must be some reason for the middle name Mons, hopefully you will find out one day.

You will have to let us know how you get on with Bertha's marriage certificate.

Madabout

[brasso]

Family memories say that the Bertha born in  Stafford married a gentleman from the Indian subcontinent - sometime around the end of WW1.  They also place her as a market trader in Newcastle-u-Lyme.  Her parents were Samuel and Lucy Brassington

Brasso

[madabout]

That has sorted Bertha Brassington out. I'm sure Menfreya will be very pleased.
Have you by any chance lost a John Brassington. He & his wife Ann have a son Samuel Brassington chr. 1822 Blackfordby, Leics. On the 1851 census Samuel is a potter.
It looks like they are the 1st family of Brassingtons in the area. I wonder if they have drifted down from the Potteries.

[Menfreya]

Hi brasso

Thanks for the reply I have also just read your message as well. I must confess family history searching has been a bit sporadic as of late due to an on going battle wih a mobile phone mast application and the local planning department! Once this is sorted, soon I hope, I can once again submerge myself in family history. I will look through all that I have at present in a bit more detail and see how your information links in, I must admit it looks promising. 

regards
Menfreya

[Menfreya]

Hi madabout

I don't know of any John Brassingtons but I will keep a look out for the name.

Regards
Menfreya