Denis edward Brinkhurst look up

[J.J.]

Good sleuthing Ambly.
Have not seen evidence of any Brinkhurst in Montreal, and just checked the directories for several years and found no sign of the surname...

Speaking of Quebec I have not seen hide nor hair of Edward Brinkhurst from the 1921 census Terrebonne. Anyone see him headed out of Canada? He'd not be the first person to make himself younger using a false age. ( especially if spouse was quite a bit younger)

[chempat]

There are these births for 'Kate Brinkhurst', 1850 to 1901

Births March quarter 1880 Kate Brinkhurst  Uckfield  (Framfield in censuses)

Births June quarter 1887   Kate Brinkhurst Uckfield (Little Horsted in censuses)

Then these marriages, 1890 to 1930:

Marriages September quarter 1901   Kate Brinkhurst and George Richard Pratt Uckfield

Marriages March quarter 1906   William George Addicott, Kate Brinkhurst, Amos French and Edith Novis Uckfield

Added:
Kate Brinkhurst/Pratt showing in 1911, born 1880.

Kate Brinkhurst/Addicott showing in 1911, born 1887.  George Brinkhurst age 22 in same household.

Both Kate's claim born Framfield, but that could be how they choose to regard their birthplace

[chempat]

There are Addicott births in Uckfield 1905 to 1911, but not after 1911.

This death has the wrong age:
Deaths June quarter  1967  Kate Addicott age 77  Wokingham  i.e. born 1889/1890

There is this possible marriage to give a 'Kate Addicott'
Marriages Mar 1913 
Addicott    Walter J    Shepherd    Hambledon    2a   283     Scan available - click to view
Shepherd    Kate    Addicott    Hambledon    2a   283

Walter J Addicott was born in Hungerford in 1886 and probably died in Reading in 1944.
Too many possible candidates for Kate Shepherd.

[J.J.]

Holy Cow all this work, but where's the poster? Maybe away for the holidays...?
I did p.m. in case notification was turned off...argh, "the suspenders!" as my Mum used to say...
 

[AMBLY]

argh, "the suspenders!" as my Mum used to say...

<< giggle >>   

I'm half expecting the OP to come back and say it can't possibly be the right Kate  - such is Murphy's law. Still, in that case and anyway  we've well exercised our seek and find muscles! Always fun to be involved in a topic that sort of takes off

Happy New Year all  & Come back soon Jamie 

Cheers
AMBLY

[Jacquie in Canada]

Surely as her name was Kate Brinkhurst when she gave birth to him, then that was the name she would use, and he would be given the Brinkhurst surname - why should she revert to her maiden surname?

Not on BMD registrations - usually for that time period she would be listed under her maiden name.

Your initial post gives no clue as to where your information comes from or what type of document you think had listed Kate Brinkhurst's name as his mother. And it would be helpful if you could respond to Ambly's questions in reply #1.

Jacquie

[whitey1954]

Oh boy this is getting real interesting .. was away for abit and missed all the replies but thank you all...

[AMBLY]

I don't know if I'm 100% comfortable….
We've potentially exposed a secret or more of Kate BRINKHURST's;  we've no way of knowing if any of her known 6 children knew about this child born 1918.  And if she's also Mrs Addicott, that's another complete can of worms.  We've possibly also unearthed some sort of skeleton regards Albert BRYAN, re: 'Norah'. If any of those children of Albert & Kate's  are still living they'd be 90 or older now and unlikely themselves to come across this website. But Grandchildren might…..are we OK with that?

Hi Jamie,
Welcome Back, and Happy New Year 

Without further assurance of why you're looking into his birth,  I'm presently uncomfortable with publicly discussing too many identifying details regards this 1918 born child, who indeed looks to be  an illegitimate son born  to the 'widowed' Kate then adopted out.

There is an Online (paid-site) tree with this man on it (though it gives the year of birth as 1917, rather than 1918).  It also says this man passed away in 1992,  Strathroy, Ontario, Canada.

The OCFA lists him :
http://ocfa.islandnet.com/ocfa-search.php
buried  in Strathroy Municipal (Section N) Middlesex Caradoc , Ref: MX-ST-800

And a photo of his headstone is here.
http://geneofun.on.ca/names/photo/1215244?PHPSESSID=14dccb512545d6f44a2e4a6ac71f808d

Jamie, are you a direct descendant of this man? 
As a genealogist, I well understand the drive to find all you can about your tree, by all means - I'm not saying don't. Just cautioning discretion and privacy if there is any suggestion at all that this information  could upset anyone who might come across it.  Adoption is an emotive subject, even years after the fact, more so if there are 'sensitive issues' surrounding it. 

There is no way to know if the child you see in 1921 (is that the one in Barton Twp?) is your chap. We can't assume it is the right boy.

Your next step would be to establish who he named as his father on his marriage record.  It also crossed my mind, does the address of his birth tie in with any of the information we'd found?

Cheers
AMBLY

[chempat]

Isabelle Lane and Edward H (mechanic) Lane are on the ER for 1972 in Mt Brydges Middlesex, Ontario.