By Andrew Lohmann, Webspace since 1997
Family tree of – BRAILSFORD @2001 Revised 12/08/09, 14/09/09
Family Brailsford is the name of the village in Derby they came from. There probably was a piano tuner in an earlier generation, very old pliers and a piano tuning key were inherited in a large green tool box. There is no male line and the family name may not exist. Unfortunately the most likely person to recall family history was my auntie Dot, it is possible that Arthur or Edward know some of it.
My mum’s mother (maiden name Dorothy Brailsford)’s father lived in Canada till 1914, but came to Britten to serve in WW1 as a nurse. At one time they resided in Orpington Kent – the hospital is a WW1 built and there is a Canadian servicemen’s graves in the Orpington cemetery from WW1. Mum’s uncle Edwin (Brailsford – I had previously thought was Parken) who taught Pharmacy in Brighton originally served in WW1 as a doctor who may have only been able to treat the injured by minimising suffering.
Grannies father returned to his home in Edmonton, Owen-sound, Canada so that he could fight in WW1 he had to return from Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) he went to Jamaica then travelled through USA to Canada to join up and serve in WW1. Granny may not have been in Rhodesia at this time as she was a teenager working for a famous Canadian photographer where she learned to develop and print photographs.
Some time about the end of WW1 the family went to live in Edinborough, Scotland. From there the family went to Berwick where granny went to work for my grandfather who was an photographer artist she taught him how to print his photographs. At some point soon after this my grand parents married latter moving to Leven, St. near Andrews, Scotland. They bought the shop for about £1000.
(I need to recheck some of the above again).
BRAILSFORD
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* George? * Alfred? * Frederick? * Sidney Charles 1871?-
(Florence Geake Phillips [Flory])
12 Children {Marriage recorded in Chester District 1893}
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* Archie * Dorothy Francis 1895?-1971 *
| (Edgar F. Parken )
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* Jim 1924? – Dec. 2001
(Margery Atkin?)
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* Neil
(Advocate in Who’s Who )
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Sidney Charles Brailsford’s father was the postmaster in the village of Brailsford near Derby.
Florence Geake Phillips’s step father’s name was philips. Her birth father’s name was Geake, who she chose to call her father. Mr Geake owned a sweet shop in the village Merstham Surrey.
Dorothy Francis Brailsford – Business woman paid £500 for first house. Went to Canada in 1920′s to learn roll film from Kodak. She took 1000s of pounds in to Canada by sowing the money into the clothing she wore. At the time you only allowed to take £25 out UK. As a child she had to walk across town in Scotland to buy Gin for her granny, this was to save a farthing. My granny was born in Wales.
Immigrating to Canada when her husband died, she followed him two years later as the he had told her through a fortune teller in Brighton told her. (I was with my mum also visited the same fortune teller in Brighton later). Her house sale completed 3 weeks after she sailed from England.
Additional early information was given to me by Kerrie Brailsford in an email. She gave me the following hyper links:-
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?&db=freebmd&&ti=0&f5=849&f6=1893&f7=march&f4=7b&gss=angs&fh=10
BRAILSFORD Mailing List at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BRAILSFORD-L/
It is commonly believed amongst genealogists that all of the people who bear the name BRAILSFORD are descendant from the one man, Elfin, who was a landowner in 1066. Find out more about medieval BRAILSFORDs here:-
http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/BRAILSFORD/2001-05/0989435866
http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/BRAILSFORD/2001-05/0989435868
Newly created BRAILSFORD web page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bsfd
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I was given some more information by Bill and Jenny DEVERELL. It seems that I may have the wrong Brailsford who was the postmaster of Brailsford, though I am sure that his son was Sydney and Florence. Perhaps he was not George, but Frederick. Bill and Jenny tell me that:-
We have no record of him in the village of Brailsford.
In 1863 he was in Marylebone London for birth of son John.
Based on the 1871 census of Wirksworth and baptisms of his children he was
in Cromford from 1868 until 1873.
In 1881 he was back in London at Putney.
We believe he was probably in Marylebone until at least 1865.
The child Alfred buried age 4 in 1869 in Cromford was not baptised there
like his later siblings.
There is a suitable birth in Marylebone Dec 1864 Vol 1a Page 463
The following is what we have on George and Caroline.
We have earlier generations if you are interested as well as more detail.
(1) George BRAILSFORD (1835 – )
bd. 5 Jun 1835, London[1]
bpd. 19 Jul 1835, St James Westminster[2]
& Caroline Susan WILES (~1840 – )
bd. abt 1840, Isleworth Middx
| (2) George BRAILSFORD (~1863 – )
| bd. abt 1863, Marylebone
| & Minnie Jane MIDDLETON (~1863 – )
| bd. abt 1863, Bramshott Hants
| m. 8 Oct 1890, Bushey Herts[3]
| | (3) Dorothy BRAILSFORD (~1897 – )
| | bd. abt 1897, Bushey Herts
| (2) Alfred BRAILSFORD (~1864 – ~1869)
| bd. abt Dec 1864, Marylebone London[4]
| dd. abt Sep 1869, Cromford
| brd. 23 Sep 1869, Wirksworth Derbys[5]
| (2) Frederick BRAILSFORD (1868 – )
| bd. 6 Aug 1868, Cromford Derby[6]
| bpd. 25 Oct 1868, Saint Mary Cromford Derby[6]
| (2) Sidney Charles BRAILSFORD (1870 – )
| bd. 27 May 1870, Cromford Derby[6]
| bpd. 7 Aug 1870, St Mary Cromford Derby[6]
| & Florence Geak Phillips ARCHIBALD[7] (~1871 – )
| bd. abt 1871[8]
| m. abt Mar 1893, Chester[7],[9]
| | (3) Dorothy Francis BRAILSFORD[9] (~1894 – 1971)
| | bd. abt 1894[8]
| | dd. 1971[9]
| | (3) Florence BRAILSFORD (~1896 – )
| | bd. abt 1896[8]
| (2) Alfred BRAILSFORD (1871 – ~1873)
| bd. 28 Dec 1871[6]
| dd. abt May 1873
| brd. 26 May 1873, Saint Mary Cromford Derby[5]
| bpd. 17 Mar 1872, Saint Mary Cromford Derby[6]
1. “IGI batch C035248.”
2. “IGI batch C147505.”
3. “Vital Records Index FHL 1537869.”
4. Marylebone 1a 463 Dec 1864.
5. “Wirksworth Web Site Parish Records.”
6. “IGI batch C049793.”
7. “Further to Sidney 29 Nov 2002 from Kerrie Brailsford.”
Information originally from Andrew Lohmann
8. “Brailsfords of London 29 Nov 2002.”
9. “Andrew Lohmann’s website.”
Andrew Lohmann