52.1 Siblings of Charles Brittain

Charles and Maria Brittain had fourteen children in Birmingham. Their children were Charles Brittain's siblings.

• 52.1.1 - Emily Brittain (1837-1838)
• Died as an infant

• 52.1.2 - Charles Edward Brittain (1839-1910)
• See Chapter 52

• 52.1.3 - William Brittain (1841)
• At home in Birmingham in 1851. No later record found.

• 52.1.4 - Caroline (Carrie) Brittain (1846-1904)
• 1861: At the Clergy Daughters School, Casterton nr Carnforth, Westmorland. Her sisters Marria (sic) and Mary Jane are there too, although not listed together.
• This school was founded in 1823 by Rev Carus Wilson to educate daughters of financially disadvantaged clergymen. It moved to its site at Casterton in 1833. Four of the Brontë sisters (Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Emily) attended the former Cowan Bridge School, where conditions had been poor. The ones you haven't heard of caught TB at the school, and died. Jane Eyre is based partly on the experience.
• 1871/1881: Back home in Birmingham. Governess.
• 1891: 119 Lodge Road, Winson Green (now redeveloped). Governess. Her sister Edith is with her. This is after her father's death. In 1901 her sister Jane is head of the household. Edith is still there, and a mechanical engineer apprentice nephew Arthur Snipe is also there.

• 52.1.5 - Alfred George Brittain (1847-1909)
• 1861: At school in Hackney. Head is a clergyman.
• 1871: Back home in Birmingham. Clerk in the Corporation Finance Department
• Married Ellen Teresa O'Neill (1854) at All Saints, Hockley in 1880
• He is a teacher of the classics, and they live at 341 Lodge Road, Winson Green in 1881; The Firs, Old Church Road, Harborne, Staffordshire [now Birmingham] in 1891; and 184 Bristol Road [i.e. the A38], Edgbaston in 1901 (he is now an independent tutor).
• Children:
• Jasper Brittain (1888)
• Desmond George Brittain (1890)
• Marjorie Sylvia Brittain (1894)

• 52.1.6 - Maria Louisa (Minnie) Brittain (1850-1893)
• 1861: At school in Casterton
• No record 1871/1881
• 1891: Boarder at Millbrook Road, Farnborough nr Orpington, Kent [now London]. Daily governess.

• 52.1.7 - (Mary) Jane Brittain (1851-1921)
• 1861: At school in Casterton
• 1871/1881: Back home in Birmingham. Governess, then school mistress.
• 1901: Head of household in Birmingham (see Caroline above)
• 1911: Head of household. Private means. 212 Villa Street, Aston Manor [Lozells]. Brothers William and Herbert, and sister Edith are there too.

• 52.1.8 - Arthur Henry Barrett Brittain (1854-1911)
• 1871: At home in Birmingham. Civil engineering student.
• 1881: Curate of Wolstanton, boarding at the vicarage
• Married Geraldine Feodora Hyde (1863-1935) in Wolstanton nr Newcastle, Staffordshire in 1883

Wolstanton Church (credit)

• Children:
• Arthur Hyde Brittain (1886)
• ? (dau)

INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Brittain, Rev Canon Arthur Henry Barrett. M. A.; b. 1854: 7th s. of late Rev. Charles Brittain; m. Geraldine Feodora, d. of late Henry Barry Hyde, one s., one d.; Educ: King Edward’s School, Birmingham; St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; M.A., 1879; Ordained Curate of Wolstanton, 1880; Founder and first head of St. Augustine Mission, Fulham; Junior Chaplain, Madras, 1887; Senior Chaplain, and Canon of Madras Cathedral: Editor, Madras Diocesan Magazine, 1903-07; Acting Archdeacon of Madras and Bishop’s Commissary; Founder of the Diocesan Soldier’s Institutes at Secunderabad and St. Thomas’s Mount: Secretary of the Anglican Third Order; Vicar of Whittlebury-cum-Silverstone, 1909. Address: Whittlebury Vicarage, Towcester. 

• 1911: Clerk in Holy Orders, Vicar of Whittlebury-cum-Silverstone nr Towcester, Northamptonshire. Living at Whittlebury vicarage, with wife, son, sick nurse and three servants. Church site is here.

Whittlebury Church (Ian Rob)

• 52.1.9 - Henrietta Brittain (1856-1915)
• 1871: At school in Casterton
• 1881: Back home in Birmingham. Daily governess.
• Married Charles Wood (1856-1939) in Boissevain, Manitoba, Canada in 1890



Charles Wood

• Charles was a vicar from Staffordshire

• Children (born in Souris, Manitoba):
• Charles Brittain Wood (1891). Charles died in 1891.
• Gladys Muriel Wood (1892). Gladys died in 1892.
• Jeanette Constance (Connie) Wood (1893)
• Richard Wood (1895). Richard died in 1895.
• Died in Hamiota, Manitoba

• 52.1.10 - Clara Hill Brittain (1858-1932)
• 1881: At home on Lodge Road. Teacher at the High School
• Married James Dolman Knipe (1848-1923) at All Saints, Hockley in 1882
• Children:
• Randolph Charles Knipe (1885)
• In 1901, James was vicar of Cleeve Prior, nr Evesham, Worcestershire. My photos of Evesham are here.
• 1911: Bickenhill Lane, Hampton-in-Arden nr Solihull.

• 52.1.11 - Bertha Julia Brittain (1859-1860)
• Died as an infant

• 52.1.12 - Eliza Annie Brittain (1859-1860)
• Died as an infant

• 52.1.13 - Herbert Brittain (1861-1930)
• 1881: Visitor to the vicarage in Darlaston nr Wednesbury, Staffordshire [Now West Midlands]
• Married Catherine Maria Augusta Jennings (1848-1908) at St Andrew, West Kensington in 1886
• Children:
• Kate Worcester Brittain (1887)
• 1891: Private tutor at school. Living with wife, daughter and three step-daughters at 6 North Terrace, Cambridge (now redeveloped).
• 1901: Clergyman. 4 Huguenot Mansions, Wandsworth
• 1911: Widowed. With sisters Jane and Edith, and brother William in Aston Manor
• Married Winifred Richards (1873-1952) at St Luke, Chelsea in 1914

• 52.1.14 - Edith Constance Brittain (1862-1929)
• 1881: At home at Lodge Road. Daily governess.
• 1901: With sisters Jane and Caroline in Birmingham. Board School teacher.
• 1911: With sister Jane, and brothers William and Herbert in Aston Manor
• Died in Stratford-upon-Avon

More on these individuals in Chapter 58.

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