52.2-3 Cousins of Charles Brittain

Edward and Mary Brittain had up to six children in Birmingham. Their children were Edward Brittain's first cousins.

• 39.1.1 - Mary Brittain (1813-1833) - unverified
• No known children

• 39.1.2 - Edward Brittain (1815-48) - unverified
• No known children

• 39.1.3 - Charles Brittain (1817-1882)
• See Chapter 39

• 39.1.4 - Eleanor Brittain (1820)
• No known children

• 39.1.5 - Edward Brittain (1821-1893)
• Mary Ann Brittain (1850-1894)
• Married George Hawkesford (1842-1887) in Atherstone in 1873
• George is a pistol maker, and they live at 26 High Street, Aston Manor
• This is likely to have been at the Tranter Gun and Pistol Factory a large factory completed in 1867 at 31 Lichfield Road, Aston Cross, complete with an unprecedented degree of steam automation. It was the most extensive pistol-making business in the midlands, producing over 20 different cartridge revolvers and pistols of Tranter's own design. Tranter was a founding partner of BSA.

Tranter Revolver c. 1870 (for sale)

• Children:
• Ellen Louise Hawkesford (1874)
• Alfred William Hawkesford (1880)
• In 1891, she is widowed, so has become a tobacconist, living at the same address, now considered Erdington

• George Brittain (1852-1919)
• 1871/1881/1891: At home in Duddeston. Silver plater, then silversmith, then electro-plater in turn, in each case mirroring his father.
• Married Ethel Charlotte Lomas (1866-1936) at St James the Less, Ashted in 1896. This is the same church that John and Caroline Wheaver married.
• Children:
• George Edward Brittain (1897)
• Robert Walter Brittain (1900)
• 1901: 103 Francis Street, Duddeston. Electro-plater.
• 1911: 61 Bloomsbury St, Aston. Electro-plater (maker up)

• Charles Brittain (1854-1876)
• Died at 22 in Warwick

• Ellen Brittain (1858-1902)
• 1881: At home in Duddeston. Elementary teacher.
• Married William Tomkinson Riley (1853-1931) at St James the Less, Ashted in 1885
• William is a sewing machine agent. Ellen is a school mistress. They lived at 125 Abbey Hey Lane, Gorton, Manchester
• Children:
• Nellie Leonora Maud Riley (1888)
• Died in Coventry

• John Edward Brittain (1862-1941)
• 1881: At home in Duddeston. Clerk.
• 1911: At a boarding house at 59 Constitution Hill, Birmingham. Actor.
• 1939: Weston-super-Mare. Retired actor

• Walter Brittain (1866)
• 1881: At home in Duddeston. Errand boy.
• Married Clara Eleanor Hannah Langridge (1868-1960) at St Clement, Nechells in 1888
• Children:
• Lillian Clarina Brittain (1887)
• Percy Charles Brittain (1891)
• Edith May Brittain (1894)
• Horace Walter J Brittain (1896)
• Gladys Maud Brittain (1903)
• 1901: Great Brook Street, Duddeston

Great Brook Street, Duddeston (credit)

• 1911: 35 Lyndon Road, Sutton Coldfield. Brass worker.

• William Henry Brittain (1868-1951)
• Married Ada Kate Prosser (1868) at St Philip, Birmingham in 1888 (where his parents married)
• Children:
• William Loft Brittain (1888)
• Maud Brittain (1889)
• 1891: 13 Court 3 House, Bloomsbury Street, Duddeston. Brassfounder.

• 39.1.6 - William Brittain (1823)
• No known children

Thomas and Elizabeth Hill had only one known child, so Charles Brittain had no cousins on his mother's side.

• 39.2.1 - Maria Hill (1819-1889)
• See Chapter 39

More information on these families in Chapter 58.

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