Through the Trees: 58.8 Siblings of Gertie Larard (née Brittain)

Charles and Eliza Brittain had six children. These were Gertie's siblings.

1891/1901: At home in Aston Manor. No occupation; then a commercial clerk in the corn trade
Married George Smith (1851) in about 1910
He was a painter and decorator, and they lived at 101 Aston Road, Birmingham.

1901: At home in Aston Manor. Board school teacher.
Married Harry Ernest Hallam (1871-1922) at St Peter & St Paul, Aston in 1901
He was a forwarding clerk at a bedstead works, and they lived at 24 Anderson Road, Erdington. His father was a journalist; he had three sisters and a brother but no known nephews or nieces.
Children:

Ernest is likely to have worked at Evered & Co, Tyburn Road, Erdington, a company founded in 1809, and which had exhibited at the Great Exhibition. They employed 1000 people in Erdington but were not exclusively bed makers: "Brassfounders, Bedstead Makers and Tube Drawers. Specialities: Gas Light and Water Fittings, Electric Light Fittings and Electric Bells, Cabinet Brassfoundry of every description, Metallic Bedsteads, Cots and Wire Mattresses, Brass and Copper Tubes, Rolled Metals etc." (Grace's Guide) By 1916, their advertising emphasises their other works, at Smethwick. These were locally relocated when the successor company became part of Prymetall Gmbh in 2005.
In the metallic-bedstead trade, where the better class bed frames were made of brass and the worse of iron, the size of plant fell as trade declined after 1890 and the number of producers increased. (British History Online).
"It's funny but Brum. was renowned for brass bedsteads and the connotation still exists long after these brass items have become historical. Brass is expensive now." (Passing comment by Rupert on Birmingham History Forum)
There is more in Workshop of the World.

A Birmingham Brass Bedstead (by F. Andrews of Oozells Street (For Sale)

Married Nelly Stanton (1878-1960) at St Peter & St Paul in 1900
He was a glass manufacturer's commercial traveller (possibly for his father's business). The lived at 55 Church Road, Erdington.

1911: Married but in a lodgings at 41-42 Thorp Street, Birmingham. A tailor. Nellie was living at 26 Stockland Road, Erdington.
A William E Brittain served with the Army Service Corps in WWI.
I can't record find a record of a divorce, or remarriage. However, family members have provided the following:
Married (?) Clara Godwin (1892-1972)

In 1924, he was apparently a gardener, living at Providence Cottage, Shenstone Wood End (on the Lichfield Road, north of Sutton)

William, Clara and Edward Brittain (thanks to Michael Brittain on Ancestry)

More on these individuals in Chapter 61.

Next (Gertie's paternal cousins)

Through the Trees