58.10-11 Brittain Summary Tree (with Hill Family)

Edward Brittain (1787) m Mary Plant (1790)
See Chapter 13 for their biographies, Chapter 39 for those of their children, and Chapter 52 for those of their grandchildren.

• Mary Brittain (1813)
• Edward Brittain (1815)
• Charles Brittain (1817-1882) m Maria Hill (c.1818-1889)
• See Chapter 58.2b for first cousin biographies. See also Hill tree below.
• Emily Brittain (1837-1838)
• Charles Edward Brittain (1839-1910) m Eliza Meaden Meaden (1840-1907)
• See Chapter 58.2a for sibling biographies. See also Meaden tree.
• Eliza Maria [Lilly] Brittain (1867-1915) m George Smith (1851)
• Mabel Kate [May] Brittain (1869-1946)
• Alice Gertrude Brittain (1870-1943) m Ernest James Larard (1871-1911)
• See Larard tree for their descendants.
• == m Charles Clifford Foulkes (1875-1931)
• (Charles) Frederick Meaden Brittain (1873-1885)
• Margaret Constance [Daisy] Brittain (1875-1954) m Harry Ernest Hallam (1871-1922)
• Margaret Hallam (1902)
• Robert Norman Hallam (1906-1915)
• Herbert Leslie Hallam (1909-1944)
• Joyce Mary Hallam (1916-1991)
• William Edward Brittain (1877-1948) m Nellie Stanton (1878-1960)
• Charles Archibald Victor Brittain (1900-1953)
• William Ronald Brittain (1902-1973)
• Gladys Nellie Brittain (1904-1972)
• Frederick Brittain (1909)
• == m Clara Godwin (1892-1972)
• Edward Howard Brittain (1919-2006)
• Harry Raymond Brittain (1922-1922)
• Clifford [Cliff] Douglas Brittain (1924-2010)
• == m Frances Mary Beard (1904-1974)
• Mary Joan Brittain (1931-2014)
• William Brittain (1841)
• Caroline [Carrie] Brittain (1846-1904)
• Alfred George Brittain (1847-1909)
• Jasper Brittain (1888-1922) m Winifred Madelaine Pearce (1880)
• Desmond George Brittain (1890-1943) m Martha E Anderson (1896)
• Margaret E T Brittain (1930) 
• Marjorie Sylvia Brittain (1894-1971)
• Maria Louisa (Minnie) Brittain (1850-1893)
• (Mary) Jane Brittain (1851-1921)
• Arthur Henry Barrett Brittain (1854-1911) m Geraldine Feodora Hyde (1863-1935)
• Arthur Hyde Brittain (1886)
• Daughter
• Henrietta Brittain (1856-1915) m Charles Wood (1856-1939)
• Charles Brittain Wood (1891-1891)
• Gladys Muriel Wood (1892-1892)
• Jeanette Constance (Connie) Wood (1893-1966) m Joseph Maclennan (1882-1950)
• Charles Neil Robert Maclennan (1912-1990)
• Mary Lorayne [Sis] Maclennan (1913-1988)
• Eleanor Maclennan (1914-1914)
• Hetty Constance Marguerite Maclennan (1916-2005)
• Erna Catherine Maclennan (1917-2006)
• Ian Roy Maclennan (1919-2013)
• Donald Joseph Maclennan (1920-1920)
• Joseph Gordon Maclennan (1922-1932)
• (Charles) Bruce Maclennan (1924-1945)
• James [Jim] Dougald Maclennan (1926-2001)
• Richard Wood (1895-1895)

• Clara Hill Brittain (1858-1932) m James Dolman Knipe (1848-1923)
• Randolph Charles Knipe (1885-1954) m Elizabeth Marguerite Whitmore (1894-1932)
• Bertha Julia Brittain (1859-1860)
• Eliza Annie Brittain (1859-1860)
• Herbert Brittain (1861-1930) m Catherine Maria Augusta Jennings (1848-1908)
• Kate Worcester Brittain (1887)
• == m Winifred Richards (1873-1952)
• Edith Constance Brittain (1862-1929)
• Eleanor Brittain (1820) m? George Moore
• Edward Brittain (1821-1893) m Emma Mills
• Mary Ann Brittain (1850-1894) m George Hawkesford (1842-1887)
• Ellen Louise Hawkesford (1874-1955) m George Handley (1872-1913). He was a postman, and they lived at 4 Mansfield Place, Balsall Heath. Nowadays, Balsall Heath is the location of the Balti Triangle. In 1911, he was an assistant inspector of postmen, and they lived at 116 St Saviours Road, Saltley.
• Lily Ellen Handley (1893)
• Thomas George Handley (1896)
• Alfred William Hawkesford (1880-1919). Born Saltley, emigrated to Australia. Died Queensland.
• George Brittain (1852-1919) m Ethel Charlotte Lomas (1866-1936)
• George Edward Brittain (1897-1936) m Mabel Chessmer (1894-1984) in Aston in 1923
• Michael Robert James Brittain (1931)
• In WWI, George was a 2nd Lieutenant with the Tank Corps in France in December 1917. On 28 July 1917, the Heavy Branch had been separated from the Machine Gun Corps by Royal Warrant, and given official status as the Tank Corps. By December 1918, 26 battalions had been created.

Tank MkII, 1917 (my photo)

• Robert Walter Brittain (1900-1975) m Margaret Gartshore (1908-1988) in Sutton Coldfield in 1941. Later, he was a counter cashier for local government (presumably Birmingham City Council), and they lived at Edwards Road, Birmingham.

Birmingham City Council House, 1879 (my photo)

• Charles Brittain (1854-1876)
• Ellen Brittain (1858-1902) m William Tomkinson Riley (1853-1931)
• Nellie Leonora Maud Riley (1888-1980) m Benjamin Bennett (1890-1929) in Lincoln in 1913. My photos of Lincoln are here. In 1911, she was at home in Marple. He was a dental mechanic.
• He served in the RAMC in WWI, presumably as a dentist. In his service record, he initially asserts that he is married to an Ethel Cunliffe. In October 1918, there is a letter on file from the Major at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup saying that he "was under a misapprehension of the real contents and purport of the form". Ethel is an "unofficial" wife, apparently but at this point he has transferred his voluntary allotment to his wife who is now in receipt of separation allowance. This appears to be in response to "I should be obliged if you interview the soldier and favour me with your observations on the matter, at your earliest." He was also caught stealing blankets from the Sidcup Hospital in October 1919, which went to court. He was demobbed in December 1919, which was later than most.

Lincoln (my photo)

• Desmond Stewart Bennett (1914-200)
• John Edward Brittain (1862-1941)
• Walter Brittain (1866) m Clara Eleanor Hannah Langridge (1868-1960). Emigrated to Australia.
• Lillian Clarina Brittain (1887-1904). Died at age 17.
• Percy Charles Brittain (1891-1938) m Ada Elizabeth Grew (1890-1977) at St David, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia in 1912.
• Charmain Thama Brittain (1918)
• Gloria Marcelene Brittain (1920)
• Hilton Travers Rudolph Brittain (1922)

Sydney Harbour Bridge Under Construction (NSW State Archives)

• Edith May Brittain (1894-1977) m Albert James Ongley (1888-1957) at Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, Australia in 1921.
• Norman Clyde Ongley (1922)
• Geoffrey James Ongley (1925)
• Horace Walter J Brittain (1896-1987) m Mary W Middleton
• == m Lilly Beatrice Seaton (1901)
• Died in Australia.
• Gladys Maud Brittain (1903) m Reginald Fred John Wood (1886-1975) in Sydney, NSW in 1923.



Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1932 (credit)

• William Henry Brittain (1868-1951) m Ada Kate Prosser (1866-1919)
• William Loft Brittain (1888-1888). Died in infancy.
• Maud Brittain (1889-1892). Died in infancy. 
• William Brittain (1823)

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Thomas Hill (1801) m Elizabeth (1801)
See Chapter 14 for their biographies, and Chapter 39 for those of their children

• Maria Hill (c.1819-1869) m Charles Brittain (1817-1882)
• See Brittain tree above

More information on these families in Chapter 61.

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