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Brittain Family Memoir Recollections
Jonathon Brittain....was said to be uncle
to our grandfathers and sounds as if he was brother to their mother Ann.. Source my mother.
Ann
Brittain I have a card record of a christening at Bremhill of Ann Brittain daughter of Joseph and Sarah
0n 3rd Aug. 1783. No trace on your spreadsheet ,date is way out but name is the same
Please
see earlier note on ‘Pudding Brook Spring ‘ . According to an entry I copied from the original records
at Bremhill, an Ann Britten was baptised at Bremhill 9th July 1930. The 1861 census shows her as aged
31 .At the time I was of the opinion that this was almost certainly ‘our Ann’ mother of our Grandfathers.
Ann Brittain If I am correct in the above item then it may be usefull to log the following
Joseph son of William and Matilda Brittain baptised Bremhill 22 Jan 1832
Jane -daughter of William
and Matilda Britten baptised Bremhill 16 .10. 1836. Note that one if the witnesses at the wedding of
our William Townsend and Ann Britten on 29.9.1857 at Christchurch, Derry HILL was a Jane Brittain, the
other witness was a William Dolman.
I also have a card for George son of William and Matilda
Britten baptised Bremhill 2.2.1884., this looks like an error on my part so far as the date is concerned.
Jonathon Brittain of Cockelbury was uncle to William and John Townsend- Presumably being the brother
of Ann Brittain. William and John being our Grandfathers.
Anne Brittain died when children were
young and lies buried under the churchyard wall at Derry Hill.
1861 Census Reel 722–
29 Derry Hill shows in residence
Ann Townsend Head of household [31] Laundress born Studley.
Thomas
[8] born Studley
William [3] “ ” [your Grandfather and mine]
Jonathon [2] Derry Hill [my Grandfather]
Ann’s husband was possibly still in the Militia
Having been embodied for the Crimean war 1854 .They
did not reach the Crimea but are said to have had an interesting time in Corfu and Zante in the Ionian
islands off Greece. They returned to Wiltshire in 1856. In 1857 the Militia was again called out due
to the Indian mutiny, serving in Aldershot, Gosport, and Dover until 1860.
Note: As a child I remember
my mother telling me that ‘William the elder’ as I call him[ husband to Ann] had lost an eye in the Crimean
war. My irreverent thoughts are that it could have been a flying bottle in a Greek island Taverna!!
Census 1851 10 Studley- Amongst the Briitains there is Ann aged 20 born Bremhill though the marriage
certificate of Ann Brittain who married our William [the elder] on 29.9.1857 did declare Derry Hill on
marriage-could be our Ann as there were a family of Briitain’s in Studley in the 1920's-they were an
established family. Your spreadsheet entry 21.7.1833-Ann Brittain shows place of birth as Calne. So
take your choice. Remember Christchurch Derry Hill was built by the parishioners etc. in 1840 and the
new parish of Derry Hill was formed out of the parishes of Calne, Bremhill, Corsham and Bishops Canning
with the extra parochial places of Bowood [where the big house is] and Pewsham.
However
Census 1851, page 19, Reel 701 Shows residing at 81a Studley, following occupants
Elizabeth Brittain,
head of house, widow born Calne. Ann daughter unmarried, age 19. Jane 11 and Caroline age 4. Now if we
refer to marriage of Willaim Townsend and Ann Britten on 29th Sept 1857 [cert held]. We find that Willian
Dolman and Jane Brittain were witnesses but the father of Ann is shown as William Britten? Did he change
his name? The husband of Elizabeth and father of Ann was presumably Joseph Britten but so far have been
unable to trace his death.
Mary Carter I have a note of her burial at Derry Hill5th April 111927
age 83. Iraised the question at the time of making the note that she might be the same person asPolly
Brittain who I beleive married James Carter [Miller possibly at Hazeland Mill]. She was known to my mother
and Sarah our Grandmother. I also have notes of other Brittain children thought to be of the sBremhill.ame
family.
I have a note made after a converstion with my mother that Ann Brittain who married William
[the elder]-father of our Grandfather had a brother Jonathon. Mother also said that our Grandfathers
Grannie [quoted as Joan?? Jane] came from
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