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'''William Eli Bradley''', my great grandfather. | '''William Eli Bradley''', my great grandfather. | ||
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William ran a glass decorating business in the area in the first half of last century. | William ran a glass decorating business in the area in the first half of last century. | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 1 January 2008
Maternal surnames
GILLETT ~ Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire
de FRAINE ~ Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
TOMPKINS ~ Oxfordshire and Buckingamshire
OSBORN ~ Oxfordshire
GODFREE ~ Gloucestershire
My great great grandparents, Sarah Jane Godfree married John Tompkins in Great Rissington, Gloucestershire on the 28th December 1853.
John’s maternal uncle, George Osborn, had earlier married Elizabeth Godfree, Sarah’s oldest sister in 1850.
Edwin Osborn Tompkins, son of John and Sarah Jane, married Susan Gillett and Rosa Ellen Tompkins, daughter of John and Sarah Jane, married Thomas Turner de Fraine at a double wedding in 1890. Susan Gillett was the step daughter of John Tompkin's second wife, Emma, who was the younger sister of Sarah Jane Godfree.
Photograph of the Double Wedding 1890. Aveley Hall, Essex.
In 1928, Kathleen Mary Tompkons (Molly) the daughter of Edwin Osborn and Susan married Thomas Leigh de Fraine, son of Thomas Turner and Rosa Ellen.
Paternal Surnames
LEWCOCK ~ Surrey, Middlesex
REED ~ Sussex, Middlesex
ADAMS ~ Sussex, Hampshire
USHER ~ Huntingdonshire
HART ~ Surrey
ELKINS ~ Sussex, Surrey
BRADLEY ~ Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Essex
William Eli Bradley, my great grandfather.
This picture hangs behind the bar in Bradley's Spanish Bar.
William ran a glass decorating business in the area in the first half of last century.
The family story goes that he walked from Kidderminster to London to seek his fortune.
SIMPSON ~ Glasgow, Middlesex
WHITEHILL ~ Glasgow
