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Christmas 2007

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What a year! And I don’t mean the weather. More

information is appearing on line each year, and this one

has been no exception. I have also been sent a number of

interesting and exciting items relating to various

members of the BREADMORE family. One fine morning in

May I was delighted to meet a descendant of George

William BREADMORE and Alicia Elizabeth PHILLIPS, who

was visiting England from Australia with her husband. As

you can imagine we didn’t stop talking for a few hours, and

found we had quite a lot in common apart from Family

History and Breadmores.

The picture on the front cover is a copy of a post card

sent to Gwendoline Mary Tregula BREADMORE on the

occasion of her 19th Birthday on 17 January 1921 and

kindly given to me by her grandson. Gwendoline was the

second of six children born to Alfred Charles

BREADMORE and Jessie Ellen K (née BASTIN ) in

Plymouth, Devon. The reverse of the card, which was

posted to her home address in Plymouth, reads

Dear Gwennie Just a card Wishing you

A happy Birthday From Dan

A second similar card was sent from her friend Alice.

The name Tregula is probably associated with the Battle

of Tugela, South Africa. Gwendoline’s uncle, Thomas

BREADMORE, had been included in a list of casualties

printed in The Times newspaper in December 1899 and he

was later taken a prisoner of war. When the War Office

issued their fourth instalment of the lists of prisoners

recovered in Pretoria in July 1900 he was described as

‘Private 2015 Breadmore a married Reservist from

Exeter’. In 1891 his occupation had been listed as a

Private in the Devonshire Regiment, a servant in the

house of David MILNE HOLME the Colonel Commander of

the 11th Regiment.

British troops at the Battle of Colenso on the Tugela River

Thomas and Alfred Charles were sons of Henry

BREADMORE and Lydia NEWMAN of Quarley,

Hampshire. They had two sisters, Alice Mary who

married Henry CASSWELL and Eliza who married George

WELLS. Thomas married Mary Jane BARRY at Exwick,

Devon in 1892 and had three children Thomas Henry

(born and died 1893), Alfred Charles (born and died 1896)

and Amelia (1900). In 1901 Thomas was living in Exeter

where he was described as a Railway Porter. He died in

the Newton Abbott area in 1946, aged 80.

My sincere thanks to Gwendoline’s grandson, Michael, for

this delightful card, and for his permission to use it on

the cover of this letter.

Those of you who are regular visitors to the BREADMORE

web site will have noticed that I have updated the

occupations pages, added some more Questions and

Queries and inserted a new section called ‘Breadmore

Stories’. The stories included are The Damaged Oak

Tree; Attempted Murder; Burglary at Hungerford;

Unusual Marriage; Tragic Death; Death in Wisconsin;

Charged with Manslaughter; James the Waggon Guard;

George William of Ballarat; An Unfortunate Lad; Valet to

Lord Beaverbrook. With the exception of the last all

these have been featured at some time in a previous

newsletter.

For those who do not have access to the web site I am

reproducing the full text, which was written by Stephen,

the grandson of Bert Breadmore, earlier this year and for

which I am most grateful.

“Albert Edward ('Bert') Breadmore was valet and

confidant to Lord Beaverbrook, newspaper magnate and

politician, for over thirty years.

Bert Breadmore was born on 21 June 1897 in

Brightwalton, Berkshire. He was the fifth of the seven

children born to James Alfred Breadmore and Elizabeth

Charlotte (née Annon), and the great-grandson of George

of Mildenhall (1793-1870), who brought the Breadmore

name to Brightwalton. After war service in the Royal

Berkshire Regiment he left village life for London and in

1923 became footman, and then valet, to Max Aitken,

Lord Beaverbrook.

Beaverbrook was a Canadian adventurer turned Fleet

Street proprietor and British Cabinet Minister. He

transformed the Sunday and Daily Express and London

Evening Standard into best selling and highly influential

newspapers; was Minister of Information in World War I;

and a close political ally of Winston Churchill during the

General Strike, Abdication Crisis and approach to war

with Hitler. As Minister of Aircraft Production in World

War II Beaverbrook built enough Spitfires to see off the

Luftwaffe. Until his death in 1964 he enjoyed huge

wealth and power from his Arlington House apartment

near the Ritz, Cherkley Court mansion in Surrey and villas

in the Bahamas and on the French Riviera. Bert served as

'the Old Man’s' personal valet for the rest of his life,

minding his clothes and his secrets. He guarded

Beaverbrook’s door with tact and discretion, offering

visitors shrewd advice and a guide to his mood. He

observed many great men off duty - David Lloyd George,

President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill. He travelled all

over the world: during World War II he accompanied

Beaverbrook across the Atlantic to the USA by

submarine to see Roosevelt - an important and dangerous

mission. For a few months when Churchill was ill and

recuperating at Beaverbrook’s villa Bert acted as his valet

too. He declined an offer of the OBE.

Bert married Violet Gertrude Vincent at Christ Church,

Spitalfields in London on 12 March 1927, and died

suddenly at their home in South Ruislip, Middlesex on 7

March 1958 aged 60. He left two daughters, Gwendoline

Jean and Audrey Kathleen Breadmore.”

Old newspapers give a fascinating insight into the life of

our ancestors as these first three extracts show.

The Andover Advertiser (Hampshire) of 24 March 1882

reported a Property Sale as follows

“On Friday last there was a large attendance at Messrs. Ellen’s Auction Mart, London Street, Andover, when they offered for sale a peculiar, though desirable investment, consisting of one-ninth share of profits arising from the tolls, rents, dues, etc., receivable in respect of the noted Weyhill Fairs and land at Weyhill, known as “Landsleys’ Farm,” which comprises about 62 acres, held for the unexpired term of a lease for 40 years, from 25th December, 1856. This was knocked down to Mr. G. Breadmore, of Stockbridge, for the satisfactory price of £360.” On Saturday 15th October 1904 the Hampshire Chronicle

included the following report about Charles Breadmore,

son of the Mr G Breadmore above.

“Winchester: Between the dainty sweet pea, with its beautiful colours and sweet perfume, to the homely potato, one of the greatest food products of the country, there seems no analogy, but Mr Charles Breadmore, 120 High-street, Winchester, whose success with the former is now world renowned, has added another honour to his

list, viz., at the National Potato Society’s first great show, held at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, by being awarded a special Crystal Palace silver medal for his collection of 19 new varieties.”

Photograph by Cynthia Breadmore

George BREADMORE's grave at Stockbridge

The Boston Daily Globe (Massachusetts) of 28 August

1894 reported on the arrangements for the Labor Day

Parade. The following paragraph was included.

“Firemen’s protective union, 6130, American Federation of Labor, will make its best effort to turn out its full strength on Labor day, and at last evening’s meeting in Little hall it was voted to parade in a uniform consisting of blue shirt, dark trousers, silk cap and white and gold belts. A handsome banner will be carried in the parade, the gift of friends of the organization. The following committee will act as officers of the parade: Charles Breadmore, commander, P. J. Concannon, Frank Trainor, L. Hackett, J. Barrett, Con Crowley, aids. The union will hold a banquet after the parade, and will keep open house for all men employed as boiler firemen.”

The Salisbury and Winchester Journal, dated Saturday 6

March 1819 reports on the Assizes held the previous

Tuesday when the ‘awful sentence of Death was passed ‘

on sixteen prisoners including one Geo. BREADMAN for

‘breaking into and robbing the house of Francis Bastin of

East Woodhay.’ This sentence must have been changed to

transportation as George BREADMAN sailed from

Woolwich on the Recovery on 31 July 1819 arriving in New

South Wales on 18 December the same year.

In his book ‘Two Years in New South Wales’ P.

Cunningham, the Surgeon on the Recovery, wrote this

about George BREADMAN:

“Of all those I ever heard of, who have manifested the ‘ruling passion strong in death,’ George Breadman proved

one of the staunchest. He was a poor yokel, foisted upon me in the last stage of consumption, and who remained bedridden until our arrival in the colony. He fell away so fast that I never expected to land him alive, and certainly it required the most anxious attention to retain the glimmering spark. I fortunately, however, possessed a very facetious fellow among the batch, to whom this poor dying creature became strongly attached, never being a day happy whereon his friend neglected to visit him, and often begging me to send this man to him for company, which I gladly did, seeing it invariably put him in good spirits. Wondering what could be the cause of this extraordinary liking, I inquired, and found that Breadman had been a great pig-stealer in his day, which being considered a very vulgar calling among the professional classes, (particularly among the townies,) he could get no one to listen to his adventures except this joker, who would laugh with and quiz him on the particular subjects of his achievements; praise the wonderful expertness with which he had done the farmers out of their grunters, and propose a partnership concern on reaching the colony, if the pigs there were found to be worth stealing! —I really believe the poor creature was kept in existence a full month solely by the exhilarating conversation of his companion. On anchoring at Sydney no time was lost in conveying Breadman ashore, he being so weak that he could not even sit up without fainting: yet, in this pitiable state, supporting himself round the hospital-man's neck while the latter was drawing on his trowsers for him, the expiring wretch mustered strength enough to stretch out

his pale trembling hand toward the other's waistcoat-pocket, and pick it of a pocket-comb and pen-knife! Next morning he was a corpse, thus dying as he had lived. Yet, during his whole illness, this man would regularly request some of the sober-minded rogues to read the Scriptures to him, and pray by his bed-side! Indeed, ill practices become ultimately so habitual with many, as to be no longer deemed such: and hence, no wonder we so often see religion and knavery intimately blended”

St Michael & All Angels, Brinkworth

Charles Breadmore was more fortunate with his sentence,

as shown by this extract from the Wiltshire Quarter

Sessions Calendar - he was “Committed 8th Oct 1851 by S B Brooke Esq. charged on the oaths of John Strange and others, with having feloniously stolen from the dwelling-house of the said John Strange, one Work-box, two Silver Watches, and one Gold Ring, the property of the said John Strange, at Brinkworth. To be confined in the New Prison at Devizes for four calendar months to hard labour.” Charles (1825-1853) was the son of William BREADMORE

and Hannah (née MATTHEWS) of Brinkworth.

One of last year’s mysteries was that of Charles

Breadmore BRYANT, born 1856 in the Chippenham area.

During this year I have discovered that Charles was the

son of Henry BRYANT and Elizabeth MATTHEWS who

married at Tytherton Lucas, Wiltshire on 28 December

1854. Elizabeth was the daughter of Charles

MATTHEWS and his wife Elizabeth (surname not yet

discovered). Charles had three sisters and seven

brothers, two of whom, George and William, married

daughters of William BREADMORE and Hannah

MATTHEWS of Brinkworth. At his stage I cannot see a

direct connection to the BREADMORE family, but when

the marriages of Charles MATTHEWS and his father

Thomas MATTHEWS have been found they could provide

the missing link. (See chart on next page)

Thomas MATTHEWS& Elizabeth (Betty)

Charles MATTHEWS(1802-)& Elizabeth(1803-1861)

Elizabeth MATTHEWS(1833-1922)& Henry BRYANTm. 28 Dec 1854

George MATTHEWS(1807-)& Eliza BREADMORE(1814-1841)m. 17 May 1837

Jane MATTHEWS(1838-)

Edwin MATTHEWS(1840-1908)& Elizabeth WALKER(1834-)m. 1869

William MATTHEWS(1815-1897)& Hannah BREADMORE(1823-1909)m. 31 Dec 1843

Eliza BREADMORE / MATTHEWS(1843-)& Abner WALKER(1853-)m. 1875

Jacob MATTHEWS(1846-)

Robert MATTHEWS(1849-)

Margaret MATTHEWS(1853-)& George CARPENTER(1844-)

Jane MATTHEWS(1855-)& Orlando MATTHEWSm. 1876

Mark MATTHEWS(1859-)& Emily Jane SPENCERm. 1883

Sarah Ann MATTHEWS(1864-)

Friend (?Frederick) MATTHEWS(1866-)& Ruth PINNELL(1864-)m. 1887

Frank MATTHEWS(1869-)

Charles Breadmore BRYANT was a labourer at West

Tytherton before he became a Police Constable at

Hullavington, Wiltshire, eventually being promoted to

Sergeant at Salisbury. In 1882 he married Matilda

PAGET at Brimplefield, Gloucestershire, and had a family

of three girls and six boys.

In 2003 one of the mysteries was that of a marriage

between Louisa BREADMORE and Frank McBRIDE in

Bengal in 1894. The following year I reported that Louisa

and Frank were in Romsey, Hampshire, with two children

of Louisa’s first marriage. This year I have made a little

more progress on this family, due to the British Army

WWI Pensions being introduced on the Ancestry web site

– luckily they began with the As and Bs.

Having printed all ten sheets of Thomas Henry

BREADMORE’s military career I realised that he had

given the information that his mother was Louisa

McBRIDE and his stepfather was Frank McBRIDE of the

1st Battalion Dorset Regiment. I then discovered that

Thomas Henry was the son of Henry BREADMORE and

Louisa (née KEANE). Henry was a Sergeant in the 2nd

Hampshire Regiment and died aged 38 in January 1891 at

Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, Kent. So the question now is

who was Henry, born about 1853 and who were his

parents? His son Thomas Henry had been born in 1881 in

Bangalore, another son William Henry had been born in

Chatham in 1889 and a third son, William, had been born

in Madras in 1891.

Thomas Henry married Annie Bertha CLARKE in 1907 in

the Eastleigh area of Hampshire and had four children

Nora, Richard Henry, Bertha Muriel and Violet Joan.

If you have a chart of the descendants of John

BREADMORE and Mary HAYWARD or you have this

Thomas Henry on your tree shown as a son of Alice Mary

BREADMORE, who later married Henry CASWELL, please

remove him and his descendants, as he does not belong

there! Alice Mary BREADMORE did have a son, Henry

Thomas BREADMORE, born in 1883 but he did not marry

Annie Bertha CLARKE. There remains more work to be

done on this particular family.

A person researching the GERLACH family contacted me

last year and has sent me a copy of an inscription in a

prayer book. She is trying to trace details of her Great

Grandmother Louisa GERLACH who she believes was born

in Islington, London in 1879 to German parents.

The prayer book had been given to Louisa on the occasion

of her 13th birthday, 26th October 1892, by an F.

Breadmore. Louisa would have been living in the Islington

area at the time, but she eventually moved to Fulham

after her marriage to Frederick TUFFIN in 1906. My

correspondent says she has no idea what the connection

was with F Breadmore but presumes he was a family

friend. She adds that the prayer book would have been

quite expensive and that the handwriting looks to be that

of a fairly well educated person.

Who was F Breadmore? Was he or she of the same age

as Louisa, or an older person? What was their connection

with the GERLACH family (although the inscription in the

book is GARLACH indicating they do not know the family

intimately)? I cannot find any Breadmore in the Islington

area with an initial F in 1892. Do you know of an F

Breadmore who could have written this inscription?

Other mysteries this year include the following – can you

throw any light on who these people were or where they

fit into a family?

• Michael BREDMAN, born in 1810 in Ontario

• Wallace BREDMORE, born in England, is listed in the

1911 census for Toronto

• Elisabeth BREADMORE who was born in 1843 and

married Andrew J MORRIS – date and place not

known

• Louise, 36, and Constance, 8, wife and daughter of

Joseph BREADMORE, who all passed through

immigration in Detroit in December 1924

• G P BREDMORE listed in the 1887 Official Register

of the United States - a list of Officers and

employees in the civil, military and naval service

• Frank BREDMORE, 50, and his wife Carrie, 42, listed

on the 1910 census for Mahoning, Ohio, USA

• Edward Percy BREADMAN, 14, from the Hartley

Wintney Union, who travelled from Liverpool,

England, to St John, Canada

• Jeremy BREADMORE of Gladstone, Queensland,

Australia who is a Band member of 'Voices of the

Unheard'

• Alfred BREADMORE who married Emma SLADE

(née CROWTHER) between 1888 and 1901, probably

in the Haworth area of Yorkshire

This year more new contacts have been made with

descendants of:-

George and Martha of Brightwalton

William and Hannah of Brinkworth

John and Mary of Quarley

Valentine and Dinah of Chieveley

Francis and Sarah of Chute

George William and his 3rd wife Mary of Australia

Thomas and Jane of Great Bedwyn

I am sorry to report the following deaths.

Mark Breadmore, 97, formerly of Wokingham, in July 2006

Gene Breadmore of Barbican, London in 2006

Charles Francis (Chuck) Breadmore, 52, of Boston,

Massachusetts, on 29 March 2007

Georgina (Jean) Breadmore, 88, of Bristol, on 22 April 2007

Congratulations to

Peter Breadmore who married Lisa Brookman on 9 December

2006 at Camberwell, Australia

Wayne and Melanie Breadmore on the birth of their

son James Michael in 2006

Neil Breadmore and Donna on the birth of their

daughter Lola in 2006

Richard and Jaime Breadmore on the birth of their twin

daughters Shelby Jean and Jillian Jan on 7 October 2007

Dominic and Helen Breadmore on the birth of their daughter

Elizabeth (Libby) Pamela on 12 November 2007

Helen Breadmore who gained her PhD from Birmingham University

in October for research into Language Acquisition with the deaf

Cassandra Kate Breadmore who graduated from the University of

Tasmania with a Bachelor of Human Movement degree

Dr. Michael Breadmore, one of a team of three, who secured a

grant to do research over the period of one year on developing a

way to test Tasmanian devils for the deadly facial tumour disease

before the tumours appear.

Alex Breadmore, one of a team of seven, who completed a

challenge to climb 24 peaks measuring more than 2,400 feet each

in the Lake District in 24 hours in September 2007, raising over

£6,400 for the Mitchemp Trust

Kara Breadmore who was awarded ‘The Gold & Silversmiths Guild

of Australia Award’ (for excellence in jewellery design and

craftsmanship) for her ‘Wearable Wallpaper’, a series of

brooches inspired by Victorian wallpaper

Jacky Breadmore who has been appointed for a second term as

Churchwarden at Fetcham, Surrey

Jamie Breadmore who was included on the Honor Roll

of the Ida S Baker High School, Cape Coral, Florida

Kylie Breadmore who has been included on Honor Roll of the

Cardinal Spellman High School, Boston, Massachusetts

Kathlyn Breadmore who has been included on the Grade 8 Honor

Roll of the H D Stafford Secondary School, BC, Canada

Adam Breadmore who has been included on the Grade 10 Honor

Roll of the H D Stafford Secondary School, BC, Canada

Ashley Breadmore who has gained nine National Championship

Awards for Cheerleading

A variety of sports and other activities featured ‘in the

news’ and on the Internet during the past year have

included the following Breadmores:

Anne took part in the ‘Veterans Golf Championship’ of Victoria at

Sorrento Golf Club, Australia in April

Austin has been performing gymnastics at the ‘Boy's State

Championship’ in Massachusetts

Cassie plays hockey for the ‘Queechy Penguins’ in Tasmania

Chris still plays football for Reading local team ‘Rabson Rovers’

Christine played ‘Blanche’ in a production of Brighton Beach Memoirs at the Criterion Theatre, Coventry and ‘Jacqueline’ in Don’t Dress for Dinner at the Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa

Daniel has been playing football in Tasmania

Elliott took part in the 2007 ‘Mackay Whitsunday’s Primary

Schools Championship’ for chess in Queensland

Jessie of Tasmania who was a witness in court case, having been

shot at outside her home

Jewel has been performing gymnastics at the ‘8th GymQuarters

Championships’ in Saint Charles, Missouri

Jo and Anne both took part in the ‘The Buxton Trophy 2007 –

Mixed Canadian Foursome Knockout’ Golf tournament in Australia

Joe is still playing darts in Boston, Massachusetts

Jonathan, 17, has started BMX racing in Cape Coral, Florida

Jordan is a member of the ‘Minor 2 Hurricanes’ softball team in

Cape Coral, Florida

Katie who was a member of the Grade 8 Girls basketball team at

the H D Stafford Secondary School, BC, Canada

Katie of St Mary’s Primary School who came 7th in the Year 5

girls at the ‘Barnet Primary Schools Running Event’

Lauren, now ranked 313th in Australia has played in a number of

tennis tournaments including the Australian Open in January

Lee was awarded an ‘Ian Broadhurst Award for the use of good

diving lifesaving techniques’ as reported in Dive Magazine

Luke has joined ‘The Aquatroniks’, a local band in Bath,

as their bassist

Marcus has been playing in a cricket team in

Launceston, Tasmania

Martin is taking the part of DCI Peter Burrow in an online Drama

production of Hollow Grace, a non-profit making project

involving volunteers

Meghan has been running in Cross Country in California and

completed 3 miles in 20 minutes 50 seconds

Mike has been playing baseball for the ‘Astorville Lumber Kings’

in Ontario

Mitchell took part in the NWT Ski Championships at

Yellowknife in April

Nigel completed the Bath Half Marathon in March, the London

Marathon in April and the Great North Run in September

Rebecca took part in the Toorak College Show Jumping Day

on R B Rusty in October

Scott has been playing rugby for the ‘Redingensians Rugby

Football Club’

Sean, of San Diego, completed the ‘5th Annual Shelter Island 5K

Run/Walk’ in 20 minutes 25 seconds in November

Mrs and Mrs Breadmore were featured in Solon, a 36 page

brochure of the ‘South West Housing Association Limited’

I know there are a number of you who already have, or

are planning to have, your own web sites about yourselves

and your family, and I wonder if you would be willing to

place a link from yours to the Breadmore One Name

Study? I would be happy to add a link to my web site if

you wish, although I realise that some of them are

strictly for family members and not for general access.

Please let me know if you would like a link.

Finally, my thanks, once again, to all of you who have been

able to help keep me up to date on family members past

and present. Also my thanks to all those of you who have

sent copies of news items, certificates, photographs and

other memorabilia. As always, I am happy to receive any

information on any member of the BREADMORE family, in

any form. My apologies if I have not included any news

from your own family.

With my very Best Wishes to you and all your family for

Christmas and the year 2008

Margaret Young

Web sites I have found useful

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

http://www.britishbattles.com/great-boer-war/colenso.htm

http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/DevonReg/ColensoDevonshireRegimentprisoner

sofwar.htm

https://www.familyhistoryonline.net/

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index/Dates.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.wiltshirebmd.org.uk/

© Margaret Young - Breadmore One-Name Study 2007