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James Bramhill born 1824
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James Bramhill of Liverpool, 1824-1871, married Mary Ann FERGUSON 1818-1893. It is known that James's father was a John Bramhill.
James and Mary Ann's children were Samuel 1843, Jeffrey 1849, Elizabeth 1844, Sarah 1849, Ann Jane 1857, John 1846, Marion, James 1849, William 1855 and Marrion 1866.
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Samuel 1843 is listed as a horse driver living at 10 Wilson Street in the 1871 census. He was married to Georgina ADAMS, b1839, of Penkridge, Staffs, and their children were Alice Maria, Herbert 1868 (b 52 Uxbridge Road, West Derby), Mary Elizabeth 1869-1954, Emma 1872-1936, John 1873, Clara Alice 1874, Samuel 1877, and Henry 1881. Georgina died in the early 1880s and Samuel, then 43, married Jane Sowerby nee Edwards, a 48-year-old widow, on Sept 28 1885; on the marriage certificate, he is a railway porter living in Roscoe Street, Liverpool, and she is living in Rodney Street, Jane had three children by her first husband – Emma Sowerby (1872), John Sowerby, Jane Sowerby (1873) and Clara A Sowerby (1875). Jane’s father Robert Edwards was a gardener, and Samuel's father was a railway porter.
Anne Jane 1857 married William Henry DILLON Feb 18, 1877, in St. Luke's Church, Liverpool. They had eight children. William Henry died Nov.29, 1892, age 34; not known when Anne Jane died, but family mostly taken into care.
James 1849-1889 married Catherine DEANS 1851-1881, and their children were John George Bramall 1871 and Samuel.
William 1855 married Sarah 1860, and their children included Alice b 1880.
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Herbert 1868 (James Samuel) married Mary Ellen HERBERT (b 1869 and known as Aunty Poll), on June 7 1891. Witnesses were John Sowerby (1873), and Amy Padley Herbert.
Mary Elizabeth 1869 (James, Samuel) married James COURT 1855-1939. They had ten children. Descendants surnames include LINDEN, HARRISON, McINTEE, ROWLAND and COOKSLEY. Descendants not given for reasons of privacy.
Emma 1872 (James, Samuel) married a Mr FURLONG.
John George 1871 (James, James) married Harriet FIRTH 1874 and their children included Ellen 1895, Harriet 1897, Sarah Stuart 1899, and John. Harriet married into the JONES family, and Sarah married into the MOORE family. Descendants not given for reasons of privacy.
James and William DILLON (James, Ann Jane). Following the death of father William Henry DILLON, James was put into the Kirkdale Industrial School, his older brother William was taken in by a family member and their five sisters were put into a home.
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Frank Herbert BRAMHILL, (James, Samuel, Herbert) was born on January 5 1893 at 30 Eastwood Street, West Derby. He was known as Big Frank to differentiate him from a cousin, Little Frank. Big Frank was a railway clerk who married Hilda (surname unknown) and lived at 120 Tarbock Road, Huyton. He died shortly after his eighty-first birthday on January 11, 1974, in Whiston Hospital of bronchopneumonia and cerebrovascular accident [sic] Big Frank’s records of military service during World War 1 at the Public Record Office consist of his award of the Victory Medal in 1918. His regimental number was 106321, and that he was a gunner with 212 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. 212th Bty had six 26 cwt 4.6 Howitzers and went out to the Western Front on December 6, 1916, joining 68 Heavy Artillery Group
