BRYER of Dorset Family Chart no. 63

	Thomas PENDRY		Ellen BRYER
			b. circa 1826 Woolborough DEV [1881 census]
			m. 1846 Clifton RD GLS
			Housekeeper (1881)

Their Children

Thomas William Henry PENDRY	Henry Wentworth PENDRY	William Hamilton PENDRY	Charles Clement PENDRY	Kate Ellen PENDRY	Alborough Ludlow PENDRY
b. 1847 Shoreditch RD MDX [GRO]	b. circa 1848 MDX [1861 census]	b. circa 1850 GLS [1851 census]	b. 1851 Gloucester RD GLS [GRO]	b. 1853 Gloucester RD GLS [GRO]	b. 1858 West Derby & Toxteth Park RD LAN [GRO]
	m. Susan COLE 1884 Birmingham RD WAR	m. ? 1872 Stockport RD CHS	m. Emily Sarah PAGE 1884 Cheltenham RD GLS
				d. 1866 Worcester RD WOR, aged 12	d. 1859 West Derby RD LAN [GRO], aged 1
	Railway Clerk (1881-1901)		Manager of Hotel Bar (1891) Warehouseman Pen Factory (1901) Canvasser for Hygienie Teeth Co (1911)

Who They Were

The Ellen and her children were all named in the will of her cousin Arthur Blewert BRYER, named thus: .

Did he misremember their names? I can find no birth registrations for William Hamilton nor for Henry Wentworth, but do have a Thomas William Henry born 1847 which matches the birth year and place of the Henry W found in the 1851 and 1861 censuses. Did Thomas reinvent his name? Likewise, a William H features in the 1851 census and in Arthur's will, but there is no sign of his birth in the GRO Index, although a William Hamilton Penry did marry in 1872 in Stockport CHS. Likewise Henry Wentworth married as that name in 1884.

Where They Lived

In 1851, Ellen and Thomas were living in Barton St Michael GLS, with sons Henry W and William H. I cannot find Ellen or Thomas in the 1861 census, but Henry W was living with his grandparents in Cheltenham GLS.

In 1881, Ellen was keeping house for her brother Wyndham in Cheltenham; she says she is married, but I have been unable to locate Thomas in this or any other census.

As far as the subsequent history of the children are concerned, Henry Wentworth was a lodger in Aston Birmingham in 1881; in 1891 he was married with 2 children, Talbot and Mabel and living in Upper Sutton Street Aston WAR; in 1901, he was living with a housekeeper in Aston Manor WAR, no wife or children, although he said he was married.

Charles Clement was manager of a hotel bar in 1891, living in Cheltenham with his family, wife Emily Sarah and daughters Dorothy, Elsie and Nora. in 1901, the family was living in Ladywood Birmingham, and Charles was a warehouseman in a Pen Factory; by 1911, he was widowed and living as a boarder in Barrow in Furness LAN, working as a canvasser for a dental hygiene business.

Family Group Identifiers

Family: B-DORDOR01
Family Group: b-dor063