Husband William de Braose, , 6th Lord de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny 1 2 3 4
AKA: William de Braiose
Born: Abt 1204 - <Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales>
Christened:
Died: 2 May 1230 - <Crogen>, Wales
Buried:
Father: Reynold de Braose (Abt 1178-1228) 2 5
Mother: Grace de Briwere (Abt 1176-Bef 1215) 2 6
Marriage: 2 May 1230 - Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Wife Eve Marshal 2 7 8
AKA: Eva Marshall, Eve Marshall
Born: Abt 1194 - Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Christened:
Died: Bef 1246 - England
Buried: - Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire, Wales
Father: Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (Abt 1146-1219) 2 9 10
Mother: Isabel de Clare (Abt 1172-1220) 11 12
Children
1 F Eleanor de Braose 13
Born: Abt 1228 - Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales
Christened:
Died: 1251
Buried: - Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire, Wales
Spouse: Humphrey VI de Bohun ( -Abt 1265) 14 15
Marr: Aft Aug 1241 - Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales
2 F Eve de Braose, of Abergavenny 2 8 16
AKA: Eva Braose
Born: Abt 1227 - <Bramber, Sussex>, England
Christened:
Died: Bef 28 Jul 1255
Buried:
Spouse: William de Cantelou, Baron Abergavenny (Abt 1216-1254) 2 17
Marr: Bef 15 Feb 1247-1248
3 F Isabella de Braose 18
Born: Abt 1222
Christened:
Died: Abt 1248
Buried:
4 F Maud de Braose 19 20 21
Born: 1224 - <Gower, Glamorganshire>, Wales
Christened:
Died: Bef 23 Mar 1301 - Herefordshire, England
Buried: - Wigmore Abbey, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
Spouse: Roger de Mortimer, of Wigmore, 1st Baron Mortimer (Abt 1231-1282) 20 22 23
Marr: 1247
Spouse: William de Beauchamp, 5th Baron Beauchamp (Abt 1210-1269) 24 25 26
Marr: 1151 - Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales
Death Notes: Husband - William de Braose, , 6th Lord de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny
Hanged by orders of Llewelyn the Great , Prince of Wales for alleged adultery with the latter's wife, Joan, Lady of Wales .
Research Notes: Husband - William de Braose, , 6th Lord de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny
Wikipedia (Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford)
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), line 177-8
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From http://www.castlewales.com/kington.html :
In 1201 King John "Softsword" (1199-1216) granted Kington Castle and Barony to his favourite Marcher Baron, William Braose of Radnor, Abergavenny and Brecon (d.1210) for the service of just ½ a knight! William in any case had been holding Kington Castle for many years in his capacity as Sheriff of Hereford. Early in 1208 King John demanded the castle back from William in a dispute over money and loyalty. The now aging Marcher baron complied, but soon afterwards with his 4 sons in attendance attacked the castle in a futile bid to retake it. With this action of defiance the Braose Clan were forced to flee to Ireland, and many met a terrible fate at the hands of King John.
In 1213 King John granted Kington Castle to his close supporter, Roger Clifford, and in May or June of 1215 the castle probably fell to the two remaining Braose brothers, sons of the great William Braose who had died in exile at Paris in 1210. In late July 1216 King John appeared at Hereford with an army and then marched on Hay on Wye. Here he called the last remaining Braose brother, Reginald, to him and offered him beneficial terms of peace. Reginald ignored the plea and John in vengeance burned the Braose town and castle of Hay on Wye. He then marched north through the Principality of Elfael to Kington and destroyed the castle and town on 4 August before continuing on his destructive path through the Braose Marcher territories. So ended the history of Kington Castle. The town eventually recovered on a new site down in the valley away from the castle and church, but no further fortifications were made at Kington. Instead, Reginald Braose, when he regained the favour of John's son, King Henry III (1216-72) in 1217 began a new fortress at Huntington to replace the now utterly destroyed Kington Castle.
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From Wikipedia - William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny :
William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (c. 1197 to 1204 - 2 May 1230) was the son of Reginald de Braose by his first wife, Grecia de Briwere (born 1186) from Stoke in Devon . He was the tenth Baron Abergavenny and an ill-fated member of a powerful and long lived dynasty of Marcher Lords .
Dynastic history
William de Braose was born in Brecon . The Welsh, who detested him and his family name, called him Gwilym Ddu, Black William. He succeeded his father in his various lordships in 1227, including Abergavenny and Builth .
Marriage and children
William married Lady Eva Marshal , daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke . They had four daughters:
Isabella de Braose (born c. 1222), wife of Prince Dafydd ap Llywelyn
Maud de Braose (born c. 1224 - 1301), wife of Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore another very powerful Marcher dynasty.
Eleanor de Braose (c. 1226 - 1251), wife of Humphrey de Bohun and mother of Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford .
Eve de Braose (c. 1227- July 1255), wife of William de Cantelou .
Career
He was captured by the Welsh forces of Llywelyn the Great , leader (Welsh, "Tywysog ") of most of Wales , in fighting in the commote of Ceri near Montgomery , in 1228. William was ransomed for the sum of £2,000 and then furthermore made an alliance with Llywelyn, arranging to marry his daughter Isabella de Braose to Llywelyn's only legitimate son Dafydd ap Llywelyn .
However on a later visit to Llywelyn during Easter 1230 William de Braose was found in Llywelyn's private bedchamber with Llywelyn's wife, Joan, Lady of Wales .
Execution
The Chronicle of Ystrad Fflur 's entry for 1230 reads:
"In this year William de Breos the Younger, lord of Brycheiniog, was hanged by the Lord Llywelyn in Gwynedd, after he had been caught in Llywelyn's chamber with the king of England's daughter, Llywelyn's wife."
Llywelyn had William publicly hanged on 2 May 1230, probably at Crogen near Bala.
Legacy
With William's death by hanging and his having four daughters, who divided the de Braose inheritance between them and no male heir, the titles now passed to the junior branch of the de Braose dynasty, the only male heir was now John de Braose who had already inherited the titles of Gower and Bramber from his far-sighted uncle Reginald de Braose .
William's wife Eva continued to hold de Braose lands and castles in her own right, after the death of her husband. She was listed as the holder of Totnes in 1230, and was granted 12 marks to strengthen Hay Castle by King Henry III on the Close Rolls (1234-1237).
Research Notes: Wife - Eve Marshal
From Wikipedia - Eva Marshal : with William the Conqueror
• Granted, lands in Sussex, England, 1073
• Lord of the Rape of Bramber, 1073
From Wikipedia - William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber :
• Lord Over Gwent
• Sheriff of Hereford, 1192-1199
• Lord of Bramber, Abt 1193
FamilySearch has b. abt. 1153, Bramber, Sussex, England. Murdered by King John, who had her walled up alive in her castle walls with her yung son William.
Wife of W. S. Bratcher. Third wife of Samuel P. Whisenant.
• Residence, 1878 - Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence, 1879 - Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
• Census, 1881 - Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
• Residence, 1888 - Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
• Census, 1891 - Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
• Census, 1901 - McDonald District, Lansdowne, Manitoba, Canada
• Census, 1861 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
• Confirmation, 18 Aug 1861 - St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
• Census, 1881 - Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
• Census, 1891 - Perry Twp, Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
• Census, 1901 - McDonald District, Lansdowne, Manitoba, Canada
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:382801&id=I271 Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:382801&id=I253 - no detail Died at sea
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:382801&id=I347 has some info. Gives his father as Charles Bray and his death date as abt 1821. This is probably incorrect (see below). in St. George's Square
in Greek Street
• Occupation, Merchant, 1849 - Strathroy, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Upper Canada (Canada)
• Occupation, Innkeeper, 1851 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
• Census, 1851 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
• Occupation, Dry goods, hardware, groceries, produce, 1857 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
• Occupation, Justice of the Peace, 1861 - St. John's Ward, Middlesex, (Ontario), West Canada (Canada)
• Census, 1861 - St. John's Ward, Middlesex, (Ontario), West Canada (Canada)
• Settled 73, 1872 - Petrolea (Petrolia), Enniskillen, Lambton, Ontario, Canada
• Census, 1851 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
• Census, 1861 - St. John's Ward, Middlesex Co, West Canada (Canada)
in Greek Street
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:382801&id=I250 has a tiny bit of info. Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:382801&id=I251 has a bit. Died in infancy
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Eva Marshal, Baroness Abergavenny (1203 -1246 ) was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman and the wife of the powerful Marcher lord William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny . She was the granddaughter of Strongbow and Aoife of Leinster .
She held de Braose lands and castles in her own right following the public hanging of her husband by the orders of Llywelyn the Great , Prince of Wales .
Family
Lady Eva was born in 1203, in Pembroke Castle , Pembrokeshire , Wales, the fifth daughter[1] and tenth child of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke . Her paternal grandparents were John Marshal and Sibyl of Salisbury. Her maternal grandparents were Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , known to history as Strongbow and Aoife of Leinster .
Lady Eva was the youngest of ten children, having had five older brothers and four older sisters. Eva and her sisters were described as being handsome, high-spirited girls.[2]
Sometime before 1221, she married Marcher lord William de Braose, who in June 1228 became the 10th Baron Abergavenny, and by whom she had four daughters. William was the son of Reginald de Braose and his first wife Grecia de Briwere. He was much hated by the Welsh who called him Gwilym Ddu or Black William.
List of children
Widowhood
Eva's husband, Baron Abergavenny was publicly hanged by Llywelyn the Great , Prince of Wales on 2 May 1230 after being discovered in the Prince's bedchamber together with his wife Joan, Lady of Wales . Shortly afterwards, Eva's eldest daughter Isabella married the Prince's son, Dafydd ap Llywelyn, as their marriage contract had been signed prior to Baron Abergavenny's death.
Following her husband's execution, Eva held de Braose lands and castles in her own right. She is listed as holder of Totnes in 1230, which she held until her death. It is recorded on the Close Rolls (1234-1237) that Eva was granted 12 marks by King Henry III of England to strengthen Hay Castle . She had gained custody of Hay as part of her dower .
She died in 1246 at the age of forty-three. Eva was the direct ancestress of Anne Boleyn , Mary Boleyn , and Jane Seymour ; and she has numerous descendants in the 21st century.
Husband William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber 27 28
AKA: Guillaume de Briouze
Born: Abt 1049 - Briouze, Normandy (Basse-Normandie), France
Christened:
Died: Betw 1093 and 1096 - Bramber Castle, Bramber, Sussex, England
Buried:
Marriage:
Noted events in his life were:
• Fought, at Battle of Hastings, 1066
Wife Agnes de Saint Clare 29 30
Born: Betw 1048 and 1054 - Barnstaple, Devonshire, England
Christened:
Died: 1080
Buried:
Father: Waldron de Saint Clare (Abt 1015- ) 29
Mother: Helena le Bon (Abt 1030- ) 11
Children
1 M Philip de Braose, 2nd Lord of Bramber, Sussex 27 30 31
Born: Betw 1070 and 1073 - <Bramber, Sussex>, England
Christened:
Died: <1135> - <Palestine>
Buried: - <Palestine>
Spouse: Aenor de Totenais (Abt 1084- ) 11 31
Research Notes: Husband - William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber
William de Braose, First Lord of Bramber born 1049 in Briouze, Normandy (today part of the Argentan Arrondissement in the region of Basse-Normandie ). (d. 1093/1096) was a Norman nobleman who participated in the victory at the Battle of Hastings over King Harold Godwinson in support of William the Conqueror as he and his followers invaded and controlled Saxon England . His name at this early stage would have been Guillaume de Briouze.
Norman victor
De Braose was given lands in Sussex , England at Bramber in 1073, where he was lord of the Rape of Bramber [1] and where he built Bramber Castle . De Braose was also awarded lands in the Welsh Marches , and became one of the most powerful of the new Lords of the early Norman era.
He continued to bear arms alongside King William in campaigns in England , Normandy and Maine in France .
He was a pious man and made considerable grants to the Abbey of St, Florent, Samur and to endow the formation of a Priory at Sele, West Sussex near Bramber and a Priory at Briouze .
He was soon installed in a new Norman castle at Bramber, to guard the strategically important harbour at Steyning and so began a vigorous boundary dispute and power tussle with the monks from Fécamp , in Normandy to whom King William I had granted Steyning, brought to a head by the Domesday Book , completed in 1086.
Domesday Squabble
It found that de Braose had built a bridge at Bramber and demanded tolls from ships travelling further along the river to the busy port at Steyning. The monks also challenged Bramber's right to bury people in the churchyard of William de Braose's new church of Saint Nicholas, and demanded the burial fees for themselves, despite it being built to serve the castle not the town. The monks then produced forged documents to defend their position and were unhappy with the failure of their claim on Hastings , which were very similar. The monks claimed the same freedoms and land tenure in Hastings as King Edward had given them at Steyning. Though on a technicality William was bound to uphold all aspects of the status quo before Edward's death, the monks had already been expelled 10 years before that death. King William wanted to hold Hastings for himself for strategic reasons and ignored the problem until 1085, when he confirmed their Steyning claims but swapped the Hastings claim for land in the manor of Bury (near Pulborough in Sussex). In 1086 the King William called his sons, Barons and Bishops to court (the last time an English king presided personally, with his full court, to decide a matter of law) to settle this. It took a full day, and the Abbey won over the baron, forcing William de Braose to curtail his bridge tolls, give up various encroachments onto the Abbey's lands, including a farmed rabbit warren, a park, eighteen burgage plots, a causeway, and a channel to fill his moat, and organise a mass exhumation and transfer of all Bramber's dead to the churchyard of Saint Cuthman's Church in Steyning.
A Norman Dynasty Commenced
William de Braose was succeeded as Lord of Bramber by his son, Philip . William de Braose was present for the consecration of a church in his hometown of Briouze , near Falaise in Normandy , France , whence the name de Braose originates, in 1093, so we know he was still alive in that year. However, his son Philip was issuing charters as Lord of Bramber in 1096, indicating that William de Braose died sometime between those dates probably at Bramber.
Husband William de Braose, 5th Lord de Braose 32 33
Born: Abt 1175 - <Bramber, Sussex>, England
Christened:
Died: 9 Aug 1211 - Corbeil near Paris, Marne, France
Buried: 10 Aug 1211 - France
Father: William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber (Abt 1100-Abt 1193) 27 34 35
Mother: Bertha , of Hereford (Abt 1130- ) 27 36 37
Marriage:
Noted events in his life were:
• Lord of Braose (Briouze), Bramber, Brecon
Wife Maud de St. Valerie, of Haie 33 38
AKA: Matilda de St. Valery
Born: Abt 1155 - <Bramber, Sussex>, England
Christened:
Died: 1210 - Corfe, Windsor, England
Buried:
Children
1 M Reynold de Braose 2 5
AKA: Reginald de Braose
Born: Abt 1178 - <Bramber, Sussex>, England
Christened:
Died: 9 Jun 1228 - Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
Buried: - Priory Church, Brecon, Breconshire, Wales
Spouse: Grace de Briwere (Abt 1176-Bef 1215) 2 6
Spouse: Gwladys "Ddu" verch Llewellyn (Abt 1206-1251) 20 39
Marr: Bef 1221 - Wales
2 F Margeret de Braose 33 40
AKA: Margery de Braose
Born: Abt 1177 - <Abergavenny>, Wales
Christened:
Died: 19 Nov 1200
Buried:
Spouse: Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, Ireland & Weobley, Herefordshire (Abt 1172-1241) 33 41 42
Birth Notes: Husband - William de Braose, 5th Lord de Braose
Death Notes: Wife - Maud de St. Valerie, of Haie
Husband Windfield Scott Bratcher 43
Born: 12 Jan 1856 - Butler Co., Kentucky, United States
Christened:
Died: 13 Nov 1909 - Ozark Co., Missouri, United States
Buried: - James Cemetery, Tecumseh, Ozark, Missouri, United States
Marriage: 14 May 1876
Wife Eliza Ann Pleasant 44
AKA: Eliza Ann Pleasant Bratcher
Born: 26 Nov 1860
Christened:
Died: 22 Dec 1929 - Ozark, Missouri, United States
Buried: - James Cemetery, Tecumseh, Ozark, Missouri, United States
Other Spouse: Samuel Poston Whisenant (1847-1936) 45
Children
Research Notes: Wife - Eliza Ann Pleasant
Husband Cornelis Van Slyke 46
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Jacques Cornelissen Van Slyke (1640-Aft 1690) 47
Mother: Grietje Ryckman (Abt 1645-Abt 1696) 47
Marriage: 10 Feb 1696
Wife Clara Bratt 46
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Cornelis Van Slyke 48
Born: - Albany (Schenectady), New York, (United States)
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Jannetje Trueks (Abt 1713- ) 48
Marr: 11 Mar 1733 - Albany (Schenectady), New York, (United States)
Husband Matthew Dill 29 49
Born: 15 Jun 1790 - Dillsburg, York, Pennsylvania, United States
Christened:
Died: 1 Dec 1868
Buried:
Father: George Matthew Dill ( -1812) 50
Mother: Eleanor Thompson (1769-1826) 51
Marriage:
Wife Hannah Brawly 29 52
AKA: Hannah Brawley
Born: 27 Jul 1804 - Pennsylvania, United States
Christened:
Died: 29 Mar 1878
Buried:
Children
1 M Col. Daniel J. Dill 53
Born: Feb 1830 - Pennsylvania, United States
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Jane A. Dill 54
Born:
Christened:
Died: - Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Buried:
3 M George A. Dill 55
Born:
Christened:
Died: 24 Mar 1886
Buried:
4 M William J. Dill 56
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1872 - Sandusky City, Ohio, United States
Buried:
5 M Dr. Armstrong B. Dill 29 57
Born: 23 Aug 1835 - Dillsburg, York, Pennsylvania, United States 29
Christened:
Died: 7 Apr 1887 29
Buried:
Spouse: Emma J. Breckhill (1843- ) 29 58
Marr: 2 Jan 1868 - Tremont, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States
6 F Ellen E. Dill 59
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
7 M Matthew Thompson Dill 60
Born: Jan 1842 - Pennsylvania, United States
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
8 M John Wesly Dill 61
Born: 1843
Christened:
Died: Abt 1864 - Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Buried:
Husband James Large
Born: 23 Jun 1835 - Lambourne, Berkshire, England
Christened: 20 Jul 1835 - Lambourne, Berkshire, England
Died: 18 Dec 1912 - Birnie, Manitoba, Canada
Buried: Dec 1912 - Arden Cemetery, Neepawa, Arden, Manitoba, Canada
Father: William Large (1805-1871)
Mother: Mary Ann Plummer (1804-1880)
Marriage: 27 Oct 1864 - Napier, Middlesex Co., West Canada (Canada)
Noted events in his life were:
• Confirmation, 14 Oct 1858 - St. John's Anglican Church, Strathroy, Ontario, Canada
Wife Blanche Louisa Bray
Born: 5 May 1845 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 25 May 1845 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Died: 2 Apr 1934 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Buried: 4 Apr 1934 - Arden Cemetery, Neepawa, Arden, Manitoba, Canada
Father: William Charles Bray, J.P., R.N. (1814-1882)
Mother: Eliza Jane Lang (1822-1900)
Noted events in her life were:
• Census, 1851 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Children
1 M Will Large
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Edith Large
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Mabel Large
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 F Helena Large
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
5 F Alice Large 62
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
6 F Beatrice Florence Elizabeth Large
Born: 1885
Christened:
Died: 1963
Buried:
Spouse: Herbert Chatterton Roberts ( - )
Marr: 6 Sep 1910 - Port Rowan, Norfolk Co., Ontario, Canada
7 F Margery Large
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Research Notes: Husband - James Large
Source: http://searches2.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-WILTSHIRE/2006-04/1143890883.
From: Richard <purton@shaw.ca <mailto:purton@shaw.ca>>
Subject: RE: [ENG-WIL] On the Subject of Wars
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:28:03 -0800
In-Reply-To: <001101c6556e$e3f16750$0100000a@hughes>
"... I concentrate my efforts on another English side of my mother's
family (Blanche Louisa's husband James Large was of Wiltshire stock),
centred on Purton in Wiltshire, for which, along with neighbouring Rodbourne Cheney, I am OPC. I am lucky to have documents that were brought to Canada when the family left Lydiard Millicent for Adelaide township, Middlesex county, Canada West, United Province of the Canadas (the two Canadas were united in 1840 as one of Lord Durham's recommendations for dealing with the French in Lower Canada and any future chance of rebellion in either of the Canadas) by my great-great grandparents William Large (1805-1871) and his wife (and third cousin!) Mary Ann Plummer (1804-1880) dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, including the will of William's rich uncle another William Large (1763-1850), of Purton, which helped to centre my research on the right, principal parish from the outset.
Cheers,
Richard Bray Carruthers, M.A. (Oxon.)
OPC Purton and Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA"
Research Notes: Wife - Blanche Louisa Bray
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=alh001&id=I185 has detail.
From text accompanying a photograph of Beatrice Florence Elizabeth Large at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/r/Richard-B-Carruthers/index.html :
"[Beatrice's] mother, Blanche Louisa Bray, Mrs James Large, is said to have been trained in the chemist's shop of her father, William Bray, J.P., R.N.(1814-1882), chemist and druggist of Petrolea (now Petrolia), Ontario, as 'the first lady pharmacist in Canada' along with her two brothers John Lang Bray and William Thomas Bray, came from a medical family."
Husband George Bray 63 64
Born: Abt 1755
Christened:
Died: 3 Jul 1801 - Portsea, Hampshire, England
Buried:
Marriage: 13 Nov 1775 - Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Wife Ann Waggett 65
Born: Betw 1755 and 1760
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Edward Waggett ( - )
Mother:
Other Spouse: Thomas Sparshaft ( - ) - 5 Jul 1801 - St. Mary's, Portsea, Hampshire, England
Children
1 M William Bray
Born: Bef 11 Jul 1790 - Portsea, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: Bef 5 Nov 1816
Buried:
Spouse: Ann Cox (1789-1840) 66 67
Marr: 3 Jan 1809 - St. Mary's, Portsea, Hampshire, England
2 M John Bray
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 M George Bray 68
Born: Bef 18 Jun 1780 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Joseph Bray 69
Born: Bef 18 Aug 1782 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
5 M Elizabeth Bray
Born: Bef 22 Apr 1785 - Portsea, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
6 M James Bray
Born: Bef 10 Nov 1786 - Portsea, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: Bef 18 May 1788 - Portsea, Hampshire, England
Buried:
7 M Charles Bray
Born: Bef 25 Oct 1793 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Death Notes: Child - William Bray
Husband William Bray
Born: Bef 11 Jul 1790 - Portsea, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: Bef 5 Nov 1816
Buried:
Father: George Bray (Abt 1755-1801) 63 64
Mother: Ann Waggett (Betw 1755/1760- ) 65
Marriage: 3 Jan 1809 - St. Mary's, Portsea, Hampshire, England
Wife Ann Cox 66 67
AKA: Ann Winship
Born: 3 Jul 1789 - Southsea, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: 30 Mar 1840 - Portsea, Hampshire, England
Buried:
Children
1 M William Charles Bray, J.P., R.N.
Born: 28 Apr 1814 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: 16 Aug 1882 - Petrolea (Petrolia), Enniskillen, Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Buried: 18 Aug 1882 - East End Cemetery, Petrolia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Spouse: Eliza Jane Lang (1822-1900)
Marr: 7 Nov 1839 - St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, Upper Canada (Canada)
2 M Tom Cox Bray 70 71
Born: 6 Jun 1815 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: 4 Jun 1881 - Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Buried: 8 Jun 1881 - Grove Road Cemetery, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
3 F Ann Bray 72
Born: 6 Jan 1810 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: Abt 1811
Buried:
Death Notes: Husband - William Bray
Research Notes: Husband - William Bray
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=alh001&id=I712 has much more detail. Gives father as George Bray + Ann Waggett.
Death Notes: Wife - Ann Cox
Birth Notes: Child - William Charles Bray, J.P., R.N.
Death Notes: Child - Ann Bray
Husband William Charles Bray, J.P., R.N.
Born: 28 Apr 1814 - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Christened:
Died: 16 Aug 1882 - Petrolea (Petrolia), Enniskillen, Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Buried: 18 Aug 1882 - East End Cemetery, Petrolia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Father: William Bray (Bef 1790-Bef 1816)
Mother: Ann Cox (1789-1840) 66 67
Marriage: 7 Nov 1839 - St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, Upper Canada (Canada)
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation, Yeoman, 1845 - Strathroy, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Upper Canada (Canada)
Wife Eliza Jane Lang
Born: 26 Aug 1822 - Stoke, Plymouth, Devonshire, England
Christened: 7 Oct 1822 - Morrice Street Wesleyan Chapel, Devonport, Devonshire, England
Died: 31 Mar 1900 - Hanover, Bruce, Ontario, Canada
Buried: 3 Apr 1900 - East End Cemetery, Petrolea (Petrolia), Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Father: John Lang (Abt 1791-Bef 1864) 74 75
Mother: Ann Treleaven (Abt 1782-1855) 76
Noted events in her life were:
• Confirmation, 17 Sep 1838 - St. Mary's Church, Strathroy, Upper Canada (Canada)
Children
1 M John Lang Bray
Born: 8 May 1841 - Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Upper Canada (Canada)
Christened:
Died: 24 Nov 1915 - London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
Buried: 26 Nov 1915 - Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada
2 M Clarence William Bray
Born: 6 Jun 1843 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 17 Sep 1843 - St. Mary's, Napier, Middlesex Co., Upper Canada (Canada)
Died: Bef 1848 - St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
Buried:
3 F Blanche Louisa Bray
Born: 5 May 1845 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 25 May 1845 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Died: 2 Apr 1934 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Buried: 4 Apr 1934 - Arden Cemetery, Neepawa, Arden, Manitoba, Canada
Spouse: James Large (1835-1912)
Marr: 27 Oct 1864 - Napier, Middlesex Co., West Canada (Canada)
4 M William Thomas Marmaduke Bray
Born: 12 Mar 1848 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, Canada
Christened:
Died: 17 Sep 1882
Buried:
5 F Adelia Eliza Bray 77
AKA: Adela Bray
Born: 26 Jul 1849 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, Canada
Christened: 26 Aug 1849 - St. Mary's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
Died:
Buried:
6 F Caroline Augusta Pauline Bray
Born: Mar 1850 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 20 Apr 1851 - St. Mary's, Napier, Middlesex Co., Upper Canada (Canada)
Died: Apr 1852
Buried: 10 Apr 1852 - St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
7 F Laura Xariffa Bray
Born: 14 Apr 1854 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 28 May 1854 - St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
Died: 9 Jan 1896 - Birnie, Manitoba, Canada
Buried: Jan 1896 - East End Cemetery, Petrolea (Petrolia), Lambton, Ontario, Canada
8 F Florence Amy Bray
Born: 25 Aug 1855 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 30 Sep 1855 - St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
Died:
Buried:
9 F Edith Sarah Bray
Born: 11 Nov 1857 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 25 Nov 1857 - St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
Died: 21 Jan 1944 - London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
Buried: 1944 - East End Cemetery, Petrolea (Petrolia), Lambton, Ontario, Canada
10 M Horace Edgar Bray
Born: 8 Dec 1859 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 29 Jan 1860
Died: 31 Dec 1944 - London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
Buried: Jan 1945 - Woodland Cemetery, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
11 M Harold Victor Bray
Born: 1861 - Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario, West Canada (Canada)
Christened: 24 Dec 1861 - St. Anne's, Adelaide Twp, Middlesex Co., Ontario, Canada
Died: 21 Sep 1884 - Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Buried: 1884 - Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
Birth Notes: Husband - William Charles Bray, J.P., R.N.
Research Notes: Husband - William Charles Bray, J.P., R.N.
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=alh001&id=I240 has much detail.
From http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/a/r/Richard-B-Carruthers/index.html :
"Blanche Louisa Bray, Mrs James Large, is said to have been trained in the chemist's shop of her father, William Bray, J.P., R.N.(1814-1882), chemist and druggist of Petrolea (now Petrolia), Ontario, as 'the first lady pharmacist in Canada' along with her two brothers John Lang Bray and William Thomas Bray, came from a medical family."
From: Richard <purton@shaw.ca <mailto:purton@shaw.ca>>
Subject: RE: [ENG-WIL] On the Subject of Wars
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:28:03 -0800
In-Reply-To: <001101c6556e$e3f16750$0100000a@hughes>
Yes, the wars in Canada (actually The Canadas at the period) that had just
finished were the Upper Canada rebellion and the Lower Canada rebellion of
the 1838-1839 period. My Portsmouth-born great-great grandfather, William
Bray, gunnery officer, R.N. (1814-1882) arrived at the port of Kingston in
Upper Canada, the highest navigable point on the St Lawrence at that time in
HMS Warspite to help suppress the unpopular Upper Canada rebellion.
According to his obituary in the Adelaide (Ontario) Advertiser, he was the
officer who fired the salvo into the rebels' munitions dump, the windmill,
at the Battle of the Windmill, near Prescott, Ontario (then Upper Canada),
from the seconded steamship traveller, thus effectively ending the Upper
Canada rebellion. Notwithstanding this yeoman service, he was later arrested
for peculation from the stores at the naval dockyard at Kingston (Point
Frederick). He sued his commanding officer, Capt (later Sir) Williams
Sandom, R.N., for false arrest and won £50, with a young Kingston barrister
acting for him. The barrister was none other than the young (later Sir) John
Alexander Macdonald, first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada, and a
friend of Bray's family for many years afterward.
Having sued the Royal Navy and won, Bray left the service and elected to
stay on in Canada after the close of the rebellion. He married in 1839 a
nice Devonshire-born bride, Eliza Jane Lang (1822-1900), who had arrived in
British North America in 1833, and by her sired 11 children.
Some of the Upper and Lower Canada rebels were found guilty and hanged,
others were found guilty and transported to Australia, and some were
pardoned. Others fled to the U.S. The eldest of William Bray's five sons, Dr
John Lang Bray (1841-1915), sometime president of the Canadian Medical
Association in the 1890s married the daughter of a Channel Islander. Her
sister was married to the son of a Lower Canada rebel or 'patriote', Dr
Jean-Baptiste Davignon, one of the leader Papineau's right hand men, who had
slipped over the border into New York State where he practised medicine and
married the daughter of a prison governor. The rebel's son Joseph Eugene
Davignon returned to Canada, became an Anglican and a Conservative and rose
high in the Canadian civil service, all of which must have made for
interesting tale-swapping between Dr Bray and his wife's brother-in-law
Davignon. Of course, Dr Bray could add to his father's exploits his own as a
surgeon in the Confederate Army Surgeons Corps at Richmond, Virginia, C.S.A.
(1863-1865), but that, as they say, is another story. Dr Bray's first cousin
was Sir John Cox Bray (1842-1894), K.C.M.G., first native-born premier of
South Australia, who died in Suez on his way home from London where he had
been serving as South Australia's agent general. The leading Upper Canada
rebel was William Lyon Mackenzie, a Scots-born radical politician and enemy
of the governing elite in Upper Canada. His grandson was William Lyon
Mackenzie King, for many years prime minister of Canada and leader of the
Liberal party.
Amazingly, my ancestor William Bray visited his younger brother Tom Cox Bray
in Adelaide, South Australia and T.C. returned the favour, before retiring
to England. On one trip to Canada, ca 1847, T.C. was so taken with his young
niece, Blanche Louisa Bray (1845-1934), Wm's eldest daughter, and my
great-grandmother, that he tried to adopt her. After his brother's refusal,
he named his own daughter born in Adelaide, S.A. in 1848, Blanche Louisa
(Mrs Donaldson of Bath, Somerset, d. 1930), otherwise I might have been an
Aussie.;)
... Cheers,
Richard Bray Carruthers, M.A. (Oxon.)
OPC Purton and Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts.
Compiling a study of the pedigrees of tentatively called "The Plenteous Pear
Tree" referring to the origin of Purton's name, as the enclosure of the pear
tree.
Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
Research Notes: Wife - Eliza Jane Lang
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=alh001&id=I241 has much detail and appears to be well researched.
Death Notes: Child - Clarence William Bray
Sources