Another Missing Bradbury (Samuel this time)
 

In 1911, Samuel Bradbury of I Harrison Road, Leicester, stated that his 42 year marriage to Emma nee Friswell had produced 11 children, of whom one had died. By reference to the GRO Index, I have now identified the 11, but I can’t figure out who is the one who died before 1911.

I'm giving the details of all the children so you don't ask me later and all life events took place in Leicester unless otherwise specified:

Thomas, born 18 October 1868. He appears on the 1939 register and died in 1940.

Emma Elizabeth, born 16 April 1871 was my great grandmother. She married William Goadby in 1892, had three children and died on 26 August 1946.

Sarah Ann, born 7 February 1875. She married Harry Oliver Webster in 1894 and appears to have died in 1940.

John, born 12 April 1877. His army record says that he married Annie Doyle in Camberwell on 29 April 1899. As he served in WW1, he was clearly alive in 1911 and in fact it looks as if he did not die until 1951.

Ernest William, born SQ 1880. He married Edith Warner on 4 August 1903. His attestation papers survive from when he joined up in 1915, and probate records show that he did not die until 1 January 1939.

Lily, born 3 June 1882. She was one of the two girls who stayed at home, unmarried. She appears on the 1939 Register with her younger sister Lizzie and died on 16 May 1943.

Arthur, born 1 October 1883. He married Louisa Bramley in 1906 and died in 1962, possibly by his own hand. There is an Old Contemptible by the name of Arthur Bradbury, but sadly he is not mine.

William, born 20 November 1885. He married Annie May Mobbs in 1908. They appear together on the 1939 Register and he seems to have died in 1962, possibly in Kettering.

Lizzie, born 12 March 1888. Like her sister Lily, Lizzie stayed at home, unmarried. She died in 1962.

Fred, born 14 October 1891. He married Louisa Allen and appears on the 1939 Register at Kingswood, Bristol. He died in the family home on 5 January 1976.

The eleventh was Samuel, born 2 March 1873. He appears on the 1891 census as a private soldier in the Medical Staff Corps and I’ve lost him after that. Some Ancestry trees have him marrying Annie Doyle in Dublin South in 1895, but his younger brother John’s army record suggests it was he who married Annie Doyle, in Camberwell in 1899!

As I’ve got nothing after the 1891 census at the moment, it looks as if Samuel is the one to follow up, but currently I’m drawing a blank world wide!

Any thoughts? Thanks as always.

Here is a link to a PDF of the Samuel Bradbury / Annie Doyle marriage record - 9 Mar 1895 at the Register Office in Dublin:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy....16/5830549.pdf

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Samuel Bradbury, bachelor, full age, Private in MSC, abode Royal Infirmary, Phoenix Park, father Samuel Bradbury, shoefinisher (I think it says) and Annie Doyle, spinster, full age, Rathmines, father Thomas Doyle (deceased), stationmaster. Witnesses Samuel Hoadby(?) and Bridget Agness Lynch.

And this is his death record:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy....66/4662703.pdf

8 Apr 1897 Royal Infirmary, Samuel Bradbury, married, age 24, soldier. Cause of death typhlitis, 18 days.

Birth record Dublin North 12 Jun 1895 (3 months after the wedding!) at the Rotunda Hospital. Female, name not stated. Parents Samuel Bradbury, soldier, and Anne Bradbury formerly Doyle:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy....17/1836780.pdf

And the birth of Samuel Thomas Bradbury, 30 Sep 1896 at 23 Montpelier Hill, Dublin North, parents Samuel Bradbury, Private in the Medical Staff Corps and Annie Bradbury, formerly Doyle. 23 Montpelier Hill was their home address.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy....51/1815971.pdf

Thank you so much. Re the gap between marriage and birth, this seems to be almost compulsory for this family. My mother would be appalled.

Dinner's on. I will be back later with the next instalment.

So, it looks as if John did indeed marry his older brother's widow, Annie Doyle Bradbury, at Camberwell Register Office on 29 April 1899.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...1&pId=22133195

The 1911 Census finds the family back in Leicester; John and Annie with eight children born during their sixteen year marriage [sic]. The two older children are Emma, who is 15 and Samuel who is 14, both of whom were apparently born in Dublin. I suspect these are Samuel's children.

John and Annie had at least seven children of their own, the first, Annie, being born at the end of 1899 and the youngest, Kathleen Lilian being born in the spring of 1913.

Interesting stuff. This was one Bradbury tale I hadn't heard.

Forgot to say that the 1911 says that Annie was born in Wicklow. Rathmines is now effectively a southern suburb of Dublin, but would originally have been in County Wicklow.