William Albert Brailey 1843-1900
1851 Bishop Tawton village spelt Brealey
1861 Higher Overton Farm
1865 Appointed a “waywarden” in place of his father deceased.
1869 listed in the artificial manure audit of Devon.
1871 July 21st marriage to Julia dau. of the late Francis Hooke Esq. of Mississippi at St. James the Apostle of Montreal, Canada
1872 Oct. 8th a son at Brantford, Ontario
1874 a son Feb. 25th Bank BNA Kingston, Ontario
1875 a daughter Oct. 8th
1877 London, Ontario, Canada
1900 Died July 5th at East Emlett, Woolfardisworthy. Home of his brother in law.
No will, possibly an Exeter will destruction 1942
Thomas Long Brailey 1844-
1851 Instow with governess
1861 not found
1863 at a Divine Service and banquet in honour of the late Earl Fortesque
1877 Bishops Tawton gentleman, indenture signature verified by clerk
1901 Master Mariner. Boarding at 37 Storey Street, East Ham, London
1911 not found
1918 died September qtr. Islington no will
Henry Gardener Brailey born Sep. qtr 1848
1851 Instow with governess
1859 Oct. 3rd to March 1862 Blundells School, Tiverton
1861 High Overton farm
1863 June Marlborough House School Exeter.
Examined in book keeping. Drilling and callisthenic exercise 1st class.
1877 Ashburton, Canterbury District, New Zealand
Not found later in New Zealand, Canada or England.
Selina Emma Long born 1846- October 21st 1908
1851 Instow with governess
1861 High Overton farm
1876 12 Jan. married Leonard Blagdon Gamlen of Newport, Bishops Tawton
Marriage at Newport Church.
1908 Probate address East Emlett, Woolfardisworthy £4707-18-7d to Richard Blagdon Emlett Esq and Leonard husband merchant
Annette Clara Brailey born 1857- 13 April 1935
1861 High Overton farm
1887 married Mr.William John Crang of Barnstaple at Baptist Chapel on October 12th 1887
1935 of Ferncott, Landkey. Probate £999-6-5d to Alice Edith Crang spinster
Father of Thomas senior.
William Brailey yeoman of Bishops Tawton 1773- 1846
Married Anna Honey (1773-1834) May 23rd 1803
Children
Elizabeth 1803-
William 1807-
Grace 1817-
Eleanor 1814-
Thomas 1812-
1829 William Administrator for the Friendly Society
1834
Overton farm. His first wife Anna died aged 61 after a long illness
Elizabeth daughter after a long illness died 1803- 15 June 1837
1838 Tithes
Landowners holding no less than a fourth of land in the Parish of Bishops Tawton.
William Brailey, George Crocker, Bourchier P. Wrey
Member of the Southmolton (as spelt at that time) and North Devon Provident Society
1841
William has moved from Overton to Instow.
Galsworthy House is a four bedroom house which has south facing views over the beach and Torridge Estuary to the front. Described as a salubrious area in 1846.
His 2nd wife Puah born 1788 died Jun 18th 1845 after a long illness
Ann daughter born 1813
Anne Webber FS
1846
William Brailey snr born 1773 died Nov. 8th 1846
“William Brailey late of Bishops Tawton where he possessed considerable property”
On the Omnibus from Instow at the New Inn, Fremington where the horses were watered he collapsed and died through heart failure. Age 68.”
Children of William
Elizabeth b. 1803- 15th June 1837
Ann b. 1813-
Eleanor b. 1815- 26 Apr. 1859
Grace b. 1822
1851
Tawton road, Bishops Tawton
Eleanor born 1818 and her sister Ann born 1813 spinsters and land proprietors, two servants
Grace born 1822 married John Thorne Turner an account Dec 1849. Resident Littabourn, Pilton
1859
Eleanor Brailey of 2, Clarence Place Newport died aged 44
Disposal of Estate
Dining, drawing rooms, kitchen, back kitchen 3 bedrooms, Servants rooms, two stalled stable and coach house. Walled flower garden.
September 27th sale of contents.
Chase suite of rosewood, piano 6 ½ octave, Brussels carpet, elegant time pieces and vases, china ornaments. Telescope, dining tables chairs carpets, 3 beds furnished French bed, tester bed, feather beds etc.
Time line for this branch of the Brailey family in Bishops Tawton Parish
The name spelling is often phonetic on earlier family Search records ie. Breyley,Braley,Brely and Brayli etc.
There were many other families of the name in surrounding parishes.
The earliest Bishops Tawton ones:
Phillipe marries a Frayne October 19th 1592 so he was born about 1565
A marriage of Johane Braley on April 21st 1632 to William Beere.
So there was a family there in the 16th and 17th century.
At the end of the 17th a William born about 1662 marries Margaret Uphill June 5th 1687.
They had a son William about 1704 and other children
William 1704 marries a Sarah no marriage date. They have a William in 1751 and he in turn is the father of William 1773-1846.
The names Phillip, William, Thomas continue to be used, as was the norm of that period through the generations. Eleanor a daughter of William 1773-1846 gets her name from his eldest sister born about 1745.
