Should I believe the newspaper?

[rosie99]

Millie Bradford's birth appears to indicate she was illegitimate if I have the right record

BRADFORD, MILLIE       - 
GRO Reference: 1895  June Quarter in HAILSHAM  Volume 02B  Page 94

ADDED In 1901 she is with George and Grace Brook

Marriages Dec 1898   
BRADFORD    Grace       
Brook    George       
Hailsham    2b   244    

[MonicaL]

Some details here on the Sweetman family www.ponting-family-history.org/vol-iii-appendix-c/

.....Ernest Henry Sweetman. Born 6 August 1895 at Warbleton. Baptised 3 November 1895 in Warbleton. Ernest married Millie Bradford on 20 May 1918 in Warbleton. Ernest was a 22-year-old farm labourer. Millie was 23 years old, a spinster from Warbleton. No details of her father are given.  In 1921 they were living in Punnett's Town, Warbleton.....

Monica

[Little Nell]

If you check out the 1918 marriage certificate, no father is named for Millie.

But George Brook was a witness at the 1918 wedding.

Jebber has already found that the mother's maiden name for the two eldest sons was listed as Brook.  There is a 1928 birth with similar.

Nell

[*Sandra*]

UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014

Maurice George Sweetman - Register Type   Cremation
Death Date   9 Sep 1998
Burial or Cremation Date   22 Sep 1998 Kent.

https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch?DetsView=Summary&src=ext&fileid=128618

Sandra

[Little Nell]

To expand on rosie's find, George Brook married Grace Bradford in Herstmonceux 12 November 1898.

Nell

[rosie99]

Death in Hospital
After fracture of the leg

While making good progress in the Princess Alice Hospital from leg fracture sustained in a fall, Mrs Millie Sweetman of Punnetts Town nr Heathfield became ill on Friday and died the same day. At an inquest conducted at the Town Hall on Monday afternoon by the coroner (Dr E F Hoare) it was stated that death was due to a blood clot in he main artery between the lungs and the heart.
Mr Ernest Henry Sweetman of Corner House, Three Cups, Punnetts Town said that his wife, who was 46 years of age, told him after the accident that she slipped on the back door step. She was alone in the house at the time, but managed to attract the attention of a passer by who went to find her son.

The article also mentions her son Maurice./

[Jebber]

I believe the newspaper reports are incorrect (nothing unusual there) and the death in 1969 in Maidstone is his. Diana needs to get the 1948 Marriage to Kathleen EASTWOOD in Maidstone and see if he was a widower. Millie had died in 1941 so it’s highly likely.

[DianaCanada]

The Maidstone marriage is to a Kathleen E Lulham, there is a person of that name born 1889 living very close to Ernest and Millie in 1921

ADDED
Death Mar qtr 1973 
SWEETMAN    KATHLEEN ELIZABETH   
Birth 12 SEP 1889    UCKFIELD    5H   1867

Yes, Lulham is a name found around Heathfield, i do have Lulham relatives, haven’t researched to see if Kathleen is one of that line.

[DianaCanada]

I am related to George Brook, hence my interest in Millie and her descendants.  I believe George or his brother William was my illegitimate great-grandfather’s father.  I am trying to see if I can find any matches on those lines to myself or my brother.  I have lots of Brook matches to earlier generations but need something more specific to either George or William.  I am leaning towards William as that was my great-grandfather’s name and George was a bit younger.