Family Brailsford is the name of the village in Derby they came from. There probably was a piano tuner in an earlier generation, very old pliers and a piano tuning key were inherited in a large green tool box. There is no male line and the family name may not exist. Unfortunately the most likely person to recall family history was my antie Dot, it is possible that Arthur or Edward know some of it.

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Sidney Charles Brailsford's father was the postmaster in the village of Brailsford near Derby.

Sidney Charles.

Florence Geake Phillips's step father's name was philips. Her birth father's name was Geake, who she chose to call her father. Mr Geake owned a sweet shop in the village Merstham Surrey.

Dorothy Francis Brailsford - Business woman paid £500 for first house. Went to Canada in 1920's to learn roll film from Kodak. She took 1000s of pounds in to Canada by sowing the money into the clothing she wore. At the time you only allowed to take £25 out UK. As a child she had to walk across town in Scotland to buy Gin for her granny, this was to save a farthing. My granny was born in Wales.

Immigrating to Canada when her husband died, she followed him two years later as the he had told her through a fortune teller in Brighton told her. (I was with my mum also visited the same fortune teller in Brighton later). Her house sale completed 3 weeks after she sailed from England.

Additional early information was given to me by Kerrie Brailsford in an email. She gave me the following hyper links:-
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?&db=freebmd&&ti=0&f5=849&f6=1893&f7=march&f4=7b&gss=angs&fh=10

BRAILSFORD Mailing List at  http://archiver.rootsweb.com/BRAILSFORD-L/

It is commonly believed amongst genealogists that all of the people who bear the name BRAILSFORD are descendant from the one man, Elfin, who was a landowner in 1066. Find out more about medieval BRAILSFORDs here:-
  http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/BRAILSFORD/2001-05/0989435866
  http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/BRAILSFORD/2001-05/0989435868

Newly created BRAILSFORD web page at  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bsfd

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I was given some more information by Bill and Jenny DEVERELL. It seems that I may have the wrong Brailsford who was the postmaster of Brailsford, though I am sure that his son was Sydney and Florence. Perhaps he was not George, but Frederick. Bill and Jenny tell me that:-

We have no record of him in the village of Brailsford.
In 1863 he was in Marylebone London for birth of son John.
Based on the 1871 census of Wirksworth and baptisms of his children he was
in Cromford from 1868 until 1873.
In 1881 he was back in London at Putney.

We believe he was probably in Marylebone until at least 1865.
The child Alfred buried age 4 in 1869 in Cromford was not baptised there
like his later siblings.
There is a suitable birth in Marylebone Dec 1864 Vol 1a Page 463

The following is what we have on George and Caroline.
We have earlier generations if you are interested as well as more detail.


(1) George BRAILSFORD (1835 - )
  bd. 5 Jun 1835, London[1]
  bpd. 19 Jul 1835, St James Westminster[2]
& Caroline Susan WILES (~1840 - )
  bd. abt 1840, Isleworth Middx
|       (2) George BRAILSFORD (~1863 - )
|         bd. abt 1863, Marylebone
|       & Minnie Jane MIDDLETON (~1863 - )
|         bd. abt 1863, Bramshott Hants
|         m. 8 Oct 1890, Bushey Herts[3]
|       |       (3) Dorothy BRAILSFORD (~1897 - )
|       |         bd. abt 1897, Bushey Herts
|       (2) Alfred BRAILSFORD (~1864 - ~1869)
|         bd. abt Dec 1864, Marylebone London[4]
|         dd. abt Sep 1869, Cromford
|         brd. 23 Sep 1869, Wirksworth Derbys[5]
|       (2) Frederick BRAILSFORD (1868 - )
|         bd. 6 Aug 1868, Cromford Derby[6]
|         bpd. 25 Oct 1868, Saint Mary Cromford Derby[6]
|       (2) Sidney Charles BRAILSFORD (1870 - )
|         bd. 27 May 1870, Cromford Derby[6]
|         bpd. 7 Aug 1870, St Mary Cromford Derby[6]
|       & Florence Geak Phillips ARCHIBALD[7] (~1871 - )
|         bd. abt 1871[8]
|         m. abt Mar 1893, Chester[7],[9]
|       |       (3) Dorothy Francis BRAILSFORD[9] (~1894 - 1971)
|       |         bd. abt 1894[8]
|       |         dd. 1971[9]
|       |       (3) Florence BRAILSFORD (~1896 - )
|       |         bd. abt 1896[8]
|       (2) Alfred BRAILSFORD (1871 - ~1873)
|         bd. 28 Dec 1871[6]
|         dd. abt May 1873
|         brd. 26 May 1873, Saint Mary Cromford Derby[5]
|         bpd. 17 Mar 1872, Saint Mary Cromford Derby[6]
1. "IGI batch C035248."
2. "IGI batch C147505."
3. "Vital Records Index FHL 1537869."
4. Marylebone 1a 463 Dec 1864.
5. "Wirksworth Web Site Parish Records."
6. "IGI batch C049793."
7. "Further to Sidney 29 Nov 2002 from Kerrie Brailsford."
Information originally from Andrew Lohmann
8. "Brailsfords of London 29 Nov 2002."
9. "Andrew Lohmann's website."