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Christmas 2007
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What a year! And I don’t mean the weather. More
information is appearing on line each year, and this one
has been no exception. I have also been sent a number of
interesting and exciting items relating to various
members of the BREADMORE family. One fine morning in
May I was delighted to meet a descendant of George
William BREADMORE and Alicia Elizabeth PHILLIPS, who
was visiting England from Australia with her husband. As
you can imagine we didn’t stop talking for a few hours, and
found we had quite a lot in common apart from Family
History and Breadmores.
The picture on the front cover is a copy of a post card
sent to Gwendoline Mary Tregula BREADMORE on the
occasion of her 19 th Birthday on 17 January 1921 and
kindly given to me by her grandson. Gwendoline was the
second of six children born to Alfred Charles
BREADMORE and Jessie Ellen K (née BASTIN ) in
Plymouth, Devon. The reverse of the card, which was
posted to her home address in Plymouth, reads
Dear Gwennie
Just a card
Wishing you
A happy
Birthday
From Dan
A second similar card was sent from her friend Alice.

The name Tregula is probably associated with the Battle
of Tugela, South Africa. Gwendoline’s uncle, Thomas
BREADMORE, had been included in a list of casualties
printed in The Times newspaper in December 1899 and he
was later taken a prisoner of war. When the War Office
issued their fourth instalment of the lists of prisoners
recovered in Pretoria in July 1900 he was described as
‘Private 2015 Breadmore a married Reservist from
Exeter’. In 1891 his occupation had been listed as a
Private in the Devonshire Regiment, a servant in the
house of David MILNE HOLME the Colonel Commander of
the 11th Regiment.
British troops at the Battle of Colenso on the Tugela River
Thomas and Alfred Charles were sons of Henry
BREADMORE and Lydia NEWMAN of Quarley,
Hampshire. They had two sisters, Alice Mary who
married Henry CASSWELL and Eliza who married George
WELLS. Thomas married Mary Jane BARRY at Exwick,
Devon in 1892 and had three children Thomas Henry
(born and died 1893), Alfred Charles (born and died 1896)

and Amelia (1900). In 1901 Thomas was living in Exeter
where he was described as a Railway Porter. He died in
the Newton Abbott area in 1946, aged 80.
My sincere thanks to Gwendoline’s grandson, Michael, for
this delightful card, and for his permission to use it on
the cover of this letter.
Those of you who are regular visitors to the BREADMORE
web site will have noticed that I have updated the
occupations pages, added some more Questions and
Queries and inserted a new section called ‘Breadmore
Stories’. The stories included are The Damaged Oak
Tree; Attempted Murder; Burglary at Hungerford;
Unusual Marriage; Tragic Death; Death in Wisconsin;
Charged with Manslaughter; James the Waggon Guard;
George William of Ballarat; An Unfortunate Lad; Valet to
Lord Beaverbrook. With the exception of the last all
these have been featured at some time in a previous
newsletter.
For those who do not have access to the web site I am
reproducing the full text, which was written by Stephen,
the grandson of Bert Breadmore, earlier this year and for
which I am most grateful.
“Albert Edward ('Bert') Breadmore was valet and
confidant to Lord Beaverbrook, newspaper magnate and
politician, for over thirty years.
Bert Breadmore was born on 21 June 1897 in
Brightwalton, Berkshire. He was the fifth of the seven
children born to James Alfred Breadmore and Elizabeth
Charlotte (née Annon), and the great-grandson of George

of Mildenhall (1793-1870), who brought the Breadmore
name to Brightwalton. After war service in the Royal
Berkshire Regiment he left village life for London and in
1923 became footman, and then valet, to Max Aitken,
Lord Beaverbrook.
Beaverbrook was a Canadian adventurer turned Fleet
Street proprietor and British Cabinet Minister. He
transformed the Sunday and Daily Express and London
Evening Standard into best selling and highly influential
newspapers; was Minister of Information in World War I;
and a close political ally of Winston Churchill during the
General Strike, Abdication Crisis and approach to war
with Hitler. As Minister of Aircraft Production in World
War II Beaverbrook built enough Spitfires to see off the
Luftwaffe. Until his death in 1964 he enjoyed huge
wealth and power from his Arlington House apartment
near the Ritz, Cherkley Court mansion in Surrey and villas
in the Bahamas and on the French Riviera. Bert served as
'the Old Man’s' personal valet for the rest of his life,
minding his clothes and his secrets. He guarded
Beaverbrook’s door with tact and discretion, offering
visitors shrewd advice and a guide to his mood. He
observed many great men off duty - David Lloyd George,
President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill. He travelled all
over the world: during World War II he accompanied
Beaverbrook across the Atlantic to the USA by
submarine to see Roosevelt - an important and dangerous
mission. For a few months when Churchill was ill and
recuperating at Beaverbrook’s villa Bert acted as his valet
too. He declined an offer of the OBE.

Bert married Violet Gertrude Vincent at Christ Church,
Spitalfields in London on 12 March 1927, and died
suddenly at their home in South Ruislip, Middlesex on 7
March 1958 aged 60. He left two daughters, Gwendoline
Jean and Audrey Kathleen Breadmore.”
Old newspapers give a fascinating insight into the life of
our ancestors as these first three extracts show.
The Andover Advertiser (Hampshire) of 24 March 1882
reported a Property Sale as follows
“On Friday last there was a large attendance at Messrs.
Ellen’s Auction Mart, London Street, Andover, when they
offered for sale a peculiar, though desirable investment,
consisting of one-ninth share of profits arising from the
tolls, rents, dues, etc., receivable in respect of the noted
Weyhill Fairs and land at Weyhill, known as “Landsleys’
Farm,” which comprises about 62 acres, held for the
unexpired term of a lease for 40 years, from 25 th
December, 1856. This was knocked down to Mr. G.
Breadmore, of Stockbridge, for the satisfactory price of
£360.”
On Saturday 15 th October 1904 the Hampshire Chronicle
included the following report about Charles Breadmore,
son of the Mr G Breadmore above.
“Winchester: Between the dainty sweet pea, with its
beautiful colours and sweet perfume, to the homely
potato, one of the greatest food products of the country,
there seems no analogy, but Mr Charles Breadmore, 120
High-street, Winchester, whose success with the former
is now world renowned, has added another honour to his

list, viz., at the National Potato Society’s first great
show, held at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week, by being awarded a special
Crystal Palace silver medal for his collection of 19 new
varieties.”
Photograph by Cynthia Breadmore
George BREADMORE's grave at Stockbridge

The Boston Daily Globe (Massachusetts) of 28 August
1894 reported on the arrangements for the Labor Day
Parade. The following paragraph was included.
“Firemen’s protective union, 6130, American Federation
of Labor, will make its best effort to turn out its full
strength on Labor day, and at last evening’s meeting in
Little hall it was voted to parade in a uniform consisting
of blue shirt, dark trousers, silk cap and white and gold
belts. A handsome banner will be carried in the parade,
the gift of friends of the organization. The following
committee will act as officers of the parade: Charles
Breadmore, commander, P. J. Concannon, Frank Trainor, L.
Hackett, J. Barrett, Con Crowley, aids. The union will hold
a banquet after the parade, and will keep open house for
all men employed as boiler firemen.”
The Salisbury and Winchester Journal, dated Saturday 6
March 1819 reports on the Assizes held the previous
Tuesday when the ‘awful sentence of Death was passed ‘
on sixteen prisoners including one Geo. BREADMAN for
‘breaking into and robbing the house of Francis Bastin of
East Woodhay.’ This sentence must have been changed to
transportation as George BREADMAN sailed from
Woolwich on the Recovery on 31 July 1819 arriving in New
South Wales on 18 December the same year.
In his book ‘Two Years in New South Wales’ P.
Cunningham, the Surgeon on the Recovery, wrote this
about George BREADMAN:
“Of all those I ever heard of, who have manifested the
‘ruling passion strong in death,’ George Breadman proved

one of the staunchest. He was a poor yokel, foisted upon
me in the last stage of consumption, and who remained
bedridden until our arrival in the colony. He fell away so
fast that I never expected to land him alive, and certainly
it required the most anxious attention to retain the
glimmering spark. I fortunately, however, possessed a
very facetious fellow among the batch, to whom this poor
dying creature became strongly attached, never being a
day happy whereon his friend neglected to visit him, and
often begging me to send this man to him for company,
which I gladly did, seeing it invariably put him in good
spirits.
Wondering what could be the cause of this extraordinary
liking, I inquired, and found that Breadman had been a
great pig-stealer in his day, which being considered a very
vulgar calling among the professional classes, (particularly
among the townies,) he could get no one to listen to his
adventures except this joker, who would laugh with and
quiz him on the particular subjects of his achievements;
praise the wonderful expertness with which he had done
the farmers out of their grunters, and propose a
partnership concern on reaching the colony, if the pigs
there were found to be worth stealing! —I really believe
the poor creature was kept in existence a full month
solely by the exhilarating conversation of his companion.
On anchoring at Sydney no time was lost in conveying
Breadman ashore, he being so weak that he could not even
sit up without fainting: yet, in this pitiable state,
supporting himself round the hospital-man's neck while
the latter was drawing on his trowsers for him, the
expiring wretch mustered strength enough to stretch out

his pale trembling hand toward the other's waistcoatpocket,
and pick it of a pocket-comb and pen-knife! Next
morning he was a corpse, thus dying as he had lived. Yet,
during his whole illness, this man would regularly request
some of the sober-minded rogues to read the Scriptures
to him, and pray by his bed-side! Indeed, ill practices
become ultimately so habitual with many, as to be no
longer deemed such: and hence, no wonder we so often
see religion and knavery intimately blended”
St Michael & All Angels, Brinkworth

Charles Breadmore was more fortunate with his sentence,
as shown by this extract from the Wiltshire Quarter
Sessions Calendar - he was “Committed 8th Oct 1851 by S
B Brooke Esq. charged on the oaths of John Strange and
others, with having feloniously stolen from the dwellinghouse
of the said John Strange, one Work-box, two
Silver Watches, and one Gold Ring, the property of the
said John Strange, at Brinkworth.
To be confined in the New Prison at Devizes for four
calendar months to hard labour.”
Charles (1825-1853) was the son of William BREADMORE
and Hannah (née MATTHEWS) of Brinkworth.
One of last year’s mysteries was that of Charles
Breadmore BRYANT, born 1856 in the Chippenham area.
During this year I have discovered that Charles was the
son of Henry BRYANT and Elizabeth MATTHEWS who
married at Tytherton Lucas, Wiltshire on 28 December
1854. Elizabeth was the daughter of Charles
MATTHEWS and his wife Elizabeth (surname not yet
discovered). Charles had three sisters and seven
brothers, two of whom, George and William, married
daughters of William BREADMORE and Hannah
MATTHEWS of Brinkworth. At his stage I cannot see a
direct connection to the BREADMORE family, but when
the marriages of Charles MATTHEWS and his father
Thomas MATTHEWS have been found they could provide
the missing link. (See chart on next page)

Thomas MATTHEWS
& Elizabeth (Betty)
Charles MATTHEWS
(1802-)
& Elizabeth
(1803-1861)
George MATTHEWS
(1807-)
& Eliza BREADMORE
(1814-1841)
m. 17 May 1837
William MATTHEWS
(1815-1897)
& Hannah BREADMORE
(1823-1909)
m. 31 Dec 1843
Elizabeth MATTHEWS
(1833-1922)
& Henry BRYANT
m. 28 Dec 1854
Jane MATTHEWS
(1838-)
Edwin MATTHEWS
(1840-1908)
& Elizabeth WALKER
(1834-)
m. 1869
Eliza BREADMORE / MATTHEWS
(1843-)
& Abner WALKER
(1853-)
m. 1875
Jacob MATTHEWS
(1846-)
Robert MATTHEWS
(1849-)
Margaret MATTHEWS
(1853-)
& George CARPENTER
(1844-)
Jane MATTHEWS
(1855-)
& Orlando MATTHEWS
m. 1876
Mark MATTHEWS
(1859-)
& Emily Jane SPENCER
m. 1883
Sarah Ann MATTHEWS
(1864-)
Friend (?Frederick) MATTHEWS
(1866-)
& Ruth PINNELL
(1864-)
m. 1887
Frank MATTHEWS
(1869-)
Charles Breadmore BRYANT was a labourer at West
Tytherton before he became a Police Constable at
Hullavington, Wiltshire, eventually being promoted to
Sergeant at Salisbury. In 1882 he married Matilda
PAGET at Brimplefield, Gloucestershire, and had a family
of three girls and six boys.

In 2003 one of the mysteries was that of a marriage
between Louisa BREADMORE and Frank McBRIDE in
Bengal in 1894. The following year I reported that Louisa
and Frank were in Romsey, Hampshire, with two children
of Louisa’s first marriage. This year I have made a little
more progress on this family, due to the British Army
WWI Pensions being introduced on the Ancestry web site
– luckily they began with the As and Bs.
Having printed all ten sheets of Thomas Henry
BREADMORE’s military career I realised that he had
given the information that his mother was Louisa
McBRIDE and his stepfather was Frank McBRIDE of the
1 st Battalion Dorset Regiment. I then discovered that
Thomas Henry was the son of Henry BREADMORE and
Louisa (née KEANE). Henry was a Sergeant in the 2nd
Hampshire Regiment and died aged 38 in January 1891 at
Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, Kent. So the question now is
who was Henry, born about 1853 and who were his
parents? His son Thomas Henry had been born in 1881 in
Bangalore, another son William Henry had been born in
Chatham in 1889 and a third son, William, had been born
in Madras in 1891.
Thomas Henry married Annie Bertha CLARKE in 1907 in
the Eastleigh area of Hampshire and had four children
Nora, Richard Henry, Bertha Muriel and Violet Joan.
If you have a chart of the descendants of John
BREADMORE and Mary HAYWARD or you have this
Thomas Henry on your tree shown as a son of Alice Mary

BREADMORE, who later married Henry CASWELL, please
remove him and his descendants, as he does not belong
there! Alice Mary BREADMORE did have a son, Henry
Thomas BREADMORE, born in 1883 but he did not marry
Annie Bertha CLARKE. There remains more work to be
done on this particular family.
A person researching the GERLACH family contacted me
last year and has sent me a copy of an inscription in a
prayer book. She is trying to trace details of her Great
Grandmother Louisa GERLACH who she believes was born
in Islington, London in 1879 to German parents.

The prayer book had been given to Louisa on the occasion
of her 13 th birthday, 26th October 1892, by an F.
Breadmore. Louisa would have been living in the Islington
area at the time, but she eventually moved to Fulham
after her marriage to Frederick TUFFIN in 1906. My
correspondent says she has no idea what the connection
was with F Breadmore but presumes he was a family
friend. She adds that the prayer book would have been
quite expensive and that the handwriting looks to be that
of a fairly well educated person.
Who was F Breadmore? Was he or she of the same age
as Louisa, or an older person? What was their connection
with the GERLACH family (although the inscription in the
book is GARLACH indicating they do not know the family
intimately)? I cannot find any Breadmore in the Islington
area with an initial F in 1892. Do you know of an F
Breadmore who could have written this inscription?
Other mysteries this year include the following – can you
throw any light on who these people were or where they
fit into a family?
• Michael BREDMAN, born in 1810 in Ontario
• Wallace BREDMORE, born in England, is listed in the
1911 census for Toronto
• Elisabeth BREADMORE who was born in 1843 and
married Andrew J MORRIS – date and place not
known

• Louise, 36, and Constance, 8, wife and daughter of
Joseph BREADMORE, who all passed through
immigration in Detroit in December 1924
• G P BREDMORE listed in the 1887 Official Register
of the United States - a list of Officers and
employees in the civil, military and naval service
• Frank BREDMORE, 50, and his wife Carrie, 42, listed
on the 1910 census for Mahoning, Ohio, USA
• Edward Percy BREADMAN, 14, from the Hartley
Wintney Union, who travelled from Liverpool,
England, to St John, Canada
• Jeremy BREADMORE of Gladstone, Queensland,
Australia who is a Band member of 'Voices of the
Unheard'
• Alfred BREADMORE who married Emma SLADE
(née CROWTHER) between 1888 and 1901, probably
in the Haworth area of Yorkshire
This year more new contacts have been made with
descendants of:-
George and Martha of Brightwalton
William and Hannah of Brinkworth
John and Mary of Quarley
Valentine and Dinah of Chieveley
Francis and Sarah of Chute
George William and his 3rd wife Mary of Australia
Thomas and Jane of Great Bedwyn

I am sorry to report the following deaths.
Mark Breadmore, 97, formerly of Wokingham, in July 2006
Gene Breadmore of Barbican, London in 2006
Charles Francis (Chuck) Breadmore, 52, of Boston,
Massachusetts, on 29 March 2007
Georgina (Jean) Breadmore, 88, of Bristol, on 22 April 2007
Congratulations to
Peter Breadmore who married Lisa Brookman on 9 December
2006 at Camberwell, Australia
Wayne and Melanie Breadmore on the birth of their
son James Michael in 2006
Neil Breadmore and Donna on the birth of their
daughter Lola in 2006
Richard and Jaime Breadmore on the birth of their twin
daughters Shelby Jean and Jillian Jan on 7 October 2007
Dominic and Helen Breadmore on the birth of their daughter
Elizabeth (Libby) Pamela on 12 November 2007
Helen Breadmore who gained her PhD from Birmingham University
in October for research into Language Acquisition with the deaf
Cassandra Kate Breadmore who graduated from the University of
Tasmania with a Bachelor of Human Movement degree

Dr. Michael Breadmore, one of a team of three, who secured a
grant to do research over the period of one year on developing a
way to test Tasmanian devils for the deadly facial tumour disease
before the tumours appear.
Alex Breadmore, one of a team of seven, who completed a
challenge to climb 24 peaks measuring more than 2,400 feet each
in the Lake District in 24 hours in September 2007, raising over
£6,400 for the Mitchemp Trust
Kara Breadmore who was awarded ‘The Gold & Silversmiths Guild
of Australia Award’ (for excellence in jewellery design and
craftsmanship) for her ‘Wearable Wallpaper’, a series of
brooches inspired by Victorian wallpaper
Jacky Breadmore who has been appointed for a second term as
Churchwarden at Fetcham, Surrey
Jamie Breadmore who was included on the Honor Roll
of the Ida S Baker High School, Cape Coral, Florida
Kylie Breadmore who has been included on Honor Roll of the
Cardinal Spellman High School, Boston, Massachusetts
Kathlyn Breadmore who has been included on the Grade 8 Honor
Roll of the H D Stafford Secondary School, BC, Canada
Adam Breadmore who has been included on the Grade 10 Honor
Roll of the H D Stafford Secondary School, BC, Canada
Ashley Breadmore who has gained nine National Championship
Awards for Cheerleading

A variety of sports and other activities featured ‘in the
news’ and on the Internet during the past year have
included the following Breadmores:
Anne took part in the ‘Veterans Golf Championship’ of Victoria at
Sorrento Golf Club, Australia in April
Austin has been performing gymnastics at the ‘Boy's State
Championship’ in Massachusetts
Cassie plays hockey for the ‘Queechy Penguins’ in Tasmania
Chris still plays football for Reading local team ‘Rabson Rovers’
Christine played ‘Blanche’ in a production of Brighton Beach
Memoirs at the Criterion Theatre, Coventry and ‘Jacqueline’ in
Don’t Dress for Dinner at the Loft Theatre, Leamington Spa
Daniel has been playing football in Tasmania
Elliott took part in the 2007 ‘Mackay Whitsunday’s Primary
Schools Championship’ for chess in Queensland
Jessie of Tasmania who was a witness in court case, having been
shot at outside her home
Jewel has been performing gymnastics at the ‘8th GymQuarters
Championships’ in Saint Charles, Missouri
Jo and Anne both took part in the ‘The Buxton Trophy 2007 –
Mixed Canadian Foursome Knockout’ Golf tournament in Australia
Joe is still playing darts in Boston, Massachusetts

Jonathan, 17, has started BMX racing in Cape Coral, Florida
Jordan is a member of the ‘Minor 2 Hurricanes’ softball team in
Cape Coral, Florida
Katie who was a member of the Grade 8 Girls basketball team at
the H D Stafford Secondary School, BC, Canada
Katie of St Mary’s Primary School who came 7 th in the Year 5
girls at the ‘Barnet Primary Schools Running Event’
Lauren, now ranked 313 th in Australia has played in a number of
tennis tournaments including the Australian Open in January
Lee was awarded an ‘Ian Broadhurst Award for the use of good
diving lifesaving techniques’ as reported in Dive Magazine
Luke has joined ‘The Aquatroniks’, a local band in Bath,
as their bassist
Marcus has been playing in a cricket team in
Launceston, Tasmania
Martin is taking the part of DCI Peter Burrow in an online Drama
production of Hollow Grace, a non-profit making project
involving volunteers
Meghan has been running in Cross Country in California and
completed 3 miles in 20 minutes 50 seconds
Mike has been playing baseball for the ‘Astorville Lumber Kings’
in Ontario

Mitchell took part in the NWT Ski Championships at
Yellowknife in April
Nigel completed the Bath Half Marathon in March, the London
Marathon in April and the Great North Run in September
Rebecca took part in the Toorak College Show Jumping Day
on R B Rusty in October
Scott has been playing rugby for the ‘Redingensians Rugby
Football Club’
Sean, of San Diego, completed the ‘5 th Annual Shelter Island 5K
Run/Walk’ in 20 minutes 25 seconds in November
Mrs and Mrs Breadmore were featured in Solon, a 36 page
brochure of the ‘South West Housing Association Limited’
I know there are a number of you who already have, or
are planning to have, your own web sites about yourselves
and your family, and I wonder if you would be willing to
place a link from yours to the Breadmore One Name
Study? I would be happy to add a link to my web site if
you wish, although I realise that some of them are
strictly for family members and not for general access.
Please let me know if you would like a link.
Finally, my thanks, once again, to all of you who have been
able to help keep me up to date on family members past
and present. Also my thanks to all those of you who have
sent copies of news items, certificates, photographs and

other memorabilia. As always, I am happy to receive any
information on any member of the BREADMORE family, in
any form. My apologies if I have not included any news
from your own family.
With my very Best Wishes to you and all your family for
Christmas and the year 2008
Web sites I have found useful
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
http://www.britishbattles.com/great-boer-war/colenso.htm
Margaret Young
http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/DevonReg/ColensoDevonshireRegimentprisoner
sofwar.htm
https://www.familyhistoryonline.net/
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/Index/Dates.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.wiltshirebmd.org.uk/

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