Reeve Whitbread

[Patricia58]

Hello Fiona,

I have just found your very old post and thought I would try and respond, as Reeve Whitbread is my husband's Great Grandfather. If you are still interested in learning more let me know. I have a photo of him and Florence that I will post.

Patricia

Hi
I am looking for Reeve Whitbread b about 1867 Bury St Edmunds. I found him in the 1901 Census married to Florence J with children Beatrice, Reginald & Spence. They were living in Croydon Surrey in 1901. I can't find any other mention of the family. Can anyone please help?

Regards
Fiona

[Sarah Wilson]

Hi just starting to look for family, my fathers (John Wilson) mother was called Irene Whitbread I have been told that she had siblings called Reginald, Vera and some others and that one member of the family was a cloth merchant in London and possibly the family was Jewish. My grandmother had my dad and also his brothers Bobby, Patrick and Peter Wilson, she was the first sales lady for Singer sewing machines and met my grandfather (Robert Hunter Wilson) in Whitehead, County Antrim, Ireland. I am very new to this so any help would be great.

[christanel]

Welcome to the British-Genealogy forums
Robert Hunter Wilson may have met Irene in Ireland but they married in England.
On FreeBMD
Marriage June 1/4 1930
Registration district - Kensington (London and Middlesex)
Robert H Wilson and Irene C Whitbread.
Searching on FreeBMD for the birth of an Irene C Whitbread anytime any place only one shows up
Dec 1/4 1899 registration district Croydon Irene Charlotte Whitbread vol 2a page 296.
Using the GRO index which now gives the maiden name of the mother her mother's maiden name was Bottomley
According to two public trees on ancestry she was the daughter of Reby Whitbread and Florence Janet Bottomley who married Dec 1890 in Fulham registration district.
The GRO index is free to use as is FreeBMD. The censuses are online but are on pay to view sites Findmypast and ancestry.
familysearch.org is another free site.
ancestry and Findmypast do have free library versions. Your public library may have one of them.
Christina

[christanel]

1911 census
40 Galloway Road, Shepherds Bush Fulham
Reby Whitbread 42 hosiers assistant born Bury St Edmonds Suffolk
Florence Whitbread 42 married 20 years, 8 children born to the marriage one has died, Born Sth Shields Northumberland
Beatrice Whitbread 16 Optician manufacturing worker Wimbledon Surrey
Reginald Whitbread 12 Croydon
Irene Whitbread 11 Croydon
Florence Whitbread 8 Croydon
Howard Whitbread 6 Croydon
Marion Whitbread 4 Streatham
Veronique Whitbread 2 Streatham

[christanel]

In 1891 Reby and Florence were in Glasgow, Scotland. He was an Insurance Manager. They were boarding Alexander Townsend who was a manufacturing chemist.
The original image for Reby and Florence's marriage is on ancestry.
Reby Whitbread age 23 bachelor, Insurance business,address Burnbank Tce Glasgow married Florence Bottomley, spinster age 24 on 27 Dec 1890 at St Andrew, West Kensington, Hammersmith and Fulham
her father - Joseph Bottomley, an auctioneer. His father William Whitbread a butcher deceased
Christina

[christanel]

Here's Robert Hunter wilson in 1911 census
40 Lambert Rd, Brixton Hill S W
Henry Wilson 33 Builder on own account born Liverpool
Georgina Grace Wilson 31 wife married 6years, ( 2 children born to marrriage both alive) Georgina born Surrey
Gladys Hunter Wilson 5 Waterloo West Derby lancashire
Robert Hunter Wuilson 3 West Derby
Christina

[Sarah Wilson]

This is amazing, thanks ever so much x

[Sarah Wilson]

Do you know where William Whitbread was born and whom he was married to?

[christanel]

Reby Whitbread's birth reg is on the freeGRO index and his mother's maiden name Garwood so this marriage is a match
Dec 1/4 1862 on the same page FreeBMD
Jane Garwood and William Whitbread registration district Marylebone vol 1a page 803
The marriage image is on ancestry
William Whitbread of full age, Butcher, father Henry Whitbread, butcher to Jane Garwood, spinster full age, father James Garwood corn dealer.
1871 RG10 Piece 3094 Folio 29 Page 8
1 Court, Morvilee? St Birmingham
Willm Whitbread 33 Butcher St Albans, Hertfordshire
Jane Whitbread 36 Brockley, Suffolk
Susannah Whitbread 6 Livermere, Suffolk,
Henry Whitbread 5 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk,
Rivey Whitbread 3 Livermere, Suffolk,
Susannah Garwood 64 Lodger, dressmaker Hawkedon, Suffolk, (possibly mother-in-law)
Christina

[Sarah Wilson]

That is fantastic help, there was a corn shop called Beggis and Garwood in London so will look into that, many thanks x