The Line of Thomas Edward Bradley and Ann Jane Chapman: The Third Generation

The Line of Thomas Edward Bradley and Ann Jane Chapman: The Second Generation

The Line of Thomas Edward Bradley and Ann Jane Chapman: The First Generation

First Generation
		Thomas Edward Bradley (1816-1857) m. Ann Jane Chapman (1817-1899)
2.	i	Thomas Edward Bradley (1843–1927). The key point about Thomas Edward Bradley (the second) is that he married Rosetta Robinson (1842-1928), daughter of Harriett Wombwell and Charles John Robinson. He was thus both nephew and brother-in law of Henry Smale Bradley. And Hetty Jane Owen by extension had a ‘double cousinhood’ relationship with him.  Thomas and Rosetta had seven children. Their timeline is as follows: 1843: Thomas was born at 4 Hill Street, Bow. 1851: Thomas, aged eight was a boarder on the West Ham Lane, Church Street District at a Classical and Commercial Scholary. 1861: Thomas was back living with his family at 4 Richard Street, Bow. 1865: He married Rosetta at the Holy Trinity Church in Mile End Town. He was then working as a licensed victualler in Brook Green, Hammersmith. 1871: Now married to Rosetta, he was living at 12 Baggally Street in Mile End Old Town and was a clerk in the wool trade. 1881: They were living at 14 St. James Road, West Ham. Thomas was now working as a commercial clerk. 1901 and 1911: They were living at 99 Caistor Park Road, West Ham, with Thomas working as a ship’s clerk. Memorial card for Rosetta Robinson, daughter of Harriett Wombwell, from the Box File
3.	ii	Ann Jane Bradley (1845–1891) was born in Bromley St. Leonard. She married Charles Norman in 1866 in St. Mary, Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets. They had seven children.  Charles was the elder brother of Edmund Norman, who married Alice Sophia Robinson, the youngest daughter of Harriett Wombwell. 1871: They were living at 4 Elizabeth Cott Fields, Forest Gate, West Ham. 1881: They were living at 55 St James Road, in the same street as Thomas Edward Bradley, above. 1891: They had moved on to 137 Boleyn Road, West Ham. This was the year of Ann Jane Bradley’s death.
4.	iii	Edwin Bradley (1849–????) was born in Four Mill Street (later to become St Leonards Street) in Bromley by Bow. He married Martha Downton in 1876 in Mile End Old Town and they had four children. In 1901 he was living at 35 Hampton Road, Forest Gate and was a Carriers Manager. He was made a Freeman of the City in 1917.
	iv	Louisa Mary Bradley (1850–????). No further information has been located about Louisa Mary or her two younger sisters below.
	v.	Rosetta Amelia Bradley  (1852–????)
	vi	Emma Bradley  (1855–????)

The Line of Alice Sophia Robinson and Edmund G.Norman

First Generation
1.			Alice Sophia Robinson (1846-1918) m. Edmund G.Norman (1847-1906)
		i.	Percy Edmund Norman (1873–????). Percy was born in Mile End.
		ii	Alice May Norman (1875–????). Alice was born in Leytonstone.
	2.	iii	Herbert Leonard Norman (1876–1943) was born in Bow and died in Kingston-upon-Hull. In 1900 in Lambeth, he married Clara Harriett Thomasson (1872-1939). He was a commercial clerk. Around 1903, the family moved to Yorkshire, to Sculcoates in the East Riding. The couple had eight children.
		iv	Sidney Norman (1880–????). Sydney was born in Bow.
Second Generation (second cousins of Hetty Jane Owen)
2.			Herbert Leonard Norman (1876–1943) m. Clara Harriett Thomasson (1872-1939).
		i	Leonard Francis Norman (1901–1981). He was born in Lambeth and died in Beverley, Yorkshire. He married Doris Davidson.
		ii	Alice May Norman (1902–1983). She was born in Southwark and died in Hull. She married Richard Ludders.
		iii	Doris Norman (1904–1982) was born in Sculcoates and died in Hull. She married Harold Copeland.
		iv	Herbert Edmund Norman (1905–1992) was born in Sculcoates and died in Hull.
		v	Muriel Clara Norman (1907–1999) was born in Sculcoates and died in Canterbury. She married Claude Hollingworth.
		vi	Lillian Thomasson Norman (1908–1943) was born in Sculcoates, married George H. Park and died in Holderness in Yorkshire.
		vii	Ivy Louisa Norman (1910–????) was born in Hull.
		viii	Gwendoline Iris Norman (1912–2001) was born and died in Hull.

It may be presumed that many children came from these lines as well.

Alice Sophia in the 1901 West Ham Census

The Wests of Clogher

There are no definitive links that show how Godfrey West is related to the main branch of Richard West. Blackwood calls him Godfrey West of Clogher, and we can assume from the age of his wife, Elizabeth Hadzor, that he was born in Clogher some time around 1730. There are records of a number of other Wests in Clogher at this time that may provide some clues however. They include:

• Richard West (1703-1788), who married Elizabeth. He is of an age to be Godfrey's father.
• John West (1745-1822), who married Margaret (died 1833). He is of an age to be a younger brother of Godfrey.

Also extant is the 1726 will of another John West of Clogher, which begins:

Sept 9, 1726 John West of Clogher, Parish of downe, County Down, first did appoint his brother Gadson should be paid forty-one pounds, ten shillings out of a bond of forty-three pounds, eight shillings and sixpence due him by his mother Hanah and brother Francis West, and the remainder of said bond he devises to his sister (Mary) Teale, he further devises to his brother Richard West the half of his house and tenement in Killough forever. 

The Richard West referred to in the will could conceivably be the same Richard West noted by Blackwood, and Godfrey's father. Equally, his father could be the John West, whose will it is, particularly when we recall that Godfrey was to name his first and only son, John.

The details in the will, given the reference to lands in Killough, may link up with the history of the West family of Ballydugan originally published by Edward Parkinson in 1906, where he states that in a: 

lease dated 12 January, 1709, Michael Ward of Castleward leased certain messuages, tenements, a garden, and two acres of land, situated in the town of Killough, to James West of Ballydergan, for the lives of the said James West and his sons, Richard and Francis. 

Killough Harbour - the original harbour was built by the Wards of
Castle Ward, Strangford. Photo from Wikipedia.

Parkinson considers it most likely that this James West was a son or grandson of the original Captain Richard West. A grandson, surely, given the time-spans involved.

The John West who married Margaret does have recorded children however, including Richard West (died 1872) The Reverend James Maxwell West (died 1883), Elizabeth West (died 1871) and Mary West (died 1875). Of these children, James Maxwell West married Annie Norman of Lisburn. Parkinson however refers to James as the Reverend Samuel Maxwell West, confirms the 1883 date of death and further tells us that Samuel was the last West of Clogher (or Clougher). He also mentions that the Thomas West who died in 1900 was the last male West of Quoile.

Putting all this together, this is about the best guess we can make:

1) Captain Richard West had a grandson, James West.
2) James West had a number of children, including, possibly, Gadson, Richard, Francis, John and Mary. He may have been married to Hanah.
3) Godfrey West was a child of one of those brothers, most likely, John.
4) Godfrey was therefore a x2 great-grandson of the original Captain Richard West, who was granted lands in County Down by Thomas Lord Cromwell.