Claude Ernest Braybrooke

Family's surname on civil records: Braybrooks, Braybrooke and Braybrook. Birth registered as Ernest Claude Braybrooks and baptised Ernest Claude. Ernest Claude was the son of James and Ada Braybrook (née Seagrave). His father James Jones Braybrooks was born in Henlow, Bedfordshire, in 1863 (reg. Biggleswade) and baptised at Henlow parish church in January 1864. His mother was born in Bulwell in 1860. The couple were married in 1888 (Braybrook/Seagrave), and had seven children, five of whom survived infancy. The registrations of birth gave their surname as Braybrooks; all the children were born in Bulwell: Rebecca Hall b. 1889, Frank Cyril b. 1891, Tom b. 1893, Ernest Claude b. 1897 and Janet b. 1900. All but Janet were baptised at Bulwell St Mary, Ernest on 13 October 1897. The family was recorded at 37 Hempshill Lane, Bulwell, on the 1891 and 1901 Census (surname Braybrooks); James was a coal miner hewer. They had moved to 49 Coventry Road, Bulwell, by 1911 and all five children were in the home on the night of the census: Rebecca, a tobacco stripper, Frank an assistant brick burner, Tom a brick maker and Ernest and Janet who were school age (surname Braybrooke) Frank attested in the Territorial Force on a four year engagement on 16 January 1912 and joined the Notts & Derby Regiment (1339 Private). He was 20 years old and employed as a bricklayer by Babbington Coal Company. Frank completed two periods of annual training in 1912 and 1913 but was then discharged under Territorial Force Regulations 156 (ii) on 1 October 1914. He had served at home from 16 January-1 October 1914 (2 years 259 days), including the period 4 August 1914-1 October 1914 after war was declared. No record has yet been traced as to whether he enlisted or was conscripted after this date. Ernest's mother Ada died at 49 Coventry Road, Bulwell, in December 1920. Three of Ernest's siblings married, Tom to Emily Wilson in 1913 (one child), Frank to Sarah A Wardle in 1914 (two children) and Rebecca in 1926 to Cornelius Mcneal Reed. At the time of the 1921 Census, James, his daughters Rebecca and Janet, son Tom and Tom's daughter Ethel Rebecca (b. 1914), were living together in Bulwell. James died in 1928. Rebecca and her husband Cornelius were living at 48 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, when he died in September 1933. Rebecca's niece, Ethel Rebecca Braybrook, died at Rebecca's home in the October. Tom died in December the same year and his surviving brother Frank in January 1939. Rebecca and her unmarried sister Janet were living in Bulwell in 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled; Janet died in 1948 and Rebecca in 1950.