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Lists and Sample Documents

• lists which include names of individuals
• sample documents: often specific to an individual but may be of interest to people with Brentford ancestors
• contemporary accounts: eg newspaper articles, may include names or property details

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Lists

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• 1806 Indenture relating to a property in the Butts (Rob Sutherland)
• Inhabitants of New Brentford, 1810 (or 1811 census?) (Richard Chapman)
• Owners / occupants of properties near Brentford Bridge, 1826 (Angie Beck)
• Official Establishments, Local Institutions (includes names) from 1866 Post Office Trade Directory (Celia Cotton)
• Brentford Surveyors, 1875+ (Peter King)
• Brentford Firemen, 1879 (from Peter King)
• Accounts of Frederick William Neville, 1888-1890 (Alister Neville)
• Library Committee and other local dignitaries on the opening day of Brentford Library, 1904 (Janet McNamara)
• March 1906 prize giving at the Rothschild School; several pupils' names are mentioned; were your grandparents (or great grandparents) winning class prizes, or special awards for Handwriting? Were they musical? (Janet McNamara)
• Attendees at John Joseph Dorey's funeral, 1918 (Janet McNamara)
• 1922 Rothschild Girls' School put on the 'The Magic Key': cast photo and scan of the programme with names of 18 girls; was your mother, aunt, grandmother or great aunt a peasant, bandolero, gypsy, toreador, gnome or fairy? (Roger Davis)
• People who provided gifts at a 1926 wedding (Janet McNamara)
• Some names from South Ealing Cemetery burials (Janet McNamara)

Sample documents

Some Brentford newspaper articles from the British Newspaper Archive are also available, selected as they either mark some change in Brentford, or tell a story about its inhabitants; items included date from 1805-1927 and more will be added each month.

• 1806 Indenture relating to a property in the Butts (Rob Sutherland)
• Death Duty Register entry, John Dale, 1809: death duty records in the period 1796 - 1811 are indexed and online
• Death notice, Joseph Dorey, 1884 (Janet McNamara)
• Funeral account, Joseph Dorey, 1884 (Janet McNamara)
• Register of Canal Boats entry for 1894: for the "Samuel" by the Buck family (Ann & David Podmore)
• Brentford British School certificate from 1894 for Jane Richardson (Maurice Lockyer)
• Inquest of Frances McCarthy, 1903 (Maggie Luscombe & Mike Perry)
• Baptismal certificate from St Faith's for Doris Edith Cownden, 1905 (Celia Cotton)
• Death notice, John Joseph Dorey, 1918 (Janet McNamara)
• Funeral account, John Joseph Dorey, 1918 (Janet McNamara)
• Summary of the service records for Henry Adolphus Dunn, died WW1 (Celia Cotton)
• WW1 medal card (Trevor Mitchell)
• Account of a 1926 wedding: George Frederick Gower to Lily Violet Holt (Janet McNamara)
• A local postwar wedding, Ena Stone to Kenneth Thompson in 1948, (Ena and her sister Lynn Hayter)

Contemporary Accounts

• Flooding in The Ham, 1956 (Jean Dunsdon)
• 1960s archaeological excavations at 141 - 147 High Street (Quentin Pickard)

Published 2008; last updated December 2012