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Brentford Families - Small

Paul Burton writes:

I have identified a William Small, b.1793 and married to Jane Small (b.1798), They had 6 children, one of whom, John Small (b.1838) married Ann and had 6 children. My great-grandmother Rosina Jane was one of the six and Joseph J. Small was one of her brothers.

Small family tree

William Small (born 1793) married Jane Small (born 1798); living at The Ham, Brentford in 1841 and 1851
Children included:

• John Small (born New Brentford 1838) married Ann Plastine (born 1844 New Brentford, daughter of John Plastine & Rosina Burrows) at Poplar in 1864
  children included:
  • William Thomas Small b. 1869 Poplar; he was living with his grandparents John & Rosina Plastine at 'The Barleycorn' in 1881 and, according to Jayne Todd, descendant of Henry Burrows, younger brother to Rosina, ran the Barleycorn when his grandparents died
  • Joseph James Small b. 1872 Poplar; was running the Barleycorn at the time of the 1901 census
  • Rosina Jane Small b. 1875 died 1950; married James Albert Joyce, a Thames lighterman in 1894 and they had 3 daughters, one of whom is Paul Burton's grandmother; James Albert Joyce died before 1918
  • Ann Small b. 1875: Ann was a twin to Rosina Jane and described in one census as "feeble-minded since a child"; she witnessed her sister Rosina's wedding, signing with a 'X'

Small photos

Rosina Jane Joyce nee Small, born 1875. The photo dates from around WW1?

Rosina Jane Joyce (nee Small) in 1945 at the age of 70; Paul says 'I'm pretty sure that my father carried the 1945 picture of Rosina with him when he was stationed in the Middle East during WW 11'