Genealogy
Brightmore
Godfrey Brightmore born 1748 Treeton married Sarah Hague (c.1750) at Rotherham. Children:
- Betty Brightmore b.1771
- Thomas Brightmore b.1773 married Sarah Hibbard (c.1773) in 1798 at Treeton
Will of Godfrey Brightmore of Catcliffe in the Parish of Rotherham in the County of York - Farmer
Dated 20th December 1808
Executor: Thomas Brightmore of Catcliffe - Farmer - Son
Legatee: To said Son Thomas Brightmore - £50 charged upon Real Estate devised to his Son John, all his Quick and
Dead Stock on his Farm at Catcliffe and all other his Personal Estate whatsoever.
Children of Thomas and Sarah (Nee Hibbard:
- Joseph Brightmore ( 1799 - 1866) married Mary Teasdale (c.1811 Rotherham)
- John Brightmore (1801 - 1869), butcher married Mary Shaw (c.1801 Rotherham) 1839 at Rotherham
- Mary Brightmore b.1802
- Sarah Brightmore1804
- Godfrey Brightmore (1806 - 1872)born Catcliffe, farmer of 67 acres married Mary (c.1820) Widower in 1871
- Elizabeth Brightmore b.1809
Children of Joseph and Mary (Nee Teasdale) Brightmore:
- Sarah Brightmore 1836
Thomas Brightmore(1838 - 1904) m. Martha Lawson (b.1839 Sandal Doncaster) - Elizabeth Brightmore b.1841
- Emma Brightmore b.1844
- George Brightmore b.1846
- Ann Brightmore b. 1850
Children of John and Mary (Nee Shaw) Brightmore:
- Lucy Ann b.1840 Catcliffe married Joseph Ramsbottom Blunn (c.1831)
- Henry (1849-1881) m. Sarah Hinchcliffe (1849-1879) from Aughton
Children of Godfrey and Mary Brightmore:
- Elizabeth Brightmore b.1834
- Mary Ann Brightmore b.1836
- Maria Brightmore b.1839
- Godfrey Brightmore b.1841
- Charles Brightmore ¹(1843-1902)
- John Brightmore b.1845
- Joseph John Brightmore (1845 - 1884)
Children of Thomas and Martha (Nee Lawson) Brightmore:
- Joseph Allen Brightmore b.1867 Catcliffe m. Emily Earnshaw (c.1867). Son Allan B. b.1897 Treeton
- Mary Emma Brightmore b.1870 m. Samuel Edgar Batty (c.1870 Aston cum Aughton) in Rotherham 1894. Son Ernest b.1895 Ravenfield
- Betsey Brightmore b.1872
- Benson Brightmore(1874 - 1908)
- Thomas E Brightmore b.1878
Children of Henry and Sarah (Nee Hinchcliffe) Brightmore:
- Clement Brightmore HINCHLIFF, born and died 1868
- Mary Helena BRIGHTMORE, born 1870
- George BRIGHTMORE born 1873, had Drapers shop 28 Rosedale Road Ecclesall Bierlow
- Herbert John BRIGHTMORE born 1874,merchant clerk/traveller, (lived with brother George) married Gertrude Cutts b.1871 Wincobank
- Leonard BRIGHTMORE born 1876 m. Hannah E Heathcote (b.1879 Tamworth Staffs) Living 550 Langsett Road Sheffield 1901 Census Tobbaconist
- Wilfred BRIGHTMORE born 1879.
The children were orphaned while young and the 1881 census Wilfred living two houses away from Henry Brightmore and his other children with a family called GIBSON. In 1901 Wilfred is living at 102 Station Road, Chapeltown, the adopted son of Mary A. Deorcy Gibson
Thomas Brightmore (c.1808) married Hannah White (c.1817 Shiregreen Sheffield) in 1838 at Rotherham. (Not sure where this Thomas fits in the tree)
In 1871 Census Frederick Street dob 1857 is servant within household. Address is Whitehill Road Brinsworth, Thomas is Farmer of 54 acres employing 5 men.
Hannah is is a widow before 1881 census only youngest son John thomas left at home
Children of Thomas and Hannah, born Brinsworth:
- Elizabeth Brightmore b.1842 m. John Moody
- Emily Brightmore b.1845
- Bruce Brightmore b.1848
- Fanny Brightmore b.1850 Brinsworth married in 1876 at Rotherham to Charles Brightmore ¹(1843-1902), son of Godfrey and Mary. They had 4 children
- Kate Brightmore b.1853
- Bertha Brightmore b.1855
- John Thomas Brightmore b.1857
Children of Charles Brightmore ¹(1843-1902) and Fanny (Nee Brightmore), born Tinsley:
- Charles Brightmore b.1877
- Herbert Brightmore b.1879
- Mary Mildred Brightmore b.1881 married at Rotherham in 1905 to Fred Crapper (c.1881)
- Walter Godfrey Brightmore b.1887
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