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THE ANCESTRY OF THERESA MAY
1 Theresa
Mary Brasier
b 1
Oct 1956, Eastbourne
Parents
2 Hubert
Brasier of Wheatley, Oxfordshire, clergyman
b 20
Aug 1917, Wandsworth
d 12
Oct 1981, Oxford
m 16
Jun 1955, Reading
3 Zaidee
Mary Barnes
b 18
Jul 1928
d 6
Jul 1982, Chiswick
Grandparents
4 Tom
Brasier of Wandsworth, soldier and clerk
b
1880, Wimbledon
d 18
May 1951, Wandsworth
m 25
Sep 1909, Independent chapel, Fareham
5 Amy
Margaret Patterson
b 12
Jul 1878, Plaistow
d
1967, Oxford
6 Reginald
James Barnes of Reading, travelling salesman
b 16
Nov 1892, Southampton
d 1970
m 24
Jul 1917, Reading
7 Violet
Jenny Welland
b 15
Feb 1894, Reading
d
29 Feb 1988, Reading
Great-grandparents
8 James
Brasier of Wimbledon, builder
b 14
Sep 1840, Limpsfield, Surrey
d 4
Feb 1917, Wimbledon
m 22
Jun 1865, Rodmell, Sussex
9 Sarah
Jane Barnes
b
ca 1839, Rodmell
d
Jan 1914
10 David Patterson of Wimbledon, butler
b 9
Mar 1852, Kennet, Clackmannanshire
d 5
Nov 1893, Coombe, Surrey
m 13
Jul 1875, Glasgow
11 Jane Poole
b 22
Jun 1851, Southwark
d 26
Nov 1940, Wimbledon
12 William James Barnes of Southampton,
cabinet maker
bap
26 Jul 1857, Southampton
d
m 9
Mar 1884, Shirley, Hampshire
13 Maud Mary Anderson
bap
4 Oct 1863, Southampton
d 2
Apr 1937, Southampton
14 William Richard Welland
of Reading, store porter
b ca
1861, Reading
d
26 Feb 1932
m 31
Jul 1886, Earley, Berkshire
15 Mary Maria Naish
b 20
Feb 1860, Stanton St Bernard, Wiltshire
d
15 Jan 1951, Reading
Great-great-grandparents
16 Richard John Brasier of Limpsfield,
carpenter
b 11
May 1811, Greenwich
d 6
Mar 1897
m 15
Aug 1831, Lewisham
17 Ann Needle
b 6
Jul 1809, Walton-on-Thames
d
31 Dec 1899
18 Edward Barnes of Rodmell,
butcher
bap
12 Mar 1809, Rodmell
bur
11 Jul 1878, Rodmell
m 2
Apr 1833, Rodmell
19 Jane Hollingdale
bap
3 Sep 1815, Rodmell
bur
29 Mar 1895, Rodmell
20 Alexander Paterson of Kennet, labourer
b 13
Dec 1813, Clackmannan
d 4
Feb 1860, Kennet
m 24
Nov 1837, Clackmannan
21 Margaret Watson
b ca
1816
d
26 Oct 1884, Kennet
22 George Poole of Southwark, tailor
b 29
Jan 1819, Welford, Northamptonshire
d 19
Jul 1888, Plaistow
m
23 Jane Bryan
b ca
1826, Westminster
d
24 Edward Barnes of Southampton, cabinet
maker
bap
8 Nov 1829, South Stoneham
d
18 May 1890, Southampton
m 6
Mar 1853, Hackney
25 Charlotte Marsh
bap 26
Jun 1825, Brighton
d 4
Sep 1869, Southampton
26 James Anderson of Southampton, mariner
bap 15
Oct 1815, Southampton
d
m 6
Jan 1848, Southampton
27 Sarah Elizabeth Etheridge
bap
1 May 1831, Southampton
d 27
Feb 1915, Southampton
28 William Welland
of Reading, grocer
bap
20 Aug 1820, Haslemere, Surrey
d
19 Aug 1867, Reading
m
25 Oct 1852, Stoke next Guildford
29 Mary Adams
bap
14 Jul 1822, Empshott, Hampshire
d 22
Feb 1897, Reading
30 James Godding Naish of Stanton St Bernard,
agricultural labourer
bap 20
Nov 1836, Etchilhampton, Wiltshire
d
m
22 Oct 1859, Alton Barnes, Wiltshire
31 Ann Marshall
bap
17 Nov 1839, Alton Barnes
d
Sources
Roy Stockdill, From
Domestic Servants to Prime Minister: Theresa May’s Family Fortunes
National probate calendars
1939 register
Soldiers’ documents from pension claims
(National Archives, WO 364)
1851 census returns, Limpsfield
(National Archives, HO 107/1600, fol. 209)
1851 census returns, Rodmell
(National Archives, HO 107/1643, fol. 784)
1861 census returns, Reading (National
Archives, RG 9/747, fol. 35)
1861 census returns, Southampton
(National Archives, RG 9/674, fol. 133)
1861 census returns, Southampton
(National Archives, RG 9/677, fol. 20)
1861 census returns, Southwark (National
Archives, RG 9/314, fol. 181)
1861 census returns, Stanton St Bernard
(National Archives, RG 9/1290, fol. 16)
1871 census returns, Southampton
(National Archives, RG 10/1192, fol. 23)
1871 census returns, Southampton
(National Archives, RG 10/1187, fol. 140)
1891 census returns, Reading (National
Archives, RG 12/997, fol. 113)
1891 census returns, Southampton
(National Archives, RG 12/916, fol. 25)
1891 census returns, Wimbledon (National
Archives, RG 12/604, fols 83-84)
1901 census returns, Reading (National
Archives, RG 13/1149, fol. 100)
1911 census returns, Reading (National
Archives, RG 14/6581, RG 14/6603)
Berkshire Marriages Index (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Hampshire
Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Kent
Baptisms (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)
Reading
Mercury, 24
Aug 1867, 27 Feb 1897
The
Reading Standard,
19 Jan 1951
The
Westerham Herald,
6 Jan 1900
The
Surrey Advertiser,
11 Nov 1893
The
Wimbledon Boro’ News,
10 Feb 1917
The
Daily Telegraph,
15 Oct 1981, 8 Jul 1982, 5 Mar 1988
Stanton
St Bernard parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Limpsfield parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Alton Barnes parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Etchilhampton parish registers
(online at www.ancestry.com)
Haslemere parish registers
(online at www.ancestry.com)
Hackney parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Walton-on-Thames parish registers (online at www.ancestry.com)
Rodmell parish registers
(online at www.ancestry.com)
St George the Martyr, Southwark, parish registers
(online at www.ancestry.com)
Brighton parish registers (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XC39-WYT)
Clackmannan parish registers (online at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk)
Divorce files (National Archives, J 77/579/17689)
England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGQL-G41N)
England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGQ2-BB42)
England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGQL-QGTH)
Rodmell bishop’s
transcripts (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DR59-LVJ)
Rodmell bishop’s
transcripts (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DR59-JSY)
Statutory marriage record of David Patterson and
Jane Poole
Statutory death record of Alexander Paterson
Statutory death record of Margaret Watson
Death certificate for Charlotte (Marsh) Barnes
Death certificate for Maud Mary (Anderson) Barnes
Death certificate for George Poole
Death certificate for Jane (Poole) Patterson
Death certificate for Sarah Elizabeth (Etheridge)
Anderson
Welford Independent registers (National Archives, RG
4/1283)
England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007
(www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCT-5188)