Hi All Hope you are all enjoying the Easter break. Thought it was about time I re-posted my interest in the above surname. Unfortunately, I seem to be hitting this very large brick wall with this line of my tree. Frederick Thomas BRANTON born c1881 married Mary Isabella LINCOLN 10/09/1899 in Sunderland Harold/Harry BRANTON born c1884 - 1901 census was residing at 17 Spring Garden Lane as a Lodger in the household of Harry COUNDON. Harry was aged 17 and occupation shown as Paperboy Thomas BRANTON born c1887 - 1901 census was residing at 17 Spring Garden Lane as a Lodger in the household of Harry COUNDON. Thomas was aged 14 no occupation. Thomas lost his life in 12/09/1918 whilst on active service in Belgium. Age at death is shown as 36 making him born 1882 I have a copy of Frederick & Mary's marriage certificate, grooms father is shown as Frederick BRANTON deceased and occupation stated was Farmer. To date I have not been able to locate the brother's parents on the 1891 Census. Although I did find a likely candidate for Frederick living with his aunt & uncle in Queen Street, Sunderland but no sign of either of the other 2 brothers. I have spent sometime on 1837 online without sighting any births of the brothers in Sunderland even though family lore & 1901 Census states all were born in Sunderland. Would welcome contact from anyone with an interest in the BRANTON name. Regards Sue Sunderland Researching: POLLEY, OLD, CARTLEDGE, CALVERT, TAYLOR, NEASHAM, AYRE, PESTELL, BRANTON, LINCOLN, GANLEY, FLAHERTY, BAINBRIDGE, DELVOY, BLANCHFLOWER, BOOTH, EMBLING, CARR, FINNEGAN, HALL, HUNTER, KELLY, RICHARDS, BLAKELOCK, ROWE, RUTHERFORD, STEWART, COCKERILL. Places: ESSEX, SUNDERLAND, NORFOLK, DURHAM, IRELAND, SCOTLAND.