Some excitement yesterday. My sister had ordered Alice BRABEN's birth cirtificate but wasn't sure if is was the right one but sent it on to me anyway. However I concluded that it was the the right one because her father (James William BRABEN) was a mariner which I knew and it states that on the cirt. She also told me that Edward was from Depthford KENT as she remembers mom and dad telling her they had visited his family there. They (our parents) were living in Kensington at the time. Her mother was Sarah A A. Alice BRABEN born 30 June 1869 St Olave, Horsleydown, SRY, Eng I do not know when she married, Edward DAVIS. Children were: Edward C 1890, Alice C 1892, Ellen C 1893, Mabel, (my father's favorite half sister, she died a tragic death and I remember as a teenager my folks getting that letter) Emily (Lil) C 1891. I met this one when we came to Canada in 1952. She spoiled me. Alice Mary also had two brothers one who died when he was a boy. I do not have the date of Edward DAVIS death. I do not have a marriage date for Alice and Edward. Frederick BRITNELL was her second husband but still don't have their marriage cirt or have any idea when they married. They had two children. William James born June Q 1904 Lambeth, George Henry BRITNELL (my father) 11 November 1907 Lambeth. I have a pic of him from his brother Bill's wedding in 1928. I never found Frederick on the 1881 but on the 1901 he is home with Alice and all the children including his son from his second wife. Alice was his third. The 1901 has ALL the children listed as BRITNELLs. The sad part to this is that my father told me there were 9 children in his family . I never found that ninth child. _________________________________________________________________ New! Get to Messenger faster: Sign-in here now! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9677407