WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| Sergeant Ernest Brewster | Sherwood Foresters (Notts. & Derby) 1920 Royal Warwickshire Regiment (see below) |
Born 1895 | |
| Roll of Honour | Served on Home Front | ||
| Service records | No service records available. | ||
Family history etc
| Ernest Brewster | |||
| 1895 | Born Bingham Sept qtr | ||
| 1901 Census | Living in Spring Gardens, Long Acre with Father: William, b. 1855 Bingham Mother: Jane (neé Castledine), b. 1856 Bingham Sibklings: George, b. 1881 Fred, b. 1889 Herbert, b. 1891 Edith, M b. 1893 Elsie, b. 1900 |
Hawker in small ware Waggoner on Farm Grocer’s Errand Boy |
Blind for 10 years Brothers Fred and Herbert served in WW1. Click on a name to learn more. |
| 1911 Census | Living on Long Acre with Father: William Mother: Jane Brother: Fred |
Working on farm Hawker in general goods Grocer’s assistant |
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| 1916 | Married Elise Pitcher on August 14th in Newton Regis, a village and
civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England Ernest’s father was given as Newsagent; Elsie’s father was a blacksmith. Marriage certificate described Ernest as a soldier and did not give his number! Children (Free BMD): Annie M, b. Sep 1918 Coventry Edith M, b.13th December 1919, registered 10 January 1920. Tamworth Kathleen S, b 28 April 1930 Tamworth |
Newspaper item: Miss Elsie Pitcher, daughter Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Pitcher. Seat View, Newton Regis, was married to Sergeant Ernest Brewster, son Mr. and Mrs. Brewster, Spring Gardens Bingham Edith’s birth certificate shows Ernest as a “Sergeant Instructor, Royal Warwickshire Regiment”. The informant was Elise’s father: “S T Pitcher, Occupier, Newton Regis”. |
From family history on Ancestry Kathleen's birth was registered using her mother's surname from her first marriage rather than her father's surname, Sperry, who did not marry her mother [who was already married to Ernest] |
| 1939 Register | High Briery, Keswick: Ernest Brewster, b. 22 June 1895, married |
RAC Superintendent (Police War Reserve) |
Wife not on register. See below. Research Note: he is the only Ernest Brewster born in 1895 listed on Free BMD and registered in an appropriate qtr. |
| 1939 Register | 9 Clarson Street, Tamworth Henry Sperry, b. 28 Feb 1895, single Eliza A Brewster, b. 5 Oct 1894, married Annie Alice Brewster (later Owen), b. 20 Sep 1918, single One closed record Kathleen Sperry (later Penfold), b. 28 Apr 1930, single |
Bricklayer Heavy Worker Unpaid domestic duties Textile machinist At school |
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| 1941 | Elsie Brewster died on 6th February 1941 at 9 Clarson Street,
Tamworth, from inoperable breast cancer. Informant N Sperry at the same
address. [Note: Clarson Street was demolished in the early 1970s as part of a new industrial estate.] |
“Wife of Ernest Brewster, general Labourer”. | |
| 1941 | On 19th February he married Winifred Smith at Cockermouth registry office. He was aged 45, she was 36. He was described as a motor mechanic, his father had been a newsagent. They both lived at 17 The Hawthornes, Penrith Road, Keswick and her name was give as “Winnifred Mary Smith, otherwise Brewster”. | ||
| 1947 | Son Ross Thomas born in Mary Hewetson Cottage Hospital Keswick. | ||
| 1985 | Ernest died in Keswick Address: 17 The Hawthorns, Keswick. Born 22nd June 1895, Bingham Notts. |
Occupation Automobile Club Superintendent (retired) | Informant: son Ross Thomas Brewster. |