Re: WHITBREAD in Bedfordshire, England 1500s
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Re: WHITBREAD in Bedfordshire, England 1500s
12/15/99
This is a message for Sue Ann Easton, who sent me an email concerning the Whitbread brewer family, which I cannot reply to as my firm's email connection to the internet has been switched off for the Millennium holidays.
I'm afraid I know very little about Samuel Whitbread's genealogy, Sue. What little I know is a result of the fact that for some years I did a lot of legal work for Whitbread Plc (the law firm in London in which I am a partner was founded early last century by a Mr Martineau, a close relation of two Martineaus who wre partners of the original Samuel Whitbread and his son, back in the 18th and 19th centuries).
I wonder if the book the Brewery sent you was a slim hardback volume called "Whitbread's Brewery" printed 1947 in London by The Whitbread Library.If it was not, then give me your postal address and I'll send you a photocopy of it. It doesn't mention Susannah Whitbread or John Poyer, and it is mainly focused on the Whitbread men as brewers, but it does contain a fair amount of information about the family generally.
Also, two days ago when going through the parish registers of Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire for an entirely different reason I did happen to notice the following burial entry:
"Mrs Harriet Whitbread Wife of Samuel Whitbread Esqr of Chiswell Street London Affdt"
"Affidt" means an affidavit was sworn and given to the vicar that she was buried in a woollen shroud (as opposed to the usual linen one)-a legal requirement at that time, designed to encourage the wool trade which was then in decline.
Matt
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Re: WHITBREAD in Bedfordshire, England 1500s
Colleen 9/08/02