County Essex
Place (Links to more information) Upminster
Church name (Links to more information) St Laurence
Register type (Links to more information) Parish Register
Register entry number 371
Birth date 26 Feb 1828
Baptism date 31 May 1828
Person forename Benjamin Aylett
Person sex ?
Father forename Champion Edward
Mother forename Ann Eliza
Father surname BRANFILL
Person abode Upminster
Father occupation Esquire
Transcribed by David Shipton
File line number 371
Name: Helen H Branfill [Helen Hammond Branfill] Age: 8 Estimated Birth Year: 1863 Relation: Granddaughter
Gender: Female Where born: Sth WalesBrecon Civil Parish: Upminster Town: Upminster County/Island: Essex
Country: England Registration District: Romford Sub-registration District: Hornchurch ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Household Schedule Number: 2 Piece: 1650 Folio: 98 Page Number: 1 Household Members: Name Age
Anne E Branfill 73 Benjamin A Branfill 43 Charlotte J Branfill 39 Helen H Branfill 8 Francis L Branfill 5
Albert Allsop 21 Eliza Ward 28 Louisa Dawson 25
Name: Benjamin Aylett Branfill
Death Date: 9 Jan 1899
Death Place: Hm
Probate Date: 20 Sep 1899
Probate Registry: London, England
Name: Benjamin Aylett Branfill
Death Date: 9 Jan 1899
Death Place: Hm
Probate Date: 20 Sep 1899
Probate Registry: London, England Effects ¹642-10s-4d
Er ist verheiratet mit Mary Anna Miers.
Sie haben geheiratet am 1. Juli 1857 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. England, er war 29 Jahre alt.
NAME: Benjamin Aylett Branfill REGISTRATION YEAR: 1857 REGISTRATION QUARTER: Jul-Aug-Sep REGISTRATION DISTRICT: Cheltenham INFERRED COUNTY: Gloucestershire VOLUME: 6a PAGE: 615 HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:
Name John Locke Blagdon Benjamin Aylett Branfill Isabella Harriott Rabbitts Isabella Harriott Rabitts
Marriages Sep 1857 (>99%)
Blagdon John Locke Cheltenham 6a 615
Branfill Benjamin Aylett Cheltenham 6a 615
Miers Mary Anna Cheltenham 6a 615
Rabbitts Isabella Harriett Cheltenham 6a 615
Rabbitts Isabella Harriott Cheltenham 6a 615
Rabitts Isabella Harriett Cheltenham 6a 615
Rabitts Isabella Harriott Cheltenham 6a 615
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Documents of Benjamin Aylett Branfill
Benjamin branfill
Benjamin Aylett Branfill in Visitation of England and Wales, Vol. 33, 1893
"... esquire. Governor of the Bank of England and Director of the East India Company ; executor to Benjamin Branfill II January 1780; died in Charterhouse Square, London, 5 August 1794, bur. at Poplar, CO...., bur. at Poplar. Will dated 26 October 1794, proved 14 February 1797 (P.C.C. 92 Exeter). Benjamin Branfill of St. Clement Danes, London, merchant ; born 23 November 1725 ; admitted to the Merchant Taylors...sister 27 September 1808; died 17 July 1816. i73f Peter DArcy,=Anne, mentioned in will of Benjamin Branfill 8 July 1778. born 18 January married after 27 September 1758, marriage licence (Bishop of London ..."
Publication place: London, England Publication date: 1893 Benjamin branfill Benjamin Aylett Branfill in BillionGraves
Benjamin Aylett Branfill was born in 1829. Benjamin passed away on January 9 1899, at age 70. He was buried in Wakapuaka Cemetery, Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand.
E mail received 11/11/2020 from Louise Hislop.
(XXXXX@XXXX.XXX) 10 Nov 2020, 18:52 (12 hours ago) to tom, me Hi Tom and Brian,
After a bit of digging on the internet, I have found a couple of snippets of interest about Benjamin Branfill & family.
Mrs Branfills heir was not her eldest son Champion V (1820-1887) as, when he was just eight in 1828, he had been made the heir of his uncle Joseph Russell of Stubbers, and required to take the surname Russell to prevent the family line dying out. The Lordship of the Manor and ownership of the Upminster Hall estate passed instead to her next youngest son Benjamin Aylett Branfill (b.1828). He attended Forest School in Walthamstow before joining the Army aged 18 in 1846 as a Cornet in the Prince of Wales Own Hussars. He served with them in India and went with the regiment to the Crimea in 1855, returning to England the next year and he was promoted to Captain in the 86th Foot in 1857. From 1859 to 1864 he was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General in Ireland and later travelled widely and served overseas, reaching the rank of Major in 1870 and Colonel in 1877. In 1857 he had married Mary Anna Miers, the daughter of a Welsh colliery owner and raised a family of seven in South Wales before returning to Upminster to live at Upminster Hall after his mothers death in 1873.
Benjamin Branfill is perhaps better known as the talented engraver who worked tirelessly on the illustrations for Wilsons 1881 Upminster history. He seems to have lived a separate life to his wife, who lived in Paddington and remained in London when he emigrated to New Zealand in May 1881. He continued as an artist there, where he is remembered especially for his enormous founding contributions and pioneering influence to the art scene in the late nineteenth century in Nelson, New Zealand. Some of his works are in the collection of the National Library of New Zealand and his extensive papers are held by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, Canada. He died in January 1899 aged 70, and his tombstone is in the Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson, New Zealand.
Also, it appears that at least some of the Branfill family fortune that allowed them to originally buy Upminster Hall, perhaps unsurprisingly, came from the slave trade. This was well before Benjamins time.
Louise
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