Richard Brereton

Richard Brereton

This picture was taken on September 13th, 1915 and sourced from Individual - Mum & Dad.

• Individual Picture Notes
  • Extracted from picture of Richard and Lydia.  This picture was cut out of a group wedding family photo of Jennie & Tom's Wedding on 13 Sep 1915.

• Birth Notes
  • Born Birkenhead, Cheshire about 1859.
    Note: FreeBMD only indexed from 1861 for Birkenhead, and no GRO record index for Richard - very strange !
    
    Ann Hale (nee Brereton) recorded Richards birthday as 11 June 1858
    
    Aged 52 on 1911 census
    
    
    

• Death Notes
  • Deaths Mar 1920   (32%)
    BRERETON  Richard  (age 51 or 61)  Birkenhead  8a 585
    
    Richard must have still been alive when his mother Esther wrote her Will in 1917, leaving him one quarter of the residual estate.
    
    Died before 1925, and Mum (Joan Dittmer) never met her grandparents.  A search of the records between 1918 and 1925 finds only one Richard Brearton who died in Birkenhead.  The index is difficult to read, and his age looks more like 51 than 61, but this is him.
    
    Richard Brereton, Beer Retailer, died 9 Feb 1920 at 7 Tunnel Road (Birkenhead), aged 61 years.  The cause of death was Cirrhosis of the liver and Exhaustion.  R. T. Brereton, Son was in attendance.
    
    My mother remembered that Richard was "a heavy drinker". Cirrhosis of the liver is often caused by long-term alcohol misuse (or hepatitis C infection). Scar tissue replaces healthy liver tissue and stops it from working properly.
    
    The cemeteries office at Landican have confirmed he was buried on 12-Feb-1920 in the same grave as his wife Lidia, who was interned two years earlier.  The grave is in CoE Section 2, Grave No. 789.  See references and picture.
    
    Probate:
    Brereton Richard of the Red Lion Inn 7 Tunnel Road Birkenhead died 9 February 1920 Probate 6 March to Richard Timmis Brereton ships plater and Elsie Dittmer (wife of Harry Dittmer). Effects £1218 10s 4d.

• General Notes
  • Richard and Lydia are my Great Grandparents.
    
    There is no birth registered (i.e. indexed) for Richard or George in Birkenhead or elsewhere, although there are other Brereton's (9 girls) registered in Birkenhead 1856-66.
    
    Richard is one of my 2 Great Grandfather.  He was a publican and a heavy drinker.  He ran the Red Lion at 7 Tunnel Road in Birkenhead, now pulled down to make way for the Tunnel approach roads.
    
    In 1878 a Richard Brereton (Cheshire) was sentanced 2 months for larceny.  Is this the same person?
    
    Name spelt "Brearton" in 1901 census.
    
    Richard was aged 52 and living in Birkenhead in 1911.  Like his father, he also ran a pub, the Red Lion, Tunnel Road, Birkenhead. 
    
    His mother Esther Brereton left Richard £100 in her will when she died in 1917.  In those days, that was a lot of money!.
    
    Richard Brereton, Beer Retailer, died 9 Feb 1920 at 7 Tunnel Road (Birkenhead), aged 61 years.  The cause of death was Cirrhosis of the liver and Exhaustion.  R. T. Brereton, Son was in attendance.
    
    

Click here for details of Richard's family with Lydia Timmis

¹ 1881 UK Census
² Individual - Mum & Dad
³ Headstone - Richard & Lydia Brereton
⁴ 1861 UK Census
⁵ 1871 UK Census
⁶ 1901 UK Census
⁷ Certificate - Baptism
Source/Citation FreeBMD.org.uk

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