Richard Brereton

This picture, 'Richard Brereton', was taken on September 13th, 1915 and sourced from Individual - Mum & Dad. 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. This picture, 'Richard Brereton', was taken about 1885 and sourced from Family Photos. Picture Notes This picture, '1886 Richard Brereton', was taken on September 13th, 1886 and sourced from Individual - Adrian Bridgelock. Picture Notes A young Richard Brereton, taken about a year before he married Lydia This picture, '1890 Richard Brereton', was taken in 1890 and sourced from Family Photos. Picture Notes This picture, 'Esther and Ann Brereton', was taken on September 13th, 1915 in Birkenhead and sourced from Individual - Les Thomas. Picture Notes Ann Hale nee Brereton (left) and Esther Brereton nee Eddowes (right). Stood behind Esther is her grandson Richard T Brereton and son Richard. Picture taken 13 Sep 1915, the day of Tom and Jenny's wedding. Both my Aunt Margaret and Les Thomas had copies of this photo and the names (all in agreement), although Les hadn't named Richard Timmis Brereton as the younger man on the left. This picture, 'HEADSTONE - Richard & Lydia Brereton 1', was taken on December 28th, 2008 at the Flaybrick Memorial Gardens and sourced from Family Photos. Picture Notes In Ever Loving Memory of LYDIA Beloved wife of RICHARD BRERETON Died March 6th 1918, Aged 54 Years Also of the Above RICHARD BRERETON Died Feb 9th 1920, Aged 61 years/ “Thy Will Be Done” This picture, '1920 Richard Brereton', was taken on February 9th, 1920 and sourced from Certificate - Death. Picture Notes 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.

• 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.

• Marriage/Union Notes

  BRERETON Richard TIMMIS Lydia 1887 Birkenhead, St Mary Cheshire Wirral BK8/13/164
  
  BRERETON Richard
  TIMMIS Lydia
  Birkenhead, St Mary Wirral BK8/13/164
  
  Richard and Lydia had been married 24 years at the time of the 1911 census.  They had 7 children, but two had died.

• Family Notes

  There were two infant deaths of Richard and Lydia, and also two child Breretons buried in the grave of Richard and Esther.  It is possible that one of them may have been John and Eliza's, but most likely they are both Richard and Lydia's.  These children are Ethel (died 1893, aged 1 year) and William (died 1900, aged 8 wks).