Thomas
See photo
= Margaret Ann Farmer = Mary Belcher
See photo

This is a case of nothing ventured, nothing gained. Does anyone by chance recognise the ladies - one in the middle and the other back left ? The older lady is Mary Brind nee Belcher, second wife of Thomas Brind. The two little girls are Ethel Nancy Brind and Emma Brind , both daughters of Thomas and Mary. Any help is appreciated, thankyou. Laine Kimber posting on Facebook March 2024.
Bapt 1845 Hay binder (Coach Proprietor 1881), Captain of sheep shearers
Joins Parish Council
daughter of Thomas Farmer, shoemaker b. Lambourn about 1849
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Perhaps these Farmers are related? 1901 census
1881 census
d. March 21, 1927 (82) will
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d Nov 12, 1876 (31) d June 10, 1924 (75)
See Aldbourne Cemetery
Mary Jane Thomas Farmer Elizabeth Sarah Ann John Rhoda Joseph Belcher William Frank Emma
See photo
Margaret Ethel Nancy See photo. Margaret Ann
See photo
Herbert Collin
See photo
Frederick Charles
WW1 service
b May 12, 1867 b 1868 b May 1, 1870 Sept 3, 1871 May 11, 1873
Certificate
April 5, 1875 April 6, 1879 Aldbourne August 3, 1880 July 2, 1882 July 29, 1883 September 28, 1884 Dec 22, 1885 Nov 25, 1888 Aldbourne b April 28, 1891 Aldbourne
= 20 Jan 1887 (St Michaels, Aldbourne) William Barrett = William Billing 1897
Certificate
=Eva (Heath) Daisy

b. March 6, 1895
Certificate
= Annie Baines 1901 See photo of three sisters. = Edward Harry Evans 1906 = 1911 = Lilian Ambrose Dec 4, 1916
d 7/July/1937
See tombstone
Red Cross 1WW
1871 census 1871 census 1871 census Blacksmith Living in Summerland BC in March 1915
See army papers See Brinds in WW1 See note
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1901 census
1881 census
1901 census
1881 census

1901 census
1901 census 1901 census
d 1958 (89)
See Thomas Brind's will
d Aug 3, 1966 d Sept 1884 d 13/Apr/1982 (97)
See tombstone
d in France in 1914
See memorials and press cutting
d March 25, 1954
See Brinds who died in WW1

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CWGC: Herbert Colin
From The Wardrobe, Home of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (Salisbury Museum)
www.thewardrobe.org.uk/
Enlisted on : 23 Oct 1906, aged : 18 years 1 months
The Swindon Advertiser 6th October 1916 - "Sergeant Colin Brind left England with the Wiltshires shortly after war was declared, and was in the thick of the fighting ... a fine athlete, he was chosen to carry a dispatch, and taking a short cut back, but alas! he never arrived. He has been missing since October 1914. Any information would be gratefully received by his father, mother and his wife."



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A William Frank Brind born in 1880 enlisted in Canada
William F could be the Rifleman William J Brind (F and J can be very similar) who died in 1916. If so that might explain why his younger brother Frederick Charles called his first son William Frederick (b. 1918). FC's younger brother Herbert Colin was also killed in the First World War and FC called his second son Herbert Charles. Interestingly FC was living in Summerland (the place where Mary Brind was supposed to be living on WF's attestation form) when he died in 1954. According to the form WF was single in 1915 and it seems unlikely his mother would have come to Canada without his father, so how did Mary Brind get to be listed as next of kin? His mother was buried in Aldbourne cemetery in 1924 and his father was buried in the same cemetery in 1927!















Found in the Brinds group on Facebook (supplied by Jo Hutchings). Described as Molly Brind (but no-one ever got a death certificate under the name Molly Brind), wife of Theo Brind, mother of Mrs Evans. I think this is really Mary (Belcher) Brind wife of Thomas Brind, called Molly because Thomas's first wife was a Margaret (therefore Molly).















Possible picture of Thomas Brind found in the Brinds group on Facebook (supplied by Jo Hutchings). He appears to be sitting in a very similar chair to the one in which Mary (Belcher) Brind was photographed. Perhaps the two photographs were taken at the same time?
<hr> The Aldbourne Cemetery has this memorial for Ethel Nancy Brind widow of Edward Harry Evans. She lived to be 97 years old. (24/July/2014). See tree.,  

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The three daughters of Thomas Brind and Mary Belcher. From the left Ethel Nancy, Margaret and Emma.