Garrett Briley and Elizabeth

[Sue from Southend]

Name - Garrett (Garrod in some records) Briley, Brierly, Briarley etc
Date and place of birth - abt 1724, possibly Ireland
Names of parents - unknown
Date and place of baptism - unknown
Details of each of his or her marriages - Elizabeth, maiden name place etc unknown, There is also a baptism in 1753 of a James Brierly to Garrett and Susanna again no trace of a marriage.
Occupation(s) - Mariner
Addresses where they lived
1775 - 1788 Stepney, Middlesex
Date, place and cause of death - Convulsions, Ratcliff Poorhouse, Middlesex
Date and place of burial - 20 Dec 1788, St Dunstan's, Stepney
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any

I know nothing of Elizabeth apart from the above


Link to their daughter Mary http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=13868


I've just found a settlement exam for Susannah Briley dated 1 Feb 1757, on London Lives, that states that Garrett Bryley was serving on board the Bristoll Man of War. No proof that this is the same Garrett Briley but it seems a reasonable assumption.

[Sue from Southend]

Found a Fleet marriage on Ancestry - Garratt Bryarly, batchelor, mariner, to Susannah Johnson, widow, both of St John's Wapping Oct 8, 1743.

[Sue from Southend]

What follows is as much for me in an attempt to get it all straight in my head! But if anyone has anything to add or bright ideas where else I can look please feel free.;)


From The Fleet Note books (Ancestry Clandestine marriages)
8 October 1743 - Garrett Bryarly of St John’s Wapping, Mariner, a bachelor and Susannah Johnson ditto, widow. http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/5344/41813_b0146447-00109/8922?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f cgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26gsfn%3dgar*%26gsln%3dbr y*%26sx%3d%26f14%3d%26f15%3d%26rg_f16__date%3d%26r s_f16__date%3d0%26f23%3d%26f24%3d%26f9%3d%26f10%3d %26rg_f11__date%3d%26rs_f11__date%3d0%26f19%3d%26g skw%3d%26prox%3d1%26db%3dfleetmarriagebap%26ti%3d5 538%26ti.si%3d0%26gl%3d%26gss%3dmp-fleetmarriagebap%26gst%3d%26so%3d3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

Dorset Vagrant Passes 1739 – 1791 (Ancestry)
19 Jun 1747 - Susannah Brayley with one child Julyan aged abt 4mths. On route from Kilmington Devonshire. To St George, Hanover Square. Described as wife of Garrett. Also as a rogue and vagabond! No mention of any other children. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5538&indiv=try&db=dorsetvagrantpasses&h=4894

London Baptisms etc 1538 – 1812 (Ancestry)
8 Jul 1753, St George in the East, Stepney, Middlesex, baptised James Brierly son of Garrat Brierly, mar. (mariner?) and Susannah. Can: St

St Botolph Aldgate Parish, Pauper, Vagrancy and Settlement Exams. (London Lives)
1 Feb 1757 – Susannah Bryley, wife of Garrett Bryley, maketh oath that her husband Garrett is on board the Bristol man of war and that he is an Irishman..... She has three children, Frances aged about 12 years, Julian aged about 10 years and James aged about 3 years. She has legal settlement in St George Hanover Sq due to employment in service as a singlewoman. No mention of place of birth.http://www.londonlives.org/browse.jsp?id=GLBAEP10308_n4-1&div=GLBAEP10308EP103080006#highlight

London Baptisms etc 1538 – 1812 (Ancestry)
3 Jan 1772 Susannah Brierly (transcribed as Buerly) buried at St Dunstan , Stepney. Resident of Ratcliff. No age given.

1773 – 1788 the following Baptisms to Garrett and ELIZABETH (surnames below as transcription) Garrett described as a mariner in all.
5 Sep 1773 Sarah Brierly
18 Oct 1775 George Briley
13 Apr 1777 Garrett Buarly
31 Oct 1779 Mary Briarly
22 Dec 1782 James John Buarly, buried 1785
7 Aug 1785 William Thomas Brierly, buried 1788
11 Oct 1788 John Briley

Finally a burial
20 Dec 1788 @ St Dunstans. Garrod Brierly of Ratcliff Poorhouse, of convulsions aged 64yrs

However! From 1765 – 1797 a Garrett Bryley (usual variations of spelling) rents property in Stepney (London Tax Records, Ancestry) Is this the Garrett that died in 1788? If so, who is the Garrett that continues as a tenant after 1788? The son of Garrett and Elizabeth named Garrett would have been 11 years old at the time of that death, too young to have been named as a tenant surely? So, is there another Garrett? Is the Garrett married to Elizabeth the son of Garrett and Susannah? If so where /when was he born? No mention of him in 1757 and where was Frances in 1747 when her mother was being shipped back to London? Was Julyan born in Devonshire?

Some other interesting records :
Burial in 1827 at St Dunstan’s, Stepney, Elizabeth Bryley b c1755
Marriage 1775 @ St Leonard, Shoreditch between Garret BYURN and Elizabeth Briggs, both widowed.
Thanks to Anne Swabey I know that there are probably records at TNA relating to Garrett Bryley on board The Bristol in 1757. I just need to get there!

[Shona]

Interesting research, Sue.

Looking at the 1757 settlement examinations, Susanna states that 18 years ago, as a single woman, she worked for Lord Inchiquens house in Grovesnor Square and at his Country house in the parish of Tapler, Bucks.

This must be Taplow, Bucks.

The chap she worked for as an Irish-born Lord.

From Wikipedia.

Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond KP, PC (Ire) (1726 to 10 February 1808), known from 1777 to 1800 as the 5th Earl of Inchiquin, was an Irish peer, soldier and politician.

Murrough O'Brien was born in 1726 to Hon James O' Brien and Mary Jephson in Drogheda.
He joined the Grenadier Guards and was an officer in Germany, where he carried colours at the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747. He retired in 1756 and entered the Irish House of Commons for Clare in the following year. He represented the constituency until 1761 and sat then as Member of Parliament (MP) for Harristown until 1768.

Because of his support for the Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland, on 29 December 1800 he was created Marquess of Thomond in the Peerage of Ireland, with a special remainder to his younger brother, and Baron Thomond, of Taplow in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 2 October 1801 (which title allowed him to sit in the United Kingdom House of Lords), but this time with no special remainder.

He had a close relationship with King George III. In 1783 he was one of the Founding Knights of the Order of St Patrick. His Irish seat was Rostellan, near Cork.

He was a drinker, called a "'six bottle man", and a gambler. He had a zest for life. He was a keen farmer and oversaw enclosure of lands around Taplow and mechanisation.

Marriages & progeny

He married twice:
Firstly in 1753 to Mary O'Brien, 3rd Countess of Orkney (died 1790), by whom he had a daughter, Mary O'Brien, 4th Countess of Orkney (1755–1831).

Secondly on 25 July 1792, to Mary Palmer (1750–1820), eldest daughter of John Palmer (1708–1770) of Palmer House, Great Torrington, Devon, by his wife Mary Reynolds (1716–1794), a sister of the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792). His wife was thus Sir Joshua's niece and as the chief beneficiary of his will, she was able to pay off her husband's debts.

He also is reputed to have had an illegitimate son, Thomas Carter (1767–1800), who was a popular singer in London during the 1790s. Thomas lived with Inchiquin at Taplow Court after his return from India in July 1789, and lent the earl all the money he earned in a benefit concert in Calcutta. In return, Inchiquin recommended Thomas to all his friends as a coal merchant; he had gone into that field after his marriage to Mary Wells in 1793 in order to support his growing family.

He died after a fall from his horse in Grosvenor Square, London on 10 February 1808. The title of Marquess of Thomond passed to his nephew William O'Brien, 2nd Marquess of Thomond. The barony of Thomond became extinct.

[Sue from Southend]

That's interesting, Shona. Garrett was said to be Irish, perhaps he came over as part of the household before going to sea?