William Henry BRABYN

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1851, Padstow, Cornwall. A scholar living with his widowed mother at Llanadwell Street

• Military Service, 1859. 31 March 1859 Master British Army Records

• Census, 1861, Padstow, Cornwall. living at Drury Street, Padstow with his Mother and sister. shipwright.

• Marriage Banns, 1862, St Minver, Cornwall. Parish Church St Minver 5 November 1862
William Henry Brabyn 21 bachelor ship carpenter Padstow William Brabyn carpenter
Eliza Ann Bate 19 spinster St Minver John Bate master mariner
Witnesses John Henry Miller John Bates

• Employment, 1864. Ships List - The Barracouta - out of Liverpool W H Brabyn - aged 25 - Padstow. Previously served on The Hope - discharged from The Hope in 1864 at Gloucester. Joined The Barracouta 26th January at Cardiff - employed as ship's carpenter.

• Census, 1871, Whitstable, Kent. Lodging with Edward and Martha Kemp at 22 Sydenham Street, Whitstable, unmarried, shipwright'
Eliza is living at Church Town, Phillack a mariner's wife. William is not recorded. Eliza has three children with her, William, Rosalie and James. Her brother Matthew M, Bate is also living with her.

• Census, 1881, Egloshayle, Cornwall. Trenant, ship and boat builder

• Census, 1891, Egloshayle, Cornwall. Chapel Cottages, ship and boat builder

• Awards, 1898, Wadebridge, Cornwall. initiation 1898

• Census, 1901, Wadebridge, Cornwall. Egloshayle Road, ship and boat builder

• Census, 1911, Wadebridge, Cornwall. Shipwright and boat builder Married 49 years had 8 children 7 still living

• Newspaper, 1931, Wadebridge, Cornwall. Brabyn at Bradfords Cottage Wadebridge on January 19th William Henry Brabyn retired master shipwright beloved husband of the late Eliza Ann Brabyn - aged 89 - Reunited - Funeral leaving house 2.30 Service at Weslyan Chapel

• Obituary, 1931, Egloshayle, Cornwall. William was born in 1841, the son of William Brabyn, a saddler, and Maria Brabyn née Brinton. The family lived in Padstow. William's father was drowned on the Doom Bar outside Padstow in 1847, when William was six.
He married Eliza Ann Bate on 5 November 1862 in St Minver .
From 1861 (or earlier), William was a shipwright and and boat builder.
The 1901 census describes his occupation as "Living on own means"[14], but the 1914 Kelly's Directory for Wadebridge still lists William Henry Brabyn as 'boat builder'.
William served for three years on the Padstow lifeboat alongside his brother James, before moving to Egloshayle[21].William and Eliza were Wesleyan Methodists, having several of their children baptised in the Camelford circuit.
The masonic square and compasses symbols on their gravestone show that William was a Freemason (like his sons James and Stephen). He joined Molesworth Lodge, Wadebridge on 7th February 1898, having previously been a member of the Lodge of Fidelity No.230 in Plymouth (Provincial Grand Lodge of Devonshire). He became Worshipful Master of Molesworth Lodge on 4th February 1907.
William was buried with his wife,sons William and James, and next to his daughter Eliza Ann Goss.
Died at Bradford Cottages Wadebridge

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William married Elizabeth Ann BATE on 5 Nov 1862 in St Minver, Cornwall. (Elizabeth Ann BATE was born in 1845 in Port Isaac, Cornwall, died on 16 Mar 1926 in Wadebridge, Cornwall and was buried in 1926 in Wadebridge, Cornwall.)