The Bower & Collier Family History
Research by Colin Bower
Brecht One-Name Study
Progress 2018
Brecht One-Name Study
1939 Register of England and Wales
Following the publication of the 1939 Register on Ancestry, I did a sweep of the Brecht/Brett family names:
Brecht/Brett/Cornwell Family
The New Year got off to a brisk start with a cousin, from a branch of the Family Tree, making contact for the first time.
He was descended from the notorious George Henry Brett (born Brecht):
I was able to put him in touch with another cousin on the Cornwell side of his family. Wonderful!
Murder of George Brett 1951
I took the opportunity to re-Google George Brett, Gangster and found a further 4 1951 articles:
- an article from The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 14 July 1951
- an article from The Truth Sunday 15 July 1951
- an article from The Canberra Times on Monday 16 July 1951
- an article from The Truth, on Sunday 9 December 1951.The articles have been collated in a page Murder of George Brett:
Attempted Murder by George Brett 1926
I also found two articles relating to an attempted murder by George Brett:
Nellie Brett
Another descendant of George Henry Brett (born Brecht) received a visit from the wife and daughter of another of our cousins in Australia, bringing some more information about the family.
It turns out that George married a Mary Ellen (Nellie) Casey in Australia:
Australia Marriage Index 1788-1950
Name: Mary Ellen Casey
Spouse Name: George Brett
Marriage Date: 10 May 1912
marriage Place: Queensland
Registration Place: Queensland
Registration Year: 1912
Nellie Brett appears to have been no shrinking violet and features in some further newspaper articles:
Colin Bower
24 December 2018
