Newsletter Delay

This Newsletter was due to be out earlier in the week but the excitement of England winning against Germany and then against Albania held things up a bit.

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BIG apologies as I did not have any birthdays on my list for the early part on September and then I was reminded by my niece and nephews that there DAD Simon who is married to my sister Lynn has his Birthday today 7^th September.

Simon Osborn b 7^th September 1964, Milton Keynes married Lynn Brassett 23^rd August 1986, they have three children Grant b 1988, Kirt b 1990, Kerry b 1993. They all live in Enfield Middlesex.

Simon was in the Army with Lynn and my brother Christopher and met Lynn when he was home on leave with Chris.

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How far back have we gone so far in our search for a connection, Over the past few week it seems that we have been making plenty of connection with each other that are within reach, finding people that are still alive is great but we must have a connection out there somewhere.

The Records that I have been sent show my section going back to John Brassett b 1696, I have a chart from Anji that shows a John Brassett b 1751. To me there is at least a generation gap.

Does anyone have anything around these dates that may connect the two section together.

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Yvonne Marshall sent me the following email with regards to a web-site in Australia, she came up with the following information can any help

I found only 1 Brassett on the list.

He was Andrew 19y old in May 1869. He sailed to Victoria on "Yorkshire" from a British port.

Don't know who he is but someone may be related. cheers Yvonne Marshall

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Sylvia Gorbell sent me the following email can anyone make a connection

I had a call tonight from Ian Brassett living in CORNWALL. He has two brothers David and Nick.

His Dad is Michael Brassett and his Grandfather is Len Brassett. Len originally comes from LONDON.

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Brassett's on the Net

Putting Brassett into the search box on Yahoo.Com came up with a surprise. I have done this before but this time I found something different among the hits that came up.

This is the web-site for John Brassett, b 29^th August 1952, The site is in French but there is a button to press that changes everything into English for us who did French at school for 4 years and does not remember a thing.

John has pictures and a biography on the site which goes through his musical history given details of the band he has been in and the Records they have recorded.

I suggest you take a look at the site it make's interesting reading.

Who is John connected to I cannot find him on anything I have ?

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Over the past week I have found another member of my section of the family. With help from Yvonne Whitington who supplied me with the names and then Sylvia Gorbell who name the contact I have spoken to Paul Brassett who is a close related half-cousin.

If you can fill in any gaps with regards to this section of the family please let me know.

Henry Brassett b 18-Jun-1829, Married Mary Ann Cook, they had three son's

Henry b 1852

William b 1852, Married Jane Richman

It not known how many children Herbert and Anne had but one was name after his father,

Herbert and Anne had a daughter called Annie we have very little on Annie except that she had two children

Ivy b 1920

Herbert married Elsie and they had three children, it is not know what happened to Ivy

Roger b 1957

Trevor b 1959

Paul is married to Cherry, Roger is married to Tracy and they have 3 children Micheal, Kelly and Jade, Trevor is married to Betty and they have 2 children Alison and Richard,

All of the above come down from the marriage of Henry and Mary Ann Cook but after her death Henry married once again to Maria Drummond, They had 7 Children and I come do for that marriage.

Can anyone tell me how I am connected to Paul

Paul goes back through, Herbert, Annie, Herbert, Herbert, Henry

I go back through, Ronald, Robert, John, Henry

This puts Paul Roger and Trevor a generation below me even though they were all born before me Can someone tell me if we are Half- Cousins, or what ?

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Brassett Family Crest

While talking to Paul Brassett, he told me that he had seen the web-site front page and he has the crest on a glass, This would further confirm that we have the correct crest on the web site that was originally given to me by Errol Brassett in New Zealand.

What I would like to through into the pot is something I have found elsewhere and have had trouble finding until today when I when back onto the net in search for it

has anyone had any details of what this crest looks like as I would be interested in knowing if it is anything to do with us.

This web-site does look like it is in the USA so this may be a reference to the name in the USA. does anyone in the States have anything that can help on this matter.

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Passing On Information

Thanks to all who have been passing on information to me, I know that things are also being passed between others. This all help us to find out more about our family connection and may one day find the key that links us all together.

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and finally

We now have a emailing list of 43. I have made a few changes to the way I am sending the Newsletter so lets hope you all get it first time. I you are sending this newsletter onto other please let me have their email address then I can send them a copy direct

Robert