William Henry Branston

   FamilySearch ID: 9CK7-D8J.

  General Notes:

Abode and occupation at baptisms given as Ashley / labourer (Thomas & James), Cranbourne / labourer (Anna), Harbridge / farmer (Kitty - Mary), Harbridge / yeoman ( Charles & Hannah). Anne was buried aged 3 weeks. [Source: Harbridge parish registers] ⁵⁶

  Events

• Church: Vestry of St. Laurence, 30 Mar 1837, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ⁸¹⁴ With Henry Frampton, Wm Pitt, John Toomer (?) and Charles Besant. Robert Besant is the warden with William Hooker.

• Church: Vestry of St. Laurence, 29 Mar 1838, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ⁸¹⁴ With Henry Frampton, Wm. Pitt, Rich Scutt and Charles Besant. Robert Besant is the warden with William Hooker.

• Church: Vestry of St. Laurence, 28 Mar 1839, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ⁸¹⁴ With Henry Frampton, Wm. Pitt, William Hooper. Robert Besant is the warden with William Hooker.

• Church: Vestry of St. Laurence, 26 Mar 1840, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ⁸¹⁴ With Henry Frampton, Wm. Pitt, Charles Besant. Robert Besant is the warden with William Hooker.

• Census, 1841, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. William (40, farmer)

• Occupation. Farmer

• Church: Vestry of St. Laurence, 5 Apr 1841, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. ⁸¹⁴ With Henry Frampton, Wm. Pitt, Charles Besant. Robert Besant is the warden with William Hooker.

• Probate, 1851, Dorset Archeaconry. ⁸¹⁵

• Burial: Affpuddle, 20 Mar 1851, Affpuddle, Dorset, England. Bishop's transcripts. No FaG memorial or evidently surviving readable stone as it is not on the OPC Monumental Inscriptions Index.

William married Mary Ann Woodrow, daughter of Charles Woodrow and Mary Davis, 25 Nov 1823 in Harbridge, Hampshire, England ⁵⁶.^,812 (Mary Ann Woodrow was born in 1803 in Linchmere, Sussex, England ⁸¹⁶, christened 13 Mar 1803 in Linchmere, Sussex, England ⁵⁶ and died 18 Oct 1861 in Affpuddle, Dorset, England ⁵⁶.)