Birth: 26 December 1876 Writtle, Essex, UK
Father: Andrew John Broyde1851-1927
Mother: Frances Elizabeth Willis 1848-1946
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 15 July 1899 Walthamstow, Essex, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Jane Balls (Ball) 1875-1944
Marriage: July-September 1947 Chelmsford, Essex, UK
Wife: Maud Olivia Bloomfield [Orrin] 1892-1977
Death: July-September 1971 Colchester, Essex, UK
By Elizabeth
Frances Mary Broyde 1900-1902
John William Broyde 1901
Grace Ellen Broyde 1903
Lilian May Broyde 1906-1978
William Harry Broyde 1909
Nellie G Broyde 1911
Lydia Elizabeth Broyde [Cowles] 1916-2010
Kathreen C Broyde 1921
I cannot find a registration for his birth.
In the 1881 census as William Broyde aged 4, born in Writtle, Essex, and living with his parents (John and Frances), brother (Frederick W) and three sisters (Elizabeth A, Julia and Susannah) at Shaxtons Cottage, Shaxtons Farm, Writtle, Essex.
In the 1891 census as William Brogde (sic - in the index, Broyde on the original) aged 14, born in Writtle, Essex, single, an agricultural labourer and living with his parents (John and Frances), four brothers (Dick, Frederick, George and Jack), and three sisters (Julia, Martha and Susannah) at Shactons Farm, Writtle, Essex.
Marriage of William Broyde and Elizabeth Jane Balls in FreeBMD in July-September 1899 in W Ham (4a 420).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940 for William Broyde aged 22, father John Broyde, and Elizabeth Jane Balls, father John Balls, on 15 July 1899 in Walthamstow, Essex.
In the 1901 census as William Broyde aged 24, born in Writtle, Essex, a general labourer and living with his wife (Elizabeth) and daughter (Frances J) in four rooms at 244 Boundary Road, Walthamstow, Essex.
In the 1911 census as William Broyde aged 34, born in Chelmsford, Essex, a waterman working for the water board, and living with his wife (Elizabeth Jane), two sons (John William and William Harry), and two daughters (Gracie Ellen and Lilian May) in four rooms at 4 Cambridge Rd, Walthamstow, Essex.
His wife died in SW Essex in 1944.
Marriage of William Broyde and Maud O Orrin in FreeBMD in July-September 1947 in Chelmsford (4a 1329).
Death of William Broyde, born on 26 December 1876, in FreeBMD in July-September 1971 in Colchester (4a 1513).
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Broyde born in 1877, father John Broyde, married to Elizabeth Jane Balls on 15 July 1899 in Walthamstow, Essex. Another gives his birth in Writtle, Essex, parents John Broyde and Frances Elizabeth Willis, and his marriage to Elizabeth Jane Broyde in 1900, Another gives his birth on 26 December 1876 in Writtle, Essex, parents Andrew John Broyde and Frances Elizabeth Willis, his first four children, and his death in Colchester, Essex in 1971.
William Broyde was the father of Lydia Elizabeth Broyde, wife of Percival Victor Arthur Cowles, my fifth cousin.
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