James BRYMER and several of his descendants were coal miners, working the pits around the mouth of the River Tyne. Other jobs included carters, lamp lighters and ship’s firemen.
Figure 50: Felling Colliery possibly late 19th century.[i]
There is only one childhood death recorded for this family – John Stafford BRYMER, aged three, who died shortly before his mother in 1910.The father died a few months later from an accident, leaving three orphaned boys who were in the workhouse in the 1911 census.
Figure 51: Part of an article about the Deaths of Arthur Hedley BRIMER and family[ii]
The family have been recorded with both the BRIMER and BRYMER spellings, with BRYMER eventually becoming the consistent variant.
There are currently seven generations of the family below James BRYMER and Margaret HALL. There have been 68 descendants born with the Brimer / Brymer name – 30 men and 38 women. The high proportion of female children has resulted in many lines ‘daughtering out’ i.e. having only daughters. In fact, all of the ten living males currently in the UK are descended from one line only of each of the following two men. However, many of the men still alive are young and could have children in the future so it is possible that the line will continue.
Figure 52: Diagram Illustrating the Paths of Descent in Family D.
The family has remained localised to the River Tyne with the majority of events taking place in Tynemouth and North Shields in Northumberland and South Shields and Durham in County Durham.
[i] Wikimedia Commons. John Pit, Felling. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Pit_Felling.jpg : accessed 20 June 2016.
[ii] News article. (1911) Shields Daily Gazette. 2 January. p. 3d. Collection: British Newspapers. http://www.findmypast.co.uk : accessed 20 June 2016.
Brimer-Brymer database last updated at 2016-07-02 00:29:43 with 4028 census records and 2856 individuals