The Trail Grows Cold

My winning streak has come to an end on the Brewer family trail in Earls Colne.  There may be connections yet to come with all the Wallers or Walls that are in the records there, but I'll have to make them through the Coggeshall Waller records, if they exist. 

Unfortunately, there is no trace of Rose Brewer's maiden name, or connection to a baptism record in Earls Colne.  And on Adam Brewer's side, his  father was named John Brewer/Bruer (no mother's name is on record), and I have found three such men that could be him, but I cannot definitively connect one of them to Adam.


The first: a John Brewer who married Ann Bridge on April 15th, 1588.  They had children named Joan (6-7-1589) and Rachel (17-6-1593). The second: a John Bruer who married Joan Jolly on January 26th, 1596.  They had Elizabeth (14-3-1596).


The third: a John Bruer who married "Phill" Sparrow (not sure what Phill was short for) on May 9th, 1598.  They had children named Amy (16-7-1599), and Hugh (19-10-1600).

It is also possible that none of these Johns is his father, that he had come from another village.  And it is also possible that the same John had two or three wives in succession as there may have been eruptive fever epidemics at this time, such as smallpox, killing  them off. 

I like the sounds of Joan Jolly and Phill Sparrow - they'd be good names for a great x's 10 grandmother.

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