Searching Lucy BROACHER (Severnside) (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 15:28 (4422 days ago) @ unknown

Hi and welcome to this great forum.
Sadly I've only got a minute between jobs, but as I have no access to the subscription sites (Ancestry etc) I rely heavily on this site's PRs which don't appear to have Lucy, plus Glos BMD and FreeBMD which fortunately gives excellent coverage to our neck of the woods.

Searching FreeBMD for Lucy Broachers/Brocher only gives the folowing few hits which may well be some of "yours", given that I've searched all the UK records(on FreeBMD that is!) and they are in the correct Wheatenhurst area:

Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
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Births Jun 1853
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Broacher Lucy Long Wheatenhurst 6a 247

Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
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Births Jun 1889
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Brocher Lucy Wheatenhurst 6a 321

Surname First name(s) Mother/Spouse/Age District Vol Page
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Marriages Sep 1915
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Brocher Lucy A Winter Wheatenhurst 6a 953

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/wheatenhurst.html

From GlosBMD I find a little more detail:

Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
BROACHER Lucy Long BROACHER BROACHER BANKS 1853 Gloucester Gloucester, Frampton 5 471

Child Surname Child Forename Father Surname Mother Surname Mother's Former Name Year District Office Register Entry
BROCHER Lucy BROCHER BROCHER WILLIAMS 1889 Gloucester Gloucester, Frampton 15 83

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
WINTER Richard Sidney BROCHER Lucy Amy Gloucester Framilode St Peter 1915 19 No 1 146

http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/SimpleSearch.aspx

Hope this helps, I'll leave you in MPG's very capable hands. Meanwhile I'm sure you'll quickly find more useful Brocher/Broacher info on these sites. I see the surname Brooker is far more commonplace, and there are a fair few hits in the Thames valley region eg Newbury & Reading, I wonder if these are perhaps linked to the Severnside ones perhaps thro the Thames, canals or the GWR ?.