Brinsmead biographies
The English
- Alfred Ernest Brinsmead
- Rev. Keith Brinsmead
- William Heath Robinson
- Ephraim and Emma Squire
- John (Jack) Brinsmead Squire
- Rosa May Billinghurst
The Canadians
The Americans
- William Brinsmead
- John Charles Brinsmead
The Australians
Ephraim and Emma Squire
Ephraim Squire was born in 1854 in Buckland Brewer, Devon, the son of Robert Squire and Harriet Brinsmead. He married Emma on October 22, 1879, in Chetsey, Surrey. Emma was born Emma Sophia Carden Roberts, in 1854, in Brewer Weedon, Northampton, the daughter of W. C. Roberts of Aldershot.
Ephraim died on June 15, 1937 in Weybridge, Surrey
followed by Emma, one year later, in 1938. The couple had seven
children: John (Jack) Brinsmead (1881), Charles (1885), Stanley (1887), Clarence (1889), Mildred (1891), Ella Brinsmead (1894)
and Doris (1900). Jack died serving in the army in the First World WarEphraim Squire's father was a jeweller in Buckland Brewer, a small village in north Devon to the West of Weare Giffard and St. Giles in the Wood. The earliest known Brinsmead in the present day line farmed land in Buckland Brewer in the 1600's, in addition to land in St. Giles. The Squires of Buckland Brewer also installed the bells in St. Giles in the Wood parish church. Ephraim Squire followed his father's calling and became a master jeweller.
We have two accounts of Emma and Ephraim's wedding as well as this magnificent old photograph. Click on the picture for a larger version and the two newspaper accounts.
The woman in between the bride and groom is said to be Ephraim's mother, Harriet Brinsmead. Ephraim eventually set up shop in Church Street, Weybridge, Surrey. No doubt this was as a result of Emma's parents having lived nearby at Aldershot, and her aunt living in Chertsey, slightly North-East of Weybridge.
Ephraim also had an interest in bicycles, and appears not only to have been an enthusiast, but also a small time manufacturer. At the end of the First World War, Ephraim served as a Town Counsellor for Weybridge.