William Brett - Alexander Brett of Whitestaunton Manor, Chard, Somerset, England

@ William Brett

@ Alexander Brett

Correction: website is: Sampford Brett Village.com

This village is in County Somerset, England, whose colors match exactly the color of the Brett Family Crest.

@ William Brett
@ Alexander Brett

@ Mary Brett (Isham), born 1603

Alexander Brett, Esq., of Pilton

Mary Isham

You might be interested in the projects that are devoted to families from specific regions in England. Also, it makes sense for more of the Bretts to be made into Master Profiles and researched and "cleaned up," with your assistance.

Carole (Erickson) Pomeroy,Vol. Curator is active in these areas.

http://www.geni.com/projects/Somerset-Family-Heads/13643 You would add to this project the oldest head of household of the Brett family to live in Chard, Somerset and the immigrant to the New World.

Carole (Erickson) Pomeroy,Vol. Curator and June Barnes can say more about the projects devoted to each English county.

Thank you Ms Blejer for your response. As a Vietnam Veteran, coming into direct contact with agent orange in Vietnam, I am not so sure how much help I would be to any project. The effects of agent orange has caught up with me physically, causing other issues as well.

However, I would provide whatever this old brain of mine could give.

Thank's again.

The projects don't need much work luckily. The most important thing is adding profiles for (1) oldest ancestor head of household (2) the first immigrant to the New World.

I know that I want to learn about all the regions that my various ancestors came from and how they lived and what other families they both lived with in England but which came to America with them and intermarried with them both there and here.

I believe that as these projects gradually take off, they will be very exciting to Geni members descended from those who came to America and elsewhere (Australia, NZ, SA, Canada) from England.

i have done something similar for some Eastern European "counties".

Good luck with your health issues!

Ms Blejer,

We share the same goals about family in England and what became the United States. It is with pride that I have learned a lot in the over 25 years of search for family. The excitement really took off, when in 1991, I first learned about my Brett family. Until then, I knew hardly anything about it.

Since the early 1990's, I have been researching over a hand full of my blood lines, at one time, including both my wive's families. With only one exception, all families came from England -- other Scotland.

What a fascinating journey, and past time, the time has been for me, especially learning of several of the areas in England that the Brett family originated after the year 1066 and the Battle of Hastings.

And, like you, I also found the same surnames marrying into the Brett family, both in England as well as the United States.

If I may invite you to see Whitestaunton Manor, Chard, County Somerset, England. The original property (building) was built in the 3d or 4th century by the Romans. After a 10 year renovation project, the "Red Diamond" was completed just months ago. The property originally came into the Brito (Brett) hands, by way of the Duke of Normandy, crowned King William I, AKA, William the Conqueror.

Fascinating family history.

Thank you again for your original message to me. I contacted Carol. And by the way, she is related to me!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was not aware of that.

I will definitely see what I can find on the Internet about the Whitestaunton Manor. I also had ancestors from Chard, by the way.

History is fascinating and when it is anchored in your own personal ancestry or the ancestry of a family member, it's much more vivid.

Here are a few links where Brett information can be found

http://www.thepeerage.com/i471.htm#s6241
http://www.thepeerage.com/i472.htm#s6250
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/i107.htm#s...
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/i107.htm#s...
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/i108.htm#s...
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/search/site/brett
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_188...
http://www.sampfordbrett.org.uk/brett-family-tree
http://www.sampfordbrett.org.uk/the-book

'Parishes: Huish Champflower', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 5 (1985), pp. 81-88. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117136 Date accessed: 22 November 2013.

Somersetshire wills By Frederick Brown, Frederick Arthur Crisp 1st Series.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=PElFAAAAYAAJ&q=brett#v=snippet&...
Pg.66-67

Somersetshire wills By Frederick Brown, Frederick Arthur Crisp 2nd Series.
https://archive.org/details/abstractssomers00browgoog
https://archive.org/stream/abstractssomers00browgoog#page/n43/mode/1up
Pg.29

Abstracts of Somersetshire wills, etc., copied from the manuscript collections of the late Rev. Frederick Brown (1887) 5th series
https://archive.org/stream/abstractsofsomer55cris#page/5/mode/1up
Pg.5

The history and antiqutities of the county of Somerset (1791) Vol. 3
https://archive.org/details/historyantiqutit03colluoft

Thank you Carole, for all the links, and information to come through those links.

Without a doubt I will find the connection I desire, linking the Battle of Hastings, 1066 to the nearest born Brett within my family line.

And, Hatte, thank you for referring me to Carole, lol, one of my second cousins!!!!!!!!!