Edgar Thoreau Whitehead - Evidence of parentage?

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9/24/2018 at 4:03 PM

Greetings,

We received an email from a descendant of one of Edgar's supposed siblings, claiming that Edgar Whitehead is not the son of John Whitehead and Agathe Whitehead (von Breunner-Enkevoirth). I did a little research myself and can only come up with an article on a "libcom" web site that makes this claim. The sources provided on that page do not mention Edgar's parentage, however, so I find it suspect.

Can anyone provide evidence that Edgar belongs here? If not, he should probably be disconnected.

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9/24/2018 at 6:17 PM

Here is a link to a tree for John and Agathe where it only lists 2 children not the 7 we have on Geni

http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00328563&tree=LEO

On Geni we currently have-
John Whitehead (1854-1902) and
Gräfin Agathe Whitehead, Countess as the parents of
* 1888 John Whitehead
* 1889 Frank Whitehead married Margarete Whitehead
* 1890 Edgar Thoreau Whitehead
* 1891 Agathe Whitehead married Georg Johannes Ludwig Ritter von Trapp
* 1893 Robert Whitehead, Jr.
* 1895 Maria Agata Carolina Malfatti married Gioacchino Pietro Luigi Malfatti Baron di Montetretto
* 1899 Joan Whitehead

This site https://www.georgandagathe.org/children-parents-grandparents.html has
John Whitehead (1854-1902) and Countess Agathe Gobertina von Breunner as the parents of
* John Jr Gobertus Whitehead who married Suzanne Bechet de Balan
* Frank Gobert Whitehead who married Countess Margarete Braida
* Agatha Whitehead who married Captain Georg Von Trapp
* Robert Jr Whitehead who married Anne Morton
* Mary Whitehead who married Baron Gino Malfatti
* Joan Whitehead

So it looks like Edgar does not belong to this family

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=igFpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT330&...

Hitler's British Traitors: The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists by Tim Tate

Edgar Thoreau WHITEHEAD and Sophia BRAY nee VOZNESENNSKY

Edgar adopted his mistress's name BRAY

"Edgar Thoreau Whitehead was a veteran of the Communist Party in the 1920s and, as secretary of its west London branch, had attracted the attentions of the Security Service – not least since he appears to have served a short prison sentence....."

There are a few pages about him in the book but I don't have access to a copy to see if there are any genealogical data.

Another book that contains information about him
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2001DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11&d...

Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton

9/27/2018 at 1:35 AM

Hi, I am the grandson of Edgar Thoreau Whitehead, Alan Whitehead. The information you hold of Edgar's lineage is correct.

He changed his name to Edgar Bray on forming a relationship with Sophie Bray.

Edgar had two sons - my father, Leo Tolstoy Whitehead & my uncle, John Ruskin Whitehead.

Regards,

Alan Whitehead

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