William was the son of William Bramwell and Isabella Lister.
He was born on Thursday 7th December 1854 at Oakwellgate in Gateshead Durham while his Baptism took place 17 days later on Sunday 24th December 1854.

Ann Brown was the daughter of Robert Brown, a blacksmith, and Isabella Brown, formerly Hornsby. Ann was born on Friday 19th December 1856 at Oakwellgate Gateshead.

On the 8th December 1873 they were married at The Register Office in Gateshead.

Although it states William's age as 18 on his marriage certificate, he was in fact 19, having celebrated his birthday the day before he got married.
Also it shows Ann as being 17 when in fact she was 11 days short of her 17th birthday.

During the 57 years they were together they had 14 children including my Grandfather, also called William Lister Bramwell.

Ann holds a proud record of having seven of her sons in the armed forces. An article appeared in the North Star newspaper dated February 21, 1917. Click here to see the article.


When the 1921 Census was taken, William and Ann were living at 88 Bensham Road in Gateshead, while all of their children had moved on and married and were living with their respective wives and husbands.
However, their son James was still at home, he didn't get married for another 3 years. Also, their youngest daughter Ann, was back living with her parents, along with her husband Thomas and their first child Gladys.
Also at this address on census night were two of their grandchildren, Floriss and Reuben, children of Thomas Lister Bramwell and Ethel Rose Ewart.
Ethel had died in 1915 from Pulmonary Tuberculosis at the very young age of 24, leaving Thomas to bring up two children on his own.
By 1917, however, Thomas had remarried. I wonder if Floriss and Reuben were here permanently or just for a stay with Gran and Grandad?

The following table contains Birth, Marriage and Death dates we have and the date, if underlined,will link to the certificate for that event.

If you click on the camera icon it will show a photograph of that person.

In order of birth the children were;

Name of Children	Photo	Birth	Marriage	To	Photo	Death
Isabel Ann Lister Bramwell		18 Dec 1874	20 Oct 1894	John Robert Rutherford		27 Apr 1946
Allan Lister Bramwell		07 May 1876	28 May 1898	Charlotte Singleton		01 Aug 1937
Robert William Lister Bramwell		23 Mar 1878	-	-		25 Feb 1894
Margaret Jane Lister Bramwell		21 Dec 1879	-	-		22 Jan 1880
Edward Lister Bramwell		23 Dec 1880	28 Aug 1904	Florence May Upton		18 Aug 1963
Joshua Lister Bramwell		07 Dec 1882	01 Dec 1912	Mary Elizabeth Fenwick		23 Oct 1917
Dorothy Lister Bramwell		23 Jan 1885	05 Mar 1904	George T Hoye		-
John Lister Bramwell		08 July 1886	04 Aug 1912	Margaret Ann Onions		13 Apr 1960
Thomas Lister Bramwell		19 Apr 1889	19 Mar 1911	Ethel Rose Ewart		25 Nov 1961
( Thomas Lister Bramwell )		19 Apr 1889	28 Sep 1917	May G A Scott		25 Nov 1961
James Lister Bramwell		05 Dec 1891	03 Sep 1924	Annie Hall Ackinclose		09 Feb 1956
Stanley Lister Bramwell		21 Dec 1893	12 Apr 1914	Eliza Annie Burdis		26 Jul 1970
(Stanley Lister Bramwell)		21 Dec 1893	20 Dec 1931	Mary Hodgson		26 Jul 1970
Louisa Bramwell		20 Aug 1895	-	-		29 Jul 1898
William Lister Bramwell		24 Feb 1898	17 Jul 1918	Mary Isabella Logan		01 Jun 1972
Ann Lister Bramwell		19 Mar 1901	21 May 1919	Thomas Patrick McCretton		24 Jan 1976

All the children were registered with Lister as a middle name except Louisa, who sadly died in 1898 at the age of 2 years and 9 months.

William and Ann died just under seven months apart, Ann on the 15th May 1931 and William on the 6th December 1931.

Their memorial also bears an inscription to their son Joshua Lister Bramwell, who died in action during the First World War, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot War Memorial in Belgium.

William and Ann's Memorial in Sunderland Road Cemetery Gateshead.