Many years ago I registered the name Brewis as a one name study with the Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS) in London because I could not find anyone else interested in this name. There were no Brewis listed in my local (Australian) telephone directory, and not many in other places.
As part of my own family research (I started life as Dorothy Brewis) I was accumulating a lot of data on Brewis people.
This was because, in my opinion, when visiting places like Record Offices in the UK on short trips to England from Australia for holidays, it is more time efficient to copy all Brewis entries and analyse them later at home in Australia, than to try and find the exact match for one individual, but miss the rest. That was my view anyway.
I then started buying the various published paper and microfiche indexes, such as the Northumberland Marriage and Burial Indexes 1813-1837 by George Bell and Carol Yellowley (1996), as well as individual parishes from the 'Herbert Maxwell Wood Collection of Transcripts of Parish Registers of Northumberland and County Durham' as they became available. These transcripts are owned by the Newcastle Library and Information Service and reproduced by Northfiche.
In 1997 I corresponded with Mr James E Ellis of Pitlochry and as a result he gave me a copy of 'The Master Chart' and 'The Descendants of Robert Brewhous c1600', which he and John Brewis of Stranraer had compiled. He also gave me the various appendices produced by other researchers.
This was a marvellous resource and gave me a good start in linking some of the names in my data base into one branch of the Brewis 'tree'. My latest version of this (the result of access to more original sources) is on the “Family of Robert Brewhouse” page.
Over the years I have maintained contact with more than 300 other people interested to a greater or lesser extent in the Brewis name which has produced many more links. Not all of these are connected to the 'Robert Brewhouse' line yet, but it may happen one day
My interest is in tracing the spread of the various clans and branches of the Brewis tribe from its known beginning in Scotland/Northumberland to all the 'ends of the earth’, as well as linking my twig to this tribe.
To achieve this I decided to do two things, namely:
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Create this Web page for the Brewis name, that lists all the people I have information on, (except for the living). This will allow new searchers to quickly ascertain if I can help them, and if not, hopefully encourage them to contact me and share their information with us. |
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Create a database of people interested in Brewis so that I can quickly put you in touch with each other where there is a shared interest or ancestor. Part of this list is on the 'Ends of the Earth' page. |
Dorothy Harris