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This site has only an index to that part of my database of the Brewis people and relatives that I know were born before 1900.   

I have used this cut off date to protect information about living people.

 I have restricted the data to an index for four reasons:

My database continues to grow (30,000+ names) and change as I find new sources of information that provide better insight into family groupings, so if you do not find who you are looking for, and/or if you need help with someone born after 1900, please contact me direct.  I enjoy making new contacts and will reply to you as soon as possible.

The database includes variants such as:

Brewis, Brewes, Brewhouse, Bruce 

And spelling alternatives such as:

Brewace, Brewas, Brewce, Brewehouse, Brewers, Brewess, Brewhaus, Brewheuse, Brewhis, Brewhous, Brewhouses, Brewhousse, Brewhoute, Brewhows, Brewhowse, Brewice, Brewise, Brewiss, Brewose, Brewous, Brews, Brewse, Brewus, and Brewys, Bruas, Bruhouse, Brewice, Bruis, Bruise, Bruiss, Bruse, Brwis.

 Some of these are currently used variants and some of them are the spelling of parish priests, register office clerks, shipping clerks etc.

The most frequent ‘related/spouse’ names include variants of:

Bridges, Brown, Burgan, Chilvers, Chirnside, Clark, Cooper, Cow, Crombie, Davison, Dodds, Donald. Ellis, Embleton, Fenwick, Forcer, Gardner, Gibson, Hall, Hardman, Jobson, Johnson, Landel, Miller, Pattinson, Pike, Pipe, Richardson, Robertson, Scot, Sharp, Spendley, Tait, Taylor, Thompson, Weeks, Young.

 For each entry you will find Name, and (if known) year and place of Birth and Christening, and given names of Parents. This will enable you to identify a potential ancestor. 

 You will not find any other details,  or information about people born after 1900. 

 Where I know a couple had children but don’t know their names they are recorded as ‘unnamed’.  In other instances where a person is known to exist such as a spouse, they are recorded variously as ‘unknown’, or their Given name only, or their Surname only, or even just initials.  This makes for a messy index, but making the limited information known increases the chance of finding a link.