BRYER of Suffolk Family Chart no. 31

	William BRYER		Ann Maria DOWNS
	b. circa 1839 at Clerkenwell		b. circa 1840 at Hadleigh, SFK
			m. 2 May 1863 at Hadleigh, SFK [IGI]
	Gold & Silver Refiner

Their Children

William Herbert	Edith S	John Henry	Mary M	Harry Edward	Charles Felix	Florence	Percy	Albert Edward
b. circa 1864 at Camberwell [GRO]	b. circa 1866 at Camberwell [1881]	b. circa 1867 at Camberwell [1881]	b. circa 1869 at Camberwell [1881]	b. circa 1870 at Camberwell [1881]	b. circa 1872 at Camberwell [1881]	b. circa 1877 at Camberwell [1881]	b. circa 1880 at Beckenham [1881]	b. circa 1881 at Beckenham [GRO]
				m. Winifred ? 1899 at Billericay, ESS

Where They Lived

William's father, John, had a Watchmaking and Chronograph Manufacturing business at 53-54 Barbican in the City of London. This business seems to have passed to William by the time it is listed in the 1902 directory, when it had become William Bryer & Sons, Gold and Silver Refiners. Today, one of the blocks of flats in the Barbican Estate is named Bryer Court, after the company, and more information can be found on the Barbican Living website.

An example of one of William & Co's clocks came up for auction recently, and the online catalogue displayed this photograph.

By 1881, William had moved south of the river, to Beckenham Bromley in Kent, with his large family. At least three of his sons - John Henry, Harry Edward, and Albert Edward - worked with their father, as they are all listed in the 1908 Collingridge Directory. Charles Felix became an Insurance Clerk, and for a time lived away from home - he can be found living at a Club in Pancras in 1891 - although he had returned to the family home by 1901.