William Walcroft Branch (1808 – 1869)

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William Walcroft Branch
Name William Walcroft Branch
Date of Birth 1808-07-10
Place of Birth Doncaster, UK
Date of Marriage 1836-12-21
Date of Death 1869-11-07 (æ 61)
Place of Death Bathurst NB
Son of
& of		 Richard Branch
Hannah Walcroft
Name Mary Catherine Sinclair
Date of Birth 1817
Place of Birth Black River, NB
Place of Marriage  
Date of Death 1854
Place of Death Bathurst NB
Daughter of
& of		  
 


Children

Name D.o.b Place of Birth D.o.d Place of Death Date of Marriage Spouse
Hannah Branch c. 1836   1914  
Angus S. Branch 1840   1927   Lavinia Kent
Richard W. Branch 1841   1912     Isabella Ann Black
Hannah Kent Branch 1884-05-03   William Arthur Branch
Angus  
William  
Robert C. Branch 1844   1911   Elizabeth Kent
Samuel Bishop Branch 1847-10   1921 Mary Brown
John Herbert Branch 1871-02-09   Margaret Sealy
William Arthur Branch 1872-06-20   Hannah Kent Branch
Jessie May Branch 1875-05-21   Dr. Welham
James Robert Branch 1877-10-16  
Ellen Jane Branch 1879-02-11  
Harold Branch 1882-10-05  
Mildred Branch 1883-12-30  
Samuel Percy Branch 1887-04-01  
Frances Matheson Branch 1889  
Isabella Wheeler Branch 1891  
Mary (Minnie) Clair Branch 1850-08-06   1931   Albert Cole

Generated with ChatGPT July 2025

Information and photos supplied by Arthur Branch (July 2025):

One piece of family oral history was that William was also sheriff of Bathurst at one time living in the jail. I have been unable to prove this as yet.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Branch-3334

https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/about/L2T8-516

In 1836 at least, William drove a stagecoach for a living.

There is oral history that William's first wife and the mother of his children died early, and he remarried. According to descendant Arthur Branch it is said that the second wife stole the silver and everything else of value and boarded a ship to Boston to disappear. He speculated it could have been a housekeeper.

According to census records, after the death of his wife Catherine he had her niece living with him.

Update July 2026

Descendant Arthur Branch found the second marriage record through the New Brunswick Genealogical Society Anglican Registers Project (image below). It records the marriage on September 28th 1864 with Margaret Miller:
(Copy by request of curate) Nº 185. William S. Branch, of the Parish of Bathurst & County of Gloucester, yeoman, & Margaret Miller of Boston (at present of the Parish of Wellington, in the County of Kent, widow, were married by License in the Parish of Wellington, on this twenty eighth day of September, one thousand and eight hundred & sixty four by Alfred W. Week, A.B. Curate. The Witnesses were David Chapman & Adam McIntyre.

The above poster was discovered by William’s grandson Bert (Robert) in 1921 in the walls of a house which he had purchased and was demolishing.

(Copy by request of curate) Nº 185. William S. Branch, of the Parish of Bathurst & County of Gloucester, yeoman, & Margaret Miller of Boston (at present of the Parish of Wellington, in the County of Kent, widow, were married by License in the Parish of Wellington, on this twenty eighth day of September, one thousand and eight hundred & sixty four by Alfred W. Week, A.B. Curate. The Witnesses were David Chapman & Adam McIntyre.