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From: "David Barker" <>
Subject: The Bramley Apple story.
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:49:51 +0100


Hello everyone,

Technology is wonderful! A friend scanned the 4 + pages taken from the
"Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society" and hey presto I tried to send
page 1 to the list. After ten minutes of watching it all happen it went!
The next day it came back from the Rootsweb server simply saying it was too
large to accept. So end of story.
However I have tried to summarise the Family History bits for you so that
you can see who did what!
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"A Miss Brailsford of local tradition was a MARY ANN BRAILSFORD elder
daughter of CHARLES & ELIZABETH BRAILSFORD who was bapt at Southwell on May
20th 1791 and who also appears in the Minsters registers as having married
firstly JOHN BUCKLOW of Newark on May 20th 1813 and secondly RICHARD
HINDLEY, a farmer of Holme near Newark on July 26th 1820.
It would appear that the pip (or whole apple) was inserted sometime before
MARY ANN BRAILSFORD's first marriage in 1813 but after 1809 the year in
which she went with her parents to live at what is now called "Bramley Tree
Cottage" [in Southwell, Nottinghamshire] ie when Miss BRAILSFORD was a girl
between the ages of 18 and 22.
Assuming that the tree took ten years from the sowing of the pip to come
into bearing, it was have first fruited between 1819 and 1823 ie after MARY
ANN BRAILSFORD had left her original home but whilst her widowed mother
ELIZABETH BRAILSFORD was still living there. So perhaps the credit of
having raised 'Bramley's Seedling' should be shared by the daughter who
inserted the pip, or whole apple and her mother who at least refrained from
uprooting the seedling during its unprofitable youth.
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I have visited Bramley Tree Cottage and not only seen the tree but was
kindly given 2 apples from the original tree. Nottingham University have
"cloned" the tree so that an identical tree is now growing to ensure that it
carries on. A good beer and sandwich can be obtained in the adjacent
"Bramley Apple" public house!!

Kind regards and apologies for the delay in getting this to the list.

Brenda in Hampshire
Researching DUNMORE, BRAILSFORTH
BRELSFORTH & BRAILSFORD


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