Chapter 34 Austin Plant - Plant Family History Group

No. 261 Prof. Richard E Plant
Richard is a second cousin of Irene Berger (Member No. 228) and a descendant of Edward Plant bn
1787 in Birmingham.
Journal No. 30 included a piece on this Edward, who was a Frying Pan maker married to Sarah? Their
direct line included George, bt 1822, St Phillips, Birmingham m Sarah Littlewood 1844, Stephen
Rawson Plant born 1854 Aston who m Eliza Buckler/Willatt in 1874, John Sydney Plant born 1877 m
Florence Mary Baker 1904 New York, Sydney Herbert Plant born 1907, Leicester.
Full details, including a number of photographs was included in Journal No. 30.
No. 262 David Plant
Another Staffordshire connection; this time in the Penkridge/Deepfields, Billington area.
Using the Census returns it was possible to establish that David’s grandfather, Joseph, was born 1889
in Penkridge, Joseph’s father, (another Joseph) being born 1865 in Deepfields and marrying Mary
c1888. A generation further back the 1881 Census shows a further Joseph born 1839 at Billington and
in 1881 a Coal Agent.
So using the information from the census returns it was possible to establish the following tree:
Joseph P
b 1839 Billington, Staffs
m Jane c1864
Francis E P b n 1867 Joseph P
Arthur b n 1873 b 1865 Deepfields, Staffs
Charles b n 1875 m Mary c 1888 (b1865)
Harriet b n 1879
Frederick b n 1881
Joseph P Kathleen
b 1889 Penkridge b 1899 Penkridge
m Mirriam Stanley
Stanley Joseph P
b 1922
m Hilda Kathleen Fradley
No. 263 Sharon Morton
Following a recent visit to Wales to research her father’s side of the family, Sharon found that her
father’s mother was Gertrude Alexandrina Melson Plant, born 1 June 1866, the youngest child of
Charles Myatt Plant and Elizabeth Hill.
Gertrude’s siblings were:
Julia b 1848 William b 1858
Cicily b 1851 Rachel b 1859
Emily b 1854 Alfred b 1862
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