The Reffell Family - 1900s
At the start of the century, the 1901 United Kingdom census shows that the family resided in the following counties; London, Middlesex, Surrey, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Kent, Renfrewshire and South Glamorgan. Overseas the family had traveled to Canada, the USA and New Zealand.
The First World War, the 'War to end all wars', was the first British war that involved so many ordinary people. The national outpouring that followed the end of that conflict was noted by the spontaneous display of remembrance that still lives on today. Unfortunately only twenty years later the world was to see another conflict, this time a more global war. Those in the extended family who lost their lives are commemorated on this website from both the First World War and the Second World War.
In a century where small breweries could not compete with the larger soon to be global industries, the two still-open breweries sold out to larger companies and were closed down; the Gomshall Brewery to Young & Company of Wandsworth in 1926 and the Bexley Brewery to Courage & Barclay in 1956.
Between 1900 and 1999, in the UK there were 374 births, 334 marriages and 262 deaths recorded in the England, Wales and Scotland civil registration indexes.
Timeline
9 January 1900 |
Louise Josephine Masset is hanged for the murder of her 3 year old son |
1904 |
Robert (Bobby) Abel retires from first-class cricket |
31 July 1913 |
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1914-1918 |
First World War |
1922 |
Herbert William Reffell moves to Wiltshire and opens a butchers shop |
1926 |
The Gomshall brewery is closed |
1938-1945 |
Second World War |
1956 |
The Bexley Brewery is closed |
1980 |
The Wiltshire butchers shop closes |