Jeffrey BRERETON

Notes:

Jeffrey's mother Eva/Eleanor remarried Henry Chittenden Barbour of Fryeburg, Maine. Henry became a stepfather to Jeffrey, who subsequently took the Barbour name.

Notes:

The public record for Kenneth LeRoy Brereton is a colorful one. He was recorded in the 1910 US Census in the home of his parents, Archibald and Mary Brereton. In the 1920 US Census, at age 11, he was a 'boarder' at the home of Kate Stackpole, with no reference to his parents. He had a busy 1927, he was listed both as a student in Brookline Massachusetts, and also as a passenger on a voyage from Copenhagen to New York. In 1929 he married Loretta M. LaPointe in Rye, New York. In the 1930 US Census, he was living at the home of his mother and stepfather in North Branford, and claimed to be working as an 'aircraft production manager.' He was listed as married, but neither Loretta nor any alternative wife were noted at that address. According to the 1937 newspaper articles reporting his marriage to Dorothy Dudley, Kenneth claimed to be a graduate Norwich Military Academy and of Yale University, employed as a 'manufacturing chemist' at Brereton Laboratories in New Haven. A 1939 newsletter for Norwich Military Academy, renamed Norwich University, listed a change of address for him to Northport Conn., c/o Brereton Laboratories. But Northport was actually in New York, so more likely Northford Connecticut, the place Kenneth listed on his WWII draft registration. In the 1940 US Census he was listed as divorced, living once again with with his mother and stepfather in North Branford, working as a Rural US Mail Carrier. (his mother was a Postmistress there) He was listed in the 1941 New Haven Directory as an Insurance Agent, with new wife Eleanor, née Eva Francis Watts. In February of 1948 he married Lucille Rich, a Broadway dancer, during his tenure as the Assistant Manager of the Hotel Belvedere in New York.

A Google query returns only two results for "Brereton Laboratories," they are both noted above, so likely an non-existent enterprise, and the Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives staff confirmed Brereton was never a student there. The staff at Norwich University confirmed that Brereton was in fact a student there, but they could not confirm his graduation.

Kenneth married Eva Frances WATTS Abt 1941. Eva was born 17 Apr 1916, Wales, Cavalier, North Dakota; died 28 Jul 1990, North Conway, Carroll, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Eva was a well-known painter in Fryeburg, Maine as well as a local historian. Her paintings are resold to this day.

Archibald married Grace M. TYLER Abt 1908. Grace was born Abt 1892, Connecticut; died 25 Sep 1956, North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet]