MARGARET & BERYL BRINE
b 1922 and 1915
RAILWAY CLERK TYPISTS for L & S.W.R
Margaret and Beryl’s paternal grandfather was a railway porter in Kingston, and his son, their father Henry
was at various times a railway messenger, an outdoor porter and goods clerk. Even their uncle Albert Brine
was a railway parcels clerk, so a railway occupation would be hard to avoid.
The family were living in Cove by 1921, Beryl was 6, and she had two brothers, and Margaret arrived in
1922. In the 1939 identity card register both sisters were working as railway clerk typists and their father
and brother were clerks too.
Margaret married railway clerk William Saitch, and had two children Janet and David. Beryl bucked the
railway trend and married a young farmer, Liverpool-born Bernard Murtha, who had travelled to Canada
a couple of times, on one occasion to the Agricultural Training School in Alberta, in the centre of Canada.
In fact a couple of years their marriage in 1946 Beryl took their two sons Bernard Jnr. and baby Peter on a
14 day voyage (each way) presumably to visit their father out there. The whole family did return to Surrey.
Beryl and Bernard died just a year apart in 1981 and 82.
