Percival (Percy) Waddams Petter - 28th May 1873 ~ 15th September 1955, age 82.
Birth: High Street, Yeovil, Somerset, England.
Death: Christchurch, Hampshire. England.
Wife: Emily Jane Kennan - 7th December 1874 ~ 5th May 1935.
Married in 1904.
Children:
Norah Winifred Kennan - 1906 ~ 1998.
Kathleen Emily Kennan - 1907 ~ 1977.
Gladys Irene Kennan - 1910 ~ 1996.
Percival Branscombe Kennan (E. Biden) - July 1911 ~ 23rd Nov. 1938.
Ethel Muriel Kennan - 1913 ~ 1986.
Beaufort Read Kennan - 1918 ~ 3rd October 1942. (WWII)
2nd Wife: Ruth Penson-Harris - 1892 ~
Married in 1946.
Father: James Bazeley Petter - 1846 ~ 1906.
Mother: Charlotte Waddams Bransconbe - 1846 ~ 1911.
Siblings:
James Henry John Branscombe - 1871 ~ 1943.
Guy Brazeley - 1872 ~ 1949.
Ernest Willoughby - 28th May 1873 ~ 18th July 1854.
Hugh Mortimer - 1875 ~
Mary Oatey - 1876 ~ 1969.
Gertrude Emily - 1877 ~ 1967.
Francis William - 1878 ~ 1884.
John - 1879 ~
Claude Alexander - 1881 ~ 1983.
Lillie - 1885 ~ 1970.
Eliza Lillie - 1885 ~
Evelyn Branscombe - 1889 ~
Richard Cecil - 1892 ~ 1972.
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Whether it was right for Brethren to hold municipal office (eg. as a mayor) was an issue on which the earliest brethren at Plymouth were divided. In 1837 Benjamin Newton wrote to Dr Joseph Cookworthy, remonstrating with him over his 'political associations'. Cookworthy was the mayor of Plymouth from 1839 to 1841; see my Elusive Quest 37 n.28. Timothy Stunt