Searching Children of James Brain & Sophia Herbert ? (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, February 06, 2012, 01:30 (4678 days ago) @ Jefff

Again searching the 1851 Glos Census, I cannot find ANY Sophia Brain, odd !?

I DO see some Brain Households in Ruardean area, many James Brains.

Checking Glos BMD, no clues, from FreeBMD I see this:

Surname Given Name Age District Volume Page Transcriber
Deaths Mar 1843
BRAIN Sophia Westbury on Severn 11 399 9799

Could this be our Sophia ?.

Rechecking FoD PRs:

Record_ID: 18703
Entry_Number: 744
Year: 1843
Month: Mar
Day: 12
Surname: BRAIN
Forenames: Sophia
Residence: Hundred of St Briavels
Age_at_death: 40
Officiating_Minister: G. L. Parsons Off[iciatin]g Min[iste]r
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death: [not sta
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P 110 IN 1/11
Page_No: 93
Parish_Chapel: Littledean
Soundex: B650

[So MAYBE right area and right age wrt marriage in 1820 ????].

Again from the Glos 1851 Census,

1959 1851 CENSUS HO107/1959 FF.0238-0261 ED.4D NEWNHAM 1

Piece: 1959 Folio: 0258 Schedule: 130

Address: Old Engine

BRAIN James HD M 48 Ag Lab GLS Littledean (c1803)
BRAIN Agnes WI M 35 - GLS East Dean (c1816)
BRAIN Benjamin SO U 18 Lab GLS East Dean (c1833)
BRAIN Maria DA - 15 - GLS East Dean (c1836)
BRAIN William SO - 12 Labourer GLS East Dean (c1839)
BRAIN Thomas SO - 9 Scholler GLS East Dean (c1842)
BRAIN Esther A. DA - 5 Scholler GLS East Dean (c1846)
BRAIN Henry SO - 1 - GLS East Dean (c1850)

[Could this be our James, remarried ? Unusual age difference.
Old Engine is at Steam Mills, so precisely where the Parsons are as earlier post].

Perhaps coincidentally, there are a few "young" James Brains in Ruardean area according to the Census, having birthdates around 1817 so abt the time of James & Sophia's marriage..??

I hope this helps in some way. Sadly I don't have access to later Census's so cannot go farther.
Happy Hunting !