Hester(Ester/Esther) Brain (Bryan/Bryant) was my great great grandmother. I sent for the certificate OND 1841 for a marriage with William Baker but was told that though they were on the same page, they did not marry each other.

I found a marriage at Eastington Parish Church on 25th January 1830 of an Esther Bryant OTP to a William Baker of King's Stanley. This fits in with the fact that she is a widow by the name of Baker when she marries Charles Richards in 1843.

I don't know if she was the Esther living with Edwin Howell at Little Dean in the 1841 census. I can't find a record of a marriage. Maybe they didn't marry which is why she gives her name as Baker later on. All very baffling with a lot more work to be done to unravel it.