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Title: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: djw29 on Tuesday 19 August 14 16:43 BST (UK)
Hi
I am new to this message board 'thing' but would appreciate any help anyone can offer.  I am looking for the death of Susanna Brain.  I've looked on ancestry and it is uncommon enough a combination to narrow it down to two - circa Jun 1865 in Westbury on Severn (more likely) or circa Dec 1866 in Clifton.  If anyone can get details on either of these that would help me enormously to narrow down the search.  Thank you
Darren Woodward
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: carol8353 on Tuesday 19 August 14 16:46 BST (UK)
Hello and welcome to Rootschat.

When was she born,the 1866 Clifton one was 29,so born in 1837.

The 1865 one died in LITTLEDEAN and was 43 ie born in 1822.
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: djw29 on Tuesday 19 August 14 17:11 BST (UK)
Wow that was quick!  I don't think it can be the 42 year old.  I have her baptism in 1830, on the 51 census she says she is 21 but she says she is only 26 on the 61 census!  Are you able to access the death cert for either?  If one is right she was telling porkies either way!
Thank you  :)
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 19 August 14 17:37 BST (UK)
The only way to access death certs is to order them.

Is she the 26 yr old "Susanah" Brain in Ashton Keynes (Cricklade registration district) in 1861? RG9/1274/27/19.
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: djw29 on Tuesday 19 August 14 18:04 BST (UK)
She is indeed the Cricklade one - do you know more?
Thank you very much for your help.
Darren
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 19 August 14 18:09 BST (UK)
No, I don't know of the family but I see that the widowed James in 1871 (by now living in Moreton Valence, Glos - registration district Wheatenhurst) has with him a 5 yr old daughter Mary, b Moreton Valence. RG10/2625/36/5.

Possible birth reg for her then is as Mary A C Brain, Mar qtr 1866 Wheatenhurst.

If this is the right birth reg and Susannah gave birth to her then I'd think it may narrow down possible death dates for Susannah.
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: carol8353 on Tuesday 19 August 14 18:15 BST (UK)
She is indeed the Cricklade one - do you know more?
Thank you very much for your help.
Darren

Find my past have the ages of the 2 you asked about,but it doesn't look like either are the ones you want?
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 19 August 14 18:17 BST (UK)
Was she Susannah LUGG who married James BRAIN, Sep qtr 1856 Chippenham?

GloucestershireBMD has more on the Mary A C Brain birth:

Mary Ann Caroline BRAIN, mother's maiden name LUGG, 1865.  (GRO reg as I said was Mar qtr 1866).

An online tree (usual caution required) has Mary's birthdate as 13 Dec 1865.
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: carol8353 on Tuesday 19 August 14 18:48 BST (UK)
Did mum die giving birth to Mary perhaps- and if she was 26 in 1861 it wouldn't be too far out to be 29 on death 4 years later?

Is hubby loads younger then her,so she fibbed a bit about her age to him ;D
Title: Re: One of two deaths is the right one - BRAIN
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 19 August 14 22:06 BST (UK)
I agree the Dec qtr 1866 Clifton death aged 29 looks the only possibility, though it does not coincide with Mary's birth in Dec 1865, registered early 1866.

Susannah was in truth a couple of years younger than James but she may have downplayed her age to seem even more youthful.