1851 Brown Willoughby

[diddymiller]

had to give up for now - A* not loading properly and  very sloooooow!!

Diddy

[diddymiller]

loughborough library comes up trumps again!

folio 2086 on film contains:
stanford on soar; normanton; suttom Bonington; west & East leake;Costock
Rempstone;Wysall; thorpe in hte Glebe;Willoughby;Wym,eswold;Burton on the wolds;Prestwold;Hoton & cotes

cheked Willoughby - no sarah. found this brown family you might wnat as may be related:
William  25 shoemaker
Mary     25
Frederic  4
mary Ann  2
Maria   6 mths

decided to check Wysall as right next door to willoughby - couldn't check while film!!  and found:

John Case    76   grazier of horses?    wysall
Sarah brown 22    house servant         wysall

think she is probably yours. there are 7 other Brown families in wysall (no sign of a Joseph/Ann. can post if you need.

Diddy

[Heather D]

How strange to see this thread resurrected after all these years. Thanks Diddy for all your digging. Sarah was definitely born in Willoughby as I've been through the parish registers but that servant is quite likely to be her anyway. All I can say for definite is that I know where she was from 1853 when she married

Have replied to wwheel via inbox

Thanks Heather

[Heather D]

By the way, the remaining mystery from this thread is "whatever happened to Ann Barnett?"! She married Joseph Brown in Willoughby 1823 and had four children, the youngest being Sarah 1833.

By 1839 Joseph has a child by Sarah Robinson, nee Wainwright, and in the 1841 census he is living with her as man and wife while his children by Ann are with their maternal grandmother. I have been through the burial records and found no trace of an Ann Brown. Nor did Joseph re-marry, which suggests his wife was still living.

I strongly suspect she did a runner and lived out her life under an assumed name. Just thought I'd put this out there in case any names ring bells!

Heather