Hi Jennifer
Thanks for your reply. Someone else on RC gave me the 2nd marriage of James Emes to Elizabeth Dunn, I'm sure this is my James, although I had no idea he remarried. If this is so then James married just three months after his first wife died. Elizabeth, I understand, was a spinster at the time of marriage to James. Would appear that Elizabeth went back to Kent after James died sometime between 1851/61
Ray, I do also think this marriage for Martha Emes to Nicholas Crain is correct, thank you.
Thanks to all for your replies.