Emma Priscilla Henley, born Woburn, Bedfordshire 7 Feb 1833 married Thomas Brown, brickmaker, in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire in Q2 1861. This was definitely after the census because Thomas was staying with his brother William at Rugeley Road, Abbots Bromley on census day. I can trace their marriage through 1871 and 1881 censuses, and Emma Priscilla died in Abbots Bromley in 1882. Thomas's brother William confusingly also had a wife named Emma, but this one was born in Abbots Bromley.
The problem I have is interpreting Emma Priscilla's 1861 census record RG09 / 1956 / 18, page 3, household identifier 2302302, in Abbots Bromley. The Familysearch transcription is terrible (Woburn is written as 'Hobson' for example). She is correctly listed as single. But the residence place is just "Market Place" - no house number. Her relationship to head of household is "servant" but there is no head of household listed. There are four small children, but their surname is written "Bowe" - is this a mistranscribed Brown? And they are identified as sons and daughters - but WHOSE sons and daughters? It would be very helpful to see an image of the census page, and maybe the preceding page if the household was wrongly split in two.
I still have problems working out the relationships of these Brown families in Staffordshire, because many of them seem to switch roles between brick making and farming. But knowing whose children these are would be a big help. I suspect Emma Priscilla was a governess. Her father George Henley was the Duke of Bedford's watchman at the Woburn Abbey estate, and his children all seem to have been well educated.
