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1841 CENSUS

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EMMA GRACE, nee BRODIE research by Joan West

1841 CENSUS

Wardrobes Farm.   James Grace 51,widower, Mary Grace 40, sister single, Oliver James Grace 7, Mortimer Kelson 6, Emma Brodie 35, single, of independent means

MARRIED at St. Marylebone, London

1846. Emma Brodie, daughter of Alexander Brodie, clergyman dec’d, married James Grace, widower of Princes Risborough, son of Thomas Grace.

EASTBOURNE 1851 CENSUS

Emma’s mother is head of house, widow of a clergyman, with Emma, married, 3 sisters, and a brother, all single, 6 house servants and a coachman.

DEATH of JAMES GRACE James Grace died 1857.

1861 CENSUS Eastbourne.    Emma Grace, 55, widow.

1862.  EMMA GRACE FOUNDATION FORMED

1871 CENSUS Eastbourne. Emma’s sister Anna Hall, 67, is head of house, with Emma Grace 63.   Also 3 servants.

1881 CENSUS Walters Ash, 3rd cottage from The Wheel,   Emma Grace, 76, widow, 76, gentlewoman.

DEATH & PROBATE

Emma Grace died 3rd November 1890 at Eastbourne.   Executors, William Brodie of Eastbourne & Frederick Brodie of Isle of Wight, brothers.   £10,852 – 16 – 8d.   Re-sworn February 1891, £11,018 – 8 – 3d Loosley Row and Lacey Green were fortunate in that, after the Enclosures of Princes Risborough in 1823, certain residents, having the means, set out to benefit the villages.