Tom McCabe's Genealogy 2025

From findmypast.com First name(s) Mary Last name Brains Baptism date 18 May 1802 Place Keyston County Huntingdonshire Country England Father's first name(s) Thomas Father's last name Brains Mother's first name(s) Elizabeth Mother's last name - Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975

From the Keystone Parish Records,

Elizabeth Brains, age 68, Abode Keystone Lodge, Burial.

England Burials, 1813-1912 for Henry Brains Age: 31 Birth Year: abt 1810 Burial Date: 23 Mar 1841 Abode: Thrapston Burial Place: Islip, Northamptonshire, England Parish as it Appears: Islip Register Type: Parish Registers

No information is given about parents, birth place, etc. This is the unique Henry Brains in the ancestry search across England who matches approximate birth year. Two days earlier in the same parish, John Brains, 37, of Thrapston was also buried. These two are likely related but not brothers as the age of John is too young. Also, the Thomas Brains family of Keystone had come from Islip 40 years earlier. (Probable, still to be confirmed.)

Birth record verifies that Robert's father was Thomas, mother was Jane Braynes and his birthdate was Oct 20, 1842. One obituary in Missouri said his birth date was 15 June 1841, another said May 1, 1842. Exhaustive searches of records in England shows that the Robert Scott born on Oct 20, 1842 is the only possible birth record for a Robert Scott from Graveley in that time period, and the 1851 census in Gravely, England shows Robert to be 8 years old.

"GRAVELEY is a parish on the borders of Huntingdonshire, 3 miles east from Offord and Buckden station on the main line of the London and North Eastern railway, 6 south-east from Huntingdon, 7 south-west of St. Ives and 6 north-east from St. Neots, in the hundred of Papworth, petty sessional division of Caxton, union and county court district of St. Neots, rural deanery of St. Neots, archdeaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely."

"The soil to a considerable depth is clayey; the subsoil is Oxford clay. The chief crops are wheat, peas, beans and barley. The area is 1,582 acres; the population in 1921 was 158." [Kelly's Directory - Cambridgeshire - 1929]