On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:29:31 +0100, Josephine Jeremiah <[email protected]> wrote: > The two BRAIN brothers I mentioned were using the BRAIN surname up to the > mid 1830s, when they were having children baptized, and then by the 1841 > census their surname had become LEWTON. > > It's a puzzle, but I'm much nearer sorting them out than I was, plus I > think I've just found another BRAIN brother calling himself LEWTON at the > time of the 1851 Oldland census and there's also a BRAIN grandchild in > this John's household. > Whippers Hill > Piece 1944 Folio 0422 Schedule 044 > He was John LEWTON, a shoemaker, aged 63, which doesn't fit with the date > of baptism of John BRAIN, son of Richard and Ann, on 17th. August 1800 at > Hanham, but he could have been baptized some time after birth or a > mistake could have been made with his age on the census. Hi Listers, After more sifting through the evidence, I don't think this John LEWTON of the 1851 Oldland census, was the brother of the two BRAIN brothers whom I have been researching. I still think he could have been a BRAIN originally and his age matches a 1788 BRAIN baptism, but the parents are not the same as those of George BRAIN and Samuel BRAIN, the brothers who had changed their names to LEWTON by the 1841 census. Josephine --