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FatherMother
Thomas Ostler Drage Mary Brandford
(1790 - 1858) (c1795 - 1851)
 
Elizabeth Drage Brandford
Elizabeth Drage Pate
Born 1819 in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire
Baptised 26/05/1823 in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire
Died c12/1856 in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire [freebmd]
 
Married
Robert Pate (1819 - 1876)
04/12/1849 in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire [freebmd] [igi]
 
Siblings
Mary Drage Brandford (1820 - 1895)
Sarah Brandford (1823 - 1839)
 
Children
Emily Drage Pate (1851 - <1920)
(Bessie) Elizabeth Drage Pate (1852 - c1920)
Thomas Drage Pate (1853 - 1916)
 
Extra information
I have a photocopy of her will.

The 1851 census for Haddenham shows her as 32 years old, living with her father Thomas Ostler Drage (unmarried farmer of 279 acres), and her 31 year old husband Robert Pate (partner in the farm), and their 4 month old daughter Emily Drage Pate. This entry would imply her birth year as 1819/1820.

Her baptism is shown in the Haddenham public records as an afterthought at the bottom of the page on which her sister Sarah Brandford's baptism is shown on the same days as follows:
26th Mary 1823 - Elizabeth Drage - daughter of Mary Brandford - abode Haddenham - F. Sandford, curate.
It was a common practice in the case of illegitimate births, if the father was known, to put the father's surname as a second forename for the child.

Significantly, her sister Mary Drage Brandford is treated in the same way and on both their marriage entries, their father is listed as Thomas Drage, farmer.

However, for their other sister, Sarah Brandford, no middle name is shown on the baptism and the abode is shown as Barnwell (which is in Northants).
Also, no Brandford is shown on the 1851 census for Haddenham.

So Mary Drage Brandford and Thomas Ostler Drage never married and one has to question whether Sarah Brandford was Thomas Ostler Drage's daughter or the daughter of another man as yet unknown.
 
 
 
 
Direct ancestors
 1 Thomas Ostler Drage (1790 - 1858)
  2 Thomas Drage (c1753 - 1796)
   3 Thomas Drage (1722 - 1783)
    4 William Drage (1686 - c1728)
     5 William Drage (c1660)
     5 Lydia Layton (c1664)
    4 Elizabeth Johnson ( - >1728)
     5 Mr Johnson
     5 Mrs Johnson
   3 Ann Porter (1728 - 1795)
    4 John Porter
    4 Martha
  2 Elizabeth Ostler (c1755 - 1826)
 1 Mary Brandford (c1795 - 1851)
 
Direct descendants
 1 Emily Drage Pate (1851 - <1920)
  2 (Nellie) Ellen Martha Porter (1873 - c1950)
  2 Emily Grace Gertrude Porter (1874 - 1960)
   3 Doris Emily Gertrude Littlejohns (1905 - 1997)
    4 Confidential
   3 (Dick) Edith Gladys Littlejohns (1909 - 1969)
    4 Confidential
    4 Confidential
   3 Confidential
   3 Confidential
  2 (Bessie) Elizabeth Drage Porter (1876 - 1966)
   3 Gwen Drage Allberry (1908 - c2000)
   3 Joan Edith Allberry (1912)
  2 Edith Mary Porter (1878)
 1 (Bessie) Elizabeth Drage Pate (1852 - c1920)
  2 Lorna Bessie Goulder (1882 - 1957)
   3 Confidential
 1 Thomas Drage Pate (1853 - 1916)
  2 Charles Middleton Pate (1880 - 1884)

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