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Hi
I have also come across the surname PRENDPAIN and all it's variations... I think it has also been PROPAIN.  I have found the majority of the information that was sent to you earlier - however I still cannot make the connection to Jane GODFRAY... though I know there was a Jane who married a PRENDPAIN... I cannot make the links.
Pam

Hi,
George is one of my brick walls - I have no idea where he was born  but I suspect it may have been Inverness or Renfrewshire.  After years of looking the only 'match' I can see at this stage is son of George HEPBURN and Agnes JAMESON.  Though nothing to prove it.
Certainly the name Agnes was never passed down to later generations.

Thanks for your interest....

This may be very out of date, but there certainly was a marriage between Helen Baillie Inglis (born Inverness 16 July 1799, daughter of George Inglis and Helen Alves) and George Hepburn.   Details of the marriage settlement are, or should be, in the Inverness museum, among the papers of Helen's father, George Inglis, latterly of Kingsmills, a Demerara planter, and former partner in St Vincent of two of the Alves brothers from Inverness and the financier George Baillie).  I have also see a New Zealand posting suggesting it was a runaway marriage - she was certainly very young.   You probably have all this by now, but just in case......

Allan,
I cannot believe this.  She certainly was the ONLY Helen that matched and I certainly couldn't find a death for her - so a second marriage in 1831 would make sense.  This presumably means that George and Helen divorced?  Her marriage to George took place when she was 14yrs of age - which matched the story that it was a runaway marriage - and the marriage entry had a 'blank' where her father's name should have been!!
Any further information would be gratefully received.  I will certainly investigate further.
Thanks 

Hi Jennifer,
Interesting - just checked Jersey 1851 Census and there is only one 12yr old GOSNEY listed but 1871 has about 26!
The older ones/males appear to have come from England presumably some time after early 1851.
Maybe your line is NOT GOSNEY at all but, perhaps something like GASNIER?

Pam

Hi,
I have a James GRANT born c 1811-1817 - various ages on various documents, unfortunately.
But it is reasonably consistent that he was born Aberdeen and looks to be Crathie and Braemar.

I have him as follows:
1841 CENSUS
Binzian Mill, Forgandenny, Perthshire, SCOTLAND
Parish 353, ED 3, pge 6
James GRANT - 25 -  born Scotland, Miller
Janet GRANT -  25 -  born in County
John MYLES - 5 -  born in County

He married Janet ANDERSON (widow - I presume of Adam MYLES) in 1838, Kettins, Forfarshire.

1851 Scotland Census
ED: 1 Page: 2   Household schedule number: 13
Line: 18 Roll: CSSCT1851_59
Parish 279 - Coupar Angus, Town Coupar Angus, ANGUS
James GRANT - 38 - born Crutha, Aberdeenshire,, Potato Merchant, Head, md
Janet GRANT - 37 - born Scoon, Perthshire, Wife
Jean GRANT - 9 - born Forgandenny, Perthshire, scholar, daughter
William GRANT - 8 - born Forgandenny, Perthshire, scholar, son
Helen GRANT - 5 - born Scoon, Perthshire, scholar, daughter
Elspeth GRANT - 3 - born Scoon, Perthshire, scholar at home, daughter


1861 CENSUS
Registration Number: 279
Registration district: Coupar Angus
ED: 5 - Household schedule number: 14
Line: 17 - Roll: CSSCT1861_37
Timber Market, Coupar Angus, Coupar Angus, ANGUS
James GRANT - 48 - born Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Grain and Potato Merchant, Head,md
Janet GRANT - 47 - born Scone, Perthshire, Wife
James GRANT - 19 - born Forgandenny, Perthshire, Clerk, son, unmd
Helen GRANT - 15 - born Scone, Perthshire, daughter
Elsbeth GRANT - 13 - Scone, Perthshire, scholar, daughter
David MUNRO - 28- born Fodderty, Rossshire, Journeyman Shoemaker, Lodger
David MCGREGOR - 20 - born Perth, Perthshire, Jouneyman Shoemaker Lintor, Lodger

The family came to NZ.
James' death cert gives his father as Gregor GRANT, Shepherd and no name for his mother, unfortunately.

I have been unable to find out more details of James parents/birth.  Would love to hear from anyone with some tips/clues or recognises these names