National Probate Calendar
Letters of Administration of the Personal Estate of Sophia Burne (Wife of Thomas Higgins Burne Esquire) late of Loynton in the County of Stafford deceased who died 9 February 1859 at Loynton Hall in the said County were granted at the Principal Registry to the said Thomas Higgins Burne of Loynton aforesaid he having been first sworn. Effects under 1500 pounds

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Sophia Briscoe Burne
Birth 1794, Kingswinford, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England
Death 9 Feb 1859 (aged 64–65), Stafford Borough, Staffordshire, England
Burial Church of St Peter
Norbury, Stafford Borough, Staffordshire, England
Memorial ID 262205531
of Loynton Hall, Stafford
Gravesite Details
Large family vault to rear of churchyard in an elevated position

Thomas Higgins Burne and Sophia Briscoe were 2nd cousins once removed. Richard Keelinge and Patience Hodgetts were GG Grandparents to Thomas Higgins Burne and Great Grandparents to Sophia Briscoe.

Staffordshire Baptisms
Thomas Higgins Burne, born March 1791, baptism September 26 1791, St. Michael & All Angels, Himley, Staffordshire, father Thomas Burne, mother Maria Burne

England Select Marriages
December 10 1814, St.Mary’s, Kingswinford, Staffordshire
Thomas Higgins Burne and Sophia Briscoe

1841 census Loynton Hall, Weston Jones, Parish of Norbury, Staffordshire
Thomas Burne, age 45, independant, born in Staffordshire
Sophia Burne, age 40, born in Staffordshire
Maria Burne, age 20, born in Staffordshire
Sophia Burne, age 20, born in Staffordshire
Eliza Burne, age 20, born in Staffordshire
Caroline Burne, age 15, born in Staffordshire
Diana Burne, age 12, born in Staffordshire
Mary Jane Burne, age 10, born in Staffordshire
Georgiana Burne, age 8, born in Staffordshire
Emily Burne, age 6, born in Staffordshire
Rachel Burne, age 4, born in Staffordshire
6 female servants and 3 male servants
[Note: In this census adults had their ages rounded to the nearest 5 years.]
[Thomas had a wife, 9 daughters and 6 female servants. Of the male servants 2 of them were probably grooms and dealt with the horses. You might say he and the other male servant, probably a footman, were a bit outnumbered!]

1851 census Loynton Hall, Weston Jones, Shropshire
Head Thomas Higgins Burne, age 60, landren? [landed?] proprietor, born Himley Staffordshire
Wife Sophia Burne, age 56, born Kingswinford
Daughter Sophia Burne, unmarried, age 33, born Penne, Staffordshire
Daughter Diana Patience Burne, unmarried, age 21, born Norbury, Staffordshire
Daughter Mary Jane Burne, unmarried, age 19, born Norbury, Staffordshire
Daughter Georgiana Burne, unmarried, age 18, born Norbury, Staffordshire
8 servants: a cook, a ladies maid, a house maid, a ???? maid, a dairy maid, a footman and 2 grooms.

National Probate Calendar
The Will of Thomas Higgins Burne late of Loynton Hall in the County of Stafford Esquire deceased who died March 11 1861 at Loyton Hall aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by oaths of the Reverend Thomas Burne of Moreton in the said County Clerk and Richard Higgins Burne of 1 Carey-street Lincoln’s Inn in the County of Middlesex Esquire the Sons the Executors. Effects under 12 000 pounds

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The name Thomas then passed to their son, Thomas [III] Higgins Burne (1791–1861) who, in 1814, married Sophia Briscoe (1794–1859), the youngest daughter of George Briscoe (1762[?]–1807) of Summerhill, Kingswinford, Staffordshire. George had become the Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1807 but died either in office or before taking office. Thomas [III] and Sophia had ten daughters and three sons:
(1) Maria (1816–42);
(2) Sophia (1818–98);
(3) Eliza (c.1819–1876); later Dudley after her marriage (1849) to Alfred Dudley (c.1824–1883);
(4) Caroline (1821–1904); later Potchett after her marriage (1850) to the Reverend George Thomas Potchett (1816–85); one son, one daughter;
(5) Thomas [IV] Sambrooke Higgins (1822–61); married (1849) Charlotte Anna Goodlad [see above]; two sons, four daughters (see below);
(6) Thomas [V] (later the Revd) (1824–87) (see below);
(7) Ellen (b. 1825; died in infancy);
(8) Richard Higgins (c.1828–1882); married (1861) Margaretta (née Burne, a cousin) (1837–1919); two sons;
(9) Diana Patience (known in the family as both “Di” and “Patty”) (1830–1917);
(10) Mary Jane (1832–1907);
(11) Georgiana (1833–1916); later Lambert after her marriage (1864) to John Jeffrey Lambert (1829–1918); one son, one daughter;
(12) Emily (1836–1928);
(13) Rachel Higgins Burne (1837–1900); later Lamb after her marriage (1885) to Barnabas Walter Lamb (1843–1918); two sons from his two previous marriages.
In 1823 a legacy came to Thomas [III] Higgins Burne as the great-nephew of Sambrooke Higgins, who died without children when he was in his late eighties.
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