Abraham BRAND
SOURCES: Certified copy of an entry of death, given at the General Register Office, London, states age at death to be 87. Birth year would therefore be 1787. However, both Ancestral File and Ordinance Index give 25 May 1790 as the birth date (information submitted by grandson, Charles Benjamin Harper).
SOURCES: Information taken from the Carroll County Directory, Wysox Township, (977.3345 H2h): "Abraham Brand, farmer; Sec. 8; P.O. Milledgeville; born in England, sixty miles north of London, Dec. 25, 1821; lived there about thirty years; engaged in farming; had charge of large estate there for many years; came to America in 1855, and has lived in this county twenty-two years, engaged in farming; owns 270 acres of land; married Sophia Harlock from England, in 1846; they have four children: Rosewell, Louisa, James Curtis, Lee Ella Belle; have lost five children: John A., Ann E., Frances E., Herbert, Laura 1860 Census - Carroll Co., Ill. NOTES: Birth order of children uncertain. Information taken from above sources
He married Ann Phipps 21 Nov 1813 at Mepal, Cambridge, England . Ann Phipps was born at Sutton, Cambridge, England 11 Jun 1794 daughter of John Phipps and Elizabeth Eatt .
They were the parents of 11
children:
Ann Phipps Brand
born 22 Aug 1814.
John Phipps Brand
born 21 Apr 1816.
Rachel Phipps Brand
born 27 Apr 1818.
Martha Phipps Brand
born 11 Jan 1820.
Abraham Phipps Brand
born 21 Dec 1821.
Elizabeth Phipps Brand
born 18 Aug 1823.
Elijah Phipps Brand
born 9 Feb 1826.
Samuel Phipps Brand
born 23 Feb 1828.
Isaac Phipps Brand
born 21 Nov 1830.
William Phipps Brand
born 11 Apr 1835.
Mary Phipps Brand
born 28 Dec 1837.
Abraham Brand died 3 Nov 1874 at Newmarket, Suffolk, England .
Ann Phipps died 23 Feb 1878 .