34 Life and Letters of Francis Galton 



serve to elucidate the complex relations of Freames, Barclays, Farmers 

 and Galtons. Thus Samuel Tertius Galton was second cousin to Hudson 

 Gurney, and Sir Francis himself great-nephew to Mrs Hudson Gurney, 

 Margaret Barclay, the sister of the pedestrian ! It will be seen how the 

 Freames, if not among the persecuted Quakers, were associated with some 

 of the most industrious, zealous and noteworthy of the Quaker stocks. 



Of the Braines, tobacconists of Wapping, we have been able to 

 piece together less information. The two brothers, James and John, 

 and the sister, Elizabeth, were all married between 1670 and 1677, 

 James to Elizabeth Graeme in 1670; John to Elizabeth Hutchins of 

 Ratcliffe in Jan. 1672-3, and Elizabeth to Henry Fiegensnow of Lime- 

 house in 1677. Of James Braine we know that in 1681, for refusing 

 to take the oath at a coroner's inquest, his goods were taken by 

 distress; and again, in the winter of 1684, the Quakers were kept out 

 of their meeting at Ratcliffe by a guard of soldiers, but they held their 

 meeting constantly in the yard or street. For doing this they were 

 fined, and James Braine again had his goods taken by distress. 

 William Braine and Thomas Braine suffered also imprisonment and 

 fine they were doubtless relatives. Where the Braines originally 

 came from I have not succeeded in finding out. Some of the records 

 point to Somerset and Gloucestershire, and the name occurs in the 

 Gloucestershire Visitations and in the Registers of Little Deane as 

 that of a family of some distinction. In London they lived in 

 Stepney Parish, and the various Quaker Braines belonged to Wapping 

 and Ratcliffe. The family must, however, have been commercially 

 of some weight, or we should hardly find them in touch with the 

 Barclays. The birth entries in the registers (the spelling varies) are : 

 To John Braine of Wapping, Parish of Stepney (Tobacconist), 

 and Margaret 1 (in one entry there is by a slip Mary) his 

 wife: Thomas Braine, b. 12/11/1674; Margaret Braine, b. 

 13/5/1676 (married 14/7/1699 at Devonshire House, 

 Abraham Coleman 2 of Wapping) ; Elizabeth Braine, b. 

 20/12/1677 (married 6/6/1696 Robert Barclay of Scotland); 

 Francis Braine, b. 23/1 1/1679 ; Farley Braine.b. 1 7/1/1682-3 ; 



1 If Elizabeth Hutchins be not a slip for Margaret Hutchins, John Braine's first 

 wife must have died in her first year of marriage. 



" The name suggests Anne Coleman, cruelly flogged as a Quaker at the cart tail 

 through New England. Sewel, History of Friends, Vol. I, pp. 4314. 



