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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 52081, member: 59"]Update - I found a few more things on Ancestry. Jane was the daughter of John and "Mizey" Pinhorn, born in 1798. She and 2 siblings, William and Frances, were all baptized the same day. From the 1841 and 1851 census records I found out that she also had a sister Sarah, born in 1811 (who, at those dates, was still unmarried.) It appears from her husband Edward's will (proved in London in early 1844) that she also had a brother John, because a John Pinhorn of the Admiralty Office was one of the appointed executors and trustees. Also from the will, we find that her husband Edward was a very wealthy man, having inherited from his grandfather, Mr. Greene, a number of properties. Although Edward was listed in the Prerogative Court records as "Reverend Edward Thomas" in the one census available before his death his "occupation" is not given, simply that he has "Independent means." The family seems to have lived in Rolleston, Leicestershire, as that is the birthplace (1829) given for their son Edward Harry Thomas in the 1851 census. He was unmarried at that date. In the 1841 census I think I found him at a boarding school in another Leicestershire community as E. Thomas. Let me backtrack to your OP. Are you thinking that the sitter in the photo was a member of Jane's family? Or not?[/QUOTE]