I am researching my mothers ' Traveller ' Surname family Tree and have 3 connecting Marriages with the Brace families of Sawbridgeworth.
The one I am currently looking into is the Marriage of Jesse Brace ( Male Christened 9 March 1817 (IGI ) ) and Hannah Brace ( Christened 3 June 1818 daught of Phillip Brace and Susanna Bassel ) .

On the IGI there is a list of 16 children of Thomas and Elizabeth Brace. It is clear that there were at least 2 couples with these Christian names at this time.

On a website called GenCircles there is a Brace Tree on which a Thomas Brace Marries an Elizabeth Chapman ( 1804 ) and has children Elizabeth ( c 1818 ), Samson( c1812), Sally (c1812), Emma(c1819),Ruth (c1818), Susanna (c1807),Gabriel( c1810) and not on the IGI that I saw, a Jane ( c21 Dec 1821 ).

From the IGI this leaves a list of: Eliza (c1818), Rose( c1820),Edmund (c1810), Elford (c 1823), James (c1804), John (c1811), JESSE (c1817).

I have a William Brace Abt 1815, Sacombe , Herts and Sarah Brace Abt 1816 Sawbridgeworth as siblings of my Jesse but would welcome confirmation.

I wonder if you have searched the Records and identified Jesse's sibling and parents certainly these families look like a devils of a puzzle to unravel.

I also welcome info on Phillip Brace and Susanna Bassel

I am pretty sure that there are still descendents of the Brace families living in Sawbridgeworth to this day..

- Clif Knight ( London

Are you still researching Brace Family. I am descendant of Hester Jane Brace B: 1883 D:1940 In Tambo,Queensland Auatralia.
She married Mathias Lawrence McDonough and they had 5 children. One was my father Ernest.

Went to Sawbridgeworth, Herts a few months ago and found the graves of many Braces at the church...apparently there ARE still Braces in the area.

If you have any info Hester's forebears I would be grateful. Know her parents John Brace B: 1848 D: 1925 and mother Anne Tait B:1849 D: 1917...John's father was Alfred Brace B: 1873 but it begins to get cloudy as there were so very many of them living in the same area!

You are right about lots of Braces.Ihave seen a number of Trees but am not convinced that the early Braces are right,,thinking that there appears to be 2 couples with the same names haveing kids at the same time. I have noted that I would like to see the Parish Recors myself. I do not have your line in my lot...but thats not to say with info from the Parish Records they would not meet up in the future.
Best UK place for research is Genes Reunited, lots of Brace researchers /descendents on there.

- Clif