When Sophia Owen Roffey was born on 19 July 1818, in London, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Anthony Roffey, was 29 and her mother, Sophia Owen, was 25. She married William Johnston Brown on 4 July 1841, in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in London Aldersgate, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1851. She died on 8 February 1879, at the age of 60.
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English: habitational name from Roffey in Horsham (Sussex), Roffey Hall in Harlow (Essex), or Roffy in Great Dunmow (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + (ge)hæg ‘fence, enclosure’.
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