Birth: 26 October 1885 Little Eaton, Derbyshire, UK
Father: Charles William Brown 1861-1932
Mother: Emma Louisa Lewis 1862-1945
Christening: 26 October 1885 Little Eaton, Derbyshire, UK
Marriage: 4 July 1908 Killamarsh, Derbyshire, UK
Wife: Rachel Burton Green 1889-1972
Death: 16 June 1952 Derby, Derbyshire, UK
Sarah Brown 1909-1909
Rachel Maud Brown [Belcher, Bloomfield] 1910-1973
William A Brown 1913
Sydney C Brown 1918
Lewis Lloyd Brown 1923-1982
Birth of Charles William Brown in FreeBMD in October-December 1885 in Shardlow (7B 515).
Entry in Ancestry Derbyshire, England, Select Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1910 for Charles William Brown baptised on 26 October 1885 in Little Eaton, Derbyshire, parents Charles and Emma Brown.
In the 1891 census as Charles Wm Brown aged 5, born in Little Eaton, Derbyshire, and living with his parents (Charles and Emma), brother (Francis Henry) and two sisters (Annie Eliza and Elizabeth Jane) in three rooms in Little Eaton village, Derbyshire.
In the 1901 census as Charles W Brown aged 15, born in Little Eaton, Derbyshire, single, a general farm servant, and living with his parents (Charles and Emma), three brothers (Albert, Francis H and George A) and a sister (Annie E) in three rooms in Wkyes Yard, Little Eaton, Derbyshire.
Marriage of Charles William Brown and Rachel Burton Green in FreeBMD in July-September 1908 in Shardlow (7B 985).
Entry in Ancestry Select Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1910 for the marriage of Charles William Brown aged 22, single, father Charles Brown, and Rachel Burton Green on 4 July 1908 in Killamarsh, Derbyshire.
Two entries in Ancestry Derbyshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the marriage of Charles William Brown aged 22, father Cjarles Brown, and Rachel Burton Green on 4 July 1908 in Little Eaton, Derbyshire. "The Year 1908 Banns of Marriage between Charles William Brown (Bachelor) of this Parish and Rachel Burton Green (Spinster) of this Parish 1st Time, Sunday June 14 [...] 2nd Time, Sunday 21 [3rd Time, Sunday 18" and "Page 109 1808 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Little Eaton in the County of Derby [No.] 218 July 4th 1908 Charles William Brown [aged] 22 [a] Bachelor [and] Platelayer [of] Little Eaton [father] Charles Brown [a] Labourer [and] Rachel Burton Green [aged] 20 [and a] Spinster [of] Little Eaton [father] Joseph Green [a] Labourer]/ Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England after Banns [...] in the Presence of us A Llyod, Sarah Lloyd [and] Joseph Green".
His two daughters were born in Borrowash in 1909 and 1910.
In the 1911 census as Charles William Brown aged 25, born in Little Eaton, Derbyshire, a plate layer's labourer on the Midland Railway, and living with his wife (Rachel Burton), daughter (Rachel Maud), an adopted daughter (Rosy Batson aged 13, born in Spondon, Derbyshire and a help) with his wife's uncle (Abraham Lloyd aged 62, born in Blisworth, Bathampton and a lock keeper on the Derby Canal) and his wife (Sarah aged 61 and born in Milton, Northampton) in five rooms at Lock House, Borrowash, Ockbrook, Derbyshire.
His first son was born in Shardlow in 1913 and second in Ockbrook in 1918.
I cannot locate the family in the 1921 census.
His third son was born in Derby on 3 October 1923.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Chas William Brown born 26 October 1885, married, a railway invoice sorter, and living with Rachel Burton Brown (wife?) and Lewis Loyd and Sydney C (crossed out in red and a note "Re entered on page 2?") Brown (sons?), and Frank Wallis White and Joseph Peeler at 61 Derby, Derbyshire.
Death of Charles W Brown in FreeBMD in April-June 1952 aged 66 in Derby (3A 275).
Entry in Ancestry UK and Ireland, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current for Charles Brown, spouse Rachel Burton Brpwn (sic), children Maud Bill Sid (sic) and Lew (sic) died 16 June 1952 aged 66, obituary 18 June 1952 in Derby Evening Telegraph.
There are forty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Charles William Brown.
Charles William Brown was the father of Rachel Maud Brown, the partner of Andrew Thomas Bloomfield, Felicity's half second cousin three times removed.
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