Thomas Brown (1852-1935)

Dates

Birth: 28 February 1852 Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Peter Brown 1804-1887
Mother: Julia Wilson 1808-1888

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 24 April 1885 Ford, Northumberland, UK
Wife: Maria Ellen Thompson 1865-1904

Death: 1935 Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK

Children

Gladys Eleanor D Brown 1885-a1901
Peter Brown 1887-a1901
Mabel Julia Lilian Brown 1889-a1911
John Brown 1895-1972
James Thompson Brown 1898-a1911
Amy Constance M Brown 1899-a1901
Thomas Brown 1902-a1911
George Walter Brown 1903-a1911

Notes

Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Thomas Brown born 28 February 1852 in Coldstream, Berwick, Scotland, parents Peter Brown and Julia Wilson.

In the 1861 census as Thomas Brown aged 9, born in Coldstream, Berwickshire, and living with his parents (Peter and Julia), four brothers (George, John, Peter and Robert) and sister (Helen) at 20 Duke Street, Berwickshire, Scotland.

In the 1871 census as Thomas Brown aged 19, born in Colsm, berwickre (sic - in the index), single, a common labourer, and living with his parents (Peter and Julia), and three brothers (George, John and Robert) at 17 Duke Street, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland.

In the 1881 census as Thomas Brown aged 29, born in Coldstream, Berwickre, single, a port runner, and living with his parents (Peter and Julia), two nephews (John and Peter Brown), and two neices (Julia Hardy and Margaret Brown) at 8 Duke Street, Coldstream, Berwickshire.

Marriage of Thomas Brown and Maria Ellen Thompson in FreeBMD in April-June 1885 in Glendale (10b 603).

His daughter was born in Alnwick in late 1885, and son in Coldstream in 1887.

In the 1891 census as Thomas Brown aged 39, born in Coldm, Berwick, a rural postman, and living with his wife (Maria), son (Peter) and two daughters (Gladys E D and Mabel J I) at 27 Duke Street, Coldstream, Scotland.

His son John Brown was born on 4 April 1895 in Duke Street, Coldstream, the entry adding his marriage on 26 April 1885 in Ford, Northumberland.

In the 1901 census as Thomas Brown aged 49, born in Coldstream, Berwickshire, a rural postman, and living with his wife (Marie E), three sons (James, John and Peter), and three daughters (Amy C W, Gladys E D and Mabel J L) at 22 Duke Streat, Coldstream, Berwickshire.

His wife died in Glendale in October-December 1904.

In the 1911 census as Thomas Brown aged 59, born in Coldstream, Berwickshire, widowed, a rural postman, and living with his four sons (George Walter, James, Peter and Thomas) and daughter (Mabel) in three rooms in Pawston Mindrum, Paston Coldsmouth and Thompsons Walls, Northumberland.

In the 1921 census as Thomas Brown born in Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland in 1852 and living with George, James, John and Thomas Brown (sons?) in Carham, Glendale, Northumberland.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for Thomas Brown in 1935 aged 83 in Coldstream (733/ 15).

There are twenty three entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Thomas Brown.

Relationship

Thomas Brown was the father of John Brown, husband of Jane Renton Purves, first cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.

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