Brown

Brown family page

Mrs Brown, photographed by Ernest Baudoux

Record Search

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Origins of surname

Unsurprisingly, this name is linked to people with brown hair, although it may also have been given to someone who habitually wore brown clothing, such as a monk or priest

Early records

The first appearance of this surname in Jersey records was in 1707. This is one of those ubiquitous English surnames for which it is infuriatingly difficult to trace family trees in Jersey, because so many families have arrived separately in the island over more than three centuries. The French equivalent - Le Brun - is far older in Jersey records. In the 200 years after the 1707 record, there were 311 baptisms recorded, with the spelling Brown or Browne

Variations

• Brown
• Browne

Family records

Church records

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• Brown baptisms in Jersey
• Brown marriages in Jersey (groom)
• Brown marriages in Jersey (bride)
• Brown burials in Jersey

Family trees

Despite the number of family baptisms in Jersey, we have not been able to find or assemble a tree showing more than two generations resident in the island

Great War service

• Brown family members who served in World War 1

World War 2 casualties

• Thomas Deathers Brown
• Frank Brown

Occupation records

• Brown Occupation identity cards

Family wills

• Brown family wills from 1663 to 1980 held by Jersey Archive

Burial records

• Brown burial records 1820-1978

Family album

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  Mary Harriet Charlotte Brown (1860-1918), born in St Helier, the daughter of Henry and Mary Ann; married Henry Simpson Wallis
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  Reg Brown and Family
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  Thomas J Brown, born St Helier in 1874, married Mary Ann Eliza Le Cras, and family
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  Postman Albert Brown
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  Owen Brown and Catherine, nee de La Haye
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  Cath Brown, nee de La Haye
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  A 1925 cigarette card featuring J G Brown
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  John Brown and Martha, nee Taylor
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  Barbara Phyllis Irene Brown
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  Bill Matson and Marie Emelie, nee Brown, and daughters Elsie and Madeleine
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  Sisters Florrie, Ada, Katie, Emmie and Ethel Brown. Daughters of Carey Thomas Brown and Annie Oakley, who moved between England and Jersey in the 1860s before emigrating to New Zealand in 1873, with their children
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  Decima Anderson Brown
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  Robert Caldwell and Mary Ada, nee Brown
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  Thomas Arnold Brown, born in Jersey in 1821

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  A curfew pass issued to Edgar Brown during the Occupation as a member of the Honorary Police

Rogues' gallery

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  Frederick William Brown (1877- ) front row, centre, was found guilty with Alfred Charles Ricou (1884- ), Henry Charles Falle (1873- ), Edward John Vardon (1869- ), Henry Charles Isherwood (1868- ), James Albert Charles Mathew (1887- ), Louis Ferchal (1888- ), and Harold George Gosselin (1888- ) of robbery and sentenced by the Royal Court in 1918 to two months in prison with hard labour

Family businesses

Nicholas Brown, who was working as a hatter at 12 Halkett Place in 1890, was born in St Helier in about 1835 and married Sarah Ann Blampied (1837-1893) in St Saviour in 1861. They were living at No 12 with Nicholas' younger brother John, who worked with him. Their father Nicholas started the business in Queen Street, after moving to Jersey from Cornwall and marrying Susannah Renouf in 1834. They had four children in total, the others being Susan and Philip. Nicholas jnr had joined his father's business by 1861. In 1871 he was living with Sarah Ann in Duhamel Place, where Nicholas was in business on his own as a hat manufacturer. By 1881 they had moved to Halkett Place and were joined by John. The couple never had children. This was one of the earliest St Helier businesses to use an illustration in its advertising. At this time the great majority of adverts were plain text

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  1881 advert
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  1896
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  Hat manufacturer in 1887
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  A 1905 advert for chimney sweep William Harry Brown (1863- ), who was shown in the 1901 census living at 47 Hill Street with his wife Harriet Alice, nee Wheadon, brother Albert, and children Harriet, William, James, Flora, George and Reginald. William snr and Reginald served with the Royal Jersey Garrison Battalion during the Great War and Reginald emigrated to the USA in 1919, marrying Gladys Copley in about 1930, having a son, also Reginald, and dying in Norfolk, Massachusetts in 1977. William Harry's father, William Henry Brown, was also a chimney sweep
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  A reminder of an outstanding account from a different W H Brown, shirt maker of Beresford Street. We have not been able to find any more information about this Mr Brown ...
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  ... except that this 1881 advert together with the account reminder indicate that he was in business at 19 Beresford Street for at least 20 years
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  1881 advert
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  1863 advert
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  Robert Brown advertised his bakery for sale in Chronique de Jersey in 1850. Although his contact address was given as 29 Queen Street, it is not believed that the business operated there
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  The auction sale of livestock and farming equipment belonging to N Brown, at Le Hurel, St Lawrence, was advertised in Chronique de Jersey in 1924
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  1940 advert in Chronique de Jersey
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  1939 advert in Chronique de Jersey
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  1939 advert in Chronique de Jersey
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  J Brown was making hernia bandages in 1825
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  Tony Browne of Browne's women's clothing shop in 1983
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  Tony Browne, 1983
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  Truss maker J Brown had returned to the island in 1827

Family gravestones

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  Brown - St Ouen parish cemetery
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  Brown - Les Quennevais cemetery
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  Brown, St Lawrence
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  Brown - Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
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  The grave of Great War casualty Langford Browne at Roclincourt Valley Cemetery, Pas de Calais
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  The grave of Great War casualty Robert Hicks Brown at Gonnehem British Cemetery, Pas de Calais