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Abt 1726 - 1805 (~ 79 years)
Generation: 1
1. | George Brown was born about 1726 (son of Henry Brown and Mary); died on 15 Mar 1805 in London. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: Threadneedle Street, London; The alms-houses, in their present improved state, derive their origin from the princely munificence of the late George Brown, Esq., of Stockton, and of Threadneedle Street, London. For this benevolent purpose he bequeathed £3,000, and likewise £1,000 to the treasurer of the school for the blue-coat boys and girls at Stockton, for the general purpose of the charity. This excellent gentleman died in Londpon in Oct 1814.
Stockton: an historical, biographical and descriptive poem ...By Thomas Webber p33 Pub. Jennett, 1830
(I believe this relates to his son George Brown the younger and I've copied it to there - MW)
- Occupation: 1758; Mariner, of the parish of Stockton (at his wedding).
- Residence: Abt 1760, 8, Paradise Row, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England; The Browns owned and occupied No. 8, Paradise Row, Stockton; which was afterwards inhabited by the Misses Welbank. [Genealogical Additions to the History of Stockton upon Tees. Page 102]
George married Margaret Welbank on 6 Feb 1758 in St Alphage, Greenwich. Margaret (daughter of George Welbank and Margaret Chapman) was born on 27 Jun 1737 in Gainford, Durham, England; died on 14 Nov 1776; was buried in Stockton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Notes:
Married:
Bride is of this parish. William, Jane and Mary Welbank are witnesses.
Children:
- George Brown, the younger died in 1814 in London.
- Elizabeth Brown, Lady Preston
- Edward Brown
- Margaret Brown was born before 1776; died after 1814.
- Jemima Brown was born in c. 1776; died in 10 Jan 1854 (age 77) in Sedbury Hall, Yorks.
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Generation: 2
2. | Henry Brown Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: Abt 1760, Stockton on Tees, County Durham, England; Henry Brown Esq. of Stockton, was also living in 1760.
He married and had issue a son, the late Mr Brown of Threadneedle Street,
London, (by whose munificence Stockton almshouses were augmented,) and daughters, of whom Elizabeth married Sir Robert Preston, Bart. but had no
issue; and another was wife of Rev. John Gilpin of Stockton, afterwards of Sedbury, near Richmond, co. York. The Browns owned and occupied No. 8, Paradise Row, Stockton; which was afterwards inhabited by the Misses Welbank. [Genealogical Additions to the History of Stockton upon Tees. Page 102]
Henry married Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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