BROWN OF LIFTON

It is not clear how many Christopher Browns were in the Lifton area in the seventeenth century. One Christopher Brown was baptised on 26 April 1709 at Lifton as a son of Thomas Brown of Werrington. A Christopher Brown and Mary Crocker were married in 1747 at Werrington. One Christopher Brown was buried at Werrington in the 1750s and another was buried at Lifton on 3 February 1780. There was also a Urania, wife of Christopher Brown, buried in 1777 at Lifton.

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BROWN

1 CHRISTOPHER BROWN married on 19 August 1736 at Lifton, Devon, MARY BULLEN.[1]

Children of Christopher and Mary (Bullen) Brown:

i JOHN BROWN, bap 25 Apr 1737, Lifton.[2]

ii MARY BROWN, bap 26 Apr 1738, Lifton.[3]

2 iii THOMAS BROWN (1741-1807); m ELIZABETH ROWE.

2 THOMAS BROWN of Lifton was baptised on 5 April 1741 at Lifton[4] and buried on 9 November 1807 at Lifton.[5] He married on 7 February 1763 at Lifton, ELIZABETH ROWE.[6] Elizabeth was born about 1741 and buried on 12 June 1816 at Lifton.[7]

Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Rowe) Brown:

i MARY BROWN, bap 10 Apr 1763, Lifton.[8]

ii ANN BROWN, bap 30 Sep 1764, Lifton,[9] bur 14 Aug 1849, Lifton;[10] m 27 Jul 1794, Lifton, JOHN POTE.[11]

iii THOMAS BROWN, bap 4 Jan 1767, Lifton.[12]

iv ELIZABETH BROWN, b Lifton, bap 8 Feb 1769, Lifton,[13] d 22 Feb 1853, St Giles on the Heath;[14] m 11 Apr 1790, St Giles on the Heath, JOHN VEAL[15] (see here).

v JOHN BROWN, bap 3 Mar 1771, Lifton.[16]

vi PETER BROWN, bap 12 Jan 1773, Lifton.[17]

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[1] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[2] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[3] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[4] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[5] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[6] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[7] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). An Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Rowe, was baptised on 28 Mar 1741 at Lamerton. However, Elizabeth (Rowe) Brown may be the Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Margery Rowe, who was baptised at Buckland Monachorum on 13 Sep 1743, as that family appears to have moved to Lifton.

[8] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[9] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[10] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). The burial entry gives her age as 78, but the corresponding entry in the civil registration indexes gives her age as 85.

[11] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[12] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[13] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk); 1851 census returns, St Giles on the Heath (National Archives, HO 107/1896, fol. 354).

[14] Death certificate.

[15] St Giles on the Heath parish registers.

[16] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).

[17] Lifton parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk).