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The
BROWN family of Brislington, near Bristol, UK
& of Australia
and especially
the descendants of
William BROWN and his wives - Sarah HORT & Deborah WORGAN
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John
BROWN and Mary CATER
"Kensington House", Brislington, Somerset
I will write much
more about this couple and their family but for the moment
.... John Brown, son of Henry Brown & Betty Harrill, was
born about 1784 at Brislington.
He became a land
surveyor in Brislington.
Church records
state that "John BROWN, surveyor of Brislington, bachelor,
married Mary CATER, spinster, of this parish, with the consent
of her parents, by licence", on 12 May 1813, at Holy
Trinity, Stapleton. Mary and John were both 29 years old.
Mary's parents
were John Wyatt Cater and Mary Fisher of Stapleton, Gloucestershire,
England.
John Brown and
Mary Cater had a nine children. Three died in their teenage
years and one Louisa Caroline, who had married William Morcom,
died aged 35, leaving a young family. Four sons came to Australia
while one daughter remained in England and lived to an old
age.
The family lived
at one stage in a lovely home named "Kensington House".
click on this image for a
larger version
Mary Cater died
of tuberculosis on board ship while crossing the Atlantic,
apparently on a trip to visit her properties in Jamaica. Many
of her children also died of TB. This was it seems one of
the reasons for four sons emigrating to Australia in the late
1840s and 1850s. Two of those sons were Drs and one, Dr Walter
Brown, established a medical practice at Parramatta, NSW.
His brother Henry Hort Brown was a doctor at Richmond in NSW
and then later at Maryborough in Queensland.
John lived on
and after selling Kensington House in 18?? moved into a cottage
named "The Grove".
If you'd like
to know more about the Cater family please visit Marion's
site.
Copyright:
Ann Carson 2001
All rights reserved.
Page created: 17 Feb 2001
Page updated: 26 December 2001
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