The Brown Family in Cornwall

This page lists those members of the Brown family whose origins we are researching. Entries in italics are inferred or uncertain, or have been supplied by other researchers and not personally verified by us. The list does not include children known to have died in infancy. Please contact Chris Warren if you feel that the family listed here is connected with your own research.

Our Brown ancestors lived in the parishes of St Erme and St Allen, north of Truro in Cornwall. We have traced our line back to Henry Brown who married Elizabeth Bilky in 1783 in St Erme, but we are uncertain of his origins. The only baptism we have found which comes anywhere close was recorded in St Clement as the son of Henry and Mary Boone. We have also found a Richard and Philippa Brown living in St Erme, with a gap in the recorded baptisms of their children to leave room for Henry if he were part of their family.

Some of the names below are linked to a more detailed record in the on-line family tree (people marked with an asterisk do not have a full record). When you click on a link, the linked record will be displayed in a separate window. There you can see the family relationships as we understand them, together with notes on what we have found in parish registers, census returns and other records. All the places named below are in Cornwall unless otherwise indicated.

We also have a second Brown page which lists several generations of a Brown family which we know lived in St Erme at the relevant time. We think that this family may be connected to our own Brown tree, but we have not yet found the link.

1. Children of Henry Brown and Elizabeth Bilky

2. Children of John Brown and Mary Mitchell (see table 1 above)

3a. Children of Henry Brown and Selina Tamblyn (see table 2 above)

3b. Children of Henry Brown and Caroline Stephens (see table 2 above)

4. Children of Francis Brown and Emily Lavinia Keast (see table 2 above)

5. Children of John Brown and Emily Veale (see table 2 above)

6. Child of William John Brown and Annette Orchard (see table 3a above)

7. Children of Alfred S Brown and Regina Hockin (see table 3b above)

8. Child of John Henry Brown and Minnie Crosse (see table 4 above)

9. Children of Charles H Brown and Florence J Kneebone (see table 3a above)