Brown, Thomas

Birth Name Brown, Thomas 1a
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about Apr 1827 Reigate, Surrey Birth of Thomas Brown (1827)  
Baptism 27 Apr 1827 St Mary Magdalene, Chart Lane, Reigate, Surrey Baptism of Thomas Brown (1827)  
Census 6 Jun 1841 Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey 1841 Census: Thomas Brown (1827), with parents William and Mary, and four siblings  
Death        

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Brown, William27 Mar 177829 Dec 1863
Mother Elliffe, Maryabout 178812 Jun 1871
    Sister     Brown, Amey about Aug 1814 about Oct 1893
    Sister     Brown, Mary-Ann about Nov 1815 Sep 1908
    Brother     Brown, William about May 1817
    Sister     Brown, Rebecca about Dec 1818 about Oct 1918
    Brother     Brown, Benjamin about Apr 1820 about Jul 1820
    Sister     Brown, Eliza about Oct 1821 about Oct 1917
    Sister     Brown, Ann about Feb 1823
    Sister     Brown, Caroline about Jul 1825 about Feb 1843
         Brown, Thomas about Apr 1827
    Sister     Brown, Sarah about Nov 1828 about Apr 1910
    Brother     Brown, Alfred about Sep 1836

Families

Family of Brown, Thomas and Summerhayes, Francis Murly

Married Wife Summerhayes, Francis Murly ( * about Aug 1830 + about Mar 1864 )
 
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 26 Oct 1854 St Mary's, Fratton Road, Fratton, Portsmouth, Hampshire Marriage of Thomas Brown (1827) and Fanny Summerhays  
Birth about Apr 1857 Portsea Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire Birth of Fanny Eliza Brown  
Census 7 Apr 1861 20 Telegraph Street, Portsea Island, Portsmouth, Hampshire 1861 Census: Thomas Brown (1827, private Royal Marines), wife Fanny, daughter Fanny  
Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Brown, Fanny Elizaabout Apr 1857about Jan 1911

Notes

To Do

Thomas Brown (1827).

RR notes state that he was a Royal Marine on HMS Cleopatra which was active from 1835 to 28 September 1853, from which time she remained at Chatham until being dismantled in 1862 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Cleopatra_(1835)). She did not therefore take part in the Crimea War (5 October 1853 - 30 March 1856), but that doesn't mean that Thomas didn't as he could have been reassigned to another ship.

On Ancestry there are a number of suggested dates for his death. We know that in the 1871 census his daughter Fanny Eliza was living with her grandmother and other family members.

There is a 1871 census record for a Thomas Brown, labourer, aged 45, living in Redhill, but he is down as married not widowed.

There is a burial record for St John's Redhill on 6 Feb 1878 for a Thomas Brown aged 51. There is an equivalent Index death record for Reigate.

The Brown family chart shows his death date as 1880.

If he was in the Army was he away from home? Did he die abroad??

On his daughter's wedding record, in 1883, her father is recorded as "Army pensioner" - not "deceased".

And where is he in 1851?