Harrower Family Tree » William Brown (1749-????)

Personal data William Brown 

Source 1
  • He was born in the year 1749 in Kettle, Fife, Scotland.

    Waarschuwing Attention: Age at marriage (December 4, 1764) below 16 years (15).

    Ancestry ???

Household of William Brown

He is married to Isabel Syme.

They got married on December 4, 1764 at Carnbee, Fife, Scotland, he was 15 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. Isabella Brown  1766-???? 


Notes about William Brown

1. Images on this page have been downloaded from Ancestry.co.uk.

2. Elizabeth Syme's death record in 1859 confirms her parents as John Syme and Isabella Brown. John Symes occupation recorded as a Miner! John Syme and Isabella Brown marriage he is recorded as being a weaver in 1785?
What I cannot confirm is the birth dates of John Syme and Isabella Brown, and their parent's, as they both appear to have died before Statutory records began!

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Brown

William Brown
1749-????

1764

Isabel Syme
????-

Isabella Brown
1766-????

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Sources

  1. Scotlands People - Old Parish Registers of Banns and Marriages, 1764 BROWN, WILLIAM, ISOBEL SYME (Old Parish Registers Marriages 413/20 233) Carnbee 04/12/1764.
    1764 BROWN, WILLIAM, ISOBEL SYME (Old Parish Registers Marriages 413/20 233) Carnbee 04/12/1764.
    William Brown & Isobel Syme were married Decb 4th 1764 Irregularly

Historical events

Day of marriage December 4, 1764

  • The temperature on December 4, 1764 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
    • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
    • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
    • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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