The Brown Tree » William BROWN (1830-????)

Personal data William BROWN 

• He was born in the year 1830 in Armagh, Northern Ireland.Source 2
• Resident in the year 1851: Glasgow St John, Lanarkshire, Scotland.Source 2
• (The Irish Famine ) on 1846 - 1848 in Lurgan, Armagh, Northern Ireland.
• A child of George BROWN and Mary Little

Household of William BROWN

He had a relationship with Margaret.

Child(ren):

1. George BROWN  1852-1909 
2. William George BROWN  1854-???? 
3. John BROWN  1856-???? 

Notes about William BROWN

William not proven Harold 1906 Lurgan No Ruth . Harold 1906 Lurgan, Northern Ireland No Andrew . Mary 1896 Shankill, Lurgan, Ireland No Timothy .Thomas 1890 Lurgan No Margaret .William 1885 Lurgan No Anna Margaret 1881 No Joan Sarah 1825 Seagoe, Co Armagh No Marilyn link not proven Burial Brown William 1866 Co. Armagh Name: Margaret Brown Year: 1911 Age: 70 Sex: female Relgion: Church of Ireland Marital Status: widow Occupation: Birth Place: Armagh Education: r + w Language: Illness: Signed with Mark: Other useful information Margaret Brown head of family Elizabeth Brown daughter George Brown son Agnes Brown daughter note james brown and robert brown derryliliagh,tartar tithe app

The Famine of 1846-48 in Lurgan

The area served by Lurgan Poor Law Union suffered greatly throughout the Famine of 1846-48. This area, estimated to contain seventy thousand people, stretched from Tartaraghan to Ballinderry and from the Montiaghs to the Bleary with Lurgan and its immediate
hinterland in the centre.
The economy of the poor in the entire area depended upon weaving and labouring, therefore at first glance, no one part of this area seemed to be the more able to withstand the great hardship, which the famine undoubtedly brought, than any other part. It therefore seemed remarkable that the population of the Montiaghs rose during the Famine decade by 2.9 per cent and rose again in the following decade by 21.2 per cent.
The rises in population would suggest that the people of the Montiaghs had not suffered as badly as had people of the surrounding areas and that the Montiaghs had coped successfully with a large increase in population attracted perhaps by the area's ability to weather the Famine's hunger and disease. In order to test this theory an examination of the Lurgan Union Workhouse admission registers was made whereby figures for admissions and deaths in the workhouse relevant to the Montiagh population could be compared to statistics already available for the entire area served by the workhouse.
Details
The admission registers detail the following information about each entrant; Surname, Christian name, Age, Marital Status, Occupation, Religion, Townland or Parish of origin, Condition on arrival at workhouse, Date of entry, date of leaving or date of Death. The identification of Montiagh residents was made easy by the inclusion of the entrant's townland of origin.
Even if one is not of an age to remember the stark isolation and fear in the Scarlatina fever sheds attached to many hospitals in the 1920's and 1930's, it is still all too easy, even by a random search of the admission registers, to grasp the horror and suffering of the Famine period. Eighteen hundred admissions into a workhouse capable of accommodating six hundred so-called paupers over a period of four months October 1847 to January 1848; two hundred and forty - five deaths in the workhouse in January 1847; eleven hundred and eighteen deaths in Lurgan Workhouse from December 1846 to November 1847; the father who arrived from the Montiaghs in November 1848 with four children, leaving a few weeks later with only one child, the other three having died; the one hundred and forty-two admissions on 10th June 1847 to an already overcrowded and diseased workhouse.
The unemployed fifty-seven year old widow from Ballynery who arrived on the week before Christmas 1847 with four young children only to watch the eldest, a fifteen-year-old girl, and the youngest, a nine-year-old boy die within three, weeks of entering; the single servant from Ardmore who arrived in a fevered condition and died two weeks later; the ten year old healthy orphan who arrived unaccompanied to the workhouse after New Year's Day 1848 to be discharged twelve days later; the old man of eightyone years who arrived in a cart from Derrytrasna to remain in the workhouse for three months.
Names
Their names and religions? Well, names and religions do not change to any great degree over four generations in any part of rural Ireland. Their occupations? Most of those fortunate enough to have employment were spinners, weavers, winders or labourers, occupations which, until very recently, were all too familiar to the people of Lurgan and its surrounding countryside.
The following table compares relative figures for admissions and deaths in the Lurgan Union Workhouse during three periods of time within the Famine. The overall area had a population of 70,000 while the population of the Montiaghs at this time was 3,500.
MONTIAGHS OVERALL
Admissions to workhouse during December 1846 and January 1847 26 980
Percentages of respective populations. 0.7% 1.4%

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