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NameLouisa Brown 
[4, 1871: RG10, Piece 028, Folio 6, p. 3], [3, Her death aged 98, Q3 of 1894, Tunbridge dist, vol 2a, p. 337], [4, 1851 ref: HO107, piece 1614, folio 150, p. 16], [33, Geo Brown's family]
[4, 1871: RG10, Piece 028, Folio 6, p. 3], [3, Her death aged 98, Q3 of 1894, Tunbridge dist, vol 2a, p. 337], [4, 1851 ref: HO107, piece 1614, folio 150, p. 16], [33, Geo Brown's family]Birth6 Jun 1796, Ely Place, Holburn, Mx
Baptism7 Jul 1796, St Andrew’s, Holborn, London
Death18 Jul 1894, 17 Belvedere, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
General4th dau. dsp.
FatherGeorge Brown (1758-1829)
MotherMargaret Balfour (1766-1854)
Spouses
Marriage1 Jun 1836, Bolney, Sussex [52, Marriage on 1 Jun 1836 at Bolney, Sussex]
No Children
Notes for Louisa Brown
March 2021, TFPL: her definite baptism has been found, image downloaded, transcript by me:
[ Camden > St Andrew, Holburn > London ]
“Christenings in July 1896
“. . . .
“Louisa Daugtr. of George Brown Gentm. & Margaret his wife Ely Place 7”
Her birth date is only known from a list written probably by her brother William (born Brown but changed to Trotter).
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The following were my early attempts to obtain information:_
Far too many LB deaths on FreeBMD to begin to guess her death date.
Did she marry a Beresford? if so, she was a widow to one in 1881. Probably the marriage was before 1837.
Yes, the 1871 census proves this with her sister Margaret living with her:
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
BERESFORD, Louisa Head F 74 1797 Middlesex
BROWN, Margaret O Sister F 80 1791 Scotland
HILL, Frances S Servant F 45 1826 Montgomeryshire
TURNER, Susan S Servant F 31 1840 Kent
WYATT, Selina L Servant F 26 1845 Cornwall
STREET, William Servant M 15 1856 Kent
RG number: RG10 Piece: 928 Folio: 6 Page: 3
Registration District: Tunbridge Sub District: Tunbridge Wells EnumerationDistrict: 9
Ecclesiastical Parish:
Civil Parish: Tunbridge Municipal Borough:
Address: Church Road, Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells
County: Kent
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She almost made the ton:
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Sep 1894
Beresford Louisa 98 Tunbridge 2a 337
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In 1861 she was aslo a widow and living at 7 Belvedere Church Road, Tunbridge Wells. But no relatives with her.
She and her family were in Scotland in 1841 at Sandford Street, Duddingston, Midlothian:
First name(s) Last name Sex Age Birth year Birth place
Hamilton Beresford Male 45 1796 England
Louisa Beresford Female 40 1801 England
Sidney Beresford Female 15 1826 Scotland
Georgina Beresford Female 14 1827 Scotland
Isabella Robertson Female 35 1806 Scotland
Jean Watson Female 25 1816 Scotland
And in 1851 they were at York Terrace, Tunbridge, Tonbridge, Kent:
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Louisa Beresford Head Widow Female 54 1797 Fundholder St Andrews, London
Sydney Beresford Step Daughter Unmarried Female 25 1826 Fundholder Scotland
Georgina S Beresford Step Daughter Unmarried Female 24 1827 Fundholder Scotland
Anne Longden Servant Widow Female 43 1808 House Servant Heathfield, Sussex
Ellen Killick Servant Unmarried Female 19 1832 House Servant Frant, Sussex
Ref:
Archive reference HO107
Piece number 1614
Folio 150
Page 36
Combined: HO107, piece 1614, folio 150, p. 16
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In 1881 her niece by her brother Henry, Ethel Louisa Brown was with her at 17, Church Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent and four servants.
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In 1891 her widowed step-daughter Sydney (Holloway by then) and another niece by Henry, Alice Margaret Brown, were with her at Church Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. They were down to a parsimonious three servants then. Sydney died in 1896, in Devizes.
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IGI has a marriage on 1 Jun 1836 between a Louisa Brown and a Hamilton Sydney Beresford at Bolney, Sussex. Film, source call no 1068521.
If this is relevant, then he died in 1847:
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Jun 1847
Beresford Hamilton Sydney Islington 3 165
But neither Hamilton nor Laura are to be found in the 1841 census. Abroad? Possibly in Ireland where his family came from.
TFPL, March 2021: their marriage and his death, with will, are absolutely confirmed. He had had three children by a first marriage.
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No baptisms of any Beresford children with a father’s first name of Hamilton.
No births registered from 1837 to 1841, when she would have been 45.
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Her burial has yet to be found.
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[ Camden > St Andrew, Holburn > London ]
“Christenings in July 1896
“. . . .
“Louisa Daugtr. of George Brown Gentm. & Margaret his wife Ely Place 7”
Her birth date is only known from a list written probably by her brother William (born Brown but changed to Trotter).
___________________
The following were my early attempts to obtain information:_
Far too many LB deaths on FreeBMD to begin to guess her death date.
Did she marry a Beresford? if so, she was a widow to one in 1881. Probably the marriage was before 1837.
Yes, the 1871 census proves this with her sister Margaret living with her:
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
BERESFORD, Louisa Head F 74 1797 Middlesex
BROWN, Margaret O Sister F 80 1791 Scotland
HILL, Frances S Servant F 45 1826 Montgomeryshire
TURNER, Susan S Servant F 31 1840 Kent
WYATT, Selina L Servant F 26 1845 Cornwall
STREET, William Servant M 15 1856 Kent
RG number: RG10 Piece: 928 Folio: 6 Page: 3
Registration District: Tunbridge Sub District: Tunbridge Wells EnumerationDistrict: 9
Ecclesiastical Parish:
Civil Parish: Tunbridge Municipal Borough:
Address: Church Road, Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells
County: Kent
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She almost made the ton:
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Sep 1894
Beresford Louisa 98 Tunbridge 2a 337
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In 1861 she was aslo a widow and living at 7 Belvedere Church Road, Tunbridge Wells. But no relatives with her.
She and her family were in Scotland in 1841 at Sandford Street, Duddingston, Midlothian:
First name(s) Last name Sex Age Birth year Birth place
Hamilton Beresford Male 45 1796 England
Louisa Beresford Female 40 1801 England
Sidney Beresford Female 15 1826 Scotland
Georgina Beresford Female 14 1827 Scotland
Isabella Robertson Female 35 1806 Scotland
Jean Watson Female 25 1816 Scotland
And in 1851 they were at York Terrace, Tunbridge, Tonbridge, Kent:
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Louisa Beresford Head Widow Female 54 1797 Fundholder St Andrews, London
Sydney Beresford Step Daughter Unmarried Female 25 1826 Fundholder Scotland
Georgina S Beresford Step Daughter Unmarried Female 24 1827 Fundholder Scotland
Anne Longden Servant Widow Female 43 1808 House Servant Heathfield, Sussex
Ellen Killick Servant Unmarried Female 19 1832 House Servant Frant, Sussex
Ref:
Archive reference HO107
Piece number 1614
Folio 150
Page 36
Combined: HO107, piece 1614, folio 150, p. 16
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In 1881 her niece by her brother Henry, Ethel Louisa Brown was with her at 17, Church Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent and four servants.
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In 1891 her widowed step-daughter Sydney (Holloway by then) and another niece by Henry, Alice Margaret Brown, were with her at Church Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. They were down to a parsimonious three servants then. Sydney died in 1896, in Devizes.
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IGI has a marriage on 1 Jun 1836 between a Louisa Brown and a Hamilton Sydney Beresford at Bolney, Sussex. Film, source call no 1068521.
If this is relevant, then he died in 1847:
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Jun 1847
Beresford Hamilton Sydney Islington 3 165
But neither Hamilton nor Laura are to be found in the 1841 census. Abroad? Possibly in Ireland where his family came from.
TFPL, March 2021: their marriage and his death, with will, are absolutely confirmed. He had had three children by a first marriage.
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No baptisms of any Beresford children with a father’s first name of Hamilton.
No births registered from 1837 to 1841, when she would have been 45.
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Her burial has yet to be found.
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Will notes for Louisa Brown
Her probate index:
923 BERESFORD Louisa of 17 Belvedere Tunbridge Wells widow died 18 July 1894 Probate London 1 September to Ernext Balfour Trotter and William Hamilton Pott esquires Effects £14407 6s. 5d. Resworn Aug 1899 £14490.16.5.
Ernest Balfour was her youngest nephew. Can’t find any connection to William Hamilton Pott; might have been on her husband’s side.
June 2021, TFPL: Now that I have done all the Maclean-Brown descendants, I can report that William Hamilton Pott was the grandson of Jean Maclean, née Brown; Jean was the elder sister of Louisa by about 8 years and so William was the great-nephew of Louisa.
I have ordered Louisa’s will, 9 Jun 2021. Delivered 11 Jun 2021.
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Her will was dated 14th October 1891, with addition documents dated Oct 1891, a codicil of 7th July 1892, and a second codicil of 24th May 1894.
She listed:
1. Her executors as above,
2. Sydney Holloway the surviving daughter of her late husband,
3. Her late brother William Trotter (my ggg-f),
4. Samuel Frederick Holloway, the son of Sydney Holloway,
5. Her great niece Phyllis Ward, daughter of her late niece Maria Georgina Haig
6. Her five nieces:
(a) Margaret Anne Leversage, (born Maclean)
(b) Jean Sibella Carrie, (born Maclean)
(c) Alice Margaret Brown, (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
(d) Constance isabella Grey (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
(e) Ethel Louisa Haslam (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
7. Her dear sister-in-law Hannah Brown (wife of her brother George Brown)
8. Her niece Anne Pott (born Maclean)
9. Her niece Ada Dorothy Overbury (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
10. Her niece Helen Mary Wood, (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
11. Her niece Lucy Carroll, (her niece by her sister Mary Frances Brown)
12. Mrs Leversage, (probably Margaret Ann born Maclean)
13. Mrs Purefoy Fitzgerald, (probably the daughter Henrietta Mary Chester
of her first cousin Henrietta born Brown,
the daughter of her uncle William Brown)
I have not included any Holloways in this genealogy as they are not descendants of ancestors, though I could change my mind as they were important to Louisa.
Anyhow all the above catalogue of relations are otherwise fully accounted for, which is good.
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923 BERESFORD Louisa of 17 Belvedere Tunbridge Wells widow died 18 July 1894 Probate London 1 September to Ernext Balfour Trotter and William Hamilton Pott esquires Effects £14407 6s. 5d. Resworn Aug 1899 £14490.16.5.
Ernest Balfour was her youngest nephew. Can’t find any connection to William Hamilton Pott; might have been on her husband’s side.
June 2021, TFPL: Now that I have done all the Maclean-Brown descendants, I can report that William Hamilton Pott was the grandson of Jean Maclean, née Brown; Jean was the elder sister of Louisa by about 8 years and so William was the great-nephew of Louisa.
I have ordered Louisa’s will, 9 Jun 2021. Delivered 11 Jun 2021.
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Her will was dated 14th October 1891, with addition documents dated Oct 1891, a codicil of 7th July 1892, and a second codicil of 24th May 1894.
She listed:
1. Her executors as above,
2. Sydney Holloway the surviving daughter of her late husband,
3. Her late brother William Trotter (my ggg-f),
4. Samuel Frederick Holloway, the son of Sydney Holloway,
5. Her great niece Phyllis Ward, daughter of her late niece Maria Georgina Haig
6. Her five nieces:
(a) Margaret Anne Leversage, (born Maclean)
(b) Jean Sibella Carrie, (born Maclean)
(c) Alice Margaret Brown, (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
(d) Constance isabella Grey (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
(e) Ethel Louisa Haslam (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
7. Her dear sister-in-law Hannah Brown (wife of her brother George Brown)
8. Her niece Anne Pott (born Maclean)
9. Her niece Ada Dorothy Overbury (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
10. Her niece Helen Mary Wood, (her niece by her brother Henry Brown)
11. Her niece Lucy Carroll, (her niece by her sister Mary Frances Brown)
12. Mrs Leversage, (probably Margaret Ann born Maclean)
13. Mrs Purefoy Fitzgerald, (probably the daughter Henrietta Mary Chester
of her first cousin Henrietta born Brown,
the daughter of her uncle William Brown)
I have not included any Holloways in this genealogy as they are not descendants of ancestors, though I could change my mind as they were important to Louisa.
Anyhow all the above catalogue of relations are otherwise fully accounted for, which is good.
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Notes for Hamilton Sydney & Louisa (Family)
Their marriage licence:
First name(s) LOUISA
Last name BROWN
Licence year 1836
Licence date 26 May 1836
New calender date 26 May 1836
Bride's first name(s) Louisa
Bride's last name BROWN
Groom's first name(s) Hamilton Sydney
Groom's last name BERESFORD
Place Dioceses of England & Wales
Record set Faculty Office Marriage Licences
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Their marriage:
First name(s) Louisa
Last name Brown
Name note -
Marriage year 1836
Marriage date 1836
Marriage place Bolney
Spouse's first name(s) Hamilton Sydney
Spouse's last name Beresford
Residence Bolney, Sussex, England
County Sussex
Country England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
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Ancestry confirms the above but does not have an image of the parish register.
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FindMyPast has this newpaper report in the Worcester Herald of 11 June 1836, p.4:
“MARRIED.—
. . . .
“At Bolney, Sussex, the Rev Hamilton Sydney Beresford, of Brailew, Warwickshire, to Louisa, daughter of the late G. Brown Esq, of Warwick Square”
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First name(s) LOUISA
Last name BROWN
Licence year 1836
Licence date 26 May 1836
New calender date 26 May 1836
Bride's first name(s) Louisa
Bride's last name BROWN
Groom's first name(s) Hamilton Sydney
Groom's last name BERESFORD
Place Dioceses of England & Wales
Record set Faculty Office Marriage Licences
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Their marriage:
First name(s) Louisa
Last name Brown
Name note -
Marriage year 1836
Marriage date 1836
Marriage place Bolney
Spouse's first name(s) Hamilton Sydney
Spouse's last name Beresford
Residence Bolney, Sussex, England
County Sussex
Country England
Record set England Marriages 1538-1973
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Ancestry confirms the above but does not have an image of the parish register.
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FindMyPast has this newpaper report in the Worcester Herald of 11 June 1836, p.4:
“MARRIED.—
. . . .
“At Bolney, Sussex, the Rev Hamilton Sydney Beresford, of Brailew, Warwickshire, to Louisa, daughter of the late G. Brown Esq, of Warwick Square”
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