Prob d.unm. young.

On the other hand there is this transcript of a memorial in Ramshorn Cemetery, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, courtesy of the Happy Haggis website at <http://www.happyhaggis.co.uk/lanark-ramshorn.htm>;:

“Sacred to the memory of John Brown, and his wife Jane Mayne. Also Helen Brown their daughter who died Sept. 1850 aged 82(?). Also of Archibald Brown who died 9th(?) Aug 1827 and his daughter Elizabeth Anne who died 29th(?) Sept. 1827 also his wife Grace Hamilton who died 21st Jany. 1844.”

I have found that the Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society have made transcripts of:

  1. Index to Burials in Ranshorn & Blackfriars
  2. Glasgow, Ramshorn Burying Grounds M.I.s

So I have ordered both of these on 11th June 2021 with delivery hoped by 25th June 2021.

And she put nothing in her will about the memorial for her parents in Ramshorn Burial Grounds.
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ON Scotland’s People there is this Will and Testimentary index entry:

                                                                              Reference
Surname  Forename  Date        Description              Type        Court     Number

Brown    Helen     15/11/1850  daughter of deceased    Trust        Glasgow   SC36/51/29
                               John Brown, merchant    Disposition  Sheriff
                               in Glasgow, thereafter  and          Court
                               in Greenhill near       Settlement:  Wills
                               Glasgow                 Codicil

Brown    Helen     15/11/1850  daughter of John        Inventory    Glasgow   SC36/48/37
                               Brown, merchant in                   Sheriff
                               Glasgow                              Court
                                                                    Inventories

I have ordered the Will on 14 June 2021 and collected it that day for a mere £2.50.
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In the will she listed:

A: Those who are to be Trustees for her will:
James Brown, living in Edinburgh (possibly her slightly younger brother),
William Brown Marchant in London (Her nephew by her brother George and my ggg-f),
Claud H Brown then in India (her nephew by her brother Atchibald),
James George  Morrison Merchant in Glasgow (her nephew by her sister Mary Shewan),
John George Campbell Writer in Saint Vincent Street Edinburgh (nephew by her sister Frances Allen),

B: The beneficiaries:
1. The children of her Brother George Brown sometime merchant in London
2. Additionally for her ’Name’ daughter, Helen Graham Brown,
3. Her brother James Brown Merchant and presently residing in Edinburgh
4. Her sister mary Shewan Brown or MorrisonRelict of James Morrison Merchant in Glasgow
5. Her gt-niece by her sister Mary S, Harriet Morrison
6. Susan Allan Mayne presently residing in Edinburgh,
7. The daughters JaneHelen and Elizabeth Anne of her brother Archibald.
8. Archibald James Brown, another son of her brother Archibald,
9. Her sister Mrs Frances Brown or Campbell, wife of John Campbell Esquire Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh
10. The daughters Elizabeth Frances. Helen and Mary Ann Campbell of her sister Frances,

Her will and Testament was signed on 15th August 1845.

She signed a related Codicil or other deed on 25th July 1850.

All was then recorded in the Sheriff Court Books of Lanarkshire at Glasgow on the 28th of October 1850.  (This implies to me that she had died shortly before 28th October.)
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After double transcription by Happy Haggis from their image of the Memorial stone and my transcript from the image on the Billion Graves site, this is memorial No 48 in the Ramshorn Graveyard, Glasgow:


“                          SACRED
“                     TO THE MEMORY OF
“                        JOHN BROWN
“                  AND HIS WIFE JANE MAYNE
“                           ALSO
“                HELEN BROWN THEIR DAUGHTER
“               WHO DIED SEPTR 1850, AGED 82
“                     ———————————————
“                         ALSO OF
“                     ARCHIBALD BROWN
“                  WHO DIED 9TH AUG 1827
“                    AND HIS DAUGHTER
“                     ELIZABETH ANNE
“                WHO DIED 20TH SEPTR 1827
“                      ALSO HIS WIFE
“                     GRACE HAMILTON
“                 WHO DIED 21ST JANY 1844

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A thought has struck me: This memorial could only have been put up after the death of Helen in 1850, by which time the death dates of her parents might well have been forgotten, explaining the lack of mention on this memorial.

Who would have then decided to erect memorial No 48?  Might it have been in Helen’s will?  If not, whom?

See her Will Notes for the next thrilling instalment.
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