Henry Brown (1819 - 1869)

Born 27 Aug 1819 in Thorold Township, Welland, Upper Canada

Husband of Elizabeth (Cohoe) Brown — married 23 Apr 1844 in Ontario, Canada

Descendants

Died 4 Jun 1869 at age 49 in Pelham, Welland, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

"HENRY BROWN, deceased, was born in Thorold Township, August 27th,1819. His father, John Brown, moved to Pelham when Henry was quite young. Our subject was married on the twenty-third day of April, 1844, to Elizabeth, a daughter of John and Mary (Moore) Cohoe, the former a native of Buck's County, Pennsylvania, who came to Canada with his father in 1788. She is a granddaughter of Ambrose and Deborah (Heacock) Cohoe and Jeremiah and Mary (Wildman) Moore, and a descendant of Jonathan and Ann Heacock, of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, who came to America and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1711. Mr. Brown immediately after his marriage settled on the farm on which his widow now resides, in Pelham Township along the Welland river. Here he lived until the fourth of June 1869, the date of his death. He was highly respected and lef to his widow and family a good property. He was the father of eleven children, of whom six grew up to manhood and womanhood. The names of those living are David J., Edward A., Ambrose J., Sarah C.the wife of Jac ob Fretz, and Cyrus H. David J. married Sarah E.,eldest daughter of Da niel and Nancy (Killman) Vanwyck ; Edward A.married Emma J., youngest d aughter of Daniel and Nancy (Killman)Vanwyck."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ The History of Welland County, Ontario, 1887, archive.org

See also:

• "Canada Census, 1851," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWTK-2RS : 3 August 2016), Henry Brown, Pelham, Welland County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada; citing p. 107, line 37; Library and Archives Canada film number C_11757, Public Archives, Ontario.
• "Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQW6-BYJ : 5 September 2017), Henry Brown, All Places (Agricultural), Welland, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 46, line 3; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1081, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,435,946.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Caroline Cohoe for creating WikiTree profile Brown-19399 through the import of cohoe only_2013-04-15.ged on Apr 15, 2013.