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Thomasin (Brown) Brownson (1839 - 1914)

Thomasin Brownson formerly Brown aka Driffield
Born in Hadfield, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdommap
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Wife of — married 1861 in Wirral, Cheshire, England, United Kingdommap
Wife of — married 1894 in Axbridge, Somerset, England, United Kingdommap
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Died at about age 75 in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdommap
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Biography

Thomasin's father was a draper and grocer. And the family seems to have moved a lot when she was growing up.[1][2][3] In 1861 she married William Driffield, a draper from Cornwall.[4]
By 1881, she and William were living in Swanbach House in Audlem, Cheshire. They had at least six children and her parents were living with them at that time.[5] On July 29 of that year, William died, leaving behind an estate valued at £6,008 19s. 6d.[6] Thomasin had four girls including twins. All four girls were living with her at Swanbach House in 1891, where Thomasin is listed as living "on her own means".[7]
In 1894, she married a widower and Primitive Methodist minister, Rev. William James Brownson.[8] But less than four years later, he died. Thomasin was executor of the estate valued at £449 10s. 5d.[9]
By 1901, the now twice widowed Thomasin, had her boys Thomas and Arthur living with her in Nottingham. One of the twins, Martha Annie, had married a preacher in 1893 and moved to Canada,[10] followed by Thomasin's son William.[11] But the other three girls remained at home with their mother,[12] and were still there in 1911.[13]
Thomasin died in February 1914. Her address at the time was 6 Chaworth-road, West Bridgford. Administration of her estate granted to her daughter Elizabeth Jane, valued at £40 15s.[14]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1841 England Census, Class: HO107; Piece: 89; Book: 32; Civil Parish: Tilston; County: Cheshire; Enumeration District: 16; Folio: 6; Page: 35; Line: 3; GSU roll: 241232.
  2. ↑ 1851 England Census, Cheshire, Newhall, Bunbury, 11b, Class: HO107; Piece: 2170; Folio: 459; Page: 10; GSU roll: 87157-87158, Household schedule number: 42.
  3. ↑ 1861 England Census, Cheshire, Irby, District 3, Class: RG 9; Piece: 2638; Folio: 35; Page: 5; GSU roll: 543003, Household schedule number: 20.
  4. ↑ FreeBMD. England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915, Registration Year: 1861, Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun, Registration district: Wirral, Inferred County: Cheshire, Volume: 8a, Page: 586.
  5. ↑ 1881 England Census, Cheshire, Audlem, District 2, Class: RG11; Piece: 3551; Folio: 30; Page: 1; GSU roll: 1341850.
  6. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England, Cheshire, 1881, pg. 220.
  7. ↑ 1891 England Census, Cheshire, Audlem District 2, Class: RG12; Piece: 2858; Folio: 29; Page: 6; GSU roll: 6097968.
  8. ↑ England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915, Registration Year: 1894, Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun, Registration district: Axbridge, Inferred County: Somerset, Volume: 5c, Page: 946.
  9. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England, 1897, pg. 312.
  10. ↑ 1901 Census of Canada, Sydney Mines (Town/Ville), Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Page: 32; Family No: 284.
  11. ↑ "Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2Q9T-N6D : 27 December 2014), W Driffield, Dec 1896; citing Immigration, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, C-4517, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
  12. ↑ 1901 England Census, Nottinghamshire, Nottingham, Nottingham North West, District 32, Class: RG13; Piece: 3184; Folio: 184; Page: 21, Household schedule number: 138.
  13. ↑ 1911 England Census, Nottinghamshire, Cotgrave, 18, Class: RG14; Piece: 20786.
  14. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England, 1914, B, Br, pg. 279.




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