William Franklin Browne (1844 - 1911)

Born 1844 in Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados

Husband of Erena Ellen (Jenkins) Browne — married about 17 May 1868 (to 1889) in Wellington, New Zealand

Husband of Mary Agnes (Farrarah) Browne — married 1909 in New Zealand

Descendants

Died 11 Aug 1911 at about age 67 in Wellington, New Zealand

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Biography

William was born in 1844.

sister of Betsey Browne

He married Ellen Jenkins in Wellington, 1868^[1]

MARRIED. EVENING POST, VOLUME IV, ISSUE 80, 18 MAY 1868, PAGE 2 On the 17th inst., at the residence of Mr. Henry Toomey, Taranaki street, by the Rev. W. M, Fell, Mr. William Franklin Browne, to Ellen, eldest -surviving daughter of Mr. William Jenkins of Waikane.

children -

William Franklin Browne b: 1869

Walter Browne b: 1871

Theodore Percy Browne b: 1872

Ellen Selina Browne b: 1874

Alice Laura Browne b: 1875

Edith May Browne b: 1877

Hilda Emma Browne b: 1879

Frances Keens Browne b: 1881

Allan McLean Browne b: 1883

Ada Agatha Browne b: 1885

Harry Ernest Browne b: 1887

Frank Cyril Browne b: 1888

Ellen died from Typhoid Fever 26 May 1889.

William remarried to Mary Agnes Josephine Day (nee ) in 1909^[2]

He passed away in 1911. ^[3]

He is buried in the Karori Cemetery, Wellington[1]

DEATH. NEW ZEALAND TIMES, VOLUME XXXIII, ISSUE 7877, 12 AUGUST 1911, PAGE 4
BROWNE.—On Friday. August 11th. 1911 at his late residence. No. 11, Buller Street, Wellington, William Franklin Browne: aged 67 years.

NEW ZEALAND TIMES, VOLUME XXXIII, ISSUE 7878, 14 AUGUST 1911, PAGE 7
Mr William Franklin Browne, whose interment took place in Karori Cemetery yesterday, was a native of Bardadoes, where his father, an officer of the 12th Battalion Loyal Infantry, was stationed. Mr Browne arrived in Wellington in 1862 in the brig Blanche (Captain Jacob Care), after a tempestuous voyage of 153 days. He joined the Native School Department in 1873 as teacher, and during his twenty years' connection with the department served in Poverty Bay, Bay of Plenty, Hokianga, and Wairarapa. He was sixty-seven years of age.[2]

Research Notes

• https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18910522.2.38
• https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18801119.2.33
• Portrait of William https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22316773
• Portrait of William and his family (Browne, William Franklin, 1844?-1911, Browne, Walter, 1870, Davis, Hilda Emma, 1879-1975, Browne, William Franklin, 1869-1942, Browne, Ada Agatha Sylvany, 1885-, Browne, Frances Keens, 1881- , Browne, Harry Ernest, 1887-1928 Subject) https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23215488
• https://natlib.govt.nz/records/37782533

Sources

1. ↑ N.Z. MARRIAGES - 1868/7073 - Ellen Jenkins & William Franklin Browne
2. ↑ 1909/1804 Mary Agnes Josephine Day William Franklin-Browne
3. ↑ N.Z. DEATHS - 1911/1235 - Browne William Franklin aged 67 years