Priscilla (Herbert) Brown (abt. 1668 - abt. 1731)

Born about 1668 in Cayton, Yorkshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Brown — married 26 Nov 1689 in Seamer, Yorkshire, England

Died about 3 Jul 1731 at about age 63 in Cayton, Yorkshire, England

Biography

Priscilla was born in 1668. She was the daughter of Henry Herbert and Anne Harrison. She passed away in 1731. ^[1]

Priscilla married Henry Brown on 26 November 1689 at Cayton, near Scarborough, Yorkshire.^[2] Bishop's transcripts also show the marriage place as Seamer, an adjoining parish.^[3] Priscilla is named on the baptisms of their children, who also have records in Seamer and Cayton.^[4]

Priscilla died in 1731 and was buried on 5 July 1731 at Cayton, Priscilla wife of Henry Brown.^[5]

Research Notes

No source found for Priscilla's parentage at the moment. There was a Herbert family living in Seamer and having children around the time Priscilla was born - Robert Herbert and his wife Margaret had a son Robert baptised there 6 October 1667.^[6] There is a Priscilla Harbert daughter of Robert born at Speeton, about 9 miles away, on 10 January 1654/1655^[7] but she would probably be a little too old for this marriage (there are children up to about 1704). She may be the Priscilla Herbert daughter of Robert who died in childhood and was buried at Muston 20 April 1658.

Priscilla does not appear to be the daughter of Sir Henry Herbert and Anne Harrison for these reasons:Cody-939 05:04, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

• She is not recorded in Dugdale's Pedigree of Herbert of Middleton-Wherno. Source: considered reliable secondary source
• She is not recorded in The Memoir of Sir Thomas Herbert by Robert Davies (1870). Source: unknown reliability. He also states of Sir Henry and Anne:

"They had several children but all died young, except a daughter named Margaret, afterwards the wife of Lionel Maddison, of Saltwellside, in the county of Durham, esquire. The mother died at York, in childbirth, and was buried with her unbaptized infant in St Saviour's church, on the 19th of July, 1670." This supports Dugdale's pedigree above.

• An online search revealed hundreds of trees that all have Sir Henry Herbert and Anne Harrison as the parents of Priscilla Herbert but none have a reliable source attached to support this connection. The only sources used at these sites to substantiate the lineage are: another Ancestry tree (Source: unreliable), a Family Search tree with no relevant sources attached (Source: unreliable), and a Millenium File at Ancestry (Source: unreliable).
• Further analysis of the Millenium File may explain where the initial problem has arisen.^[8] The details of this source are:

Name: Priscilla Herbert

Gender: Female

Birth Date: 1664

Birth Place: Clayton, York, England

Death Date: abt 1731

Burial Date: 3 Jul 1731

Burial Place: Clayton, York, England

Spouse: Henry Brown

Children: Richard Brown

The source does not record the parents but names the birth place as Clayton. Clayton seems to have been exchanged for Cayton or is a typo/transcription error. Cayton is an ancestral home of one branch of the Harrison family that Anne Harrison descends from but it is not her line, she is from the Allerthorpe branch. Her husband's estate was at Middleton Quernhow in the parish of Wath in Yorkshire, which is quite a distance from Cayton/Seamer. Millenium Files are sourced from user databases so it is unknown where the information originally came from and if it was credibly sourced, so is considered unreliable.

Sources

1. ↑ Source will be added by Joseph Hamilton by 20 Mar 2022.
2. ↑ Yorkshire Marriages, Cayton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England, East Riding Archives & Local Studies Service, Marriage year 1689, Archive reference E-PE127-1, https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FYORKSHIRE%2FMAR%2F301508195%2F2
3. ↑ "England, Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts, 1547-1957", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68ZC-7TJ8 : 16 August 2021), Priscilla Harburt, 1689.
4. ↑ "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66BK-SQN3 : 23 February 2022), Priscilla in entry for Henry Brown, 1691.
5. ↑ Yorkshire Burials, Cayton, Yorkshire (North Riding), England, East Riding Archives & Local Studies Service, Archive reference E-PE127-1, https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FYORKSHIRE%2FBUR%2F303578923
6. ↑ "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66BL-QVL5 : 23 February 2022), Robert Herbert, 1667.
7. ↑ Yorkshire Baptisms, Bridlington, Yorkshire (East Riding), England, East Riding Archives & Local Studies Service, Baptism year 1654, Archive reference PE 153/2, https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FYORKSHIRE%2FBAP%2F207482962
8. ↑ Birth: "Millennium File"
   Ancestry Record 7249 #106310455 (accessed 7 May 2022)
   Priscilla Herbert born in 1664 in Clayton, York, England.