The Brown Family in Cornwall

This page lists those members of the Brown family whose origins we are researching. Entries in italics are inferred or uncertain, or have been supplied by other researchers and not personally verified by us. The list does not include children known to have died in infancy. Please contact Chris Warren if you feel that the family listed here is connected with your own research.

Our earlier Brown ancestors lived in the parishes of St Erme and St Allen, north of Truro in Cornwall. We have traced our line back to Henry Brown who married Elizabeth Bilky in 1783 in St Erme, but we have not found his baptism and so we are uncertain of his origins. We have found a Richard and Philippa Brown living in St Erme, with a gap in the recorded baptisms of their children to leave room for Henry if he were part of their family.

If this assumption is correct, these are the known members of that Brown family who lived in St Erme and some of their descendants. There are no surviving parish registers from St Erme before 1671 and the early registers have some gaps, so the listing is incomplete and some of the relationships are uncertain.

Some of the names below are linked to a more detailed record in the on-line family tree (people marked with an asterisk do not have a full record). When you click on a link, the linked record will be displayed in a separate window. There you can see the family relationships as we understand them, together with notes on what we have found in parish registers, census returns and other records. All the places named below are in Cornwall unless otherwise indicated.

1. Children of James Brown and Ann [unknown]

2. Children of William Brown and Rachel Behenna

3. Children of John Brown and Mary Polgrain (see table 1 above)

4. Children of Francis Brown and Joan Hocken (see table 1 above)

5. Children of Richard Brown and Philippa Harris (see table 3 above)

6. Children of Francis Brown and Elizabeth Cock (see table 4 above)

7. Children of Richard Brown and Elizabeth Hoskin (see table 5 above)

8. Children of Henry Brown and Elizabeth Bilky (see table 5 above)

9. Children of John Brown and Anne Bilkey (see table 6 above)

10. Children of James Brown and Ann Bilkey (see table 6 above)

11. Children of Henry Brown and Jane Prisk (see table 8 above)

12. Children of Richard Brown and Sarah Rowson (see table 9 above)

13. Children of John Brown and Mary Mitchell (see table 8 above)

14. Children of John Brown and Mary Ann Bennetts (see table 11 above)

15a. Children of Henry Brown and Selina Tamblyn (see table 13 above)

15b. Children of Henry Brown and Caroline Stephens (see table 13 above)

16. Children of Francis Brown and Emily Lavinia Keast (see table 13 above)

17. Children of John Brown and Emily Veale (see table 13 above)

18. Child of William John Brown and Annette Orchard (see table 15a above)

19. Children of Alfred S Brown and Regina Hockin (see table 15b above)

20. Child of John Henry Brown and Minnie Crosse (see table 16 above)

21. Children of Charles H Brown and Florence J Kneebone (see table 15a above)

22. Child of Herbert Francis Brown and Mary Ellen Jago (see table 16 above)