Fanny BROWN - born Monmouthshire Union, Mthr. Mary Ann BROWN (General)

by m p griffiths , Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 13:27 (4739 days ago) @ karencoupe123

Looking at Ancestry and death Index - Fanny Sophia BROWN's birth date is given as 11 September 1890. - died June 1989 Gloucester.

1891 Census , Coleford
Bakers Hill

Elizabeth HAROBIN (? transcribed as) age 56, Charwomen, born Newland, Glos. (nee MORGAN married Geroge HORROBIN)
Lizzie, daughter single, 22 - born Newland, Glos.
Fanny BROWN - child at Nurse, 7 months - born Monmouthshire Union

?did Fanny's mother 'die in infancy' - hence having a 'wet nurse'?

May be Monmouthshire Union records would give some answers

previous thread re: Monmouthshire Union Births

http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?mode=thread&id=22289#p22321

and under the Monmouthshire, Births - Section 17 11 September 1890

Mother : Mary Ann BROWN, admitted : Newland - female - 1st illegitimate

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1881 Census, West Dean

Elizabeth HOROBIN - 46
Samuel - Son - 25 - born Newland
George - 23
Maria - 18
Lizzie - 12
Fanny - 5

next door is a HALE family Inc. George HALE, age 4

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1911 Census, Monmouthshire, West Dean
Broadwell Lane End

Tom Henry HYETT - age 44 - married 20 years, 7 children born alive, 2 dead - Crown Woodman, born West Dean
Sophia HYETT - age 46
Thomas HYETT - son - age 18 - labourer
William HYETT - son - age 14
Rose Annie HYETT - daughter - 10 attending school
Kathleen Mary HYETT - daughter - 7 - born West Dean Nr Coleford
Fanny BROWN, visitor, 20 - single born West Dean Nr Coleford

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Gloucestershire BDM

Tom Henry HYETT married Sophia TRIGG, Gloucester Register Office - 1892

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When Fanny Sophia BROWN married Frederick BROWN in Coleford - 19 August 1911

One witness was Eva E MOUNTFORD, born Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Eva was working as a Servant to the Rev. George A M Wynne, (who married Fanny) on the 1911 census, and living at Baker's Hill Coleford.

Eva married the 'other witness' Henry A HAVILAND at Coleford, 23 December 1912.

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