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Ebenezer Erskine Brown 1827 – 1898 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 19 May 1827

Birth Location: Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland

Death Date: 05 Apr 1898

Death Location: Dunedin, New Zealand

Father: John Brown

Mother: Margaret Farries

Spouse(s): Violet Brown

Children(s): Margaret Brown

In 1827, Ebenezer Erskine Brown entered the world in Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, born to John Erskine Brown and Margaret Carlyle Farries. In 1855, Ebenezer Erskine Brown was employed in Bookbinder. Ebenezer Erskine Brown married Violet Croumbie Brown, and had children including Margaret Stately Erskine Brown. Ebenezer Erskine Brown passed away in 1898 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Biography

  • In 1827, Ebenezer Erskine Brown entered the world in Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, born to John Erskine Brown and Margaret Carlyle Farries.
  • In 1855, Ebenezer Erskine Brown was employed in Bookbinder.
  • Ebenezer Erskine Brown married Violet Croumbie Brown, and had children including Margaret Stately Erskine Brown.
  • Ebenezer Erskine Brown passed away in 1898 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Immediate Family

Parents

John Brown
1794 – 1869
Birth Location: Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
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Margaret Farries
– 1869
Birth Location: –
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Spouses(s)

Violet Brown
1819 – 1870
Birth Location: –
VB

Children(s)

Margaret Brown
1852 – 1942
Birth Location: On board ship 'Stately' to Dunedin from Scotland
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Ebenezer Brown's Ancestors

Self
Ebenezer Brown
1827 – 1898
Birth Place: Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland
Parents
John Erskine Brown
1794 – 1869
Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland
Margaret (Carlyle) Farries
– 1869
Grandparents
Ebenezer Brown
1758 – 1836
Haddington, E. Lothian, Scotland
Erskine Gray
1766 – 1821
Edinburgh, Scotland
William Farries
Unknown
Great-Grandparents
John Brown
1722 – 1787
Janet Thomson
1731 – 1771
John Gray
– 1826
Mary Fisher
1744 – 1775
2nd-Great-Grandparents
John Brown
1675 – 1733
Catherine Millie
– 1735
John Thomson
1700 – 1774
Margaret Martin
1696 – 1765
James Fisher
1697 – 1775
Jean Erskine
1706 – 1771

Ebenezer Brown's Descendants

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Ebenezer (Erskine) Brown (19 May 1827 – 05 Apr 1898) m. Violet (Croumbie) Brown (1819 – 11 Jul 1870)
  1. 1. Margaret (Stately Erskine) Brown (01 Aug 1852 – 05 Aug 1942) m. John (Hunter) Patrick (01 Jan 1851 – 12 Oct 1922)
    1. 1. James (Erskine) Patrick (01 Mar 1879 – 16 Jun 1949) m. Jeannie (Gow) Robertson (24 May 1881 – 27 February 1958)
      1. 1. John (Erskine A. H. (Jack)) Patrick (1904 – 29 Aug 1968)
      2. 2. Margaret (Jean (Peg)) Patrick (18 Dec 1905 – 9 Aug 1970) m. William Wilson m. Vincent (C) Godfrey
        1. 1. Greta (Jean) Wilson (1929 – ) m. John Karena
        2. 2. Anne (Stately) Wilson (1929 – ) m. John (Richard) Bicknell
        3. 3. William (James) Godfrey (29 November 1935 – 18 December 1983) m. Lois (Winsome) Chapman
        4. 4. Donald (Charles Erskine) Godfrey (1937 – 31 January 2014) m. Margaret Woodney
        5. 5. Peter (David) Godfrey (1939 – 9 January 2000) m. Marietta (Florence) Ireland (1939 – 9 September 1997)
        6. 6. Timothy (C. R.) Godfrey (1944 – ) m. Denise Francis
      3. 3. Ralph (Donald) Patrick (July 1911 – 1983) m. Joan (St Clair) Anderson (April 1917 – )
        1. 1. Jeremy (Erskine) Patrick (1944 – Sep 1944)
        2. 2. Catherine (Donna) Patrick (1947 – ) m. Anthony Burge
        3. 3. Jonathan (Erskine Brooke) Patrick (1950 – )
        4. 4. Sally (St Clair) Patrick (1952 – )
        5. 5. Mark (Halcro) Patrick (1954 – )
      4. 4. Gwyn (Isobel (Popsie)) Patrick (1915 – 3 Aug 1946) m. Ronald (James) Sutton (October 1910 – )
        1. 1. William (Ronald James) Sutton (1939 – ) m. Beverley (Francis) Pears
        2. 2. Kenneth (John) Sutton (1941 – ) m. Marianne (Clare) Ashley
    2. 2. Violet (Hunter) Patrick (09 Jul 1880 – 1948) m. Olif Moen (1880 – 1942)
      1. 1. John (Gilbert) Moen (1914 – ) m. Enid (Alison) Lee (1914 – )
        1. 1. Dorothy (Anne) Moen (1938 – ) m. Peter (William) Sutherland (1934 – )
        2. 2. David (Christopher) Moen (1941 – ) m. Sandra (Ann) Henderson (1942 – )
        3. 3. John (Richard) Moen (1943 – ) m. Elizabeth (Louise) Greaves (1946 – )
        4. 4. Robert (Peter) Moen (1948 – ) m. Charlotte (Erskine) Clutterbuck (1950 – )
      2. 2. Oluf (Oscar) Moen (23 Mar 1917 – ) m. Marjory Tuk
        1. 1. Patricia (Alison) Moen (1946 – ) m. Lawrence Dunk (1944 – )
        2. 2. Heather (Marjory) Moen (1949 – ) m. Robert Boyd
    3. 3. Rosa (Stately) Patrick (24 Apr 1882 – 1966)
    4. 4. John (Crumbie) Patrick (21 Feb 1884 – 30 Nov 1963) m. Margaret (Frances) Horn (13 Jun 1875 – 17 Jun 1935) m. Florence ( – Aft. 1957)
      1. 1. John (Crumbie) Patrick (02 Apr 1910 – 19 Oct 1955) m. Kathleen (Monica (Kit)) Cairns (25 Jun 1917 – 31 Dec 1990)
        1. 1. Kathleen (Margaret) Patrick (28 Jul 1943 – ) m. John (Lewis) Clayton (23 Jan 1941 – )
        2. 2. John (Erskine) Patrick (27 Sep 1945 – ) m. Lynette (Elizabeth) Moore (30 Apr 1952 – )
        3. 3. Rosalind (Mary) Patrick (07 Dec 1955 – 04 Feb 2002) m. Brent Layton
      2. 2. James (Hunter) Patrick (07 Apr 1912 – 07 Apr 1912)
      3. 3. Anthony Patrick (07 Apr 1912 – 07 Apr 1912)
      4. 4. Margaret (Horn) Patrick (18 Jul 1913 – 16 Jul 1968) m. Arthur (R) Gardiner (03 Oct 1889 – 15 Aug 1992)
        1. 1. Ivy (Margaret Erskine) Gardiner (1946 – ) m. Bruce (Webster) Maguire
        2. 2. Ralph (Patrick Erskine) Gardiner (1947 – ) m. Olwyn (Maxine) Jones
      5. 5. Hunter (Joseph Erskine) Patrick (31 Mar 1915 – 19 Apr 1995) m. Vera Norling
        1. 1. Margaret (Mary) Patrick (1940 – ) m. Bruce (Ernest) Halliday (1935 – )
        2. 2. Annette (Rose) Patrick (1942 – ) m. Kevin (Frederick John) Bryant (1941 – )
        3. 3. Coleen (Frances) Patrick (1943 – ) m. Michael (Alfred) Hickey (1942 – )
        4. 4. Ian (Hunter Erskine) Patrick (1945 – )
        5. 5. Gail (Bernadette) Patrick (1950 – ) m. Malcolm (Magnus) Arthur (1949 – )
    5. 5. Ebenezer (Brown) Patrick (01 Jan 1886 – 14 Oct 1959) m. Mary (Eliza) Smith (1884 – 1963)
      1. 1. Alan (Hunter) Patrick (1914 – ) m. May (Elaine) Templeton
        1. 1. Yvonne (May) Patrick (1948 – ) m. Joe Gvozdanovich
        2. 2. Diane (Elaine) Patrick (1950 – ) m. Paul Adams
        3. 3. Brian (Hunter) Patrick (1954 – ) m. Christine Lumsden
        4. 4. Garth (Lennox) Patrick (1955 – ) m. Kelly (Maureen) Patrick (1958 – )
      2. 2. Gordon (Lennox) Patrick (1916 – 1947) m. Doreen (W) Stenton
        1. 1. Maureen (Anne) Patrick (1941 – ) m. Douglas Boniface ( – 1986) m. William Laurie
      3. 3. Mary (Brown) Patrick (1917 – Aft. 1986) m. J. (T. Douglas) Fallow (1917 – )
        1. 1. Douglas (J E) Fallow (1945 – ) m. Daphne (R) Bailey
        2. 2. Ewan (Gordon) Fallow (1947 – ) m. Christine (Joye) Fraser
        3. 3. Gavin (Patrick) Fallow (1953 – ) m. Heather Wallace
        4. 4. Susan (Mary) Fallow (1955 – )
        5. 5. John (Thomas Stobo) Fallow (1957 – ) m. Debbie (Lee) Revitt m. Marilyn Barber
        6. 6. Neville (Bruce) Fallow (1962 – ) m. Andrea Orlowski
      4. 4. Eben (MacGregor) Patrick (1920 – ) m. Evelyn (W) King
      5. 5. Bruce (St Clair) Patrick (1925 – ) m. M (Helen) Kelman
        1. 1. Kelly (Maureen) Patrick (1958 – ) m. Garth (Lennox) Patrick (1955 – )
        2. 2. Catherine (Jean) Patrick (1959 – ) m. Mark Collet
        3. 3. Gordon (McGregor) Patrick (1963 – )
        4. 4. John (Bruce) Patrick (1965 – )
    6. 6. David (Moore) Patrick (31 Jul 1912 – 02 Oct 1957) m. Isobel (Burt) Swan (1915 – Aft. 1988)
      1. 1. Mary (Isobel) Patrick (1942 – 1942)
      2. 2. Margaret (Rose) Patrick (1942 – 1942)
      3. 3. Peter (James) Patrick (1944 – ) m. Lois (Edna) Seare
        1. 1. Douglas (James) Patrick (1971 – )
        2. 2. Diane (Margaret) Patrick (1975 – )
      4. 4. David (Alexander) Patrick (1946 – ) m. June (Patricia) Duncan
        1. 1. Duncan (Alexander) Patrick (1972 – )
        2. 2. Hamish (Russell) Patrick (1975 – )
      5. 5. Jennifer (Mae) Patrick (1950 – ) m. Murray (James) Kerr
        1. 1. Lyndon (Murray) Kerr (1975 – )
        2. 2. Jaimee (Marie) Kerr (1978 – )
        3. 3. Bradley (David) Kerr (1981 – )
      6. 6. John (Reginald) Patrick (1954 – ) m. Karen (Joan) Hunter
        1. 1. Naomi (Jane) Patrick (1978 – )
        2. 2. Phillip (John) Patrick (1981 – )
        3. 3. Timothy (David) Patrick (1985 – )

Ebenezer Brown's Timeline

3 Records

1827
19 May 1827
Birth of Ebenezer Erskine Brown in Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland
Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland
1855
1855
Age 28
Ebenezer Erskine Brown was employed in Bookbinder
Bookbinder
1898
05 Apr 1898
Age 71
Death of Ebenezer Erskine Brown in Dunedin, New Zealand
Dunedin, New Zealand

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 19 May 1827
    Event Place: Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Date: 1855
    Event Place: OPC Electoral Roll

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Occupation
    Event Date: 1855
    Event Place: Bookbinder

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Custom Event
    Event Date: 1857
    Event Place: Prov of Otafo Jurors List - Labourer

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 05 Apr 1898
    Event Place: Dunedin, New Zealand

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Place: Anderson Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, New Zealand
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