William BrownAge: 73 years1843–1916
- Name
- William Brown
- Given names
- William
- Surname
- Brown
Birth | about 1843 |
Marriage | Margaret McLEAN — View this family 6 January 1868 (Age 25 years) |
Birth of a daughter #1 | Catherine Brown 11 April 1870 (Age 27 years) |
Birth of a daughter #2 | Margaret Brown 27 February 1872 (Age 29 years) |
Birth of a son #3 | James Paul Brown 27 March 1874 (Age 31 years) |
Birth of a son #4 | William Brown about 1875 (Age 32 years) Note: William was an adventurer and a goldminer. He was not a well educated man but well-travelled and bemoaned the fact that he knew more than the geologists. |
Birth of a son #5 | Finlay Brown 13 September 1876 (Age 33 years) Note: He inherited and built up the piggery, farm, land, buildings and dairy business from his father |
Birth of a daughter #6 | Jane MacLean Brown 27 March 1881 (Age 38 years) |
Occupation | Coal Miner |
Residence | 2 April 1881 (Age 38 years) |
Birth of a daughter #7 | Alexandrina Brown about 1884 (Age 41 years) |
Residence | 5 April 1891 (Age 48 years) |
Death of a daughter | Alexandrina Brown 24 November 1893 (Age 50 years) Note: Burial: East Weymss Cemetery, Weymss |
Marriage of a child | James Paul Brown — Margaret Robertson McDONALD — View this family 16 December 1898 (Age 55 years) |
Marriage of a child | Finlay Brown — Margaret Lambett CLARK — View this family 12 September 1902 (Age 59 years) |
Death | 23 December 1916 (Age 73 years) |
Family with Margaret McLEAN |
himself |
William Brown Birth: about 1843 — Methiil, East Wemyss, Fife Death: 23 December 1916 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife |
wife |
Margaret McLEAN Birth: about 1847 45 43 — Inverness, Inverness-Shire Death: 13 March 1921 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife |
Marriage: 6 January 1868 — Methil, East Wemyss, Fife |
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2 years daughter |
Catherine Brown Birth: 11 April 1870 27 23 — East Wemyss, Fife Death: |
23 months daughter |
Margaret Brown Birth: 27 February 1872 29 25 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife Death: |
2 years son |
James Paul Brown Birth: 27 March 1874 31 27 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife Death: 1944 — Pukemiro, Huntly, New Zealand |
21 months son |
William Brown Birth: about 1875 32 28 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife Death: New Zealand |
20 months son |
Finlay Brown Birth: 13 September 1876 33 29 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife Death: 29 June 1959 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife |
5 years daughter |
Jane MacLean Brown Birth: 27 March 1881 38 34 — Carlow Place, Leven, Scoonie, Fife Death: about 1959 — New Zealand |
4 years daughter |
Alexandrina Brown Birth: about 1884 41 37 — Windygates, Methil, East Wemyss, Fife Death: 24 November 1893 — Methil, East Wemyss, Fife |
Birth | Had a piggery, farm, land, buildings and dairy business.
All bar William siblings died of cholera in Methil in 1866.(see statement below) Apparently he also was very ill and kept crying out for water, the doctor, not expecting him to live, instructed his parents to give him as much as he needed, so a pail was placed beside his bed. He drunk continuously and literally \'washed\' the illness out of his system.
William was a coalminer, he built Violet, Daisy and Rose cottages on Kennoway Road, Windygates, Fife and the Browns Buildings, including the Dairy on Levens Road, for his family. However, his children were brought up in \"The Burns\', Kennoway, where they had a piggery.
William was known as \'Paul\'. The story goes that he acquired his nickname one day while he was preaching from atop his box in Windygates. William was a fiery preacher and would evangelise on the corner of Kennoway and Leven Road each evening. One day someone in the crowd called out to him that he wanted to buy his horse, to which William replied. \"I kinna do business wi\' ye now, as I am about me Father\'s business.\" Hence he earnt his nickname after the apostle Paul. He did not appreciate the gesture, but his wife did and consequently named their next son James Paul. William was not only known for his fiery preaching but also as a gentle family man. As most of his family consisted of women, he is remembered to have said little other than \'Aye lassie aye\'.
One small parish which in 1866 chose to ignore all the cholera regulations sent to their inspector by the Board of Supervision was Methil in Fife. Unfortunately, the village became the focus of a very virulent epidemic, and the Board appointed Dr Henry Littlejohn to investigate the causes of the outbreak. His report was later included in the Annual report of the year, which was a further humiliation to the chastened parochial board. - Twenty-second annual report, 1867-8, App. A, No. 10.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1139615/pdf/medhist00071-0035.pdf
\"The Scotsman\"
14 June, 1867
METHILHILL. - Reduction of Miners\' Wages. - The miners employed at Pirnie Coal Pit, to the west of the village, have received notice that a reduction in their wages is shortly to take place. Since the outbreak of CHOLERA the village has been inhabited chiefly by strangers from all quarters. |
Marriage | Source: 1868 marriages in the County of Wemyfs in the County of Fife No. 7
In 1868 on the 6th day of January at Methill, Wemyfs
Signed William Brown, Coalminer (batchelor), Age 24, Methilhill Wemyfs,
Father James Brown Coalminer,
Mother Catherine Brown M.S. Laing
Signed M McLean Treasurer Servant (Spinster), Age 22, Leven,
Father Finlay McLean Printer / Treasurer,
Mother Catherine McLean M.S. Fraser
Sign John Morrison - Minister,
Witness 1 John W Thomsen,
Witness 2 James Brown
Registered 1868 January 8th at Buckhaven Registrar Thomas Eilene |
Death | He probably died of shingles caused from washing in the Burns (streams) each day after returning from working in the mines. Died at 74 years old.
Burial: 23 Dec 1916 - East Weymss Cemetery, Weymss |