• WILLIAM J ARMSTRONG (born 1864; married Sarah),
• ADA ARMSTRONG (born 1867),
• ALFRED EDWARD ARMSTRONG (born 1870),
• ROBERT ARMSTRONG (born 1872),
• FANNY ARMSTRONG (born 1874)
• and perhaps MINNIE ARMSTRONG (born c1874, alive and aged 43 at the time of her mother’s death).

One story has three of these children going to live in Western Australia.

2.1 William John Armstrong (1864…) m. Sarah

William (* William J) and Sarah Armstrong were parents of :

• ELSIE ARMSTRONG (born Newtown 1889),
• WILLIAM H ARMSTRONG (born Newtown 1891),
• EDWARD E ARMSTRONG* (born Leichhardt 1893, died 1949),
• FANNY ARMSTRONG (born Granville 1897, died Granville 1898),
• ALFRED N ARMSTRONG* (born Granville 1899) and
• HORACE J ARMSTRONG* (born Granville 1901).

It is possible that Sarah Armstrong was born Sarah Gough in Sydney in 1868, daughter of William and Ann Gough, and who married a William J Armstrong in Sydney in 1888. It appears that she died at Manly in 1930.[Alternatively, Sarah Armstrong could have been born Sarah Shakespear who died aged 70 years in 1937 at Lakemba. This Sarah had married a William J Armstrong at Dubbo in 1888.]

Sidney Brown in 1992 recalled details of three Armstrong children (most likely three of the above, remembered as uncles and aunts rather than cousins). These were Alfred Armstrong (Alfie), Edward Eric Armstrong (Ned) and Elsie Armstrong. Alfie became the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia; late in life he married the widow of Sam Lands (?Doris Helen nee Pitt-Jones), a well known Sydney jeweller. It is thought that Alfie was knighted for his services to the community. Elsie never married, but lived some of her later years in a beautiful apartment at South Manly c1932, and was remembered by Sid (recalling trips from his Auburn home by suburban steam train and harbour steam ferry to Manly) as a very nice lady, good looking and with a kind face, aged about 40 years. To his knowledge she did not work; she may have been well off financially, or have been supported by her brothers. Ned rose to a senior engineering position in the NSW Government Railways. Edward Eric Armstrong, aged 55 years, died 4 March 1949.

At least two births were registered to Alfred E and Harriette Armstrong (this may have been Alfred Edward, born 1870):

• ETHEL M ARMSTRONG (born NSW c1893),
• DORIS K ARMSTRONG (born NSW c1896),

3 Samuel William Brown (1821…1907) m2. Fanny Adelaide Armstrong (nee Mooney) (c1847…1917)

In April 1881, Samuel William Brown, gentleman and widower aged 56 years, and Fanny Adelaide Armstrong (nee Mooney), dressmaker and widow aged 34 years, both residents of Sydney, were married at Bethel House, George Street North, Sydney. Fanny, born c1847 in Belfast, Ireland, was the daughter of EDWARD MOONEY a tailor and FANNY ?SIDWELL (or, according to his daughter’s death certificate, born c1845 in Dublin to tailor JOHN MOONEY and his wife FANNY ——) and in photographs later in her life looked "marvellous for her age". Fanny met Samuel William in the course of his collecting rents from his Glebe properties.

[Samuel William Brown had been previously married, in May 1851 to Elizabeth Tumith at Scot's Church, Pitt Street, Sydney. Elizabeth Brown nee Tumith died at home in Derwent Street, Glebe NSW on 25 August 1876. Fanny Mooney had also previously been married, in NSW to William John Armstrong in 1866 (see above for details of these marriages).]

The issue to Samuel's second marriage, to Fanny Armstrong nee Mooney, were:

• ?SIDNEY BROWN (died a baby; August 1881),
• GEORGE HERBERT BROWN (born August 1882, Glebe NSW; died July 1948, Katoomba NSW),
• FLORENCE/FLORRIE/FRANCES R BROWN (Dolly; born c1885, died October 1932 at Auburn; never married) and
• CHARLES PERCY BROWN (born c1888, died May 1948; married Lillian V Howarth, Sydney 1910; later married Sylvia Vaughan and adopted a son, Buddy).

Samuel William Brown, property owner aged 85, died May 1907 at 20 Derwent Street, Glebe. Samuel Brown’s Will, granted Probate, directed that Fanny should receive his household effects and an income of 10/- a week from cottage rentals until sold and on division of the estate another £50, and that their children receive legacies plus interest when they came of age. The legacies were £40 and watch to George, £40 to Florrie and £25 to Charles. The rest and residue of the estate was to be equally divided when sold among Thomas, James, Robert, Samuel, Louis, Arthur, Sarah Kimber [ie. Emily] and Albert, being the children of his first marriage.

Fanny Adelaide Brown survived her husband to die intestate aged 72 at Kensington NSW in August 1917.

3.1 George Herbert Brown (1882…1948) m. Johanna Wills (1886…1976)

George Herbert Brown was born at Derwent Street, Glebe in August 1882, son of SAMUEL WILLIAM BROWN and his wife FANNY ARMSTRONG nee MOONEY. For both Samuel and Fanny it was their second marriage, each having been widowed prior to their marriage in 1881 at which their declared ages were 56 and 34 years respectively. George had fourteen step-brothers and step-sisters from his parents' previous marriages.

In November 1909, George married Johanna Wills at St Phillip's CoE, Auburn NSW. Johanna, born at Orange NSW in March 1886, was the daughter of SAMUEL KESSELL WILLS, an engineer-miner, and his wife PHILLIPA ANNE GREEN. Johanna's death certificate has her father named as Samuel Thomas Wills.

The four children born to George Herbert Brown and Johanna Wills were:

• GEORGE RONALD BROWN (born July 1910, Auburn NSW, died July 1977, Berala NSW),
• SYBIL BROWN (born August 1913, Auburn, died May 2000, Sutherland District Hospital NSW; married William Baddeley; no issue),
• LEONARD PERCY BROWN (born February 1915, Auburn; died April 1982, Granville NSW) and
• SIDNEY MORRIS BROWN (born June 1920, Auburn, died December 2000 at Westmead Hospital, Sydney; married Marion Millicent Richardson Kay; two daughters).

George worked for the New South Wales Government Railways as an engine-driver, a quiet and family-minded man. He died in June 1948 at Katoomba NSW. Johanna died in December 1976 at Moruya NSW.

3.1.1 George Ronald Brown (1910…1977) m1. Dorothy Beryl Lancaster (1908…1945), m2. Audrey Cafe (nee Knight) (1915…1986)

George Ronald Brown, the first-born of four children to GEORGE HERBERT BROWN and JOHANNA WILLS, was born July 1910 at Auburn NSW. In 1935 George Ronald Brown married Dorothy Beryl Lancaster (Dot) at ?Lidcombe NSW (?or Tamworth, where the marriage was registered). Dot, born 1908 to ROBERT W LANCASTER and CLARA E BIRRELL near Quirindi NSW, grew up in the Werris Creek NSW area. Robert and Clara had married at Quirindi in 1907.

George worked for the Travelling Post Office on the NSWGR, and it was through this employment that he met his wife. Quirindi, Werris Creek and Tamworth were important town on railway junctions, served daily by the North West Mail. He had an excellent aptitude in all areas of his job and for many years held records in mail sorting in the GPO, from which he retired in Sydney. Early in his career George delivered telegrams by horseback. He enjoyed horse racing and crosswords, possessing a wealth of general knowledge.

George Ronald Brown and Dorothy Beryl Lancaster had two children, Margaret (married Jarvis Bratby: four children; Jarvis died at Crowdy Head NSW in June 1979) and Diana.

Dorothy Beryl Brown nee Lancaster died November 1945 at Katoomba NSW. George married again, his second wife being Audrey Elizabeth G Cafe nee Knight, born September 1915 at Mudgee NSW to JOHN F KNIGHT and LOUISA E JAMIESON (who had married at Mudgee in 1912). The couple had three children, John, Wayne and Gregory.

Audrey had two children from a previous (divorced) marriage at Mudgee in 1936 to Edward John Cafe, (possibly the son born 1908 near Dubbo to EDWARD J and MARGARET H CAFE): Toni (Antoinette) and Margaret.

George Ronald Brown died July 1977 at Berala NSW. Audrey Elizabeth Brown nee Knight, of Rooty Hill NSW, sister of Jack (deceased), Maisie, Billie, Molly and Barry (deceased), died aged 70 years in August 1986, and was buried at Eastern Creek NSW.

3.1.2 Sybil Brown (1913…2000) m. William Baddeley (1909…1985)

Sybil Brown, second child of GEORGE HERBERT BROWN and JOHANNA WILLS, was born in August 1913 at Auburn NSW. At St Phillip's CoE Auburn in January 1936, Sybil married William Baddeley, son of jeweller RICHARD BADDELEY and LEAH HILL. William had been born in April 1909 at Littleover (near Derby) ENG. Richard and Leah’s eldest boy died in England, and after the birth of William and ?three brothers (Les, ? and Sidney) the family emigrated to Australia. A relieving publican, he and Sybil travelled throughout NSW for Tooheys Brewery. They owned a house at Granville, where Sybil's mother Johanna stayed for about 15 years.

The couple had no children. They settled in a house at Narooma on the NSW south coast. William died in February 1985 at nearby Moruya. Sybil remained in the family home for many years, but died at Sutherland in Sydney in May 2000.

3.1.3 Leonard Percy Brown (1915…1982) m. Marjorie Grace Flider (c1915…1974)

Leonard Percy Brown (Len), the third-born child of GEORGE HERBERT BROWN and JOHANNA WILLS, was born in February 1915 at Auburn NSW. Len owned and trained greyhounds, with occasional but never great racing success. On one occasion Sid Brown took one of the dogs by rail to Warren in the north-west of NSW where he stayed with his cousin Ken Green, a baker in Warren and son of Tom Green (by Tom’s second wife).

At Summer Hill NSW in 1940 Leonard married Marjorie Grace Flider, elder identical twin of Dorothy Alice Flider (“Dot”) and daughter of ARTHUR FLIDER and RUBY M GRACE, whose marriage was registered at Broken Hill South, NSW, in 1915. Marjorie lived at Granville in 1942. The Fliders, originally from Werris Creek NSW, had a pastry shop at Summer Hill. Marjorie and Dorothy, born at Tamworth in 1915, were the only children of Arthur and Ruby. Ruby died about 1962, and Arthur died in NSW in 1971. Dorothy Alice Flider married Gordon Bone at Ashfield in 1938. Gordon predeceased Dorothy by several years; they had a home unit at Epping NSW. Dorothy survived her sister by many years.

Len and Marjorie Brown had only one child, Peter Brown (married twice; one child in each marriage).
PETER BROWN (born at Granville on 2 January 1944).

Len enjoyed lawn bowls, and was President and Secretary/Manager of the Granville Bowling Club for about 12 years until he retired. Always a bit of a loner, he generally kept to himself. He had an excellent general knowledge.

Marjorie Brown nee Flider died in January 1974 at Granville NSW. Leonard died in April 1982 at Granville.

[Sid Brown also remembered an Auntie Ruby of Auburn on his father's side who married a George Sutton. This was Ruby V Taylor, married to George J Sutton at Parramatta in 1912. Their children included:

• JOYCE M SUTTON (born Granville, 1913 (perhaps the Joyce Marguerite Sutton who married George Edwards Vaughan at Auburn in 1940?)),
• GWENDOLYNE E SUTTON (born Auburn, 1915),
• GEORGE H SUTTON (born Auburn, 1916),
• ENID V SUTTON (born Auburn, 1918) and
• possibly a PHYLLIS SUTTON.

Sid last saw Gwen (who was about the same age as Len Brown) at Auburn c1936.]

3.1.4 Sidney Morris Brown (1920…2000) m. Marion Millicent Richardson Kay (1920…1998)

Sidney Morris Brown (Sid), born in June 1920 at Auburn NSW, was the fourth and youngest child of GEORGE HERBERT BROWN and JOHANNA WILLS. During the Second World War Sid served in the ground crew of the Royal Australian Air Force, chiefly at Cairns and Temora. In December 1942 at the Manse, Katoomba NSW, Sid married Marion Millicent Richardson Kay, born in January 1920 at Moree NSW to WILLIAM HENRY KAY and MARY ANN CONNELL RICHARDSON; they met through their employment with the Post Office at Katoomba. Marion transferred in February 1943 to Bondi NSW.

Sid and Marion moved to Parramatta NSW after the war (at a flat owned by his sister Sybil and brother-in-law George Badderley), and later (about 1949) to Kingsgrove NSW. They had two daughters, Susan (born 1946, Camperdown NSW; married David George Ellyard; three issue) and Sybil (born 1951, Darlinghurst NSW; married Ross Norman Beattie in 1976; three daughters).

Sid and Marion moved (in 1963) to Epping NSW. Marion died on New Years Eve 1998. The Epping house was sold on Sid’s behalf in mid-1999, a three-bedroom unit being purchased near the beach at Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast for family gatherings. Sid lived predominantly at the Ellyard’s home at Epping until July 2000. He died in December 2000 at Westmead Hospital.

3.2 Florence R Brown (1885…1932)

Florence R Brown (Dolly), born 1885, was the second of three children born to SAMUEL WILLIAM BROWN and his wife FANNY ADELAIDE ARMSTRONG nee MOONEY. Florence never married. She died aged 47 in October 1932 at Auburn.

3.3 Charles Percy Brown (c1888…1948) m1. Lillian V Howarth, m2. Sylvia Vaughan (…1980)

Charles Percy Brown (Charlie), born c1888, was the youngest of three children born to SAMUEL WILLIAM BROWN and his wife FANNY ARMSTRONG nee MOONEY, for each their second marriage. Charlie’s first wife was Lillian V Howarth, whom he married in Sydney in 1910; she was the aunt of noted Australian early film actress Jocelyn Howarth. Charlie and Lillian divorced without issue, Charlie later marrying Sylvia Vaughan, a Roman Catholic and chorus-line girl from Sydney’s famous Tivoli Theatre. Charles and Sylvia adopted a son, Buddy (born c1930). After the attack in Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines, Charlie and his family moved to Katoomba where they bought "McClintock", a large brick house with large gardens in the southern part of the town. When Sydney was no longer an obvious Japanese target, the family returned and purchased a unit at Edgecliff in Sydney's wealthy eastern suburbs; Sid Brown remembers visiting the family at Edgecliff while on leave during World War II. Charlie, a generous fellow to all his relatives, was especially fond of his nephew Sid.

Charlie Brown was a wealthy man who owned stables at Kensington, and employed at least two jockeys who were quartered above the stables. Charlie was nicknamed Squeaker in the racing industry because of his high-pitched hoarse voice. Charlie died c1948 and was buried somewhere in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Sylvia Brown nee Vaughan, a beautiful looking lady and socialite, died in April 1980 in NSW.

Possibly Related Families:

None known.

Related Families from the same areas

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Other (probably unrelated) Lineages:

U-1 William Williams Brown (c1804…) m. Adelaide Hucks (1804…)

[Based on information from Rosemary Rees [rose@lycopod.freeserve.co.uk] (December 2002) who established that this family has no obvious relationship with that of Samuel William Brown above]
William Williams Brown (a cooper, age 15) married Adelaide Hucks, at St Olave's, Southwark, on 26 December 1819. Adelaide Hucks, born 5 September 1804, was the daughter of SAMUEL HUCKS, a cooper of Canal Row, and his wife HANNAH, whose issue, all christened at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, included Henry (no parents or date of birth on record), Jacob Humbert (christened 6 December 1800), Anthony Orlando (christened 2 January 1809) and Thomas Anthony (christened 17 August 1810).

The children of William Williams Brown and Adelaide Hucks appear to have included:

• SAMUEL WILLIAM BROWN (christened 21 December 1821 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster LND [the baptismal register details his father as a cooper, of 26 Edward Street, Parish of Bermondsey, London]; married Ann Atwood; four known issue),
• FREDERICA BROWN (christened 10 May 1830),
• SOPHIA MARIANNA FREDRICA BROWN (christened 8 March 1840, St Mary, Battersea LND ),
• ADELAIDE BROWN (born 2 May 1834, christened 12 December 1841, St Mark, Kensington LND; married Daniel Dane (born? 27 February 1842?)),
• ALEXANDER BROWN (born 15 January 1832, christened 12 December 1841, St Mark, Kensington LND ),
• JOHN EDWARD BROWN (christened 4 August 1839),
• JOSEPH BROWN (born 10 March 1828, christened 12 December 1841, St Mark, Kensington LND ),
• WILLIAM BROWN (christened 12 December 1841, St Mark, Kensington LND ),
• CLEMENTINA HENRIETTA BROWN (christened 10 July 1842, St Mary, Battersea LND ),
• MALCOLM MAC BROWN (christened 12 November 1843, Holy Trinity, Clapham SRY ) and
• ADELAIDE SUSANNAH BROWN (christened 25 January 1846 Holy Trinity, Clapham).
  The batch of christenings in 1841 would be more likely of non-infants than of quadruplets or even two sets of twins, coming relatively soon after Sophia's christening and so soon before that of Clementina; this may support the single family hypothesis. The Battersea christenings bestowed notably Germanic names: perhaps the Hucks were German.

Not more than three kilometres apart, Westminster, Kensington and Battersea straddle the Thames about twelve kilometres west of central London. Clapham is in Surrey, immediately southwest of Greater London. Edward Street (part) and Mills Street were later renamed Eckett Street and again, later still, Edward Street (part) was renamed Decima Street. In 1989 Edward Street no longer existed and Eckett Street couldn't be located; Decima Street however still runs off Tower Bridge Road on the south side.

U-1.1 Samuel William Walter Brancomb Brown (1821…) m. Ann Atwood (c1816…)

Samuel William Brown, son of WILLIAM WILLIAMS BROWN and ADELAIDE HUCKS, was christened on 21 December 1821 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster LND; the baptismal register details his father as a cooper of 26 Edward Street, Parish of Bermondsey, London). Also a cooper, Samuel (noting his full name as Sam. Wm. Walter Brancomb Brown) married Ann Atwood (daughter of lawyer WILLIAM ATWOOD) on 31 July 1842 at St. Martins in the Fields, Holy Trinity, Clapham (witnessed by Clementine Henrietta Brown).
Samuel and Ann were the parents of [at least]:

• ANN C BROWN (born prior to 1851 census),
• JOHN F BROWN (born prior to 1851 census),
• CLARA BROWN (born prior to 1851 census) and
• MARIANNA ADELAIDE BROWN (christened 26 September 1856 at Holy Trinity, Clapham (address at baptism: 4 Earls Terrace, Bermondsey; father an iron plate worker) who was witness at the wedding of William Williams John Brown (father of Arthur Richard Brown and great grandfather of Rosemary Rees) in 1877)).