Person:Alexander Brown (57)

Alexander Francis Garden BROWN was b. abt 1851 at Edinburgh (census). Alexander F.G. Brown (1851) d. 3rd qtr 1935, I. of Wight (bmd). Alexander marr Charlotte Mary ALSTON (1851-1930) in 1878 (clanmacfarlane). Charlotte was b. 1851 at Lesmahagow, dau of James William Alston (1796) and Margaret Hamilton Stirling. Alexander Francis Garden Brown (29oct1850), son of J.G. Brown, yr, of Auchlochan, Lanarks., 25 Melville St.; sheep farmer, NZ, marr Charlotte Mary Alston of Stockbriggs; address: Mothstone Hse, Brighstone, IOW (Edinburgh Academy alumni book).

In 1881 Charles H. Alston (1847 Lesmahagow, iron founder), wife Sarah F. (1848 Carstairs), children, James W.H. (1870 Glasgow), Monti G. (1872 Glasgow), Ian G.P. (1873 Irvine), Cicely I. (1875 Hamilton, Lanarks.), Charles H.J. (1877 Irvine), Dorathy M.H. (1880 Ayr), mother Margaret H. Alston (1818 Cardross), brother in law Alexander F.G. Brown (1851 Edinburgh, manufactr), sister Charlotte M. Brown (1852 Glasgow), Brown nephews, Francis G. (1879 Glasgow), George W.A. (1880 Helensburgh, Dunb.), were at Bourtreehill Mansion House, Irvine, Ayrshire (census). A portrait of Alexander Garden of Croy was lent to Old Glasgow Exhibition in 1894 by Alexander F. Garden Brown, Saumarez, Jersey. In 1911 Alexander Brown (1851 Edinburgh, retd colonial sheep farmer), wife Charlotte (1852 Glasgow, married since 1878, 6 living children), children, Nancy (1884 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire), Claud (1891 Dalry, Ayrshire, sub Lt, Navy), were at Freshwater, IOW, Hamps. (census). Alexander and Charlotte were on Isle of Wight abt 1930 (leeper).