Person:Joseph Brown (27)

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Joseph Brown
b.1751
d.1802
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m. 17 Aug 1742
  1. Joseph Brown1751 - 1802
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  • H.  Joseph Brown1751 - 1802
  • W.  Lucy King1751 - 1816
  1. Esther Brown1791 -
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Name Joseph Brown
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1751
Marriage to Lucy King
Death[2] 1802

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends. Linked Lothersdale and Skipton Meetings.

RECORDS: In 1795 was one of eight Lothersdale Friends imprisoned at York for failure to pay tithes. Finally released after two years and five months under a special Lothersdale Quakers clause in an Act of Parliament.

OCCUPATION: Appears as a stone-waller or as a mason.

RESIDENCES: Carleton, Yorkshire, England. 1773 - Moved to Cononley to be near his work. 1774 - Removed to Lothersdale.

MISCELLANEOUS_NOTES: Also noted for the verses he wrote. Found Baptist fervour in Cononley embarrassing to him. In The Living Stones of Skipton Quaker Meeting, 1993 and under the heading of 'Joseph Brown, stone-waller and verse-writer' there appears a full page of notes.

INITIAL SOURCE: Sunderland.

References
  1. ↑ Russell Mortimer, researcher. Carlton Hill Archive (Hartley). (Ancestry of Margaret Hartley, neé Marshall (1931- )).
  2. ↑ Russell Mortimer, researcher. Carlton Hill Archive (Hartley). (Ancestry of Margaret Hartley, neé Marshall (1931- )).
  3.   Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers)
    Line 7, pp39-40.
  4.   Russell Mortimer, researcher. Carlton Hill Archive (Hartley). (Ancestry of Margaret Hartley, neé Marshall (1931- )).
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