Person:Thomas Brown (303)

Thomas BROWN (16jun1776-27apr1856 Auchlochan) (Dennis Brown, rootsweb). Mundia gives birth 16jun1775. Thomas marr Martha DANIEL (1789 Virginia) (rootsweb). Thomas (16jun1776 Lesmahagow-27apr1856 Lesmahagow) marr Martha Morton Daniel 22may1804 at Charlotte, Virginia (LDS submission). Martha (1786 Charlotte-1851 Scotland) (LDS). Martha’s mother was a Morton (Hamiltons of Burnside, N. Carolina, book).Thomas Brown of Auchlochan settled in Southland, New Zealand (NZ newspaper, 1882).

In 1841 the Misses Browns, A. (1773), E. (1775), M. (1778), J. (1791), were at Craighead House, Blantyre, Lanarks., as were Thomas Brown (1776), John G. Brown (1821), George Alston (1775) and Ann C. Alston (1816); all were independent, b. Lanarks. (census). In 1841 Martha Brown (1784, independent), James (1811), Elisabeth (1821), b. outside county, were at Auchlochan, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire (census). In 1851 Thomas Brown (1776 Lesmahagow, wid, landed proprieter, JP), children (b. America, unm), James J. (1811, Justice of Peace), Elisabeth M. (1821), were at Auchlochan House, Lesmahagow (census).

A modern mansion of Auchlochan supplanted the ancient one in abt 1814; Thomas Brown of Auchlochan d. 1856 and was succeeded by his son Maj. James Thomas Brown (“Annals of the parish of Lesmahagow”). Picture of Auchlochan, from “Annals of the parish of Lesmahagow” (1864): http://www.lesmahagow.com/pictgall/auchlochan.asp