John BrownAge: 66 years1852–1919
- Name
- John Brown
- Given names
- John
- Surname
- Brown
Birth | April 23, 1852 49 39 Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 17 Text: The second child of this family named John (the one destined to go to America) was born in Colton mansion April 23, 1852. Note: As listed on gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery, West Palm Beach, Florida. |
Birth of a brother | James Walter Brown September 4, 1858 (Age 6 years) |
Death of a father | Walter “Wat” Brown W.S. July 4, 1869 (Age 17 years) |
Occupation | art student 1871 (Age 18 years) |
Death of a mother | Jane “Jeanie” Spowart July 28, 1874 (Age 22 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 28 |
Religious marriage | Nony Johnston — View this family August 8, 1878 (Age 26 years) |
Birth of a son #1 | Walter Brown June 21, 1879 (Age 27 years) |
Birth of a son #2 | Gordon Brown March 18, 1881 (Age 28 years) Source: FamilySearch.org Text: father John Brown
mother Nony Johnston |
Birth of a son #3 | James Murray Brown October 7, 1882 (Age 30 years) |
Occupation | Proprietor of Lands 1882 (Age 29 years)Note: Occupation listed on birth certificate for son. |
Death of a son | Walter Brown April 4, 1884 (Age 31 years) |
Birth of a daughter #4 | Jeanie Gordon Brown September 7, 1886 (Age 34 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 28 Text: The first daughter born to John and Nony was Jeanie Gordon Brown, on September 7, 1886. |
Birth of a daughter #5 | Eleanor “Nony” Brown September 3, 1889 (Age 37 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 28 |
Death of a wife | Nony Johnston September 11, 1889 (Age 37 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 30 |
Christening of a daughter | Eleanor “Nony” Brown February 13, 1892 (Age 39 years) Source: FamilySearch.org Text: Eleanor Brown
parent John Brown, Eleanor |
Immigration | 1894 (Age 41 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 37, p. 44 Text: p. 37 John Brown gave over Colton Mansion House to let, in 1894. ...He left his children in school and with a trusted staff of servants and he embarked for Florida, with ample cash funds at hand from the loans he had made.
p. 44 There was an outbreak of disease among cattle, and the government came in and decimated his dairy herd in a national effort to prevent the spread of the cattle disease. Mr. Brown was greatly displeased at this turn of events and it was this, he told his sons, that decided his pulling up stakes at home to find a different place for farming. |
Property | purchased land September 26, 1894 (Age 42 years)Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 41 |
Death of a sister | Jemima Janet Spowart Brown March 19, 1897 (Age 44 years) Source: West Fife Mines Publication: www.users_zetnet.co.uk/mmartin/lifepits/starter/west/k-l.htm Citation details: Lethans (early) collieries, Saline Note: Mrs. jemima Janet Spowart Fraser (nee Brown), wife of Mr William Fraser, former coalmaster, Lethans Colliery, died on 19th March 1897, of pneumonia, while living at Park Avenue, Dunfermline. She left 5,380 pounds in her will which included mortgage bonds of 'the Rio Tinto Company, ltd." |
Occupation | vegetable farmer 1897 (Age 44 years)Employer: Scotia farm Note: The Florida East Coast Railway reached West Palm Beach on June 22, 1894. Fort Lauderdale was reached March 3, 1895. |
Marriage | Isabel Creighton Beaty — View this family 1901 (Age 48 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 61 Text: John Brown, Esq., of Colton, Dunfermline, and of Hypoluxo, Florida, married a second time in the summer of 1901. |
Residence | October 1902 (Age 50 years) |
Death of a daughter | Eleanor “Nony” Brown 1905 (Age 52 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 67 Text: When death came it was recorded in the school's periodical: "Our deepest sympathy is offered to Miss Jean Brown who lost her sister, Miss Nony, on March 7th. Two years ago Miss Nony was for a short time a pupil at St. Joseph's. We loved her then for her patience in suffering, and grieve now for her early death." |
Marriage of a child | James Murray Brown — Harriet Wilkinson — View this family Type: Religious marriage June 26, 1907 (Age 55 years) Source: Palm Beach Post archives Citation details: "Pioneer florida Resident Dies," Jan. 24, 1952, p. 26 Text: Mrs. Harriet W. Brown, 79, Hypoluxo, a Florida resident since 1890, died last night at a local hospital after a long illness.
She was the daughter of the now late Hamilton H. and Nannie Irick Wilkinson, Richmond, Va., where she was born June 10, 1872.
The family moved to Rockledge in 1890, and to Hypoluxo in 1900. On June 26, 1907, she married James Brown at Hypoluxo where the family has resided since. ...Survivors include the husband, and a nephew, Howard E. Dimick, Palm Beach. |
Occupation | fruit and truck farmer 1910 (Age 57 years)Source: 1910 census |
Property | plans to build handsome home June 22, 1910 (Age 58 years) Source: Miami News Citation details: June 24, 1910, p. 1 Text: Boynton, June 22
Mr. John Brown is making preparations to build a handsome home at his "Scotia Farm" plantation where he now lives, near the lake at Hypoluxo. |
Marriage | Mrs. Roba Northrop — View this family December 2, 1915 (Age 63 years) Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 156 Text: i give devise and bequeath to my wife Roba Northrop Brown, in accordance with a marriage contract or settlement ...eighteenth day of December, A. D. 1915. Source: FamilySearch.org Citation details: Florida marriages, 1837-1974 Text: John Brown
Roba Northorp [sic]
2 Dec 1915 |
Death | 1919 (Age 66 years) |
Burial | 1919 (on the date of death) Cemetery: Woodlawn Cemetery |
Family with parents |
father |
Walter “Wat” Brown W.S. Birth: August 27, 1802 — South Leith, Edinburgh Death: July 4, 1869 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
mother |
Jane “Jeanie” Spowart Birth: about 1813 Death: July 28, 1874 — St. Andrew, Edinburgh |
Marriage: March 23, 1840 — Springbank, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
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20 months elder sister |
Christina Graham Brown Birth: November 12, 1841 39 28 — Duke Street, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland |
21 months elder brother |
John Brown Birth: August 7, 1843 40 30 Death: January 31, 1851 |
21 months elder sister |
Harriet Johan Murray Brown Birth: April 28, 1845 42 32 — Venturefair |
3 years elder sister |
Jane Waddell Brown Birth: 1847 44 34 — Venturefair |
20 months elder sister |
Jemima Janet Spowart Brown Birth: August 27, 1848 46 35 — Venturefair Death: March 19, 1897 — Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
23 months elder sister |
Helen Brown Birth: July 18, 1850 47 37 — Venturefair Death: April 25, 1851 |
21 months himself |
John Brown Birth: April 23, 1852 49 39 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Scotland Death: 1919 — Palm Beach County, FL |
6 years younger brother |
James Walter Brown Birth: September 4, 1858 56 45 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
Family with Nony Johnston |
himself |
John Brown Birth: April 23, 1852 49 39 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Scotland Death: 1919 — Palm Beach County, FL |
wife |
Nony Johnston Birth: November 13, 1848 33 23 — Ponte d'Uchoa, Pernambuco, Brazil Death: September 11, 1889 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
Marriage: August 8, 1878 — Christ's Church, Higher Bebingrton, Cheshire, England |
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10 months son |
Walter Brown Birth: June 21, 1879 27 30 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Death: April 4, 1884 — Colton, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
21 months son |
Gordon Brown Birth: March 18, 1881 28 32 — Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
19 months son |
James Murray Brown Birth: October 7, 1882 30 33 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Scotland Death: April 11, 1971 — Palm Beach or Boynton Beach, Florida |
4 years daughter |
Jeanie Gordon Brown Birth: September 7, 1886 34 37 — Scotland Death: 1960 |
3 years daughter |
Eleanor “Nony” Brown Birth: September 3, 1889 37 40 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Death: 1905 — United States |
Family with Isabel Creighton Beaty |
himself |
John Brown Birth: April 23, 1852 49 39 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Scotland Death: 1919 — Palm Beach County, FL |
wife |
Isabel Creighton Beaty Birth: 1874 — Scotland |
Marriage: 1901 — |
Family with Mrs. Roba Northrop |
himself |
John Brown Birth: April 23, 1852 49 39 — Colton House, Dunfermline, Scotland Death: 1919 — Palm Beach County, FL |
wife | |
Marriage: December 2, 1915 — Florida |
Birth | Story of a Nun: Jeanie Gordon Brown Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 17 Text: The second child of this family named John (the one destined to go to America) was born in Colton mansion April 23, 1852. |
Immigration | Story of a Nun: Jeanie Gordon Brown Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 37, p. 44 Text: p. 37 John Brown gave over Colton Mansion House to let, in 1894. ...He left his children in school and with a trusted staff of servants and he embarked for Florida, with ample cash funds at hand from the loans he had made.
p. 44 There was an outbreak of disease among cattle, and the government came in and decimated his dairy herd in a national effort to prevent the spread of the cattle disease. Mr. Brown was greatly displeased at this turn of events and it was this, he told his sons, that decided his pulling up stakes at home to find a different place for farming. |
Property | Story of a Nun: Jeanie Gordon Brown Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 41 |
Marriage | Story of a Nun: Jeanie Gordon Brown Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 61 Text: John Brown, Esq., of Colton, Dunfermline, and of Hypoluxo, Florida, married a second time in the summer of 1901. |
Occupation | 1910 census |
Property | Miami News Citation details: June 24, 1910, p. 1 Text: Boynton, June 22
Mr. John Brown is making preparations to build a handsome home at his "Scotia Farm" plantation where he now lives, near the lake at Hypoluxo. |
Marriage | Story of a Nun: Jeanie Gordon Brown Publication: St. Augustine, FLorida: Villa Flora Press, 1978. Citation details: p. 156 Text: i give devise and bequeath to my wife Roba Northrop Brown, in accordance with a marriage contract or settlement ...eighteenth day of December, A. D. 1915. |
Marriage | FamilySearch.org Citation details: Florida marriages, 1837-1974 Text: John Brown
Roba Northorp [sic]
2 Dec 1915 |
Birth | As listed on gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery, West Palm Beach, Florida. |
Occupation | Occupation listed on birth certificate for son. |
Occupation | The Florida East Coast Railway reached West Palm Beach on June 22, 1894. Fort Lauderdale was reached March 3, 1895. |