XI Oak Tree Cottage

Page 43	Brown	John	41
		Maryanne	38
		Martin	4.3.53
		Julia	15
		Ellen	12
		Emma	10
		Arthur	7
		Eliza	12.2.65

The family of George and Charlotte Gosling having moved out after Jane’s death, to go to Waterfall View, there was another large family of Browns living here.

John Brown was the younger brother of William and worked as a farm labourer. His wife was the former Maryanne Whyatt of Semer, born in 1832.

They had nine (possibly ten) children, including another Eliza (born 1865). One more child, named Annie, was born during 1870 but died in infancy.

The youngest son Arthur eventually married Annie Fosker, the daughter of William Fosker and Sarah (Cutter) who lived in Weavers in the early part of the 20^th century. Ellen and Eliza both went into service, as did an older girl (Edith, born in 1852, who in 1878 had a daughter Anna, but the baby died shortly afterwards. In 1899 Edith married a widower, thatcher George Gooch from Henley, north of Ipswich). In 1881, Eliza was in West Ham and the other two in Ipswich.

John Brown died in 1889 aged 59, but Maryanne lived to the end of the Great War in 1918.

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