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166864
Surname: Browne
First Name: Richard
Ship: Providence 1811
Date: 20 March 1824
Place: -
Source: Colonial Secretary's Papers
Details: Deceased. Late of Castlereagh st Sydney. Correspondence re the daughters of his widow Sarah be admitted to the female orphan school (Mary aged 8 and Elizabeth age 7)


166865
Surname: Browne
First Name: Richard
Ship: Providence 1811
Date: 1811
Place: -
Source: State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Title: Bound manuscript indents, 1788-1842; Item: [4/4004]; Microfiche: 633
Details: Tried in Dublin in February 1810. Sentenced to 7 years transportation.


167530
Surname: Browne
First Name: Richard
Ship: Providence 1811
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: Newcastle Art Gallery
Details: Richard Browne - A focus exhibition 30 June - 12 August 2012 A focus exhibition of seven works by Richard Browne, including two recent acquisitions to the Newcastle Art Gallery collection. Richard Browne (1776-1824) was an Irish born artist who lived in Newcastle from 1811-1817. The water colours in this focus exhibition portray the Indigenous people from the Hunter Region and Sydney..........Richard Browne Coola-benn, Native Chief of Ashe Island Hunters River, New South Wales; Cobbawn Wogi, Native Chief of Ashe Island Hunters River New South Wales (1820) 47.0 x 36.0 cm; 33.0 x 27.0 cm water colour and body colour on paper


167533
Surname: Browne
First Name: Richard
Ship: Providence 1811
Date: -
Place: Newcastle
Source: State Library of NSW. Discover Collections
Details: Richard Browne was born in Dublin in 1771. He was sentenced to transportation in 1810 and arrived in Sydney in 1811 on the Providence. Within a few months of arriving, he reoffended and was removed to the secondary penal colony of Newcastle. In Newcastle, Browne came into contact with the commandant of Newcastle from 1811-1814, Lieutenant Thomas Skottowe. Skottowe was interested in natural history and commissioned Browne to create drawings of his collections to illustrate a manuscript entitled, Select Specimens From Nature of the / Birds Animals &c &c of New South Wales, Collected and Arranged by Thomas Skottowe Esqr. The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. Newcastle New South Wales 1813.


180935
Surname: Browne
First Name: Robert
Ship: Coromandel 1820
Date: 28 June 1824
Place: Newcastle
Source: NSW Courts Magistrates, Newcastle Police Court: 1823-1825 (Ancestry)
Details: Robert Browne in Government service charged with neglect of duty at Nelsons Plains and making away with the produce of the tobacco plantation there. Sentenced to 50 lashes and hard labour in the mines for one month


161732
Surname: Browne
First Name: Robert and Alice
Ship: -
Date: 31 January 1854
Place: West Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Baptism of Charles, son of Robert and Alice Brown (born 9 November 1853)


161734
Surname: Browne
First Name: Robert and Anna
Ship: -
Date: 25 March 1855
Place: Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Baptism of Harriet, daughter of Robert and Anna Browne (born 18 February 1855)


198656
Surname: Browne
First Name: Robert P
Ship: -
Date: 30 December 1869
Place: East Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: Death on 25th December 1869, at East Maitland, Mabel Annie, youngest daughter of Robert P. Browne, aged thirteen months


114077
Surname: Browne
First Name: Robert Pyne
Ship: -
Date: 1854 29 April
Place: St. Peter's Church, East Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Marriage of Robert Pyne Browne, 3rd son of Richard Browne of Macroom, Co. Cork, Ireland to Anna Maria, 2nd daughter of Henry Kingsmill. Officiating minister Rev. G.K. Rusden


210684
Surname: Browne
First Name: Samuel
Ship: -
Date: 13 May 1858
Place: Maitland
Source: Maitland Mercury
Details: William Perry, David McAlister and Samuel Brown indicted for feloniously stealing a sum of money, the property of Michael Walsh of Maitland. Witnesses Constable Stout, James George Cox, William Chapman, Margaret Chapman. The prisoners were about 20 years of age. Brown was emaciated and far gone in consumption


210681
Surname: Browne
First Name: Samuel
Ship: Kate
Date: 16 April 1858
Place: Newcastle gaol
Source: State Archives NSW; Kingswood, New South Wales; Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930; Item: 2/2020; Roll: 757
Details: Samuel Browne, painter from Belfast, admitted to Newcastle gaol from Newcastle. Sentenced to 1 year in Parramatta gaol


113333
Surname: Browne
First Name: T
Ship: -
Date: 1837
Place: Paterson
Source: GRC
Details: John Hickling per 'Asia' assigned servant


10984
Surname: Browne
First Name: T.
Ship: -
Date: 1837
Place: Paterson
Source: GRC
Details: James Halfpenny assigned servant


161693
Surname: Browne
First Name: Tamar and Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 6 March 1842
Place: West Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Baptism of Tamar, daughter of Thomas and Tamar Browne (born 11 February 1842)


7735
Surname: Browne
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1843 13 May
Place: West Maitland
Source: MM
Details: Claim for registration to vote for the Borough of East and West Maitland allowed


20546
Surname: Browne
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1837
Place: Paterson
Source: GRC
Details: George Barclay assigned servant


93951
Surname: Browne
First Name: Thomas
Ship: -
Date: 1834 18 June
Place: Wambo
Source: GG 1834
Details: Sheriff's sale of farm of 100 acres on the Hunter River formerly given to Thomas Dent. Bounded on the North by Hunter River; on the E. by William Smith's 300 acres; on the S. by charles Robert's grant; on the W. by Thomas Browne's 250 acres


199335
Surname: Browne
First Name: Thomas
Ship: 1857
Date: 1888
Place: West Maitland
Source: Morrison, W. Frederic (1888). The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison. Sydney: The Aldine Publishing Company.
Details: THOMAS BROWNE, Monumental Works, High-street, was born in Scotland in 1855, and two years later came with his parents to New South Wales. The family settled at Maitland, and here our subject received his education and learned his trade under the late J. W. Curran in that town. In 1874 he entered into partnership with his employer, but two years later started in business on his own account. Ten years ago, owing to increased business, he removed to his present premises, where he does the largest trade in the northern districts. He opened a branch establishment in Singleton twelve years ago and finds employment at the two places for about ten hands. lie is a large importer of marble and granite; and in 1886 erected the only tower and spire in the district-that of St. Mary s Church, West Maitland. He was awarded first prize medals for sandstone at the Philadelphia, Sydney, and Indian and Colonial exhibitions. Mr. Browne has been elected two Years in succession W.M. of Lodge 547, E.C., Freemasons. He is married, and has five children, the family being members of the Presbyterian Church


176788
Surname: Browne
First Name: Thomas
Ship: John 1827
Date: 1 May 1828
Place: Sydney Gaol
Source: Sydney Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW; Roll: 851 Ancestry
Details: Edward Bowen and Thomas Browne admitted to Sydney gaol from Port Stephens for house robbery. Ordered to be returned to Port Stephens to be dealt with by the Magistrates. Sent 19th February 1829


162097
Surname: Browne
First Name: Thomas and Jesse
Ship: -
Date: 6 August 1854
Place: West Maitland
Source: Australian Births and Baptisms - Family Search Historical Records
Details: Baptism of Thomas, son of Thomas Brown and Jesse Walsh