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Offline athel_cb

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ALICE BROWNING Alverstoke or Gosport (TOLCHER?)
« on: Monday 29 May 17 12:39 BST (UK) »
The wife of Benjamin Browning (d. 1807) was called Alice (d. 1808), but I don't know her maiden name. It may have been Tolcher, as one of their granddaughters was christened Emma Tolcher. Tolcher looks a lot more like a surname than an ordinary Christian name, so I imagine it comes from an ancestor. Benejamin Browning lived in Alverstoke or Gosport, or thereabouts.
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Re: ALICE BROWNING Alverstoke or Gosport (TOLCHER?)
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 May 17 13:28 BST (UK) »
Hi

Welcome to rootschat

There is a baptism of a Benjamin Browning in Gosport with parents Benjamin & Alice on 8th April 1799.

A possible marriage of his parents at St Thomas, Portsmouth 12 November 1791 - Alice's surname was Blake

Is this possibly your family  :-\

Rosie
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Re: ALICE BROWNING Alverstoke or Gosport (TOLCHER?)
« Reply #2 on: Monday 29 May 17 13:39 BST (UK) »
Thanks. I have a Benjamin Browning RN born "about 1800", so that is almost certainly the same person. I shall follow up on the Blake family. That still leaves the mystery of where "Tolcher" came from.
Cornish (Devon), Bowden (Cornwall, Devon), Kitson (Devon, not North Lancashire), Karslake (Devon), Eales (Devon), Churchill (Dorset -- no known connection with Sir Winston), Duncan (Ireland), Colclough (Ireland, not Staffordshire), McMurtry (Ireland), Browning (Hampshire, Dumfries), Heberden (various), Rogers (Thurlestone, Devon)

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Re: ALICE BROWNING Alverstoke or Gosport (TOLCHER?)
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 14 June 17 08:54 BST (UK) »
Could it be a godparent?

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Re: ALICE BROWNING Alverstoke or Gosport (TOLCHER?)
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 14 June 17 09:17 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Melbell on Wednesday 14 June 17 08:54 BST (UK)
Could it be a godparent?

Melbell

For some reason I didn't think of that, but yes, it could.
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Re: ALICE BROWNING Alverstoke or Gosport (TOLCHER?)
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 20 July 17 12:08 BST (UK) »
I think the surname Tolcher is mostly found in Devon.
Frecknall, Fricknell, Frignal :Anywhere
Stephens: Southampton
Nelson: Sutton cum Duckmanton, Worksop
Frith: Sutton cum Duckmanton
Reeve: Worksop
Guard: Devon, Christchurch, Southampton
Lamble: Devon
Butler: Tredegar, Cork
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