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Berwickshire / Re: John Brownlee (Brunlees) c.1788-1854
« on: Monday 11 October 21 20:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi Bethan, Skoosh - I am just revisiting this thread, re looking at some of the old information, and noticed your posts - thanks for the info I will look into the details you have given

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Berwickshire / Re: John Brownlee (Brunlees) c.1788-1854
« on: Sunday 25 March 18 15:19 BST (UK)  »
Found the record on Scotland's Places thank you! 

I had mixed Anne and Jane/Jean up as I typed them on here! My mistake!

The Robert is definitely a new avenue for us to look down as I don't we had the link of professions/employment before.

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Berwickshire / Re: John Brownlee (Brunlees) c.1788-1854
« on: Sunday 25 March 18 14:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gadget,

I think we had always presumed the 1841 to be aged 51 to tie in better.  Also the notice of his death in the Kelso Chronicle in 1854 ages his as 66, tying back to 1788. 

Hi Lesley,

That's very interesting about the servant tax.  John went on to become the gardener for a Mr Innes, at Broomlands in Kelso, the agent for the Duke of Roxburghe.  He also won numerous prizes and judged in different Horticultural shows.  Possibly there is a sibling also called Robert that would fit too.  It would make sense that a 'gardening' parent with links to the upper crust of society would of benefited John, in obtaining the job that he did. 

Can I ask what the records showing the Robert are called, and if they are publically available at all?

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Berwickshire / Re: John Brownlee (Brunlees) c.1788-1854
« on: Sunday 25 March 18 12:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gadget,

John married, Margaret Rutherford (b. 1788, Eyemouth, parents, John Rutherford, Agnes Bennet). 
The known children are

Agnes (03/05/1814)
James (05/01/ 1816)
Jane/Jean (16/01/1820)
John (29/05/1822)
Robert (11/08/1824)

all are born in Kelso.

Would the record in Greenlaw be from 1781, parents George Brownlees and Margaret Marshall?  I think we had previously seen this and although being the closest fit, had dismissed it because of the level of difference in birth years. 

As to Mellerstaine (as written on the 1851 census), we have always presumed it to be one in the same as the Mellerstain estate/village, and realise there isn't a lot there at all.

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Berwickshire / Re: John Brownlee (Brunlees) c.1788-1854
« on: Sunday 25 March 18 08:35 BST (UK)  »
We haven't (to my knowledge) found the OPR record of his death, and it is through newspaper articles, and his gravestone at Kelso that we are aware of the date of his death. 

Both the 1841 and 1851 census report his name as Brunlees, all newspaper articles from about 1827 also show him as Brunlees, as does the headstone.

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Berwickshire / John Brownlee (Brunlees) c.1788-1854
« on: Saturday 24 March 18 15:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I am wondering if anyone can help or suggest where I can look to try and find the birth of my 4 x great grandfather.

What I know is as follows -

John Brownlee was born c. 1788 (taken from 1841/1851 census, and death details given in the Kelso Chronicle).  The 1851 census gives his birthplace as Mellerstaine , Berwickshire.  Through looking at numerous newspaper articles of John's achievements in gardening and prize winning in the Kelso location, we can see that the name changed spelling in about 1827 to Brunlees.  His children all born before this were recorded as Brownlee but later details show them also as Brunlees (the most famous being my 3 x great grandfather Sir James Brunlees, the prominent Victorian Engineer).  John died on the 24th October 1854 (why couldn't he have waited just over a couple more months to 1855!) in Kelso.

A a family we have never been able to get beyond John in over twenty years of research and have really drawn a blank now on what else to try.  Can anyone suggest any record archives, or local records that may be we be able to find details of his birth and parents?


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London and Middlesex / Re: Argyle Lodge,Wandsworth?
« on: Tuesday 31 January 17 12:52 GMT (UK)  »
I sent you a message with my details Sarutherf

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London and Middlesex / Re: Argyle Lodge,Wandsworth?
« on: Tuesday 31 January 17 12:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Sarutherf

I would be very interested to see the inside of the building or any plans.

Sir James (my 3x ggg) owned the house from some time the 1860s to his death in 1892.  We think the previous owner/tenant was Jenny Lind, the Swedish opera singer.

All we have Of the building are the two newspaper clips above.  Would love to know more

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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: pier
« on: Friday 01 January 16 19:54 GMT (UK)  »
I beleive the pier was actually designed by John's father Sir James Brunlees

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