Hi, Siamese Girl, and Valda, and everyone. The following is a little of what I have :
To quote from some of my source info (and in an attempt to be brief) :
George Hall “clerk to Mr Brown Merchant Mark Lane London” not yet 21 was the Principal Beneficiary of the 27 Feb 1802 Will of Lancelot Brown Jnr (aka Lance, the eldest son of Lancelot Brown Snr, aka Capability) when he obviously knew he was about to die “being ill in body but of sound mind and recollection”. On this same day that he died he made a Codicil in which he referred to “the said George the person mentioned in my Will”, in which he mentions “my House and Premises at Stirtloe”.
The record in Sidney College of “George Brown, the son of Lancelot Brown of Stirtloe” was presumably supplied by George himself, (and “He went to school for almost 3 years at Mapledurham Oxon and for 2 years at Oakham” enquiries for which by a local contact have been fruitless, eg Oakham records not going back that far – so it is not known what name he was enrolled therein). And Ipswich Journal Jul 24 1819 refers to Rev George Brown died at Bath, son of the late Lancelot Brown Esq. M.P.
I was to post the original entry in the Gentleman’s Magazine Jan 1830, but worried about ©. It must be correct that Rev Thomas, the 3rd youngest son of Capability to survive infancy, was the only son to have legitimate children. Eg, he inherited Capablity’s large estate “after his 2 elder brothers had enjoyed it in succession, and had died without issue viz. Lancelot, a Barrister, and sometime M.P. . . .” [This estate then passed to Thomas’ elder son Lancelot Robert, and then to his eldest daughter .] And Thomas’ sons are recorded herein as Lancelot and Thomas-Charles.
Throughout his 29 Pages of Will and Codicils, Capablility makes repeated mention to named Beneficiary relatives “and behoof of the sons of his [or her] body lawfully to be begotten and the Heirs Male of their Bodies lawfully Issuing”. CB increased legacies to all, but reduced Lance’ by £1,000; Lance married 17 Nov 1788 (in Switzerland) Frances the sister of John (Madjack) Fuller, and they weren’t mentioned in his Will; Lance named another brother-in-Law James Rust as Joint Executor, but he reneged; and also intriguing James in his 1822 Will made absolutely no mention of daughter Mary, but her cousin (Bachelor) Henry Holland (and also both cousins of Thomas Charles and Lancelot Robert) according to his 1838 Will had been paying her an Annuity “for many years past” which was to continue. She was still unmarried.
Thomas Charles was married by his brother to Frances Page, 17 Sep no later than 1825, and in 1841 were living with children Frances, Augusta Marcia and Lancelot Charles in Somersham, in 1851 with the younger 2 in St Georges Westminster, and in 1861 he was living with his brother Lancelot Robert and etc in Kelsale.
Lancelot Robert is recorded as only ever had daughters. Mary Rust (above) had a brother George. And Mary Holland, aunt of Henry above, married a William Brown – of Mark Lane top above, perhaps ?? (So where does Robert fit in, if at all ?)
So you can see I have tried . . .
(Also my local Gloucester contact above [a private person] has received confirmation that George was not baptised in Buckden Parish Church.)