Thanks Lleucu
I have been using the North Wales BMD site, but it doesn't give age at death on the deaths section. The PRs available on FindMyPast do not give the same kind of information that might be on a gravestone - hence me requesting details from the MI books of the areas my Brown families were living in at various times.
I know some of my Brown's also went over the border into Shropshire, like Oswestry and Whittington and Melverley. Any Brown's in Guilsfield are potentially not connected to mine. My line goes back to a John Brown who married Mary Morrice/Morris in 1728 in Llandrinio, but I know that they often left the parish here and there (no idea where they went) and then coming back to Llandrinio.
Either that or the PRs on FindMyPast are sketchy!
John Brown & Mary Morris m 1728 Llandrinio (or 1727 - the date on FindMyPast isn't showing the old style so I am thinking it might be more like 1727) - Mary seems to have died in 1736 and he may have remarried to an Elizabeth who was buried 1752. No burial found for John senior.
son John b. 1728 - married Jane Lloyd 1753 Llandrinio (no burials found for these two)
son James b. 1754 - may have married an Alice Williams in 1775 in Shrewsbury
son Thomas b. 1780c (no baptism found in Llandrinio - but his sister Jane who he is with in 1851 was baptised in 1783 in Llandrinio and also a sister Alice b. 1786)
Thomas married Jane Lloyd in 1799 in Llandysilio and had a son John b. 1801c - no baptism found. May have also had a son James in 1804 who was buried that year - but down as being son of Thomas and Elizabeth - so either this is wrong or Thomas's wife Jane had died and he had remarried. No burials found for Jane or Elizabeth.
Burial found for James Brown 1835 in Llandrinio, nothing for wife Alice.
Thomas appears in 1841 - on his own. In 1851 with single sister. Nothing after that. May have died in Shropshire. Jane appears in 1861 as a widow - despite being single and is buried in Llandysilio in 1863.
John b. 1801 had been widowed in 1851 and remarried a few years later to Elizabeth Pugh - a widow - giving his father's name as Thomas. He died in 1871, no idea what became of Elizabeth.
John and his first wife Jane had several children in Llandrinio and Llandysilio, including my direct ancestor John b. 1828 who married three times and died in 1900 in Llandrinio.
His son John b. 1850 moved to Glyn Ceiriog in Denbighshire and became a tollgate keeper and waggoner for the Cambrian Quarry/Glyn Valley Tramway and died in 1897.
Many of the sons of these families were bricklayers/stone masons and seems the furthest back with the occupation I've found so far is with James b. 1754.
Mainly just hunting down some other sources of information.
Thanks again!
Alex
