My father's maternal ancestors

My father was the youngest child of Alice Brown (née Old) and her husband, George W Brown. This page endeavors to trace his matrilinear line though Alice Brown, her mother Emma Old (née Jeans) and beyond.

This photograph was taken sometime after the death of George Brown when the family were still living in Curwen Street in London, before they moved to Dorchester. According to my father, the photograph shows: Back row: Dorothy (daughter), Evelyn (daughter), Ada Henshaw Middle row: Gladys (daughter), Alice Jane (mother), George (son), Cecil (son) Front row: Harold (son), Ernie Gallop, Leslie Armar (son) As for Ada Henshaw and Ernie Gallop, my father said of his mother: "She was always taking people in." This suggests they were living with the family. Possibly Ada was a paying lodger. Certainly the 1901 census shows that when George and Alice Brown were living in nearby Gayford Street they had three lodgers living with them.

ALICE JANE OLD (born in Glanvilles Wootton, Dorset, c. 1864; died 13th April 1922, Dorchester, Dorset)

- who married GEORGE W BROWN (born 2nd February 1865, Ellingham, Middx.; died 27th January 1915) at St Luke's Church, Uxbridge Road, London on 5th October 1886,

- and was the mother of:

George William (b, Hammersmith, London, c. 1890)

Thomas Gilbert (b. Broad St., London, 1897)

Alice Dorothy Annie (d. 1st quarter 1944)

Evelyn Emma May (b. 28th Sept. 1901; d. 26th Nov. 1988)

Gladys Josephine Daisy (b. 13th Dec. 1903; d. 16th June 1971)

Joseph Cecil (b. Dec. 1905)

Harold (b. 30th Jan. 1907; d. 1998)

Leslie Armar (b. 6th June 1910; d. 21st Dec. 2001)

- was the daughter of ....

EMMA JEANS (b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1825; d. 28th Oct. 1906)

- who married BENJAMIN OLD (Widower* - b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1820; d. June 1881)

- and was the mother of:

Benjamin (b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1849)

Oliver (b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1851; d. Sep. 1872)

Richard Seaborn (b. Glanvilles Wootton, December 1853)

Robert George (b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1861)

Alice Jane (b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1864)

Betsy (b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1866)

Ann (b. Glanvilles Wootton, 1869; d. 24th March 1943)

- in December 1882 married THOMAS DURDEN (b.?)

* Benjamin Old had two daughters from his first marriage: Elizabeth (b. 1842) & Emma (b. 1844)