Biography:
Louisa Brown
08-1862 –19/09/1937
Louisa Brown
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Plot 1010 Louisa Brown (née George) (1862-1937)
Louisa was born in August 1862 in Keysoe, Bedfordshire to John George, an agricultural labourer, and Jane (née Page). She was baptised there 2 November that year.
John and Jane had four children: Isaac (b 1861), Louisa (b. 1863), Joseph (b. 1865) and Jacob (b.1868).
By the 1871 census, Jane, although shown as married and not widowed, is alone with the children at Brook End, Keysoe. The records of the Bedford Union Workhouse for 1878 reveal why – John had deserted his family. On March 22 1878 Jane applied for relief and the record shows that she was an able-bodied lace maker and her weekly earnings were one shilling and six pence. She was to receive two shillings and six pence and two loaves weekly. At the end of the entry it reads “discontinued”, although no date is given. How poor Jane was managing with four young children to feed is difficult to imagine.
In 1875 Louisa was recorded as attending the National School in Keysoe and the record shows her mother was working as a charwoman. In August that year she was withdrawn from school because she was “wanted at home”.
In 1881 Jane was shown on the census as a widow. Whether this was true, or an attempt to hide John’s desertion has not been established. She was still a lace maker and all three of her sons, aged 13 to 20, were agricultural labourers, so at least the family’s income had increased.
That year Louisa was employed as a servant to a Mrs Weston, a lady of independent means, living at 48, Harpur Street, Bedford.
She married Charles Brown, a coachman, on 30 August 1884 at St Peter’s Stepney. The couple were to have four daughters: Louie (b1887 Stamford Hill, London), Florrie Frances (b 1889 Sandgate, Kent), Mildred (b 1892 Newmarket), Laura Kate (b. 1895 Newmarket). There was also another child who did not survive until 1901.
The family moved to Newmarket by 1891 where Charles worked as a “racing stableman” but by 1901 he had adopted his father’s profession of licenced victualler and they were to hold the licences of a number of public houses – in Kimbolton, Hemel Hempstead and finally the Lamb in Berkhamsted.
Charles died 22 October 1928 aged 70 and is buried here. Louise survived him until 9 September 1937 when she was 75.
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Plot 1010 Louisa Brown (née George) (1862-1937)
Louisa was born in August 1862 in Keysoe, Bedfordshire to John George, an agricultural labourer, and Jane (née Page). She was baptised there 2 November that year.
John and Jane had four children: Isaac (b 1861), Louisa (b. 1863), Joseph (b. 1865) and Jacob (b.1868).
By the 1871 census, Jane, although shown as married and not widowed, is alone with the children at Brook End, Keysoe. The records of the Bedford Union Workhouse for 1878 reveal why – John had deserted his family. On March 22 1878 Jane applied for relief and the record shows that she was an able-bodied lace maker and her weekly earnings were one shilling and six pence. She was to receive two shillings and six pence and two loaves weekly. At the end of the entry it reads “discontinued”, although no date is given. How poor Jane was managing with four young children to feed is difficult to imagine.
In 1875 Louisa was recorded as attending the National School in Keysoe and the record shows her mother was working as a charwoman. In August that year she was withdrawn from school because she was “wanted at home”.
In 1881 Jane was shown on the census as a widow. Whether this was true, or an attempt to hide John’s desertion has not been established. She was still a lace maker and all three of her sons, aged 13 to 20, were agricultural labourers, so at least the family’s income had increased.
That year Louisa was employed as a servant to a Mrs Weston, a lady of independent means, living at 48, Harpur Street, Bedford.
She married Charles Brown, a coachman, on 30 August 1884 at St Peter’s Stepney. The couple were to have four daughters: Louie (b1887 Stamford Hill, London), Florrie Frances (b 1889 Sandgate, Kent), Mildred (b 1892 Newmarket), Laura Kate (b. 1895 Newmarket). There was also another child who did not survive until 1901.
The family moved to Newmarket by 1891 where Charles worked as a “racing stableman” but by 1901 he had adopted his father’s profession of licenced victualler and they were to hold the licences of a number of public houses – in Kimbolton, Hemel Hempstead and finally the Lamb in Berkhamsted.
Charles died 22 October 1928 aged 70 and is buried here. Louise survived him until 9 September 1937 when she was 75.
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