'Brown20'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Browne of Bishop's Norton, Browne of Corse, Browne of Hasfield, Browne of Salperton Park, Browne of Tirley

                               
BLG1952 identifies the arms of the following family, quartered with those of Beale, as "Or, on a fessegu. three chess rooks of the field, in chief three martlets sa." and implies that it descended from the Brownes of Elkstone, Gloucestershire, at the end of the 13th century.
John Browne of Hasfield & Athelsworth, Gloucestershire
m. Margaret
1. John Browne of Hasfield & Comberton
  m. Isabel Marmion of Agnoe-on-the-Hill
  A. Henry Browne of Hasfield (d 1620) the first mentioned by Visitation
m. Alice Frankham (dau of William Frankham of Tirley)
  i. William Browne of Hasfield & Little Comberton, 'Sheriff of Gloucester?' (d 1658)
  m. Mary (d 1665)
  a. Henry Browne of Hasfield (d 1678)
  m. Eleanor Dobbins (d 1715, dau of Philip Dobbins of Compton)
  (1)+ issue - William, Henry, Margaret (d 1685)
  b. John Browne
  c. Mary Browne (d 1674) probably of this generation
  m. Richard Rogers of Dowdeswell (d c1680)
  ii. Thomas Browne of Corse, Gloucestershire (b c1593, d 1670)
  m. Ann Guy (dau of Richard Guy of Pamington)
  a. Thomas Browne of Corse (b c1629, a 1683)
  m1. Sarah Bell (dau of William Bell of Sandhurst)
  (1)+ issue (a 1683) - Henry (b c1661), George (b c1663), Charles (b c1665), Thomas (b c1660), Elizabeth (b c1667), Sarah (b c1673), Anne (b c1675)
  m2. Eleanor Dobbins (dau of Philip Dobbins of Compton in Newent, widow of Henry Browne of Hasfield)
  b. William Browne of Winterborne (b c1639, a 1683, 4th son)
  m. Martha Deyos (dau of Michael Deyos of Bristol)
  (1)+ issue - William, Henry, Joseph, Elizabeth
  c. Anne Browne
  m. Richard Turton of West Browwich (son of William)
  d.+ other issue (d unm) - Henry, Charles, John, Richard (b c1644, a 1683, d unm?)
  iii. John Browne of Tirley (b c1595, d c1655-6)
  m1._ Dow (dau of Roger Dow of Pool in Bushley)
  a. John Browne of Tirley (b c1633, d 1681)
  m. Jane Driver (d 1683, dau of Giles Driver of Rendcombe)
  (1)+ issue - Richard (b c1656, d 1678), Henry (d 1688), Charles (d 1722), Anne (d 1722), Maria
  m2. Mary Turton (dau of William Turton of West Bromwich)
  b. William Browne of Tirley (b c1641, a 1683)
  iv. Richard Browne of Bishop's Norton, Gloucestershire (b 1606, d 1638) this line only given by BLG1952
  m. Anne Etheridge (dau of Robert Etheridge of Bishop's Norton)
  a. Richard Browne of Lighe, Gloucestershire (b 26.05.1630, a 1682, later in America)
  m. Mary Master (d 1683, dau of Sir Richard or William Master of Cirencester)
  (1)+ issue (a 1682) - William (b c1656), Henry (b c1658), Charles (b c1661), Mary, Alice
  b. John Browne of Bishop's Norton (b c1632,
  m. Anne Gilby (dau of Giles Gilby of Haresfield)
  (1) George Montague Browne of Gloucester, last of Norton, to America (b 1666) mentioned by BLG1952 but not by Visitation
  m. _ Olivant of the Catawaba
  (A) Anthony Browne
  (i) John Browne (b 1735, a 1781)
  (2) John Browne of Salperton Park (b 01.12.1668, Rector of Coberley)
  m. Elizabeth (d 24.12.1766, coheir of Timothy Bourne of Windlebury)
  (A) Thomas Browne of Salperton (b 1713, d 1788)
  BLG1952 reports that Thomas married thrice, does not name any of tis wives, and reports that he had John "with other issue". BLG1886 mentions additional children, Thomas & Mary. but does not name any of the wives. 2 of them are named in a booklet found online that provides supplementary information on letters A to C for Visitation (Gloucestershire, 1682-4), naming sons Thomas & John and some of John's children.
  m1. Mary (b c1703, d 1758)
m2. Susanna (b c1707, d 1784)
  (i) John Browne of Salperton Park (b 22.07.1736, d 1782)
  m. (01.07.1771) Mary Beale (dau/heir of John Beale of Temple Guiting)
(a) John Browne of Salperton Park, Sheriff of Gloucestershire (b 25.08.1773, d 03.1850)
  m. (02.11.1793) Martha Susannah Pettat (d 1843?, dau of Rev. John Pettat of Stonehouse by Martha, dau of Sir Howe Hicks, Bart)
  ((1)) Thomas Browne, later Beale-Browne of Salperton & Crotta (co. Kerry), Sheriff of Gloucestershire (b 06.11.1810, d 1888, 2nd son) had issue
  m. (12.08.1840) Mary Eliza Sulivan (d 05.02.1906, dau of George James Sulivan of Wilmington)
  ((2)) Henrietta Jane Browne (d 11.08.1831)
  m. (02.1826) William Beach of Oakley Hall
  ((3)) Caroline Anne Browne
  m. Charles Richard Pettat (Rector of Ash, cousin)
((4))+ other issue - John Beale (b 04.11.1794, dvp unm 1823), Frances Susannah
  (b) Mary Browne
  m. William Gore Langton of Newton Park
  (c)+ other issue - Thomas Beale (b 01.12.1776, d unm 12.01.1794), Richard (b c1778, d 1780), Anne (b 1781-2, d 1782)
  (ii) Thomas Beale Browne (b 1739, dvp unm 1761)
  (iii) Mary Browne
  m. E. Sampson of Henbury
  m3. ??
  (B) Martha Browne
  m. (28.07.1739) Sir Howe Hicks of Witcombe Park, 6th Bart (d 08.1801)
  (3)+ other issue (a 1682) - Richard (b c1668), Henry (b c1672) mentioned by Visitation but not by BLG1952
  c. Henry Browne (b 1635, a 1682)
  d. Anne Browne
  m. William Lane of Apperley
  v. Henry Browne of New Hall in Chaseley, Worcestershire (b c1600, dsp 1659)
  m. Elizabeth Freeman (d c1678, dau of Edward Freeman of Neen Sollers)
  vi. Isabel Browne
  m. John Roberts of Fidington

Main source(s): BLG1952 ('Beale-Browne of Middleham formerly of Salperton'), Visitation (Fenwick & Metcalfe (1884), Gloucestershire, 1682-3, 'Browne of Corse and Tirley') with some input/support from BLG1886 ('Browne of Salperton')
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