Surname Saturday : Brown(e)

The BROWN(E) surname is in my maternal line.  The origins of the surname are English.

Stories and history :

Ahnentafel # 1539 : Martha Brown (1699-1774).  Martha was born June 16, 1699.  She married William Fessenden (1694-1756) on January 4, 1728 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  William was born 1694 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  They had eight children.  William died May 26, 1756 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  Martha died February 23, 1774 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Ahnentafel # 3078 : Rev. Ichabod Brown (1666-    ). Ichabod was born September 5, 1666 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  He married Martha Woodbury (1677-    ) on May 31, 1693 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  Martha was born in 1677 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts.  They had at least one daughter.  

Ahnentafel # 6156 : Thomas Browne married Martha Eaton.  Nothing further known.



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