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Notes for Robert BROWNE

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Information received from Peter Murray in 1997 showed that Robert Browne,
baptised at Lowestoft January 1, 1761, was married by licence at Hopton,
Suffolk County, England, on September 25, 1787, to Sarah Thurtell, who
was baptised at Norwich St. Julian November 4, 1759, daughter of James
and Winifred Thurtell of Norwich, Norfolk County, and later of Flixton,
Suffolk County. At the time of their marriage, he was a single man of
Blundeston parish and she a single woman of Hopton parish, witnesses to
the marriage being Elizabeth Calver and Elizabeth Thurtell. Family
tradition relates that three Brownes "of Sparrow's Nest" married three
Thurtells on the same day at the Church of St. Mary in Blundeston. The
marriages of Robert's sisters Anne and Susannah are indeed recorded on
the same day in Blundeston, but Robert's marriage is recorded only at
Hopton. Perhaps the three couples had a common wedding celebration after
the ceremony. Three children of Robert and Sarah (Thurtell) Browne
appear in our sources, but no contemporary evidence of their birth has
yet been found since we do not yet know the parish where they lived.

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