18 Aug 2023                   
             Husband: James Brown    
                Born: ABT 1862             in Balsham, Cambridgeshire  
              Census: 1911                 in Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire   (see note 1)
          Occupation: 1911                 Horsekeeper  
              Father:
              Mother:
                Wife: Jane Gilbey     
             Married: 1888                 in Cambridgeshire  1 (see note 2)
                Born: ABT 1864             in Saffron Walden, Essex  
              Census: 1881                 in Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire   (see note 3)
              Census: 1911                 in Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire   (see note 4)
              Father: William Gilbey   (1836 - 1910) 
              Mother: Harriet Clayden   (1842 - 1915) 
           M Child 1: William James Brown      
                Born: ABT 1898             in Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire  
              Census: 1901                 in Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire   (see note 5)
              Census: 1911                 at 28 Alpha Terrace, Trumpington   (see note 6)
              Member:                      Trumpington Free Church  2
            Military: 1914 - 1917            3 (see note 7)
                Died:  2 Dec 1917          in Belgium  4 (see note 8)
          Media link: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/560034
          Media desc: Lives of the First World War

Sources:
(1) FreeBMD website. 
(2) Trumpington Free Church war memorial. 
(3) Roll of Honour, in Trumpington Village Hall. 
(4) Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Age 48, born Balsham.  Horsekeeper, with wife Jane
Note (2) Mar 1888 Linton 3b 619
Note (3) Age 16, born Saffron Walden, with family
Note (4) Age 46, born Saffron Walden, with husband James Brown.  1 child, still
living
Note (5) Age 2, born Swaffham Prior, with grandparents William and Harriet
Gilbey
Note (6) Age 12, born Swaffham, with grandmother Harriet Gilbey
Note (7) See Lives of
the First World War
Note (8) BROWN, WILLIAM JAMES

Rank:     Private
Service No:     G/39450
Date of Death:     02/12/1917
Age:     19
Regiment/Service:     The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)    1st Bn.
Grave Reference     IV. C. 24.
Cemetery     DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

Additional Information:

Son of James and Jane Brown, of Cadenham Farm, Swaffham Prior,
Cambridge.

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