Isabella Jane WEATHERSTON
Born in Dec. Qtr.
1842, Berwick Registration District, Northumberland.
Born in
Norham/Horncliffe going by Census information.
1851 England
Census - aged 8.
Parents John & Isabella WEATHERSTON - resident in parish/village of
Horncliffe.
+ siblings: Eleanor 25, Elisabeth 23, George 6, James 14, John
21 & Thomas 12.
1861 England
Census - aged 18.
With parents John 61 & Isabella 59 in Horncliffe
+
siblings Elizabeth 33, George 16, Robert 26 & Thomas 22.
1871 England
Census - Isabella Jane
aged 28 with mother Isabella 69 & sister Elizabeth 39 in Horncliffe.
1878, in Edinburgh, Isabella Jane marries James BROWN, Gold Miner, of Tweedhill, Berwickshire.
James 'Digger' BROWN - bn about 1827 in either Norham or Horncliffe, Northumberland; son of John BROWN, Farmer, & Ann CUNNINGHAM.
Occupation - Ag. Lab. Mid-1800s went out to Australia and made his fortune in the gold fields of Bendigo and Hill End, NSW
Returned to England and in 1876, bought the Tweedhill Estate on west bank of the River Tweed from James McBraire. He
was aged 51 when he married Isabella in November 1878.
December 1878 - birth
of a son - James born at Norham
(ref. 1881 England Census) & Berwick registration March Quarter, 1879 (ref: FreeBMD.com)
1879/1880 apx.
birth of a son - John - born at Tweedhill, so Scottish
registration. 1881 _ England
Census - Isabella
visiting her sister, Elizabeth, in Horncliffe, along with sons, James aged 2
& John, aged 4mths.
"Wife of James Brown, Gentleman" December 1881 - death of John, aged 2 years.
Tweedhill is in the parish of Hutton. Close to Paxton House, but on Scottish side of the Tweed.
apx. 1884 - birth
of a daughter - Isabella Annie - born at Tweedhill, so Scottish registration.
Looks like Isabella and James
had seperated by 1891 Census:
1891 Scotland
Census - James (sen) aged
64, with children James, aged 12 & Isabella A., 7, at Tweedhill -
Living on Private Means.
1891 England
Census - Isabella,
aged 48, boarding in Horncliffe with Christian Lisle & family, Grocer,
"Living on her own means",
bn Norham.
1893 - death of James Brown (sen) - buried in
Norham churchyard with infant son, John.
I
have a registration reference for Castle Ward District, Northumberland, June Qtr.
?or would it be a Scottish registration
1901 Scotland
Census - Isabella Jane
BROWN living at Tweedhill Mansion House with Isabella A., aged 17 & James,
aged 22.
1903-9 - Isabella living in Edinburgh - with
children? Would all the legal affairs have been handled in Edinburgh
after James' death?
Big question - where was Isabella between apx. 1909 and 1913?
September 1913 - Isabella's death - in Horncliffe. She was buried at Norham on 13 September 1913 - but not with her husband and infant son.
1919 - The Tweedhill Estate sold to Arthur TATE, exporter of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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