Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Walter Ernest Brown

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Walter Ernest Brown (1867-1944) of Brown and Hughes, Brown, Hughes and Strachan, Strachan and Brown and Duple Bodies and Motors

1867 Born in South Morton, Berks., the son of Alfred Brown, a farmer, and his wife Eliza

1891 Eliza Brown 61, lived in Chelsea with Ernest Brown 22, coach trimmer, Florence Brown 21[1]

1901 Walter E Brown 33, coach builer, employer, lived in Fulham with Edith V Brown 32, Ethel V Brown 3[2]

1911 Living at 11 Ellerby Street, Fulham: Walter Ernest Brown (age 43 born S. Morton, Berks), Carriage and Motor Body Builder - Employer. With his wife Edith Vaughan Brown (age 42 born Notting Hill), L.C.C. Assistant Mistress, with their three children; Ethel Vaughan Brown (age 13 born Shepherd's Bush); Reginald Ernest Brown (age 8 born Shepherd's Bush); Eric Henry Brown (age 1 born Fulham). Married 16 years with three children. One Boarder and one servant.[3]

1939 Director of Works (Commercial Motor Bodies), lived in Harrow with Edith V Brown and Doris W Brown, Assistant Works Manager, Commercial Body Builders[4]

1944 Died in Hendon[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1891 census
  2. 1901 census
  3. 1911 Census
  4. 1939 register
  5. BMD