Parish church of Llanishen, Wales, as rebuilt in 1852-54.

Part of 1897 map of Monmouthshire. Arrows indicate places relevant for John Brown and Lucy Lewis.   From the top: Llangoven, Llanishen, Tintern.

John Brown was physician in Tintern, Monmouthshire.

He was born in Scotland. In 1886 he was a widower in Tintern. It is not known if he had children by his first wife.

Lucy was spinster from Llanishen and born in Llangoven (see map). Her father was William Lewis, a farmer. Was she maid in John's house?

They married in 1886 after Banns in Llanishen (see photo) and the witnesses were Edwin Lewis, Fanny Priscilla Lewis and Jeannie Ross(?) Brown.

Children:
Winifred Sara Louisa *c 04/12/1886 Tintern, Monm.
Dorothy Edith Margaret *20/07/1888 in Strathwye, Tintern, baptized 17/08/1888 in Tintern.
Edith Gwendoline Frances 09/07/1890 in Strathwye, Tintern, Monm.
[ Strathwye is a topographic name in Tintern, probably of a house on the Wye on the west side on the larger loop of the Wye. Its use is documented in maps between 1898 and 1908 (see Strathwye). ]

At the time of the 1891 census, the three children were visiting with Elizabeth L Bumet (age 40) in St Briavels, Chepstow, Gloucestershire, 6 km NNE of Tintern. Was she a (widowed?) aunt? And why did all three children visit there, without the parents listed in the census?

It appears that Lucy choose to go her own way because John Taylor Brown was perhaps not the right husband. He seems to have had a drinking problem.

All daughters later moved to South Africa and married there. Dorothy became nurse.  Gwendoline (no profession known) married Gerhardus Petrus Pretorius.  Winifred (no profession known) married a Mr. Leal. She died before 1941, before her mother.

According to Lucy's death certificate, she lived later in life in 1 Aubrey Villa, St Mary's Terrace in Penzance, Cornwall.

There is a John Brown in 1939, born 1859, living in Regent House Institution, Chepstow, Chepstow U.D., Monmouthshire. He must have died soon thereafter (according the death record of his wife Lucy of 1941).
[ Said Institution was originally, as of the 1830s, a workhouse, based on the Poor Law Commissioners Pauper plan, having 150 inmates. The site was taken over by the Monmouthshire Council and the workhouse buildings have later largely been demolished. ]

John died in April 1939. (The death notice of Lucy says he died 1938 or 1939, but he is in the census records of 1939.)

Lucy died at the end of 1941 in Droitwich, Worcester (19411230), some 100 km NE of Tintern.

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