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Stephen Freeman Brown
1811
Male
Person 00000384
Born 01/09/1811 at Bowers Gifford, Pitsea, Essex (FT)
Father: Samuel Freeman (1773)
Mother: Mary Brown (1774)
illegitimate - mother "fell victim to the son of the big house where she worked"
Christened 10/09/1811 at Bowers Gifford (H)
Stephen Freeman Brown son of Mary Brown was baptized
1833 at Purleigh (M)
Married 11/11/1833 at Purleigh, Essex (CM)
to Ann Way (1812)
All Saints church
Stephen Brown Freeman of this parish, bachelor, and Ann Way of this parish, spinster, were married in this church by banns on the
eleventh day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three by me Robert Frances Walker, curate.
Both signed
Witnesses William Alfred Worthy and Eliza Ellis
from 1835 at Pitsea, Essex ()
1841 at Pitsea, Essex (C)
Stephen Freeman, carpenter, 25, with wife and 4 kids and mother Mary Brown, and a maid (Sarah Townsend), at Slated House,
Pitsea (near Blues and Burnt Mills)
1842 at Pitsea ()
wife died
1848 at Pitsea (S)
builder listed in White's Directory
1849 at Pitsea (W)
builder, mentioned in will of wife's relative Hannah Carder
1851 at Pitsea, Essex (C)
widower - carpenter ,employing 2 men , at "White House", Pitsea with 3 children & mother
1861 at Pitsea, Essex (C)
Stephen Freeman, widower, 49, carpenter employing 2 men, with daughter Ellen
17/09/1865 at Pitsea, Essex (M)
Builder of Pitsea
1871 at Pitsea, Essex (C)
carpenter, 59, with daughter
1873 at Pitsea (S)
Return of landowners shows Stephen Freeman owning 5a 3r & 21p in Pitsea with rental value of £49.12
1881 at Pitsea, Essex (C)
Stephen B Freeman, master carpenter, widowed, 69, at Privat House , Pitsea, with daughter Ellen (housekeeper)
1882 at Pitsea (R)
will leaves £978 17s
Died 26/02/1882 at Pitsea, Essex (FT)
reported in local paper "The Newsman": 'at Pitsea, Stephen Brown Freeman, carpenter, 70'
Mar 1882, Billericay, 4a/187, aged 70 - also in IGI - commemorated on family tomb at St Michael's Pitsea as Stephen Brown
Freeman
Essex Society for Family History 1984 inscription survey of St Michael, Pitsea: Granite top tomb on brick base; stonemason
Sanders, Euston Rd, London
Side : ANN wife of S.B.FREEMAN
born 3rd January 1812
died 16th November 1842
Around bottom: MARY BROWN died 18th January 1855 aged 84 years
Side 2: EDNA
FREEMAN
born 8th January 1842
died 5th May 1843
Side 3: ANN
FREEMAN
born 30th March 1837
died 20th march 1879
Here lies a weak and sinful worm
The vilest of her race
Saved through God's electing love
His free and sovereign grace
Side 4: STEPHEN BROWN FREEMAN
born 1st September 1811
died 26th February 1882
around bottom: SAMUEL FREEMAN died 7th March 1821 aged 49 years
Funeral 03/03/1882 at Pitsea (B)
age 70
Children
Ellen Freeman (1835)
Anne Freeman (1837)
Hannah Freeman (1838)
John Freeman (1840)
Edna Freeman (1842)
Last updated 07/11/2023
Source Key: A=Baptist records B=Burial register C=Census F=Family H=Christening register I=IGI L=Letter M=Marriage register P=Personally known R=Registry office (certificate or index) S=Website T=Tombstone W=Will Y=Boyds marriage index
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