Henry Shinner Brown (1877 - 1941)

Born 24 Jul 1877 in At Sea

Died 6 May 1941 at age 63 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Biography

Henry was born at sea on the ship Northumberland on 24 Jul 1877. He was the son of William Brown and Euphemia McKerrar.^[1]

He married Mary Walker Malloch in Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland in 1909.^[2]

Henry was a trades association chairman. He was an ARP driver during WW2. He died on 6 May 1941 when the Woodside First Aid Post in Paisley was struck by a parachute bomb.^[3][4]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. UK, Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea, 1844-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Ancestry. Original data: The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England. The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Registers of Births at Sea of British Nationals; Class: BT 160; Piece: 1. (Birth Date: 24 Jul 1877, Ship: Northumberland.
2. ↑ "Statutory registers - Marriages" database, National Records of Scotland, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/: accessed 29 Oct 2021), BROWN, HENRY SHINNER/ MALLOCHMARY WALKER, 1909, Dennistoun; citing Reference Number: 644/4 113.
3. ↑ "Statutory registers - Deaths" database, National Records of Scotland, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/: accessed 29 Oct 2021), BROWN, HENRY SKINNER (sic), age 63, 1941, Paisley; citing Reference Number: 573/1 756.
4. ↑ UK, World War II Civilian Deaths, 1939-1945, Burgh of Paisley: Page 2453. (Ancestry UK).