William Brown was born about 1811; two records show his birthplace as Ireland or Northern Ireland, while another -- the death record for a son -- suggests New York, and an online secondary source (a Hatch family genealogy) offers a birth at Londonderry, Vermont, on 12 July of 1810. He married Lydia Hatch at Hebron, New York (a town on the New York-Vermont state line) in October of 1835, and the couple ultimately made their home in Ridott, Illinois. William Brown died at Ridott in mid-September of 1872.
Sources
Birth, marriage, family, and death: Descendants of Thomas Hatch of Barnstable, Massachusetts: Some Genealogy & History of the Hatch Family, by Hatch Genealogy Society — Ruth Hatch Hale; http://www.jowest.net/Genealogy/Jo/Hatch/Hatch2.htm
Death of dau. Margaret A. Weber (Ridott, IL) (gives father’s birthplace as Ireland): "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3X4-87W : 8 March 2018), Lydia Hatch in entry for Margaret A. Weber, 01 May 1920; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,570,231.
Death of son William Waite Brown (Pecatonica, IL) (gives father’s birthplace as NY, not Ireland): "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3D4-ML3 : 8 March 2018), Lidia Hatch in entry for William Waite Brown, 13 Jun 1916; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,530,923.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147023272/william-brown: accessed 17 May 2023), memorial page for William Brown (12 Jul 1810–13 Sep 1872), Find A Grave: Memorial #147023272, citing Wagner Cemetery, Ridott, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Prof. M. Klimczak (contributor 48568767).
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