Frederick John Brown

   Another name for Frederick was Fred Brown.

  General Notes:

NOTES FROM CONVERSATION WITH EDITH CLYDE PURNELL (nee Brown): 19/03/1994

She also recalled that Fred Brown was a soldier who served in the Boer War. Apparently he could lace his boots faster than anyone (in the Regiment or back home?)

Clyde was brought up by James & Mary Ann Pitt, of Pontnewynydd.
She was sent to them originally, as a baby, because she had a medical condition, that required treatment at Pontypool Hospital. After she recovered, she was wanted back by her parents (Fred & Annie Brown - Annie was James & Mary Ann's eldest child) - at this point I believe her parents lived in the Rhondda valley. There was a disagreement about this - eventually James & Mary Ann won the day and brought Clyde up themselves.

Clyde remembers working in her grandparents' grocery shop.
She remembers her Grandparents with great affection & love.
She described the Pitt family as a very GOOD family.
She idolised James Pitt - he was described as a lovely, good man - she recalled how in his work as an Insurance Agent, he had to go to Weston-Super-Mare every Wednesday on the "Steamer" - and took Clyde with him every week. She kept telling me how Mary Ann was "the most beautiful girl in the Glascoed" - and a very kind, good woman.

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Soldier in Boer War. ¹⁸⁷

• Census: 1881, 3 Apr 1881, No. 8, Redwood Row, Bedwellty, Monmouthshire. ¹⁸⁸

• Census: 1891, 5 Apr 1891, 17, Plasycoed Road, Abersychan, Trevethin, Monmouthshire. ¹⁸⁸

• Occupation: Assistant Coal Miner, 1891, Abersychan, Trevethin, Monmouthshire. ¹⁸⁸

Frederick married Annie Pitt, daughter of Henry James Pitt and Mary Ann Arnold, in 1899 in Pontypool Registration District, Monmouthshire.¹⁸⁴ (Annie Pitt was born in 1880 in Pontypool, Monmouthshire ⁴⁴ and died before 1939 ¹⁸⁵.)