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The Moxon Brownes

Bob Moxon Browne kc’s history of the family of the

founder of the first Pākehā settlement in the Auckland region

Octavius Browne second brother to visit Gordon

Octavius Browne second brother to visit Gordon

William Browne’s son Octavius Browne was born on 2 November 1809. Charles Browne says “the place of his birth and the date of his baptism is not known, but we have been told that just before he left Courtlands on the journey to Scotland in the course of which he died, he…

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Octavius’s brother Gordon Davis Browne

Octavius’s brother Gordon Davis Browne

Gordon Davis Browne was born in early 1805, and baptised at St Mary’s Lambeth on 22 March that year. The explanation for his given name of Gordon is not known. Charles Gordon Browne (who was born in January 1845, and whose own second name was obviously a…

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