Friends of Hastings Cemetery

Her husband died at Bath on 12 January 1904,

Evening Journal  Fri 19 Dec 1884
BROWNE.— On the 8th November, at Lauriston, Hollington Park, St. Lconards-on-Sea, England,Margaret Anne Frances, the beloved wife of John Harris Browne, of South Australia

 

He was in partnership for several years with his brother (Dr. W. J. Browne). He and his brother held among other freeholds the well-known runs of Booboorowie, Moorak, Koppio, and the Buckland Park estate..... More than 30 years ago the partnership was dissolved. In addition to these he held also a great number of sheep stations at various times.

Shortly after the dissolution of partnership with his brother he decided to settle down in England, but after about 12 years he came back again.

After a few more visits to the old country he finally resolved to make England his home.  His wife died many years ago, but he has left a family of four children.  His only son (Mr. T. L. Browne) resides on Moorak station, in the South-East, and one of his daughters is married and living in England; The other two daughters (Misses A M. and.M. E. Browne) lived with their father up to the time of his death.

Friends of the deceased gentleman speak in the highest terms of his personal qualities.  As a business man he was exceedingly, keen and shrewd, but he was always gentle and sympathetic, although naturally of a retiring and reserved disposition.

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Evening Journal  Fri 19 Dec 1884
BROWNE.— On the 8th November, at Lauriston, Hollington Park, St. Lconards-on-Sea, England,Margaret Anne Frances, the beloved wife of John Harris Browne, of South Australia

Photo taken from a collection of seven ambrotypes (six of which are hand-tinted) of Margaret Anne Frances Browne (nee Guilding) and her children.

Margaret and John Browne had four children: Janet Frances (born 1858), Thomas Lansdowne (born 1860), Alice Mary (born 1863) and Mary Elizabeth (born 1864). https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+266/75/1-7

The Express and Telegraph, Friday 15 January 1904
The sad news of the death of Dr. J. Harris Browne, who was the sole survivor of that gallant little band commanded by Captain Sturt, the great explorer, will be received in South Australia with profound regret.  His death took place a few days ago in England and the news was conveyed to Adelaide by a private cable message.

Besides being an intrepid explorer, the late Dr. Browne was one of the oldest of South Australian pastoralists and has had under lease a large number of the principal sheep runs in this State. The late Dr. Browne was born at Westwod, Wiltshire, England, in 1817.  For some years he studied medicine in Paris  but while still a young man emigrated to South Australia.