According to the maps David Loughlin Brown and William Brown owned Lot 93, which was located at the Telegraph Road junction with Denham Street. He arrived in 1862 on the "Clifton"
The story David Laughlin Brown and his family is one of those "stories behind the story".
The electoral rolls of 1905 show that David Lachlin Brown, a man of Independent means was at the owner of the property. He was residing with his wife and daugher.
The electoral rolls of 1905 show that David Lachlin Brown, a man of Independent means was at the owner of the property. He was residing with his wife and daugher.
Who then was David Lachlin Brown? His name was in fact David Laughland Brown.
David Loughland Brown was another of those Scottish men who were all intrinsically linked to the early settlement of Brisbane. He was born in Scotland and arrived in Queensland onboard the Clifton.
A successful merchant and Brisbane businessman in those early days. He died in 1907.
A successful merchant and Brisbane businessman in those early days. He died in 1907.
His biography reveals the facts of his life
Brown, David Laughland (1839–1907)
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, (MUP), 1969
David Laughland Brown (1839-1907), merchant, was born on 1 February 1839 at Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland, son of John Brown, farmer, and his wife Janet, née Laughland. He was trained in the soft-goods business.
In 1862 his elder brother Thomas, who had founded a drapery in Glasgow, sent David with thirty-two packages in the Clifton to launch an importing branch of the firm in the capital of the newly-independent colony of Queensland. Accompanied by his wife Margaret, née Bethune, whom he had married at Glasgow in 1859, his nineteen-year-old cousin William Brown (1842-1925) who was his first employee, and his own three-year-old son John (1859-1945), David Brown landed in Brisbane on 10 April.
Despite major losses in the 1863 and 1893 floods and a devastating fire in 1888 the Browns built a large distributing business, apparently in a bid to expand trading with the centres of German settlements in Queensland. As wholesale drapers in the 1860s, D. L. Brown & Co. began to import other goods in the 1870s and in the next decade acquired the 90-ton Kalara, the 100-ton Fearless and the 214-ton Coquette to distribute merchandise to the Tweed River district and the South Sea Islands.
In addition to a private wharf at the main warehouse in Eagle Street, the firm acquired at auction in 1877 from J. and G. Harris wharfage facilities in Short Street which it expanded into a major overseas terminal. There the Cutty Sark loaded a record cargo of wool in 1894.
The first Eagle Street warehouse was totally destroyed in 1888, and the architect, F. D. G. Stanley, designed for the Browns one of the most imposing and ornate commercial buildings in a style then much in fashion in Brisbane, with Italian Renaissance elevations both to the river and to Eagle Street.
In the late 1880s Thomas Brown of the parent firm sent out his own two sons, John Hunter (1861-1917) and Thomas Herbert (1862-1920), whose education for the importing business had been crowned by language training for a year in Germany and fifteen months in Paris.
In 1898 D. L. Brown & Co. was reconstituted a public company under the name of Thomas Brown & Sons and David retired leaving the management to his nephews. Although the directorate later became fixed in London, the company continued to grow in Queensland and established a branch at Darwin.
David Brown's successors absorbed the Beenleigh rum distilleries in 1918, then took over several clothing manufacturing and food processing firms, and later acquired and greatly expanded a retail supermarket chain.
David had made his family home, Langley Bank, on twenty-two acres (9 ha) at Bowen Bridge. He sold this property to the Queensland National Bank in 1901 and moved to Bowen Terrace, Brisbane.
There he died aged 68 of a kidney disease on 15 June 1907. He was buried in the Presbyterian section of the Toowong cemetery. He was survived by his second wife Marion, née Wight (1851-1928), whom he had married at Brisbane on 29 November 1870, and by ten of their twelve children and by a son of the first marriage.
Thomas Brown made several visits to Queensland, the first in 1882, and at 80 died in Kensington, London, on 4 April 1912 from pneumonia.
Classified Advertising The
partnership is dissolved
The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939) Saturday 29 March 1890 p 618 Advertising
Sale of his lands at Wilston
Thomas Brown & Sons building on Eagle Street, Brisbane, circa 1898. Picture State Library Queensland
Thomas Brown with son, T.S.G. Brown, and Sir Samuel Walker Griffith on the right Picture State Library Queensland The business was destroyed by fire c 1887.
The Thomas Brown and Sons buildings were used by servicemen in World War 2
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The Amazing Family of David Laughland Brown
In research, it is the "stories behind the
stories" that give an insight into like as it was 100 years ago.
No more so than the
children of David Laughland Brown and his wife Marion Wight.
After the death of his
first wife, Margaret, David remarried in 1870 to Marion Wight.
Marion
was the daughter of Rev George Wight and his first wife Jessie Clapperton
Chapman. George and Jessie married June
1845 at Canongate, Edinburgh. Marion was
born April 1851 and she died in 1928, in Brisbane.
They had a large family:
Helen Douglas Brown Born 1871
Marion Gertrude Brown Born 1873 m Thomas Snelling 1903 died 1940
Ruby Davina Mary Brown Born
1877 died 1947
Janet Laughland Brown Born 1878 died 1887
Archibald Lorimer Brown Born
1880 died 1935
James Stewart Brown Born 1882 died 1882
David Laughland Brown Born
1884 m Nell Ling in 1910 died 1955 Stockman
in Charters Towers
Dorothy Brown Born 1886 m Eric Wren 1918 died 1970
Gladys Kathleen Brown Born 1888 died 1960
Marjory Elizabeth Young
Brown Born 1891
Agnes Evelyn Brown Born 1894
George Thomas Brown died 1958
The
lives of the siblings were quite diverse.
As pioneers of the early days, their contribution is a worthy one.
Three
of the children enlisted in World War I.
Two of the girls and a son. The
girls were "trailblazers." part of the uniqueness of early Australian
history.
It
is my belief that there are so many untold stories of those who lived through
the horrors of World War I. With the centenary
of the beginning of the War, research was done of all those who enlisted World
Wide, with the same surname as my grandmother.
They
all had stories to tell, and it was a way of perpetuating their memories for
future generations. An Anzac Tribute has become my
personal contribution to those who perished at Gallipoli, my great uncle
included. His braveness as with that of
all of his "mates" who never made it home, and for those who then
faced the onslaught of the war on the Western Front, should never be
forgotten.
To walk in their footsteps,
in Gallipoli and on the Western Front in Belgium and France is very moving,
and the experience is one that we will never forget.
The Brown siblings were no exception.
Dorothy Brown was a Nursing Sister, who, at age 28 she enlisted to serve with Australian Army Nursing Service. She was posted to the No 3 Australian General Hospital of the . She served at Lemnos treating the wounded from Galliopoli. Unfortunately she contracted "beri beri", and was rather ill.
She returned home in 1917, and resigned so that she could marry.
The Australian War Memorial hold a
great many photos, and stories of the nurses. The one that has always stuck, is
of a "piper" marching the girls into Lemnos.
Here the girls are at No 3 Australian General
Hospital, matron is doing the rounds, tending the sick, and the last photo is
of the sick nurses, in the sun on Lemnos.
On arrival at Lemnos, the nurses were marched into camp, led by Matron Grace Wilson and Lieutenant Colonel James Dick.
Sisters mess and kitchen, 3rd Australian General Hospital, Lemnos 1915. Albert Savage Collection and AWM 
Before she left for overseas Dorothy was given a presentation from the staff at the Hospital in Brisbane
Staff Nurse Ruby Davina Mary Brown was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service from August
1916. She enlisted when she was 39 and
was sent overseas in March 1917, on board the Kanowna. Her mother lived in Bowen Street. She
served in the Middle East and Salonika as a Sister before returning home in
September 1919 on board the Argylish.
The
Kanowna was again requisitioned on 1 June 1915 by the Commonwealth, and was
transferred to England where it was converted to a hospital ship that could
accommodate 452 patients. It was used to transfer ill and injured people
between the United Kingdom and Australia for 3 years, during which time it was
known as HMAS Kanowna. Nurses aboard the requisitioned Kanowna
Archibald Lorimer Brown was a
farmer, aged 36 when he enlisted in the 15th Battalion in September 15. He was sent to France and was injured in the
arm. He returned to the battlefield, and
he was reported as missing on 2nd September 1917
He was a prisoner of war in an
German Prisoner of War Camp at Limburg. According to the German records he was
captured at Grendecourt, and was shell shocked.
He had
been reported missing, and the Red Cross records from the AWM, contain copies
of two letters he wrote home. It amazes
me that for those who have gone through so much, they could write the words
they did.
They
suffered terribly, but didn't want their families to know.
A visit
to Saschenhaven Prisoner of War camp, in Germany, even now, is a chilling
reminder of how things were 100 years ago.
Life back in
Australia.
Sister Dorothy
Brown returned to Australia, to marry.
She married Eric Wren.
Captain Eric William Greg Wren,
from Bery in New South Wales, enlisted in World War I when he was 26 years old,
at Randwick. He was a member of the 3rd
Battalion.
He served in Gallipoli, at the Battle
of Lone Pine, and was wounded twice. He
then was sent to the Western Front. He
served at Ypres, Passchendale, Hindenburg Line and 2nd Bullencourt. All of these battles were severe, with huge
loss of life. He was again wounded but his
time gangrene set in, and his arm had to be amputated.
After 8 months recuperating, he
was then posted to the 14th Training Battalion, were he was second-in-command.
He became the Honorary Historian
of the 3rd Battalion, and wrote a book "From Randwick to Hargincourt
History of 3rd Battalion AIF 1914 - 1918"
He was awarded the Croix de
Guerre medal for bravery, by the French President.
The Croix de guerre may either be
awarded as an individual or unit award to those soldiers who distinguish
themselves by acts of heroism involving combat with the enemy. The medal is
awarded to those who have been "mentioned
in dispatches",
meaning a heroic deed or deeds were performed meriting a citation from an
individual's headquarters unit. The unit award of the Croix de guerre with palm
was issued to military units whose members performed heroic deeds in combat and
were subsequently recognized by headquarters.
Captain Wren died 1941 in
Victoria
Sister Ruby
Davina Mary Brown returned to Australia, but she did not marry. She continued with her nursing career, and
was appointed Nurse in Charge of the Rockhampton in 1929. She later was appointed Matron. Ruby Brown died in 1947, at Tugun. She had lived in "Wyuna" Bowen
Terrace Brisbane, the family home.
Private
Archibald Lorimer Brown did not marry and he
was a farmer at Proserpine. He died in
the Brisbane Hospital. Perhaps he like
so many others did not ever recover from the horrors of World War I.
Agnes Evelyn Brown was a school teacher
at the Central Technical College in Brisbane.
She lived at the family home in Bowen Terrace Brisbane
Gladys Kathleen
Brown lived all her
life as a farmer. Her residence in 1903
referred to her living at Rose Hill, then Rose Hill, Sandgate. She like her sisters did not marry. She died in 1960, but it seems she was
executrix of some of the wills of her siblings.
David Laughland Brown married Nell Ling and
was a stockman in Charters Towers. He
died in 1953.
George Thomas Brown married Alice and they
lived at Samford. In 1914, his brother
Archibald was also living at the Samford property. The Brown's raised pigs at their
property Braemead, Samford Valley. He
died in 1958
Marion Gertrude Brown married Thomas Arthur
Snelling 1903. Marion Snelling (perhaps
her daughter) had gone to school at St Margaret's at Albion, and the family
lived in Hamilton. Her husband became
the manager of the Queensland Pastoral
Company and she died 1940
Their older half brother John was
also listed as living at Rosehill, Sandgate on the electoral rolls. At his
death, Gladys was again the executor.
John Brown died in 1945, as per the death notice. Eldest son of D.L. Brown
Helen Douglas Brown,
lived the whole of her life on the farm, occupation, domestic duties.
In the Electoral rolls, she was
listed at living at Rosehill Sandgate.
Then in 1936, her address changed to Rosehill, Brackenridge, Sandgate.
This was in contrast to Gladys,
who although living at the same place, was listed as Rose Hill Sandgate for the
each roll.
Helen died August 1965, and her
death was recorded in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Marjory Elizabeth
Young Brown was a kindergarten teacher, in Brisbane and
Toowong. She also lived at the family
home at Bowen Terrace and had begun as a Kindergarten teacher by 1913. The C&K began in 1907. In 1963, Marjory
was living at the Bracken Ridge property with Helen. In the next Roll in 1968, she was living at
196 Bowen Terrace Brisbane
By comparison with the land usage
and he original map, keeping the Cemetery in perspective, and the manure
grounds to the bottom, it is obvious that David Brown, either by himself or
with others extended their land holdings in the area quite considerably in the
period around 1880.
His purchases particularly must
have included all of William Loudon's Lot 25.
Some
interesting streets existed in Bald Hills, Brown's Road, Simpson's Road,
Telegraph Road,
Did Brown's Road lead to the Brown's farmlands, and did Simpson's Road lead to the Simpsons' Farm? Telegraph Road was named for the telegraph line, and Depot Road for the manure depot, Cemetery Road for the cemetery, so it is highly likely.
In 1913 John Brown's bull strayed. He advertised for quite a while.
Focusing now on David Laughland Brown - His life and his real estate transactions
He was appointed a Magistrate in Brisbane in 1871
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864
- 1933) Monday
22 May 1871 p 3 Article
... —David Laughland
Brown, Brisbane; Allen Stewart Cameron, Jingi Jingi, Dalby;
William Graham, North ... 282 words
In 1878, the will and caveat of his first wife, Margaret Bethune was proven in the Supreme Court. His son John became the owner of Lot 93. This information then proves that the details on the maps prepared so many years later, was perhaps done before 1878. Perhaps at some time before her death, the lands were transferred into her name.
Lot
93, was originally owned by Margaret Bethune his first wife. It was transferred into John Brown's name in
1878 as the rightful heir.
Did this also mean that there were more than one dwelling on the lands, and did John Brown live in the dwelling that burnt down in 1910
According to the report a caretaker was living
at the property in 1910, when the fire burnt the home.
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. :
1872 - 1947) Saturday
9 November 1878 p 4 Advertising
... GRANTED to DAVID LAUGHLAND
BROWN, of Brisbano, in tho said colony, merohant, tho Inwfidly
constituted ...
Lot 67
contained 169 acres and part lot 97
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. :
1872 - 1947) Monday
6 May 1889 p 3 Advertising
... David Laughland
Brown and Robert Langlands Armour, a provisional Deed »t 3rant No.
30632, for 169 acres ... section ot The Real Property Act of 1861, to issue, in
the name of David Laughland Brown and Alexander ...
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. :
1872 - 1947) Monday
5 August 1889 p 8 Advertising
... 'Gavin to David Laughland
Brown and Alexander Tnomson, of the land described in -^Certificate of
Title No
The reference now is to Lot 25 Previously Loudons
From this reference, Brown bought Lot
25, alongside his own fronting Telegraph Road.
The
Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947) Wednesday 13 November 1889 p 5 Advertising
...
Trustees, No. 1S5628, from Robeit Langlands Armour, Robert Fleming, and David
Laughland Brown, to Robert ... Langlands Armour, David Laughland
Brown, and William John Brown, of the land described in
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864
- 1933) Monday
17 February 1896 p 2 Advertising
... -lands Armour, Robert
Fleming, and David Laughland Brown, to Robert Langlands
Armour, David Laughland Brown
Lot
97 originally owned by J. Grant
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864
- 1933) Saturday
30 May 1896 p 2 Advertising
... consent so far as regards the
said David Laughland Brown and John Brown the Younger, who
retire from the ... given that thf» JL^ PARTNERSHIP lately subsisting between
us, the undersigned THOMAS BROWN, DAVID
After
resigning from the family business, he began work with Robert Armour, the same
man who he was in partnership with all the land dealings.
Both
David and his son John resigned from the partnership.
He then commenced work with Robert Langlands Armour.
The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. :
1872 - 1947) Friday
26 June 1896 p 1 Advertising
... named in the said Will, «having prede-ceased the Testator and the other Executor : DAVID LAUGHLAND BROWN ... the said -David Laughland Brown and Queensland Trustees Limited. ,
David Laughland Brown had a business relationship with Robert Langlands Armour. Robert Langlands Armour was a partner in the T Brown and Sons business, and Langlands was the name of the property that David Brown owned.
Perhaps the Langlands was a family name, and that Robert was a close family member of the Brown family. He was the son of William Armour and Mary Greenwell. He died in 1899
In the year 1924 a lady who lived at Rose hill was quite opposed to the Bruce Government and wrote a series of letters voicing her opinions.
But before leaving the Brown connection, reference is made to another of the original settlers.
William Anthony Brown was the owner of Lot 8 in Sandgate.
The records indicate that there were 3 land transactions for Lot 8, and the owners were
John Mc Connell 10th January 1845 169 acres Near North Brisbane
William Anthony Brown 2nd April 1855 106.7 acres
William John London (Loudon) 2nd April 1855 106.7 acres
William Anthony Brown was the Sheriff of Brisbane. He died in 1864 and was buried at the old Paddington Cemetery. The reason for his inclusion is the links with the next story.
Name:
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William Anthony Brown
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Death Date:
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12 Feb 1864
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Death Place:
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Queensland
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Father's name:
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William Brown
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Mother's name:
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Emmeline Bayley Villiers
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Registration Year:
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1864
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Registration Place:
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Queensland
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Registration Number:
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B001558
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1864.—No. 378, William Anthony Brown,* Sheriff of Queensland, died 12th February, 1864, aged 40 years. Buried by the Rev. John Bliss
Name:
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William Anthony Brown
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Death Date:
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13 Feb 1864
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Death Place:
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Queensland, Australia
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Cemetery:
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Paddington Cemetery (Defunct)
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Burial or Cremation Place:
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Milton, Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Has Bio?:
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N
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Children:
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This William Brown also had a son called William Brown, who died in 1915 and a daughter Caroline who married Lieut David Seymour.
SEYMOUR-BROWN.-On the 28th January, at St. John's Church, by the Rev. John Bliss,
M.A., David Thompson Seymour, Lieut, H.M.12th Regiment, third son of Major Seymour of
Ballymore Castle, County Galway, Ireland to Caroline Matilda, only daughter of W.A. Brown,
Esq.. Sheriff of Queensland
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