Rev. Robert BROWN & Grace BORTHWICK

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Rev. Robert BROWN
Grace BORTHWICK

Husband: Robert BROWN
Baptism: 18 May 1840, St. Nicholas Church, Aberdeen, ABD
Death: 17 Mar 1894
Education: St. Mary Hall, Oxford, ENG; took holy orders in 1865
Occupation: clergy; prolific composer of hymns
Father: William BROWN
Mother: Mary Ann HENDRIE

Marriage: 16 Apr 1868, Westminster Abbey, London, ENG

Wife: Grace BORTHWICK
Father: John BORTHWICK, Esq. of Crookston and Borthwick Castle
Mother: Anne DUNDAS, d/o Rt. Hon. Robert DUNDAS of Arniston, Midlothian, MLN

Children:

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; UK, United Kingdom, ENG, England, SCT, Scotland, ABD, Aberdeenshire, MLN, Midlothian

Sources:

1. Joseph Lemuel Chester, ed. 1876. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, London (online at books.google.com):

Vol. 10, p. 60 MARRIAGES IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY..

1868 April 16 Robert Brown, Clerk in holy orders (son of William Brown, Esq.), of the Cloisters, bachelor, of full age, and Grace Borthwick (daughter of John Borthwick, Esq.), of 12 Upper Berkeley Street, spinster, of full age.²

²He assumed on his marriage the additional surname of Borthwick, and in 1869 became incumbent of Grange, in Borrowdale, near Keswick, co. Cumberland. He is also Hon. Chaplain to the Bishop of Aberdeen. She third but only surviving dau. of John Borthwick, of Crookston and Borthwick Castle, co. Edinburgh, Esp., by his first wife, Anne, eldest dau. of the Rt. Hon. Robert Dundas, of Arniston, Cord Chief Baron of Scotland.

"Spinster" simply means unmarried woman; it did not then carry today's connotation of "old maid."

2. Sir Bernard Burke (Ulster King of Arms). 1875. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britian & Ireland. 2 vols. 5th ed. Harrison, Pall Mall (online at books.google.com).

Vol. 1, p. 126 BORTHWICK OF CROOKSTON AND BORTHWICK CASTLE.
Lineage...
JOHN BORTHWICK, Esq. of Brookston and Borthwick Castle, J.P. and D.L., who m. 1st 16 March, 1819, Anne, eldest dau. of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, of Arniston, and by her had issue... III. Grace, m. 1868, to Rev. Robert Brown, Quebec Street Chapel, London, who assumed on his marriage the additional surname of BORTHWICK...
[Borthwick] Arms—Arg., three cinquefoils, sa.

3. John Julian, ed. 1907. Dictionary of Hymnology. 2nd ed. Dover Publ., NY (online at wikipedia.org):

p. 186 Brown-Borthwick, Robert, b. at Aberdeen, May 18, 1840, and educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford. Taking Holy Orders in 1865... He d. March 17, 1894...

4. Lord Borthwick (online at Wikipedia.org).

5. Robert Brown-Borthwick (online at Hymnary.org).

6. LDS. Family Search: Family Trees (online at familysearch.org).

7. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

8. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com): not found (as of 18 Jun 2015).

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