Percy Browne

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-1664

Percy was the son of William Browne and Mary Savage. He was born at Flushing (Vlissingen), Zeeland (in what is now the Netherlands), where his father was lieutenant-governor, in 1605, before November the year.[1][2]

Percy was naturalised as an English citizen in 1622.[1][2][3][4]

Percy married Anne Rich.[1][2] They had four children:

1. Robert[1][2][3]
2. Nathaniel[1][2][3]
3. Samuel[1][2][3]
4. Elizabeth[1][2]

Percy's death date is not known.

Research Notes

The NEHGR of 1894 gives Percy's birth date as 1602.[3]

Comments

Since he had to be naturalized as English in1622, he may have been born in Germany or the Low Countries.

Origins

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-1251

William Browne, Anne Browne and Barbara Browne, children of Sir William Browne, Lieutenant Governor of his Majesty's Cautionary Town of Flushing, were naturalized by Act of Parliament in 1604.[3]

References

1. 'House of Lords Journal Volume 2: 23 June 1604', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 2, 1578-1614 (London, 1767-1830), pp. 326-327. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol2/pp326-327 [accessed 9 December 2023].
2. WikiTree contributors, "Percy Browne (bef.1605-)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Browne-1664 : accessed 16 July 2024). cites
   1. Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 29030, SHIRLEY-18, Google Books
   2. Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. IV, p. 631, SHIRLEY 21
   3. 'Genealogical Gleanings in England' in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XLVIII, 1894, pedigree on p. 269, Internet Archive
   4. Notes and Queries, 11th series, Vol. VIII, 1913, p. 128, Internet Archive
   5. Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree’s source page for Royal Ancestry.
   6. Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree’s source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.