Relationship to me:	Great Grandmother	Gen -3	Emma in later life - from family photo (below) taken at the Red Cottage, Northwood
Born:	1844 in County Down, Ireland
Died:	1930
Age	86
Father:	????	???? - ????
Mother:	????	???? - ????
Brothers:	(younger) Andrew	???? - ????
Sisters:	Belinda	???? - ????
Married:	Walter Newman	m. 1861
Children:	Edwin Montague Browne	1861 - 1885
	Walter Ernest	1964 - 1947
	Evelyn	1870 - 1950
# Note: I searched the Family Records Centre in Angel Islington, London, where I found entries (under both their names) for the marriage of Walter Newman to Emma Matilda Browne in the first quarter of 1861 in Plymouth (ref March 1861, vol 5b p. 407). The name "Montague" was not recorded. Possibly the name Matilda was a mis-transcription.

My father mentions Emma twice in his Reminiscences. Firstly he noted that the household at 55 Warwick Gardens "consisted of my parents, my grandmother, Emma (nee Montague Browne, 1844 to 1930, from Co. Down), my father's sister Evelyn (six years his junior, 1870 to1950), my nanny (Mary or Mamie Friend), and a cook and house-parlourmaid who changed from time to time. The servants worked in the basement and slept on the top floor next to my nursery, in which Mamie had a bed, adjacent to my father's dressing-room."

He concludes the story of his early childhood with the comment "Aline's arrival in 1907 ensured the parting of the ways for the inhabitants of 55 Warwick Gardens. In any case, as I was told later, the relationship between Lily and her in-laws had always been strained. .... My grandmother and aunt moved to a maisonette at 27 Philbeach Gardens (Kensington, London). The old lady died there in 1930 aged 86 having remained throughout physically fit but latterly losing her memory almost completely. She confused me with my father when I went to see her, and used to wander the streets in my aunt's absence with no lucid explanation as to where she had been, just 'Up the spout'."

The 1881 census shows Emma, her husband Walter and daughter Emma Evelyn, living at Minster, Isle of Sheppy, in Kent. Emma was 39 and her birthplace is given as County Down, Ireland; Evelyn was then 11 and her birthplace is given as Gibraltar.

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