Thomas Browning
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Background
Thomas Browning married Emma Browning at the Independent Congregational Church in Melbourne within a week of her landing in the Colony of Victoria in 1852. They immediately went to live on the Ballarat goldfields.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Emma Browning was an eyewitness to events connected with Eureka Stockade.
Post 1854 Experiences
Emma Browning produced six sons and six daughters: James (lived WA); Mrs W J Cooke (lived Woomargama); Mrs H Story (lived Qld); Mrs J Semple (lived Qld) and Mrs W Walker (lived Sydney). The youngest of the children was Alice Lawson born 11 September 1878. Alice married John Semple and had eleven children. [1]
After spending 27 years in Victoria she married again to George Lawson, a well known blacksmith from Albury. Emma kept a boarding house in Smollett Street, Albury for 29 years. The last 14 years of her life were spent with her daughter Mrs W J Cooke.
Emma was highly respected, took a keen interest in patriotic work and was always to the fore in time of trouble. During WWI she had 30 grandsons and nephews fighting for their King and country, one grandson being killed at the landing at Gallipoli. Emma who was a widow at the time of her death died at Holbrook, NSW on 18 January 1918 aged 86 years. [2]
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