Unknown, possibly extant, line of the 1636 Browne Baronetcy

[Paul Theroff]

There may be a line of the Brownes, of the Browne Baronetcy created in 1636 (a title now held by Lord Kilmaine), which has been ignored by Peerage works for at least a century, though it may be still extant.

Dodwell Browne, son of Sir John Browne, 5th Bt. (and brother of the 1st Lord Kilmaine), is listed in Burke's Peerage with a note "see BLGI 1912".

Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland 1912 shows this line in the male line down to one Dodwell Browne (1872-    ), shown to have married one "Harriet Lilian Heppingstone", and lists only two daughters: Annabel Mary Dodwell and Margaret Lilian Dodwell.

In my search of a few volumes of Debrett's from the 1920s, 1950s, and later, I did not find this line ever mentioned.

However, this seems to be a FIndagrave page dedicated to him:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213501312/dodwell-james-browne

which included a copy of a newspaper obituary showing that this Dodwell James Browne died in Australia in 1947, leaving two sons named Claud and Keppel, as well as the two daughters we already knew about, now called "Mrs Herbert Davies" and "Mrs Irvine Wheatley". It further gives the spelling of his wife's name as "Heppington".

(Note that Findagrave has another "Dodwell James Browne", born 1874, who also died in Australia, but I did not find him in the LG article.)

A Keppel Dodwell Browne (1924-2001) is also on Findagrave, who must be son of the above:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228543146/keppel-dodwell-browne

There are several Claude Brownes buried in Australia; none has sufficient information on Findagrave to allow me to identify him as son of our Dodwell James Browne.