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William Brownrigg[1]

Male Abt 1856 - 1888  (~ 32 years)


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  • Name William Brownrigg  [2, 3, 4
    Birth Abt 1856  [5
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID 9CK8-Z7P 
    FamilySearch URL https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9CK8-Z7P 
    Death 5 Apr 1888  Bridgewater, New Dublin Twp., Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Person ID I2589  Main
    Last Modified 25 Sep 2020 

    Father William Henry Brownrigg,   b. 19 Oct 1828, Pictou, Nova Scotia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Lydia Abigail Cary,   b. 26 May 1833, China, Kennebec, Maine Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Dec 1910, , Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Family ID F4080  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Amelia Freeman Davison, "Minnie",   b. 17 Jan 1862, Mill Village, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Oct 1912, Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jan 1887  Bridgetown, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Family ID F1063  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jul 2003 

  • Notes 
    • William Henry Brownrigg, barrister-at-law, died in Bridgewater, April 5th, 1888, at the age of thirty-two.

      He was educated at the Pictou Academy and Dalhousie College, where he took high rank in his classes, and he supported himself by his own industry and unaided efforts. He was a born athlete, :and excelled in cricket, foot-ball, and all manly sports. Those who knew him only in his later years, when a lingering disease had broken down his once magnificent physique, can form but a slight conception of what he was a few years ago, when, as captain of the Dalhousie foot-ball club, he led his team to victory against the best city and military clubs. After leaving college Mr. Brownrigg became Principal of the Stellarton High School, and subsequently of the Guys- boro' Academy, and more recently of the Bridge water High School. He was an able and successful teacher, and always esteemed and beloved by his pupils. He subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1886.

      " In the death of Mr. Brownrigg, our town has lost one of its best and most promising citizens. He was one of Nature's gentlemen, and his many friends will not soon forget his kind and unobtrusive disposition, his genial and unassuming manner, his innate love of truth and justice, and above all, that rich vein of quaint, original humor which not even disease and suffering could subdue."

      Mr. Brownrigg married Amelia F., daughter of the late E. D. Davison, Esq. [7]

  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com).

    2. [S768] Betty (Parker) Wolfe, Betty (Parker) Wolfe, (2632 63rd Avenue South West, Calgary, AB T3E 5J7), p2 "William Brownrigg".

    3. [S1211] Albert E. Brownrigg, Albert Brownrigg, (Handwritten chart in the DesBrisay museum archives, Bridgewater, NS. (donated prob bef 1990). 117 Manchester St., Nashua NH 03060).

    4. [S1210] Charles Donald Davison, Charles Donald Davison's Tree, (Copy of tree provided to John Howell by Stuart Davison upon our visit at his home on 23 Jul 2005.).

    5. [S1550] Mather Byles DesBrisay, History of the County of Lunenburg, (Full text google.books.com), "died in Bridgewater April 5th, 1888 at the age of 32" p. 215-216 http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA219&dq=%22edward+doran+davison%22&rview=1&id=_qgOAAAAYAAJ&as_brr=3.

    6. [S768] Betty (Parker) Wolfe, Betty (Parker) Wolfe, (2632 63rd Avenue South West, Calgary, AB T3E 5J7), p2.

    7. [S1550] Mather Byles DesBrisay, History of the County of Lunenburg, (Full text google.books.com), p. 215-216 http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA219&dq=%22edward+doran+davison%22&rview=1&id=_qgOAAAAYAAJ&as_brr=3.