Joseph Brown BRABYN

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1841, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Living with his brother's wife Nancy at Lewis Street Nancy's daughter Ann aged 5 months. John Brabyn , a master mariner is at sea

• Census, 1851, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Drydock ship carpenter with Jane and Matthew, Elizabeth, William, Joseph

• Census, 1861, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 1 Little Millicent Street
Joseph Brabyn head married 49 shipwright
Jane wife 40
Matthew son unmarried 17 shipwright
Elizabeth J daughter 15 scholar
Joseph son 13 scholar
William son 11 scholar
Eliza daughter 9 scholar
James son 1 with jane and Matthew, Elizabeth, Joseph, William, Eliza and James

• Census, 1871, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Luton House shipwright widower

• Marriage Banns, 1872, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Parish Church All Saints Cardiff 28 March 1872
Joseph Brown Brabyn 49 widower shipwright Luton House Luton Place William Brabyn saddler
Mary Chapman 44 widow Padstow Cornwall Patrick Sharkey Coastguard
Witnesses Edwin Wright and John Morris

• Probate, 1880. Joseph Brown Brabyn 10 February The will of Joseph Brown Brabyn late of Cardiff in the County of Glamorgan Shipwright who died 26 January 1880 at Cardiff was proved at Llandaff by Mary Brabyn of Luton House Adamsdown Cardiff widow the relict one of the executors Personal Estate under £600

Joseph married Mary CHAPMAN in 1872 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire.

Joseph next married Jane RYLEY on 7 Nov 1842 in Padstow, Cornwall. (Jane RYLEY was born in 1821 and died in 1870.)