Mary Ann Browning 1837 - 1909
Mary Ann Browning was my 5 th great-grandmother who came to Australia through the Bounty Scheme in 1840. She later married ex convict Charles Bustard Bostock (See previous post) She was only 3 years old when her and her family made the rough voyage to Australia. Mary Ann Browning, Photo retrieved from Ancestry.com, - Dorothy Smith. Mary Ann Browning was born on 3 September 1837 to William, 36, and Anne Littlejohn, 35. ( See link for details on Browning Family ) Mary Ann was her parents’ seventh child and the last one to have been born in England. [1] There is much conjecture regarding the place of Mary Ann’s birth. Throughout her lifetime, Kent, Bedfordshire, and Launceston were listed on various documents as her place of birth. [2] At the time of her birth, her parents had spent a few years relying on parish support and were regularly living in a poor house. [3] This would have been the last resort as poorhouses were bleak places and were horrible by design. These inst