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Elias BROWN

A traditional family group sheet showing the couple, their parents, vital events, and children in one research-friendly record.

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What is a Family Group Record?

A Family Group Record, sometimes called a Family Group Sheet, documents a single family unit in detail. While a pedigree chart looks backward at direct ancestors, a family group record looks sideways and downward, focusing on parents and their children.

It records the names, birth, marriage, and death information for both parents, along with details about their children. Looking at siblings and parents together can reveal naming patterns, gaps between births, migrations, remarriages, and other clues that are easy to miss when people are viewed one at a time.

Family group records also work as evidence containers. They give researchers a place to compare conflicting dates, document sources, and keep notes about why one conclusion seems stronger than another. Used together with pedigree charts, they help turn a collection of names into a connected family story.

Family 1

Husband / Partner

American Revolutionary War Soldier flag male ancestor Elias BROWN
Born: 24 February 1744
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Married / Joined: 22 November 1769
Place: Griswold, Connecticut, USA (Jewett City)
Died: 15 September 1806
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
His Father
flag male ancestor John BROWN (BROWNE)
Born: 19 July 1706
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died: 15 March 1776
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
His Mother
flag female ancestor Amie (Ame) FELLOWS
Born: 27 September 1712
Place: New London, Connecticut, USA
Died: 31 May 1786
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Wife / Partner flag female ancestor Sabra BILLINGS
Born: 21 January 1747
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died: 22 November 1820
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Her Father
American Revolutionary War Soldier flag male ancestor Roger BILLINGS
Born: 19 March 1708
Place: Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died: 27 January 1792
Place: Griswold, Connecticut, USA (Jewett City)
Her Mother
 female ancestor Abigail DENISON
Born: 1708
Place:
Died: 24 May 1776
Place: Griswold, Connecticut, USA (Jewett City)

Children

Listed in birth order when known. Select a child for the full genealogy record.

1. flag male ancestor  John BROWN
Born 18 June 1770
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died September 1804
At Sea*
2. flag baby girl ancestor  Zuriah BROWN
Born 17 August 1772
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died 1772
, Connecticut, USA
3. flag baby boy ancestor  Roger BROWN
Born 28 July 1774
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died 1774
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
4. flag male ancestor  Joseph Warren (Josiah) BROWN
Born 19 March 1777
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died 30 March 1842
Stonington, Connecticut, USA (Pawcatuck) (Lords Point)
5. flag female ancestor  Betsey BROWN
Born 25 April 1779
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died 17 April 1802
New London, Connecticut, USA
6. flag baby girl ancestor  Sabra Billings BROWN
Born 18 December 1782
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died 1782
, Connecticut, USA
7. flag male ancestor  Elias BROWN
Born 28 January 1786
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Married
8 May 1816

Mystic, Connecticut, USA
Died 8 May 1861
Brooklyn, New York, USA (Flatlands) (Flatbush) (Coney Island)
8. flag boy ancestor  William Henry BROWN
Born 17 March 1789
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Died 1793
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
9. flag male ancestor  Billings BROWN
Born 17 September 1793
Preston, Connecticut, USA (Poquetanuck)
Married
24 February 1825

Died 6 April 1883
Groton, Connecticut, USA