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Hi K   All very interesting I had come to the conclusion that Alex B must be my g g father and he is yours too small world. Can't believe that all this has openned up as I had been thinking of investigating the Brown connection for quite some time.
Have done a bit of delving and see on 1841 census for Stewartston Alexander Brown aged 23 and Janet (I think) Brown aged 21 Which is the right age bracket for AB. Have you sen this alas no nearer maiden nme.

Hi K  You are better at all this than me. Thyank you.   Good going on the older Wylies I appreciate the problem re Brown connection.  No bright ideas on this I am afraid.
10 Walton Village was my grandparents address in 1933 I think that they moved to Waterloo soon after that. My Dad Geo and sister Kate both married 1933 other brother at sea.  I had never heard that Mary senior had lived with them perhaps only as she became older?
I had discovered Kate Wylie in the early censuses in 1891 given as age 19 and dressmaker the big point is that my Dad who gave me much of the family history never mentioned her!  I had wondered if she had died quite young.  A

At least someone remembers something!  My calculation is that your G/F  John HB was a cousin of my G/M Mary H (nee Wylie).  Agree? What was the position in the previous generation... can't work that out at the moment.   
My mother died in 1950, before that I have clear memories of visiting Sandy and Nellie they had a TV!! and S used to take my Dad who was more or less TT to his local. I think when the TV became too much.  l presume that Sandy was still around after Mum died but not for long. I do recall spending a few days with Nellie during my last summer at home I went to sea at 17 and cannot recall her end I seem to think she was in care near Preston for some time.  I still do not know the Hamilton connection.   

Hi  Grave in Kirkdale is No 374  section 9.  However the official record shows only three burials.
In 1940 James Hampton  g/dads brother.  1943 Alex H  g/dad and in 46 Mary H. I know personally that it has not been used since.  This grave was in my Dads name he being the active person at that time,1940.  Both he and my mother are elsewhere.   I have no knowledge of the Wylie graves even Jack and Sandy.  To my knowledge we never had any papers to do with Wylie.  Jack I think died first and Sandy died before his 2nd wife Nellie she came from near Preston where her sisters lived years ago.  A 

Will see if I can find out where John W and wife were married. Their eldest son John (Jack) was 10 on 1851 census so your guess as to date of mariage isn't far off.  Up to the present that is the limit of my investigations except that I felt certain the Brown/ LDY connection might lead to something and it did in spades! They lived in Kirkstall Street which is Kirkdale just north of  Liverpool city centre.    Mary Hampton died in Aug 1946 in Waterloo Liverpool. Or Lancs as it then was. Her brother Jack and my mother (we lived nearby) helped care for her.  Jack had come to live with her after g/dad (another Alex H) died in 1942.  Alas I had never heard of anyone Hamilton Browne prior to contact with you.