The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPE was given to the sons of Thomas Pope and his wife Elizabeth Brownfield from1809 on. Both parents though born in Cornwall, had moved to Charterhouse Sq. in London by 1799 and by 1809 had moved the Business of Pope and Sons, to Hammersmith, where it persisted father to son for close on two hundred years. One understands that Elizabeth's father Walter was a Methodist Preacher. Thomas was the son of Richard Pope and Lucy Cavell*. Richard Pope was the son of John Pope of St.Kew and his wife Jane Treffry. It is through her ancestry that her progeny, lay claim to the very finest matrilineal ancestry. The combination of Brownfield and Popes tended to be passed down to males of 'our' branch of the tree. Never have we thought to hyphenate the names, though others seem to have done so.

 

(John Pope of St.Kew had three younger brothers and a sister. One of those brothers was called Richard Pope and it was he who married Jane Elliot. Several of their descendants were also called Richard Pope. One mentions that branch of the Pope Family, because through a confusion of Richards some have miss-attributed the Brownfield connection to one of them, rather than to the descendants of Richard and Lucy ).

One is indebted not only to my father Ernest Brownfield Pope for all the research he did on the Pope family but too to the research of both Shayne and Edward Brownfield Pope, and not least that of Michael Pope our Canadian Cousin. Being minded to hit The Media with some of the certification in my possession , I attach the first hereto, in the hope that other Pope family members may find such 'Sleepers' preferable to Red Herrings available elsewhere on the internet.

Regarding the latter, the writer has reason to suspect that our Lucy Cavell may have been a cousin of Nurse Edith Cavell. If anyone can tell of Edith's Father's ancestry prior to Norfolk many would be interested to hear of it. The Cavell family was well known in Cornwall).

My first attachment, is Thomas Pope's discharge paper from Colonel William's Company of The Royal Cornish Militia, in which he'd the good luck to serve as a 'Ballotted' man for five years.

 

 

 

The next is a copy of the marriage entry for Thomas Pope and Elizabeth Brownfield who at the time was of Liverpool, where her father was Preaching.

(Very recently one read a book concerning the clerical forbears of J. Rose Pope. Esq. Whose ancestry includes a not dissimilar marriage at St. Sepulcre's, that same time.)