William BROWN b. 1835 Eccles, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland: Ordnance Survey People

1835 -

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Name	William BROWN [1, 2]
Birth	1835	Eccles, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland [2]
Gender	Male
1851 Census	1851	Fogo, Berwickshire, Scotland [2]
	Apprentice Tailor
Military Enlistment	4 Jun 1853	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
	Private, Royal Sappers and Miners, Tailor
1861 Survey Company	1861 [1]
	369, Sapper, 14th Company, Royal Engineers
1871 Survey Company	1871 [1]
	369, Corporal, 13th Company, Royal Engineers
Name	Willm Browne [1]
_MILTID	369
Person ID	I8277	Ordnance Survey People
Last Modified	2 May 2026

[S306] Survey Company.
FindmyPast provides access to a transcription of the British Army, Worldwide Index for 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871. Within the records for the Royal Sappers and Miners (1841 and 1851, and Royal Engineers (1861 and 1871) are transcriptions for the Survey Companies; 13, 14 and 16 Companies. These Companies were established specifically for duties in support of the Ordnance Survey. There are 1043 individuals identified in these transcriptions. The transcriptions include the following information; Year, Name, Rank, Army Number, Company, Station, and Comments.
[S135] Ancestry.com, 1851 Scotland Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Parish: Fogo; ED: 1; Page: 2; Line: 4; Roll: CSSCT1851_197; Year: 1851.
Record for William Brown
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1076&h=2300366&indiv=try

Ordnance Survey People