Joseph BROTHERTON

1827 -

• Name	Joseph BROTHERTON  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	1827	Ireland   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  1851 Survey Company	1851  [2]
  	Private, 13th Company, Royal Sappers & Miners
  1851 Census	30 Mar 1851	Francis Street, Stornoway, Lews, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland   [1, 3]
  	Royal Sappers and Miners
  	Joseph Brotherton: Born 1827 in Ireland Royal sappers & miners: Francis Street, Stornoway, Lews, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
  Person ID	I19590	Ordnance Survey People
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

  Details: 1851 Census. [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: Stornoway; ED: 7; Page: 36; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1851_19; Year: 1851. Record for Joseph Brotherton https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1076&h=2779474&indiv=try