Caroline Bertha BROWNE

1855 - 1902  (47 years)

• Name	Caroline Bertha BROWNE
  Birth	28 Aug 1855	St Pancras, London   [1, 2, 3]
  Christening	28 Sep 1855	St Saviour, Hampstead, Middlesex   [3]
  Gender	Female
  _UID	C820999F86F0435FA525719304397631EAE6
  Death	22 Nov 1902	New Zealand   [1, 4]
  Notes	Raymond Killick has Caroline Bertha's surname as BROWN or BROWNE but she appears in the NZ BMD index as CAMPBELL. A later email from Raymond says that Caroline was the widow of John CAMPBELL. The NZ BMD index entry for Caroline's death gives her name as Caroline Barker KILLICK. July 2017: Raymond Killick writes: "Caroline Bertha Browne [ ] had a son from her first marriage to John Campbell. John died when he was thrown from his horse. Their son was Norman Campbell. We visited them often, when I was a child. Norman's wife was a Clayton. We knew them as Uncle Norman (Cecil Killick's half brother), and Aunty Jessie. After Norman Campbell died, Jessie moved with her sister, Lucy Upchurch, back to Lucy's home in Launceston, Tasmania." March 2020: more information from Raymond Killick: "Caroline Bertha Browne, from Beaufort House, in New Brentford England. (A heritage listed building). Caroline was better known as Bertha, born 28.08.1855. Her parents were: Father , Augustus May Browne. b 26.10.1823 Mother, Anna Pierce Browne (née Turfrey) Bertha's first husband John Campbell died, after a horse riding accident.(aged 37). Their only child was Norman Thomas Campbell, born 27.08.1882 in Darlinghurst Sydney (known to me as Uncle Norman). He was a much loved step brother of Nina, Cecil and Ivy. Ivy was born in Australia. Bertha was the 5th of 9 children (I have their details). She arrived in Sydney aboard the Cypheres with her older sister Dorothy Alice Browne (known as Alice). [Per the Trove website, the arrival of the SS Cyphrenes at Adelaide was reported in the Express & Telegraph of Adelaide on 13 August 1879. The ship had left London on 27 June and Plymouth on 29 June. Alice Browne and Bertha Brown were among the Saloon passengers.] Bertha & son Norman sailed after her husbands death to New Zealand on the ship Aorangi on 24.06.1885 Henry Norman Killick from Crouch House Edenbridge Kent arrived in New Zealand 09.05.1885 at the age of almost 34 years of age. He died in NZ 09.02 1927 at the age of 75. Henry Norman Killick & Caroline Bertha née Browne, née Campbell married in the All Saints Church, Palmerston North NZ 25.08.1886."
  Person ID	I5344	Ash, Kent
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	Tobias Augustus May BROWNE,   b. 23 Jun 1821, Hampton, Middlesex d. 16 Feb 1873, New Brentford, Midllesex (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Anna Pierce TURFREY,   b. 26 Oct 1823, Holborn, Middlesex d. 9 Jun 1883, Winchester, Hampshire (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1847	St Pancras Parish Church, St Pancras, London   [5]
  	Married by banns. Tobias Augustus May Browne, full age, bachelor, gentleman of St Pancras, father Tobias Brown, gentleman.Anna Pierce Turfrey, full age, spinster of St Pancras. No father's details given. Witnesses Tobias Browne, Sophia Pierce Turfrey.
  Family ID	F1562	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John CAMPBELL
  Children	1. Norman Thomas CAMPBELL,   b. 27 Aug 1882, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia d. 30 May 1958, New Zealand (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F1563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Harry Norman KILLICK,   b. 10 Aug 1851, Edenbridge, Kent d. 9 Feb 1927, Tuakau, New Zealand (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	25 Aug 1886	All Saints Church, Palmerston North, New Zealand   [1, 6]
  Children	1. Nina KILLICK,   b. 24 Apr 1887, New Zealand d. 5 May 1959, New Zealand (Age 72 years)   2. Cecil Eden KILLICK,   b. 20 Oct 1889, New Zealand d. 18 Nov 1947, New Zealand (Age 58 years)   3. Ivy KILLICK,   b. 28 Jan 1892, Korboyan, Victoria, Australia d. 16 Feb 1971, New Zealand (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F1476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2020

  
  

• Photos		Caroline Bertha Killick nee Browne c.1858 - 1902 Photo from the 1890s
  		Caroline Bertha Killick nee Browne 1855 - 1902 Raymond Killick writes (July 2025): "My Wife and I visited New Zealand and we visited Caroline Berth Killick Nee Browne & Henry Norman Killick's grave site, in Mercer, for the first time. The gravesite was in a very bad state, in danger of completely falling in! The surrounding railings were in good repair. The headstone vandalised and broken in several pieces. I managed to reassemble the broken pieces, and lay them together flat on the top. No headstone for Henry Norman, but I had it in authority from the late Jim Stevenson (a second cousin previously unknown to me and shared great grandfather of HNK), that he was placed in the same grave." The photo on the left appears at findagrave.com and shows the grave in disrepair. The right-hand photo includes Raymond inspecting his handiwork.

  
  

• Sources

  [S404] Raymond Killick, May 2017 and later. [S3] BMD index, Q4 1855 Hampstaed 1a/437. (Reliability: 3). [S360] London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 at ancestry.com, March 2016 and later. [S182] NZ online BMD index, July 2010 and later, ref no. 1903/741, aged 44. (Reliability: 4). [S399] London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936. [S182] NZ online BMD index, July 2010 and later, ref no. 1886/2048. (Reliability: 4).