Links

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• Bishop Museum – Predominant museum in Honolulu; web site includes a searchable database of early ships in the islands.
  www.bishopmuseum.org
  
• Brown buirials at Peckham Cemetery - list includes Robert's parents, brother, etc.
  homepage.ct.metrocast.net/~kamaba/NewLondonCo/LedCem6.html
• Find-a-grave list for Peckham-Brown-Main Cemetery
  www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2197985
  
• Connecticut’s Heritage Gateway – overview of Connecticut whaling history
  www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/topicalsurveys/whaling.htm
  
• Descendants of Charles Brown — Early American Brown family genealogy:
  freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nanc/charles%20brown/...
  
• Descendants of Whaling Masters – organization dedicated to preserving the heritage of New England whaling.
  www.whalingmasters.org
  
• First Families 2001* – archived family histories of many early settlers in Australia, including:
     Ellen Heppingstone Bussell, Charlotte Brown’s younger sister
     Samual Burnham Bryan, Ann Heppingstone’s second husband
     Hannah Burnham Bryan, Charlotte Brown’s half-sister
            (*Note: the search feature doesn’t work. Use the alphabetic index.)
  
• Georgiana Molloy: the mind that shines –W.A. biographer Bernice Barry has a new biography on our Charlotte Heppingstone’s employer in the colony at Augusta.
  www.georgianamolloy.com
  
• Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park – The National Park Service acquired the Kahuku Ranch property as an addition to the park
  www.nps.gov/havo/planyourvisit/kahuku-hikes.htm
  
• JAG Films of Margaret River, Western Australia is creating a documentary on the life of Georgiana Molloy, with whom the Heppingstone family emigrated to Australia.
  www.georgianamolloy.com.au
  
• Mystic Seaport – site includes an extensive database of whaling history & resources, such as New London Crew Lists includes several of Robert Brown’s voyages:
     Mentor - 1839-41, 3rd mate, met Charlotte Heppingstone during this trip.
     Montezuma - 1841-44 ..........|  one of these Montezuma cruises probably
     Montezuma - 1844-47 ..........|  brought John Heppingstone to Connecticut
     Electra - 1847-50,  Brown’s first command
     North Star -1850-55, brought along the wife, kids, brother, brother-in-law
     Hibernia - 1847-48, “John Heppington” listed here is probably Charlotte’s younger brother
  
• New Bedford Whaling Museum – site includes collection & research index of whaling history
  www.whalingmuseum.org
  searchable database of New Bedford ships and crews: www.whalingmuseum.org/online_exhibits/crewlist/
  
  
• New London Biographies – Life of Theophilus Brown, younger brother to our captain.
  www.rootsweb.com/~ctnwlbio/brown_theo.html
  
• Perth DPS – Story of the Warrior, which brought the Heppingstone family from England to Australia www.perthdps.com/shipping/warrior.htm
  
• Louise Prescott’s personal home page – follow the “Lloyd” links to a sketchy family tree
  captainbrown.net/vtprescott
• Sawmill Park, Ledyard, Connecticut – The site of Robert Brown’s grandfather’s sawmill & smithy is now operated as a living history museum.
  www.ledyardsawmill.org
  
• Turner Family web site – fellow Warrior immigrants to Augusta. Charlotte’s younger sister married into the Turner family.
  turnerfamily1.googlepages.com
  
• USGS Volcano Watch – Description of the volcano eruption of 1868.
  hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/1999/99_07_22.html
  
• Whalecraft.net – includes a discussion of Captain Brown’s whaling gun
  www.whalecraft.net/Shoulder_Guns.html

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