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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