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Born in Lowther, England, Richard Brown (1805-1882) trained as a mining engineer in the coal mines belonging to Viscount Lowther. In 1825 he was sent to examine and report on the coal mines in Cape Breton, N.S. Brown became general manager of Sydney Mines at Sydney, N.S., where he met and married Sibella Margaret Barrington (1808-1880), daughter of Captain Charles and Elizabeth Barrington, in 1834. They had six children: Margaret Sibella (1836-1854), Richard Henry (1837-1920), Charles Barrington (1839-1917), David Edward (1841-1906), Henry Yorke Lyell (1843-1928), and Sibella Harriott (1847-1911). Brown retired from the mine in 1864 and returned to England. He was succeeded by his son Richard Henry, who served as general manager until 1901. Richard Henry married Barbara Davison (1842-1898) in Pictou, 1864. Their five children were all born at Sydney Mines: twins Margaret (1866-1961) and Elizabeth (1866-1951), Annie (1869-1918), Richard (1872-1928), and Lillian (1878-1967).