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The earliest Browne was James Browne of Killymaddy House in Castlecaulfield, Co. Tyrone. He died in 1730 and was said to have been present at the Siege of Derry in 1689. However, it is more likely that it was his father who was at Derry because James was born c.1680. He is buried in the family grave at Benburb, Co. Tyrone.
James' son was Samuel, born c.1720. He married Elizabeth about 1745 and died in 1764. They had a daughter, Isabella, born c.1750, and a son, James, who was born in 1747, married Mary about 1780, and died 1843. This James and Mary had three sons: James who became a naval surgeon and died in 1880; Samuel, who died in 1868; and William.
William Browne, MD
William was born about 1830 and became a doctor. He married Ann Elizabeth (Anna Eliza) Walker, a daughter of Abraham Walker of Richhill, Co. Armagh, and a sister of Ellen Walker, who married William Sinclair. They had eight children, many of whom were to be associated with the military services or were doctors: James, who became a colonel in the Devonshires; Thomas John, a doctor and local government inspector; William, a colonel; Abraham Walker, a colonel in the RAMC; Samuel Cairns, a naval surgeon like his uncle James; Theodore Dickson, a doctor; Edward George, a general in the RAMC; and Mary Jane, who married Harry Greer.
Dr Thomas John Walker Browne married Sarah Sinclair, his first cousin, before 1879. His son, then Captain Thomas Walker Browne, RAMC, married his first wife, Clair Christine Sinclair of Palmerstone, Dublin, who, quite unusually given that his father had already married a first cousin, was also his second cousin once removed; Clair was the granddaughter of his mother's brother. The wedding in 1915 at Monkstown, Co. Dublin, was very subdued because Thomas' brother-in-law, Lieut.-Commander W. Harrison, the husband of his sister, Lilian Anna, had recently gone down with the ill-fated "Formidable".