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The index holds 2 works for Hugh Conway Browning so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.
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Hugh Conway Browning's notes on the history of St. Mary's Chapel, the Episcopal chapel near Hillsborough, gathered into 31 unnumbered leaves with plans and issued in Orange County in 1996, after Browning's death in 1983, apparently by Polly Cabe Roberts, who added a biographical sketch of him. Topics include Episcopal church history in Orange County.
Hugh Conway Browning's 1973 history of the Eno River valley, subtitled some of its lands, some of its people, some of its mills, treating the tracts, families and water mills along the river in Orange and Durham counties. Among the people it covers is William Andrew Browning, 1835 to 1916.
Hugh Conway Browning gathered notes and correspondence on the Lockhart family of Orange County between December 1965 and April 1970, then issued the accumulation in 1970. Working papers more than a finished narrative, the compilation is the sort of material family historians mine for leads on Lockhart lines in the county.
Hugh Conway Browning assembled these notes on the William Brown family of Orange County in 1972, one of several such compilations he made on county families. Family historians use gatherings of this sort for names, dates and connections that never reached print elsewhere. Part of the library's Wall Local History Collection.
Compiled notes on the Cabe family, also written McCabe, of Orange County, North Carolina, put together by Hugh Conway Browning in 1967. Browning compiled the same kind of file for other county surnames, and this one gathers names, dates and connections for researchers tracking the variant spelling. It sits in the library's Wall Local History Collection.
Genealogical notes on the Piper families of Orange County, North Carolina, gathered by Hugh Conway Browning in 1964, the earliest of the three files by him in this collection. Like his other compilations, it is source material for family historians.
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Thirty three letters of Rena C. Harrell, written between 1962 and 1966, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3751-z. The correspondence concerns the Burwell school for girls at Hillsborough and social conditions in the town, and people and organizations represented include Mary Claire Engstrom, Carolyn Andrews Wallace, Hugh Conway Browning and Thomas Hugh Spence.
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