In 1887 his elder brother Victor Voules Brown (1841-1910) took over the business of Vaiben Louis Solomon,[2] who ran "Solomon's Emporium", in an 1885 stone building on Smith Street, Darwin (at that time named Palmerston), and there conducted the business of the Port Darwin Mercantile and Agency Co., the Eastern and Australian Steamship Company, the Northern Territory Mining Exchange and the North Australian agency for Lloyd's of London.
At some stage the building was renamed "Brown's Mart", and by that name today functions as a venue for live theatre.
He was appointed to the Local Board of Health for Palmerston He was appointed J. P. He was a board member of the South Australian School of Mines Note: It is useful to append dates to certain names in this family, as many members share identical names; not only father to son but also uncle to nephew.
Their sister Elizabeth Susannah Brown (1845-1926) married James Harvey (1843-1926) and moved to Salisbury, South Australia.
The State Library of South Australia has an extensive archive on the descendants of William Voules Brown