Amelia Mary "Mildred" Brown was born in Kensington, London, England on 18 August 1893. She was later baptised on 8 October 1893 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, her mother's birthplace.

She was the daughter of Frank Brown (b. 1862 in Crawley, Hampshire) and Esther Tilbury (b. 8 June 1860 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire). Her father, a printer compositor, was married to her mother in Buckinghamshire on 7 February 1892. She had one sibling, a brother named Sydney (b. 20 June 1900).

Mildred first appears on the 1901 census living at 38 Osborne Terrace in Lambeth living with her parents and 9-month-old brother. She would not, however, be listed with her family on the 1911 census who were by then living at 29 Hanover Gardens, Kennington, London; her own whereabouts at that time are unclear.

Mildred, sometimes known as Millie, was hired by the wealthy Allison family of Montréal and she and their chauffeur George Swane were booked as second class passengers on Titanic whilst the Allisons would travel in first class.  She boarded the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 (ticket number 248733 which cost £13) and she shared a cabin with three other English women, Amelia Lemore, Elizabeth Nye and Selina Cook.

On the night of the sinking Amelia was reluctant to rise from her bed despite the warnings from her roommates and George Swane. She only rose, and reluctantly so, when Selina Cook remonstrated with her that surely she was the only person on the entire ship still in bed.

Mildred was rescued in lifeboat 11 and wrote to her mother from the Carpathia. The letter is postmarked from the Grand Central Station, New York at 10am on 19 April 1912.

Amelia's employers, the Allisons, were lost in the sinking; arriving in New York aboard Carpathia she gave her destination address as 665 Bellmont Avenue, Montréal and she was described as standing at 5' 4" and with dark hair and dark eyes. She was later awarded $100 by the Red Cross and she also filed a claim for loss of property. 

No. 55. (English.). Housemaid, 21 years old. ($100).
Insurance claim B108. Property $283.61 cents.

Amelia may have remained in North America for a period of time but her movements over the following months and years are not certain but she did eventually return to Britain, although when is not clear. 

Amelia appears to have maintained a comfortable, middle-class yet nondescript life and it would appear that she made no further mention of her experiences on the Titanic; no latter-day interviews or mentions of her have ever come to light.

On 12 September 1931 she was married to James Edward Barrow¹ (b. 14 January 1886 in Southwark, London), a WWI veteran and paper merchants director (M. Ralph) who maintained offices in Upper Thames Street, London. They would have no children and initially settled in Epsom before they moved to and later appeared on the 1939 register living at 98 Lynwood Drive, Sutton, Surrey which is where Amelia would live for the rest of her life. In later years she cared for her widowed and incapacitated mother who later passed away on 17 March 1943. 

Widowed when James Barrow died on 30 July 1965, Amelia outlived her husband by over a decade and she died on 30 June 1976 aged 82. She was buried with her husband in Cheam Common, St Philips Church (Row 11) on 7 July and she left an estate worth £55,646. Her death came only months after the death of her younger brother Sydney who died in Epping, Essex on 9 March 1976.