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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Sunday 01 March 26 11:43 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ValJJJ on Sunday 01 March 26 11:28 GMT (UK)
Yes, a well to-do family but not sure about their finances once the father died young and unexpectedly.

Its not just about income but how children were brought up in ways to live and do things.

Far from working class families, where a child would see mum putting bread in the mince meat making to make the shepherds or cottage pie go further.   ;D

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Sunday 01 March 26 11:22 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ValJJJ on Saturday 28 February 26 18:39 GMT (UK)

He was born in Liverpool July 17 1859
Father David E Brown handled real estate of the Corporation of Liverpool and a highly prominent official.
Educated at private schools in his native city and Crosby Grammar School for Boys.
Then engaged in agricultural pursuits in southern England

Unquote;

This is looks interesting.

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Saturday 28 February 26 16:37 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Sandra,

I'll read the other thread when time permits, what intrigues me is why?  Janet Isabel Brown married William Caldwell in Canada, then left her young daughter age 8 in a school in New York 1900 and then sounds like the couple honeymooned in England straight after the marriage.

 Then 4 years later divorced her husband for not supporting his wife who sounded like she had a bob or two in her own right and his step daughter who's mother Janet, his wife did not give much attention too her daughter anyway.

Sounds like it was all about money with Janet Isabel Brown

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Saturday 28 February 26 12:54 GMT (UK)  »
Buffalo, New York state, is near the USA/Canadian border-  I wonder other Brown relatives from England moved to the USA or if John Miller Brown had in law connections if he ever married over there.

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Friday 27 February 26 19:25 GMT (UK)  »
There's a saying with horse racing gamblers ' follow the money ' - I would imagine on ancestry that term could mean, follow where the income, substances comes from by earning a living or income from something.  Janet Isobel Brown was a Millinery (though she could have income from other sources) but what supported her in Canada, and  Ivy in New York both places  June 1900.

As for how Ivy travelled to the USA pre - 1900?  you may never know, but you do know she did, from  schooling years New York 1900 to later in Chicago (advise putting Ivy on the back burner for now) but concentrate on Janet in Canada may reveal more answers.

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Sunday 22 February 26 19:26 GMT (UK)  »
It does seem like Janet I Brown wanted her daughter out of her daily life, she was in Canada 1900 marrying William Caldwell and may have met William on one of her passages across the Atlantic.

Info keeps turning up - So! ............................... Who knows what turns up next. ?  ;D

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Sunday 22 February 26 17:51 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ValJJJ on Sunday 22 February 26 14:04 GMT (UK)
Oh well found, and as dobfarm says the year of birth out by one year is OK if calculation by the enumerator. 

Note that there is no mention of her ability to read, write or speak English, or how many months education (others on the page have 10).  Wonder why this wasn't filled in?

If you notice the ages of the children of the block of spaces left empty, were all infant or juniors, thus may be that teacher wasn't available to answer the enumerator. You know Ivy would be able to speak English.

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Janet and Ivy BROWN (or THOMPSON) leaving the UK for N. America? 1890s
« on: Sunday 22 February 26 13:58 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: *Sandra* on Sunday 22 February 26 13:35 GMT (UK)

Where did Jane/Janet Brown/Caldwell keep nipping off to on her milliner trips  :) :) ??

Ivey Browne - March 1892 England - aged 8 years -
Home in 1900   Queens Ward 3, Queens, New York
Ward of City   3
Street   Cor Sanford & Camaco Avenue
House Number   336
Sheet Number   21
Institution   St Josephs Convent (Lines 1-54 Indus)
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation   377
Family Number   406
Relation to Head of House   Student - Marital Status   Single
Father's Birthplace   England - Mother's Birthplace   England
Occupation   Student.

If you have ancestry - this link..........

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01u8n/

Sandra

ADDED -   

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSLJ-V13?lang=en

Good find Sandra

I think that's Ivy - her birth March month is right and as the USA 1900 census was taken in June 1900 1 year out on the enumerators calculations base on her age given by the school is acceptable.

Keeps narrowing the gap 1891 to 1900

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1891 census entry occupation?
« on: Saturday 21 February 26 23:39 GMT (UK)  »
Dom (Thin up strokes & thick down strokes)
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(As census)
Nurse   Tended the sick.
Nurse Girl   A trainee nurse.
Nurse, Dom   A domestic nurse.
Nurse, Sick   Nurse.
Nursemaid   Nurses children

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