Ernest and Laura Brown

[PaddyBear]

Hi

I am looking for the whereabouts of any of this family who emigrated from Britain in 1921 from Liverpool on the Megantic Ship.  I was told that William Brown was associated with Billy Graham

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

Ernest Brown   b. 1889
m.Laura Annie Osborne   b. 1888
      George Henry Brown   b. 1911
      
      William Thomas Brown   b. 1913
      
      Dorothy Brown   b. 1915
      
      Laura Brown   b. 1916
      
      John Henry Brown   b. 1918
      
      Barbara Brown   b. 1920
      

[MaureeninNY]

I'm a little confused about the father's/husband's name. It looks to me as though Laura Annie married a John Charles BROWN 1910 in Ontario.

On her arrival form she states that she is going to join husband John C Brown in Sunnynook Alberta and that she'd lived in Brantford Ontario from 1910 to 1912.

Maureen

[polarbear]

Hi there.

Had this typed when the red warning appeared so will post anyway.

Passenger info for this family indicates Laura Annie and her children are joining their husband/father in Sunnynook Alberta. The records also indicate Laura Annie lived in Brantford Ontario Canada from 1910 to 1912. The Form 30A for George Henry indicates he was b. in Canada. The name of his father is given as John not Ernest?

This looks like, the family in the 1911 Canada census. The original image is at the top.

http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=31955

You are going to run into privacy laws in the time frame you are looking at. Also, Alberta has very little genealogical info on line.

You might try googling Sunnynook Alberta to see if there is any info for a public library. There may be local info available through this type of source, such as a history of the area.

PB

[cosmac]

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canab/lhb/
A list of Alberta local history books.  Sunnynook is in Special Area #2 - a very dry part of Alberta.  It doesn't look, from the family name index of the book, that the Brown's remained in the area.

[cosmac]

http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/images/getimage/genealogy/screensize/9a38be41-90d6-4e78-9002-fbd618c20a38

Laura Annie died in British Columbia.
The Royal BC Museum website - genealogy section might have more information on this family

[cosmac]

Buried in Kelowna Memorial Park Cemetery is a George H. Brown 1911-1992 with wife Roda 1909-2002.  Possibly s/o John and Laura
Link to Roda's obituary
http://web.kitsapsun.com/local/obits/index.html

[valeriec]

at the Royal BC museum site, there is a death for
John Charles Brown
14 Feb. 1983
widower
wife - Annie
same address as on the death registrtion for Annie
657 Osprey Ave, Kelowna
b. Oct 9, 1889, age 93 Spilsby, England
father - George Brown, mother, Dorothy Waite
informant - Geo. H. Brown
933 Stockwell Ave, Kelowna
burial - Lakeview Memorial Gardens, Kelowna

[polarbear]

Hello again.

In the link to the local history books posted above by cosmac, there is mention of a John Charles and Annie Brown (perhaps Laura Annie?); Rolling Hills and Whispering Pines; Westlock. Westlock is located a little north of Edmonton and is in an agricutural area. Possibility?

John Charles Brown arrived just ahead of Laura Annie and the children on the Melita 20 Apr 1921 and was destined to Sunnynook Alberta to take up farming. He should just make it onto the 1921 census which is due to be released this year. It was apparently taken 01 Jun so I don't believe his family had arrived yet. On the comments he mentioned that they had travelled to England for a visit and were delayed returning b/c of the war.

PB