In 1840 Henry & Mary & three children left Ireland, they hid a Catholic Priest who was wanted by the British authorities. This was during Britain's rule of Ireland. The family landed in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
1851 Agricultural Census for Ashfield Township, Huron CO, Ontario, Canada Henry holds 100 acres. Ten acres under cultivation. Ninety acres under wool or wild. Four acres in wheat produced twenty bushels, one acre in potatoes produced thirty bushels. The land produced six bundles or tons of hay, the sheep produced twenty two pounds of wool-which made forty eight yards of flannel. Henry had five oxen, nine milk cows, one calf, eleven sheep, six pigs, no horses. They made 100 pounds of butter. And salted away four barrels of pork. Their home is listed as one story log shanty. There were eleven people in the family. Four more children were to be born later.
1867 family less the two married daughters, leave Canada and move to Negaunee, the Upper Penninsula of MI, during the lumber and mining boom there. Henry farmed, built log cabins, was a blacksmith making plows, and door hardware. He mined timber. These skills are mentioned in the book "Spring of Gladness" by his grand daughter Mary Brown McGonigle. Mary mentions in the book her father Michael Brown asked his parents to send him some hardwood tree slips from Northern Michigan. Michael planted these along the two banks of his new ditch running east/west along the northern boundary of his acreage.
1886 Henry and Mary Clayton Brown moved to Iron Mt. Michigan to be near three of their daughters and many grandchildren.
In 1840 Henry & Mary & three children left Ireland, they hid a Catholic Priest who was wanted by the British authorities. This was during Britain's rule of Ireland. The family landed in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
1851 Agricultural Census for Ashfield Township, Huron CO, Ontario, Canada Henry holds 100 acres. Ten acres under cultivation. Ninety acres under wool or wild. Four acres in wheat produced twenty bushels, one acre in potatoes produced thirty bushels. The land produced six bundles or tons of hay, the sheep produced twenty two pounds of wool-which made forty eight yards of flannel. Henry had five oxen, nine milk cows, one calf, eleven sheep, six pigs, no horses. They made 100 pounds of butter. And salted away four barrels of pork. Their home is listed as one story log shanty. There were eleven people in the family. Four more children were to be born later.
1867 family less the two married daughters, leave Canada and move to Negaunee, the Upper Penninsula of MI, during the lumber and mining boom there. Henry farmed, built log cabins, was a blacksmith making plows, and door hardware. He mined timber. These skills are mentioned in the book "Spring of Gladness" by his grand daughter Mary Brown McGonigle. Mary mentions in the book her father Michael Brown asked his parents to send him some hardwood tree slips from Northern Michigan. Michael planted these along the two banks of his new ditch running east/west along the northern boundary of his acreage.
1886 Henry and Mary Clayton Brown moved to Iron Mt. Michigan to be near three of their daughters and many grandchildren.
Family Members
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John W Brown
1837–1891
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Catherine Brown Corrigan
1839–1907
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Michael Brown
1841–1918
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Mary Brown McKenna
1844–1911
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Peter Henry Brown
1847–1927
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Elizabeth Brown McKenna
1849–1905
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Julia Brown
1850–1864
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Jane Ann Brown Stack
1852–1934
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Joseph C Brown
1858 – unknown
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Paul Brown
1861 – unknown
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Ellen Brown Sullivan
unknown–1906
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