David Brown

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• Business: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; F. J. Brown and Son
• Interesting: news, story, military, business
• Military: WW2
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-207911
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Notes:

BROWN, Albert T.

At the Cambridge Memorial Hospital, on Monday, June 17th, 1991, in his 82nd year. Albert (Brownie) Brown of 20 Berkly Road, Cambridge, beloved husband of Mary (nee Carswell) and dear father of Thomas and his wife Donna of Cambridge and David and his wife Marcel of Toronto. Loved grandfather of Edward, James and Albert. Following graduation from G.C.I. Mr. Brown worked for the Galt Reporter and then as The Administrator of the Galt Board of Education. During W.W. II Mr. Brown served over-seas with the H.L.I. attached to R.C.R. He left Military Service with the rank of Major, to join the family business, F. J. Brown and Son Limited Jewellers. Mr. Brown was a member of the Highland Light Infantry, the Royal Canadian Regiment, a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #121, Cambridge, past Chairman of the Galt Board of Education, the Galt Hydro Commission and the South Waterloo Memorial Hospital Board. He was past President of the Canadian Jewellers Association and the 24 Karat Club. He was a member of the Industrial Commission of Galt and Central Presbyterian Church, where he formerly served on the Board of Managers, for many years. There will be no visitation, a private family service will be held at COUTTS AND SON FUNERAL HOME, 96 St. Andrews Street, Cambridge. Reverend Angus Sutherland officiating. Interment will take place in Mount View Cemetery.

Cambridge Reporter 1991

Albert married Mary Allison Stewart Carswell 25 Jun 1934, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Thomas Archibald Carswell and Mary Isabelle Stewart) was born 6 Aug 1911, Elora, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 21 May 2001, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Allison Stewart Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-177606

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BROWN, Mary Stewart - At Queen's Square Terrace, on Monday, May 21, 2001, in her 90th year. Mary Brown is the beloved wife of the late Albert t. Brown (1991). Dear mother of Thomas Brown and his wife Donna of Cambridge and David Brown and his wife Marcela of Toronto; loved grandmother of Edward, James and Albert; dear sister of Dodi Hoy of Calgary. She was predeceased by one sister, Alexandra Henderson. Mrs. Brown was a lifelong member of Central Presbyterian Church where she had been active with the Flower Guild, the Senior Choir and the Catherine Nairn Circle. She was formerly a volunteer for the Carol Currier Residence. A private family service will be conducted in the chapel of Coutts & Son Funeral Home, 96 St. Andrews St., Cambridge. Interment will follow in Mount View Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Queen's Square Terrace, 10 Melville St. N., Cambridge for a period of refreshments and fellowship from 2-4 pm Friday, May 25, 2001. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made to the Cambridge Memorial Hospital Foundation or the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.

Cambridge Reporter May 2001

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• Business: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; F. J. Brown and Son
• Name: Frank Brown
• Name: Frank J. Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-60415
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retail Merchant, Jewellery Store
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Notes:

He ran F. J. Brown Jewellers Ltd on main St. in Galt.


Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [snippet from original text in book]

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F.J. Brown & Son

Jewellers and wholesale dealers in Japanese Goods and Curios. Captain Brown, the senior member of the firm, is at present employed by the Japanese Steamship Company. The business here is conducted by Mr. Brown, junior, an expert in his special line. As an optician he stands high. Captain Brown has the honor of being the only Canadian receiving at the hands of the Emperor of Japan the order of "The Sacred Treasury."


Jubilee Souvenir of Galt, 1897

Francis married Jessie Reid Turnbull 8 Jun 1904, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Jessie (daughter of Robert Turnbull and Elizabeth Graham) was born 1 Nov 1868, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 3 Jan 1869, United Presbyterian Church, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1954; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jessie Reid Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67967
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-437819

Thomas — Mary Isabelle Stewart. Mary was born 13 Jan 1882, Clyde, Beverley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 6 Aug 1931, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Isabelle Carswell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-437820

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• Business: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; F. J. Brown and Son
• Name: F. J. Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-60412
• Immigration: 1865
• Occupation: 1871, Oakville, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario; merchant
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?

Notes:

He was a sea captain, trained in New Bruswick, served on a lake steamer, but preferred the sea. He spent many years in the east and gathering "gifts of rare beauty from many lands" which his son sold in his jewelery story. He retired to Galt.


Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [snippet from original text in book]

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F.J. Brown & Son

Jewellers and wholesale dealers in Japanese Goods and Curios. Captain Brown, the senior member of the firm, is at present employed by the Japanese Steamship Company. The business here is conducted by Mr. Brown, junior, an expert in his special line. As an optician he stands high. Captain Brown has the honor of being the only Canadian receiving at the hands of the Emperor of Japan the order of "The Sacred Treasury."


Jubilee Souvenir of Galt, 1897

Francis — Hannah Moore Heiter. Hannah was born 1 May 1846, , England; died 29 Mar 1947; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Hannah Moore Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-60413
• Immigration: 1866

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• Interesting: life story,
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67966
• Occupation: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian Church
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hosier
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1872, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; manufacturer

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ROBERT TURNBULL

1826-1879 Married: Elizabeth Graham

Robert Turnbull was born in Hawick, Scotland and came to Galt in 1852 at the age of 26 with his uncle Adam Ker. Mr. Turnbull had served an apprenticeship in Scotland in the textile trade with Messers. William Watson and Sons as a cloth finisher. Sometime after his arrival in Galt he learned the art of woollen manufacturing while in the employ of Robinson & Howell Co. in the Galt Woollen Mill building on Water Street South. In 1859 he started a business knitting woollen underwear. In the days before central heating, long woollen underwear was greatly appreciated and Mr. Turnbull found a ready market for his product. The business operated from the rear of the Turnbull home, a big rambling rough cast house located on West Main St., later Grand Ave., near the corner of St. Andrews St. Little is known about the very first years of the business and there is some confusion in the historical record. Some of it suggests that John Deans was Mr. Turnbull's partner from the start of the business in 1859. Other sources suggest that in the early years Mr. Turnbull was associated with Adam Oliver at least until 1861. It is also suggested that shortly thereafter Mr. Oliver sold his interest in the company to Mr. Turnbull and then John Deans became a partner in the business. In any case, the business operated as Turnbull and Deans until 1870 when Mr. Deans retired and sold his interest to Mr. Turnbull. In the early years all the garments were knitted on hand knitting frames and were hand finished by neighbourhood women in their homes. In 1861 Mr. Turnbull to send to Hawick for a type of knitting machine new to North America. With these machines, Turnbull and Deans became the first and only manufacturer of full-fashioned underwear on the continent. It was this product that made the name famous throughout the province and then throughout Canada. Until the business was sold to the Stauffer-Dobbie interests in 1946, Turnbull's was the only company in North America to have full-fashioned underwear knitting machines. What made this underwear special was it's comfortable fit, its durability and its softness. Other types of underwear on the market at the time were of the "knit and cut" variety. The underwear was first knit in long tubes and as the tubing came from the knitting machines it was cut into body lengths. To these were added sleeves, legs and whatever else was necessary to make the finished product. This method produced an acceptable but somewhat ill-fitting garment. Full-fashioned underwear was shaped on the machine to fit the human body. It was narrowed at the waist and made wider to accommodate the chest. This was a much slower method of production and as a consequence this type of underwear was more expensive than the "knit and cut" variety but it fit and wore better and proved popular throughout the country. It was marketed under the brand name "CEETEE". Mr. Turnbull died on December 11, 1879 at the age of fifty-two. He is buried in Mount View Cemetery.

Sources:
1. Obituary Dumfries Reformer Wednesday December 17, 1879.
2. Jim Quantrell, "Turnbull Knitting" A Part of Our Past, Essays on Cambridge's History City of Cambridge Archives, Cambridge Ontario 1992.
3. John P. Shewchuk "The Development of the Textile Trade at Galt, Preston and Hespeler 1832 - 1914", Unpublished manuscript, City of Cambridge Archives MG1 Vol. 35, A988.155.01


Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [used with kind permission of Jim Quantrell]

Robert — Elizabeth Graham. Elizabeth was born 1827, Hawick, , Roxburgh, Scotland; died 9 Feb 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 11 Feb 1881, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Turnbull
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-96517
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian Church
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

Notes:

In Galt, on Wednesday morning, 9th inst., at 3 o'clock, Elizabeth Graham, relict of the late Robert Turnbull, aged 52 years and 6 months. Funeral, today (Friday), 11th inst., at 3 o'clock, pm, from her late residence, West Main St., to Galt Cemetery.

Galt Reporter Feb 11 1881 pg 8

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-108228

Archibald — Bridget Tommie. Bridget was born CA 1850; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Bridget Carswell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-120512