Recently, Kathryn Lake Hogan, Dominion Genealogist of the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada, tweeted:
Are you a descendant of Patrick Thomas BROWN of Donegal, Ireland who came to Canada in 1839?
Since my Dever ancestors came from Donegal, Ms. Hogan’s tweet grabbed my attention and I read what was in the link she provided. Here is what I learned.
Patrick Thomas Brown was born in County Donegal, Ireland in 1784. He and his family left Ireland and immigrated to Canada in 1839. Many of Patrick’s children then migrated to Clay County, South Dakota, beginning in about 1874.
On Saturday, August 1, Jeanine Ashmore of Sioux City, Iowa, presented to the Clay County Historical Society in nearby Vermillion, South Dakota her Brown Family History.
Ms. Ashmore’s manuscript includes biographical information and pictures of historic, as well as contemporary, descendants of Patrick Thomas Brown.
Ms. Ashmore’s husband is a descendant of the William Brown family, a son of Patrick.
You can read more in the Vermillion Plain Talk article, ‘Brown Family History’ To Be Presented.
Thank you for sharing, Kathryn Lake Hogan.
Would love to have conversation with you regarding the Brown Family History.
I am not related to the Brown family, so I would not be able to discuss them with you.